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Life Raft Group

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Research works
13
▲ 158% vs 2018-21
Citations
60
4.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Life Raft Group

Not ranked overall: Life Raft Group is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Life Raft Group work in?

In all years, 78% of research at Life Raft Group is in Health Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (78%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 10 fractional works · 78.2% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 77.6% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 23.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 17.6% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 10.5% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLife Raft Group13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences78%Social Sciences8%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1077.6%
    2. Health Professions00.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology110.5%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance17.9%
    2. Social Sciences00.2%
    1. Engineering03.2%
    2. Mathematics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at Life Raft Group?

Ranked on the quality score, Sara Rothschild and Jerry W. Call lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Life Raft Group.

  1. 1 Sara Rothschild United States · #873,646 worldwide 53 citations · 34 works
  2. 2 Jerry W. Call United States · #2,003,438 worldwide 212 citations · 50 works
All ranked researchers at Life Raft Group

What are the most cited papers from Life Raft Group?

The most cited paper from Life Raft Group is "Advancing the Use of Mobile Technologies in Clinical Trials: Recommendations from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative" (Philip Coran et al., 2019), with 71 citations. Next come "Genomic aberrations in cell cycle genes predict progression of KIT-mutant gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs)" (49) and "Survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients in the imatinib era: life raft group observational registry" (49).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advancing the Use of Mobile Technologies in Clinical Trials: Recommendations from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative Philip Coran et al. · Digital Biomarkers Open access 6 Nov 2019 71
2 Genomic aberrations in cell cycle genes predict progression of KIT-mutant gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) Michael Charles Heinrich, Janice Patterson, Carol Beadling et al. · Clinical Sarcoma Research Open access 5 Mar 2019 49
3 Survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients in the imatinib era: life raft group observational registry Jerry W. Call, Christopher D Walentas, Jens C. Eickhoff et al. · BMC Cancer Open access 19 Mar 2012 49
4 Survival in advanced GIST has improved over time and correlates with increased access to post-imatinib tyrosine kinase inhibitors: results from Life Raft Group Registry Jerry W. Call, Yu Wang, Denisse Montoya et al. · Clinical Sarcoma Research Open access 2 Apr 2019 33
5 Rethinking placebos: embracing synthetic control arms in clinical trials for rare tumors César Serrano, Sara Rothschild, Guillermo Javierre Villacampa et al. · Nature Medicine 12 Oct 2023 29
All 33 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Life Raft Group publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment and Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments.

Gastrointestinal Tumor R…1Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment: 1 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…1Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Tr…0Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksMusculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments: 0 fractional worksElbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment: 0 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorde…0Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 0 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 0 fractional worksCancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism: 0 fractional worksNeuroblastoma Research and Treatments: 0 fractional works
GastroenterologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineRheumatologyRehabilitation4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment Gastroenterology 1 works
  2. 2 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  4. 4 Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments Rheumatology 0 works
  5. 5 Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment Rehabilitation 0 works
  6. 6 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 0 works
  8. 8 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 0 works
  9. 9 Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism Cancer Research 0 works
  10. 10 Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments Neurology 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available58.8%not open41.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.9%domestic only75.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Life Raft Group's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 158% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Life Raft Group as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Life Raft Group over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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