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National Cancer Center

In research, National Cancer Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#888 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#886 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,382 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology, Otorhinolaryngology and Cancer Research (Oncology is 14.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,468
of 22,385 · #2,811 all time
Rank in United States
#426
of 3,332
Research works
5.2k
▲ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
105k
20.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
66%
world 18%
National Cancer Center

What is National Cancer Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #888 of 9,902 11.7%1,063 #1367
MedicineField #886 of 8,541 11.6%1,029 #1327
Life SciencesDomain #1,382 of 6,403 13.4%268 #1708
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #908 of 2,964 13.5%210 #1311
SurgerySubfield #521 of 1,532 12.6%152 #692
OncologySubfield #274 of 755 12.1%238 #442
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #400 of 1,037 9.3%216 #457
Molecular BiologySubfield #819 of 1,880 14.9%110 #1225
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield #410 of 594 11.6%60 #747
Physical SciencesDomain #7,966 of 10,670 11.5%73 #8085

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Cancer Center sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,367 #888
  2. Medicine#1,327 #886
  3. Life Sciences#1,708 #1,382
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,311 #908
  5. Surgery#692 #521
  6. Oncology#442 #274
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#457 #400
  8. Molecular Biology#1,225 #819
  9. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging#747 #410
  10. Physical Sciences#8,085 #7,966
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does National Cancer Center work in?

In 2022-now, 73% of research at National Cancer Center is in Health Sciences, 19% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (71%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 1,241 fractional works · 73.2% of its workMedicine: 1,203 fractional works · 71.0% of its workOncology: 281 fractional works · 16.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 250 fractional works · 14.7% of its workSurgery: 174 fractional works · 10.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 73 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEpidemiology: 59 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 42 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 29 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 27 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHepatology: 27 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 24 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 23 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 21 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 18 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 17 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGastroenterology: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHematology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 23 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 319 fractional works · 18.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 249 fractional works · 14.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 130 fractional works · 7.7% of its workCancer Research: 77 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiotechnology: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 47 fractional works · 2.8% of its workImmunology: 45 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 88 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEngineering: 26 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 18 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiation: 18 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 47 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 18 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNational CancerCenter1,694fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences73%Social Sciences3%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Sciences1,24173.2%
    1. Medicine1,20371.0%
    2. Health Professions231.3%
    3. Nursing80.5%
    4. Dentistry60.4%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24914.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology472.8%
    3. Neuroscience120.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.4%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.2%
    1. Engineering261.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy181.1%
    3. Computer Science160.9%
    4. Environmental Science120.7%
    5. Materials Science70.4%
    6. Chemistry40.2%
    7. Mathematics30.2%
    8. Energy00.0%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance191.1%
    2. Social Sciences130.8%
    3. Psychology100.6%
    4. Decision Sciences20.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting20.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does National Cancer Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 14.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 281.2 works15×
  2. OtorhinolaryngologySubfield · 24.1 works14×
  3. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 77.1 works10×
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 249.5 works9.6×
  5. HepatologySubfield · 26.7 works8.2×
  6. GeneticsSubfield · 23.4 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.76× its world share, 249 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.75× its world share, 47 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.44× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.20× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 16 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 26 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 18 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.78× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 23 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.69× its world share, 1,203 worksMedicineNursing: 1.02× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.52× its world share, 19 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.69×1,203 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.76×249 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology2.75×47 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.20×7 works
  5. Nursing1.02×8 works
  6. Dentistry0.78×6 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.52×19 works
  8. Health Professions0.51×23 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.49×18 works
  10. Neuroscience0.44×12 works
  11. Veterinary0.32×1 works
  12. Psychology0.19×10 works
  13. Mathematics0.17×3 works
  14. Chemistry0.15×4 works
  15. Environmental Science0.14×12 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.14×2 works
  17. Computer Science0.12×16 works
  18. Materials Science0.11×7 works
  19. Engineering0.10×26 works
  20. Social Sciences0.06×13 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×3 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×2 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.02×1 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.01×0 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works
  26. Energy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at National Cancer Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Tomoo Kosuge, Tomohiro Matsuda and Kota Katanoda lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Cancer Center.

  1. 1 Tomoo Kosuge United States · #257,484 worldwide 21k citations · 329 works
  2. 2 Tomohiro Matsuda United States · #651,766 worldwide 12k citations · 295 works
  3. 3 Kota Katanoda United States · #794,886 worldwide 7.3k citations · 313 works
  4. 4 Yoshitaka Narita United States · #901,700 worldwide 11k citations · 555 works
  5. 5 Keiichi Maruyama United States · #907,234 worldwide 4.9k citations · 109 works
  6. 6 Yasushi Goto United States · #910,078 worldwide 9.5k citations · 480 works
  7. 7 Akira Kawai United States · #940,135 worldwide 23k citations · 767 works
  8. 8 Manami Inoue United States · #986,410 worldwide 807 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Soichiro Shibui United States · #1,103,519 worldwide 5.5k citations · 193 works
  10. 10 Tomomi Marugame United States · #1,202,624 worldwide 2.9k citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at National Cancer Center

What are the most cited papers from National Cancer Center?

The most cited paper from National Cancer Center is "Cancer statistics in China, 2015" (Wanqing Chen, Rongshou Zheng, Peter D. Baade et al., 2016), with 18,026 citations. Next come "Tumor vascular permeability and the EPR effect in macromolecular therapeutics: a review" (6,577) and "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)" (6,023).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cancer statistics in China, 2015 Wanqing Chen, Rongshou Zheng, Peter D. Baade et al. · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Open access 25 Jan 2016 18,026
2 Tumor vascular permeability and the EPR effect in macromolecular therapeutics: a review Hiroshi Maeda, Jun Wu, Tomohiro Sawa et al. · Journal of Controlled Release Mar 2000 6,577
3 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy Open access2,467 authors 2 Jan 2016 6,023
4 Osimertinib in Untreated EGFR -Mutated Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Jean‐Charles Soria et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Nov 2017 5,475
5 Olaparib for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Patients with a Germline BRCA Mutation Mark E. Robson, Seock‐Ah Im, Elżbieta Senkus et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 4 Jun 2017 3,322
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at National Cancer Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Immunotherapy, Tumor Microenvironment, Radiotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Cancer and Targeted Therapy.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Chemotherapy249▲ 21×23 topics
  2. Clinical Practice Guidelines135▲ 15×14 topics
  3. Immunotherapy133▲ 11×19 topics
  4. Cancer125▲ 5.5×48 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment122▲ 16×8 topics
  6. Radiotherapy122▲ 18×12 topics
  7. Epidemiology118▲ 1.75×89 topics
  8. Prognostic Factors108▲ 15×14 topics
  9. Targeted Therapy105▲ 28×5 topics
  10. Neoadjuvant Therapy105▲ 26×5 topics
  11. Clinical Trials100▲ 8.8×18 topics
  12. Inflammation83▲ 2.3×75 topics
  13. Survival Analysis82▲ 18×6 topics
  14. Endoscopic Resection77▲ 46×2 topics
  15. Adjuvant Therapy74▲ 35×2 topics
  16. Metastasis71▲ 12×12 topics
  17. Quality of Life66▲ 2.7×37 topics
  18. Gene Expression63▲ 6.0×15 topics
  19. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy63▲ 46×2 topics
  20. Biomarkers62▲ 5.3×16 topics
  21. Molecular Characterization58▲ 19×6 topics
  22. Chemoradiation57▲ 52×2 topics
  23. Precision Medicine55▲ 6.6×8 topics
  24. Breast Cancer54▲ 13×11 topics
  25. Immune Checkpoint Blockade52▲ 27×1 topic
  26. PD-1 and PD-L152▲ 27×1 topic
  27. Survival52▲ 22×4 topics
  28. Genomic Profiling50▲ 29×2 topics
  29. Tumor Markers50▲ 36×2 topics
  30. Surgery49▲ 8.3×9 topics
  31. Treatment Guidelines48▲ 13×6 topics
  32. Gastric Cancer48▲ 25×3 topics
  33. ALK Inhibitors46▲ 44×1 topic
  34. EGFR Mutations46▲ 44×1 topic
  35. Prognosis44▲ 7.9×9 topics
  36. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy43▲ 30×2 topics
  37. PET Imaging41▲ 15×4 topics
  38. Barrett's Esophagus41▲ 58×1 topic
  39. Esophageal Carcinoma41▲ 58×1 topic
  40. Tumor Staging40▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does National Cancer Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…52Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 52 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments a…46Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 46 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Resear…41Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 41 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…38Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 38 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 36 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 29 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Stu…28Lung Cancer Research Studies: 28 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…26Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 26 fractional worksHead and Neck Cancer Stu…23Head and Neck Cancer Studies: 23 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…23Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 23 fractional works
OncologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 52 works
  2. 2 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 46 works
  3. 3 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 41 works
  4. 4 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 38 works
  5. 5 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 36 works
  6. 6 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 29 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 28 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 26 works
  9. 9 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 23 works
  10. 10 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 23 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 available53.0%not open47.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors66.0%domestic only34.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Cancer Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is National Cancer Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%National Cancer Center0.0084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Cancer Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%National Cancer Center11.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.7% in 2008.

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