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Toscana Life Sciences

In research, Toscana Life Sciences stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,168 of 16,688 worldwide), Life Sciences (#1,530 of 11,023 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,241 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology is 4.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,591
of 22,385 · #5,170 all time
Rank in Italy
#258
of 475
Research works
388
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
33.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
Toscana Life Sciences

What is Toscana Life Sciences known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #2,168 of 16,688 17.9%153
Life SciencesDomain #1,530 of 11,023 14.8%186
MedicineField #2,241 of 14,558 18.3%147

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Toscana Life Sciences 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 fields of science does Toscana Life Sciences work in?

In 2022-now, 45% of research at Toscana Life Sciences is in Life Sciences, 41% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Immunology and Microbiology (15%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 48 fractional works · 44.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 fractional works · 24.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 12.4% of its workEndocrinology: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 16 fractional works · 14.8% of its workMicrobiology: 9 fractional works · 8.2% of its workImmunology: 7 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 44 fractional works · 40.5% of its workMedicine: 42 fractional works · 38.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 11 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEpidemiology: 8 fractional works · 7.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 10.6% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKToscana LifeSciences109fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences41%Social Sciences4%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2724.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology1614.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences43.7%
    4. Neuroscience11.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.6%
    1. Medicine4238.4%
    2. Health Professions10.8%
    3. Nursing10.6%
    4. Veterinary00.5%
    5. Dentistry00.4%
    1. Chemistry32.8%
    2. Engineering32.8%
    3. Environmental Science22.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy11.1%
    5. Computer Science11.0%
    6. Materials Science00.4%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Social Sciences32.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.1%
    3. Psychology10.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Toscana Life Sciences specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology takes 4.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 26.6 works4.6×
← 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: 0.77× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.59× its world share, 27 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 14.68× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.80× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 1.78× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.00× its world share, 42 worksMedicineNursing: 1.15× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.38× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 14.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology14.68×16 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.59×27 works
  3. Veterinary3.38×0 works
  4. Medicine2.00×42 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.80×1 works
  6. Chemistry1.78×3 works
  7. Nursing1.15×1 works
  8. Dentistry0.78×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.77×4 works
  10. Neuroscience0.61×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.51×1 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.50×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.45×2 works
  14. Health Professions0.29×1 works
  15. Mathematics0.20×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.20×3 works
  17. Engineering0.18×3 works
  18. Psychology0.15×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.13×1 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.11×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×0 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Toscana Life Sciences?

Ranked on the quality score, Francesca Micoli, Laura B. Martin and Roberto Adamo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Toscana Life Sciences.

  1. 1 Francesca Micoli Italy · #225,664 worldwide 5.3k citations · 177 works
  2. 2 Laura B. Martin Italy · #233,166 worldwide 4.1k citations · 86 works
  3. 3 Roberto Adamo Italy · #255,834 worldwide 4.9k citations · 138 works
  4. 4 Emanuele Andreano Italy · #268,114 worldwide 2k citations · 59 works
  5. 5 Francesco Berlanda Scorza Italy · #282,751 worldwide 1.7k citations · 53 works
  6. 6 Audino Podda Italy · #311,069 worldwide 5.4k citations · 105 works
  7. 7 Oretta Finco Italy · #351,362 worldwide 3.2k citations · 66 works
  8. 8 Duccio Medini Italy · #351,978 worldwide 9k citations · 80 works
  9. 9 Ida Paciello Italy · #353,950 worldwide 1.8k citations · 47 works
  10. 10 Fabiola Giusti Italy · #369,232 worldwide 1.1k citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Toscana Life Sciences

What are the most cited papers from Toscana Life Sciences?

The most cited paper from Toscana Life Sciences is "The IPD-IMGT/HLA Database" (Dominic J. Barker, Giuseppe Maccari, Xenia Georgiou et al., 2022), with 1,503 citations. Next come "A universal vaccine for serogroup B meningococcus" (729) and "Ten years of pan-genome analyses" (668).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The IPD-IMGT/HLA Database Dominic J. Barker, Giuseppe Maccari, Xenia Georgiou et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 21 Oct 2022 1,503
2 A universal vaccine for serogroup B meningococcus Marzia Monica Giuliani et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 6 Jul 2006 729
3 Ten years of pan-genome analyses George S Vernikos, Duccio Medini, David R. J. Riley et al. · Current Opinion in Microbiology Review 5 Dec 2014 668
4 Coxsackie B4 virus infection of β cells and natural killer cell insulitis in recent-onset type 1 diabetic patients Francesco Dotta, Stefano Censini, Astrid G. S. van Halteren et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 14 Mar 2007 575
5 Uptake of particulate vaccine adjuvants by dendritic cells activates the NALP3 inflammasome Fiona A. Sharp, Darren Ruane, Benjamin Claass et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 12 Jan 2009 542
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Toscana Life Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine, Pathogenesis, Immunity, Vaccine Development, Pathogenicity, Infection and Clinical Management.

▲ 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. Epidemiology28▲ 6.6×40 topics
  2. Vaccine16▲ 38×10 topics
  3. Pathogenesis16▲ 30×11 topics
  4. Immunity12▲ 27×6 topics
  5. Vaccine Development9▲ 32×7 topics
  6. Pathogenicity8▲ 104×3 topics
  7. Infection7▲ 27×5 topics
  8. Clinical Management7▲ 39×2 topics
  9. Virulence7▲ 96×2 topics
  10. Bacterial Meningitis7▲ 287×1 topic
  11. Neisseria meningitidis7▲ 287×1 topic
  12. Genomic Analysis7▲ 24×2 topics
  13. Type III Secretion System6▲ 107×3 topics
  14. Antimicrobial Resistance6▲ 28×5 topics
  15. Escherichia coli6▲ 386×1 topic
  16. Shiga toxin6▲ 386×1 topic
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines6▲ 9.7×7 topics
  18. Innate Immunity5▲ 15×8 topics
  19. Cancer5▲ 3.3×23 topics
  20. Norovirus5▲ 108×1 topic
  21. Rotavirus5▲ 108×1 topic
  22. Antigen Presentation5▲ 48×2 topics
  23. Pandemic4▲ 3.6×4 topics
  24. Glycosylation4▲ 32×2 topics
  25. Community-Acquired Pneumonia4▲ 97×1 topic
  26. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine4▲ 97×1 topic
  27. Vaccination4▲ 45×2 topics
  28. SARS-CoV-24▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Coronavirus3▲ 15×2 topics
  30. Genomics3▲ 9.9×5 topics
  31. Monoclonal Antibodies3▲ 32×2 topics
  32. Therapeutic Antibodies3▲ 41×2 topics
  33. ACE2 Receptor3▲ 12×2 topics
  34. Cancer Immunotherapy3▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Antibody Engineering3▲ 43×1 topic
  36. Fc Receptors3▲ 43×1 topic
  37. Mutation3▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Viral Transmission2▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Virus2▲ 24×2 topics
  40. antibody2▲ 23×1 topic

Which research topics does Toscana Life Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Bacterial Infections and Vaccines, Escherichia coli research studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections.

Bacterial Infections and Vaccines: 7 fractional worksEscherichia coli research studies: 6 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 5 fractional worksPneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 4 fractional worksMonoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research: 3 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …2SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 2 fractional worksvaccines and immunoinformatics approaches: 2 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune Responses: 2 fractional worksImmune Response and Inflammation: 2 fractional worksClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research: 2 fractional works
MicrobiologyEndocrinologyInfectious DiseasesEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Bacterial Infections and Vaccines Microbiology 7 works
  2. 2 Escherichia coli research studies Endocrinology 6 works
  3. 3 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 5 works
  4. 4 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 4 works
  5. 5 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  6. 6 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 2 works
  7. 7 vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches Molecular Biology 2 works
  8. 8 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 2 works
  9. 9 Immune Response and Inflammation Immunology 2 works
  10. 10 Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research Infectious Diseases 2 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 available59.7%not open40.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.2%domestic only64.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Toscana Life Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Toscana Life Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Toscana Life Sciences0.00042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Toscana Life Sciences 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%30%Toscana Life Sciences10.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 23.9% in 2018.

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