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National Cancer Institute

In research, National Cancer Institute stands highest in Medicine (#3,237 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#4,144 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#6,142 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Oncology is 11.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,913
of 28,054 · #3,016 all time
Rank in Malaysia
#58
of 137
Research works
2.6k
▼ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
116k
44.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is National Cancer Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #3,237 of 10,443 13.4%207 #1147
Health SciencesDomain #4,144 of 11,982 13.3%214 #1459
Life SciencesDomain #6,142 of 7,800 11.9%70 #1446

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Cancer Institute 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#1,147 #3,237
  2. Health Sciences#1,459 #4,144
  3. Life Sciences#1,446 #6,142
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does National Cancer Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 11.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 41.5 works12×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 32.4 works6.7×
← 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: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.21× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.90× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.41× its world share, 207 worksMedicineNursing: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Cancer Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Paola Papaldo, Sabrina Strano and Sarah L. Zielinski lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Cancer Institute.

  1. 1 Paola Papaldo Malaysia · #243,942 worldwide 79 citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Sabrina Strano Malaysia · #259,585 worldwide 128 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Sarah L. Zielinski Malaysia · #457,497 worldwide 10 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Maria Grazia Diodoro Malaysia · #688,305 worldwide 34 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Cecilia Nisticò Malaysia · #721,118 worldwide 62 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Paola Nisticò Malaysia · #765,559 worldwide 48 citations · 31 works
  7. 7 Ariel Whitworth Malaysia · #775,651 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Francesca Di Modugno Malaysia · #948,649 worldwide 28 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Fabio Carboni Malaysia · #1,018,250 worldwide 21 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Tiziana Bruno Malaysia · #1,032,059 worldwide 22 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at National Cancer Institute

Which keywords describe research at National Cancer Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Radiotherapy, Cancer, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Prognostic Factors, Targeted Therapy and Tumor Microenvironment.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Chemotherapy30▲ 14×22 topics
  2. Immunotherapy23▲ 10×17 topics
  3. Cancer22▲ 5.2×36 topics
  4. Epidemiology20▲ 1.64×70 topics
  5. Radiotherapy19▲ 16×13 topics
  6. Clinical Practice Guidelines17▲ 10×12 topics
  7. Prognostic Factors17▲ 12×14 topics
  8. Inflammation14▲ 2.1×46 topics
  9. Targeted Therapy13▲ 19×5 topics
  10. Tumor Microenvironment13▲ 9.1×8 topics
  11. Clinical Trials12▲ 5.7×10 topics
  12. Biomarkers12▲ 5.5×13 topics
  13. Quality of Life12▲ 2.5×27 topics
  14. Survival Analysis12▲ 13×7 topics
  15. Gene Expression11▲ 5.8×10 topics
  16. Risk Factors10▲ 3.0×15 topics
  17. Neoadjuvant Therapy10▲ 14×5 topics
  18. Metastasis10▲ 9.5×11 topics
  19. Breast Cancer9▲ 12×10 topics
  20. Cancer Incidence9▲ 20×4 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations8▲ 6.2×16 topics
  22. Precision Medicine8▲ 5.5×7 topics
  23. Radiation Therapy8▲ 19×5 topics
  24. Cancer Therapy8▲ 4.2×16 topics
  25. Guidelines8▲ 5.1×11 topics
  26. Molecular Classification7▲ 16×4 topics
  27. Immunity7▲ 5.6×7 topics
  28. Survival7▲ 16×4 topics
  29. Cervical Cancer7▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Prognosis7▲ 6.4×8 topics
  31. Robotic Surgery7▲ 15×5 topics
  32. Cancer Immunotherapy6▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Molecular Characterization6▲ 11×5 topics
  34. Adjuvant Therapy6▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Genomic Profiling6▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Health-related Quality of Life6▲ 8.4×4 topics
  37. Lymphoma6▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Human Papillomavirus6▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Immune Checkpoint Blockade6▲ 17×1 topic
  40. PD-1 and PD-L16▲ 17×1 topic

Which research topics does National Cancer Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics and Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…6Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 6 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…5Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 5 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 4 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 4 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 4 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Tr…4Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 4 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 4 fractional works
OncologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingCancer ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine1 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 6 works
  2. 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 5 works
  3. 3 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 5 works
  4. 4 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 4 works
  7. 7 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  8. 8 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 4 works
  10. 10 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 4 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 available41.3%not open58.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors67.2%domestic only32.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Cancer Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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