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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

In research, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center stands highest in Medicine (#2,426 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,223 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,842 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology and Cancer Research — Oncology is 13.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,302
of 28,054 · #2,449 all time
Rank in ??
#51
of 692
Research works
2.6k
▲ 79% vs 2013–17
Citations
148k
57.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
65%
world 28%

What is UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 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 #2,426 of 10,443 15.4%232 #1148
Health SciencesDomain #3,223 of 11,982 16.3%250 #1498
Life SciencesDomain #2,842 of 7,800 19.5%111 #1000
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,653 of 3,579 20.5%86 #949
OncologySubfield #579 of 772 16.2%67 #366

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where UNC Lineberger Comprehensive 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 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#1,148 #2,426
  2. Health Sciences#1,498 #3,223
  3. Life Sciences#1,000 #2,842
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#949 #2,653
  5. Oncology#366 #579
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 UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 13.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 66.6 works13×
  2. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 21.6 works11×
← 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: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.66× its world share, 86 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.83× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.26× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.69× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.42× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.73× its world share, 232 worksMedicineNursing: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.40× its world share, 32 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.55× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quality of Life, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Cancer, Radiotherapy, Cost of Care, Financial Toxicity and Health-related Quality of Life.

▲ 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. Quality of Life37▲ 5.8×23 topics
  2. Chemotherapy30▲ 9.7×22 topics
  3. Cancer29▲ 4.8×44 topics
  4. Immunotherapy26▲ 8.3×15 topics
  5. Radiotherapy22▲ 13×11 topics
  6. Cost of Care17▲ 131×1 topic
  7. Financial Toxicity17▲ 131×1 topic
  8. Health-related Quality of Life17▲ 16×3 topics
  9. Breast Cancer17▲ 16×11 topics
  10. Depression16▲ 4.2×10 topics
  11. Physical Activity15▲ 7.1×5 topics
  12. Cancer Survivorship15▲ 47×2 topics
  13. Tumor Microenvironment15▲ 7.7×8 topics
  14. Anxiety15▲ 7.2×5 topics
  15. Clinical Trials15▲ 5.1×14 topics
  16. Gene Expression15▲ 5.5×12 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors15▲ 7.6×12 topics
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines14▲ 5.9×13 topics
  19. Neoadjuvant Therapy14▲ 14×5 topics
  20. Cancer Incidence13▲ 22×4 topics
  21. Patient-Reported Outcomes13▲ 56×1 topic
  22. Psychosocial Interventions13▲ 56×1 topic
  23. Cancer Immunotherapy13▲ 19×3 topics
  24. Lymphoma13▲ 18×4 topics
  25. Targeted Therapy13▲ 13×5 topics
  26. Cancer Therapy12▲ 4.9×17 topics
  27. Cost-effectiveness Analysis12▲ 33×1 topic
  28. Health Utility Measures12▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Survival Analysis12▲ 10×7 topics
  30. Metastatic Breast Cancer10▲ 41×2 topics
  31. Molecular Subtypes10▲ 26×3 topics
  32. Tumor Regression10▲ 20×2 topics
  33. Clinical Guidelines9▲ 7.3×4 topics
  34. Population-Based Study9▲ 31×2 topics
  35. Leukemia9▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Survival9▲ 15×4 topics
  37. CAR T Cells9▲ 27×1 topic
  38. Chimeric Antigen Receptor9▲ 27×1 topic
  39. Health Disparities9▲ 7.5×6 topics
  40. PET Imaging9▲ 11×5 topics

Which research topics does UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Cancer survivorship and care, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 17 fractional worksCancer survivorship and care: 13 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…12Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 12 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…9CAR-T cell therapy research: 9 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 8 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 7 fractional worksClinical practice guidel…6Clinical practice guidelines implementation: 6 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Breast Cancer Therapies: 6 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 5 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsOncologyCancer ResearchPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 17 works
  2. 2 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 13 works
  3. 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 12 works
  4. 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 9 works
  5. 5 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 8 works
  6. 6 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 7 works
  7. 7 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6 works
  8. 8 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 6 works
  9. 9 Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 5 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 available64.6%not open35.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.3%domestic only79.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 79% higher 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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.