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Victorian Cancer Biobank

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Research works
11
▲ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
118
11.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
52%
world 18%
Victorian Cancer Biobank

Not ranked overall: Victorian Cancer Biobank 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 Victorian Cancer Biobank work in?

In all years, 57% of research at Victorian Cancer Biobank is in Health Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (55%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 6 fractional works · 56.7% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 55.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 27.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 9.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 24.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 20.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKVictorian CancerBiobank11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences57%Social Sciences12%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine655.3%
    2. Health Professions01.0%
    3. Veterinary00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology220.8%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology03.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance17.7%
    2. Decision Sciences02.4%
    3. Social Sciences02.1%
    1. Computer Science04.7%
    2. Environmental Science01.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    4. Engineering00.4%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.10× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 1.47× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.43× its world share, 2 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 5.93× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.39× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences5.93×0 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.39×0 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.10×1 works
  4. Medicine2.43×2 works
  5. Computer Science1.47×0 works
  6. Health Professions0.97×0 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.95×0 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×0 works
  9. Engineering0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Victorian Cancer Biobank?

Ranked on the quality score, Wayne Ng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Victorian Cancer Biobank.

  1. 1 Wayne Ng Australia · #2,643,892 worldwide 549 citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Victorian Cancer Biobank

What are the most cited papers from Victorian Cancer Biobank?

The most cited paper from Victorian Cancer Biobank is "Retrospective study to estimate the prevalence and describe the clinicopathological characteristics, treatments received, and outcomes of HER2-low breast cancer" (Giulia Viale, Mark Basik, Naoki Niikura et al., 2023), with 81 citations. Next come "Cohesin Rad21 Mediates Loss of Heterozygosity and Is Upregulated via Wnt Promoting Transcriptional Dysregulation in Gastrointestinal Tumors" (48) and "In situ Biological Dose Mapping Estimates the Radiation Burden Delivered to ‘Spared’ Tissue between Synchrotron X-Ray Microbeam Radiotherapy Tracks" (34).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Retrospective study to estimate the prevalence and describe the clinicopathological characteristics, treatments received, and outcomes of HER2-low breast cancer Giulia Viale, Mark Basik, Naoki Niikura et al. · ESMO Open Open access Aug 2023 81
2 Cohesin Rad21 Mediates Loss of Heterozygosity and Is Upregulated via Wnt Promoting Transcriptional Dysregulation in Gastrointestinal Tumors Huiling Xu, Yuqian Yan, Siddhartha Deb et al. · Cell Reports Open access 21 Nov 2014 48
3 In situ Biological Dose Mapping Estimates the Radiation Burden Delivered to ‘Spared’ Tissue between Synchrotron X-Ray Microbeam Radiotherapy Tracks Kai Rothkamm, Jeffrey C Crosbie, Frances M Daley et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 6 Jan 2012 34
4 Spleen Histologic Appearance in Common Variable Immunodeficiency Adéline Furudoï, Audrey Gros, Sophie Stanislas et al. · The American Journal of Surgical Pathology 12 May 2016 18
5 What Do Biomedical Researchers Want from Biobanks? Results of an Online Survey Amanda Rush, Daniel R. Catchpoole, Georget Y. Reaiche-Miller et al. · Biopreservation and Biobanking 10 Nov 2021 17
All 26 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Victorian Cancer Biobank publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ethics in Clinical Research, Biomedical Ethics and Regulation, BRCA gene mutations in cancer and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Ethics in Clinical Resea…1Ethics in Clinical Research: 1 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Re…1Biomedical Ethics and Regulation: 1 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in c…0BRCA gene mutations in cancer: 0 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksMolecular Biology Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Techn…0Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 0 fractional worksResearch Data Management Practices: 0 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 0 fractional worksHealthcare cost, quality, practices: 0 fractional worksHealth and Medical Research Impacts: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthPhysiologyGeneticsEconomics and Econometrics5 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics in Clinical Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  2. 2 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 1 works
  3. 3 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 0 works
  4. 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  5. 5 Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  7. 7 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 0 works
  8. 8 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 0 works
  9. 9 Healthcare cost, quality, practices General Health Professions 0 works
  10. 10 Health and Medical Research Impacts Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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 available23.7%not open76.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors52.4%domestic only47.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Victorian Cancer Biobank's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% 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 Victorian Cancer Biobank as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000032% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%Victorian Cancer Biobank0.000018% in 20252020

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

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