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Volition (Belgium)

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Research works
30
▲ 113% vs 2018-21
Citations
275
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
61%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Volition (Belgium)

Not ranked overall: Volition (Belgium) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Volition (Belgium) work in?

In all years, 57% of research at Volition (Belgium) is in Life Sciences, 38% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (56%), Medicine (38%), Business, Management and Accounting (2%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 17 fractional works · 57.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 fractional works · 55.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 35.4% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 18.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 38.5% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 37.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 15.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 5.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKVolition(Belgium)30fractional works, all years
Life Sciences57%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences38%Social Sciences2%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1755.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology01.5%
    1. Medicine1137.7%
    2. Veterinary00.6%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting12.2%
    1. Engineering01.7%
    2. Materials Science00.4%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11.88× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.37× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMedicine: 1.61× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 9.92× its world share, 0 worksVeterinary1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 11.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.88×9 works
  2. Veterinary9.92×0 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology2.37×0 works
  4. Medicine1.61×4 works
  5. Nursing0.59×0 works
  6. Materials Science0.13×0 works
  7. Engineering0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Volition (Belgium)?

Ranked on the quality score, Jason Terrell, Mariëlle Herzog and Guillaume Rommelaere lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Volition (Belgium).

  1. 1 Jason Terrell Belgium · #1,277,532 worldwide 1.2k citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Mariëlle Herzog Belgium · #1,943,755 worldwide 997 citations · 87 works
  3. 3 Guillaume Rommelaere Belgium · #2,084,964 worldwide 373 citations · 26 works
  4. 4 Jake Micallef Belgium · #2,195,688 worldwide 444 citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Dorian Pamart Belgium · #3,005,933 worldwide 182 citations · 35 works
  6. 6 Nathalie Hardat Belgium · #3,531,346 worldwide 74 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Thomas Bygott Belgium · #3,611,045 worldwide 189 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Brieuc Cuvelier Belgium · #4,353,941 worldwide 122 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Volition (Belgium)

What are the most cited papers from Volition (Belgium)?

The most cited paper from Volition (Belgium) is "Circulating nucleosomes as epigenetic biomarkers in pancreatic cancer" (Monika Posaric Bauden, Dorian Pamart, Daniel Ansari et al., 2015), with 116 citations. Next come "A persistent neutrophil-associated immune signature characterizes post–COVID-19 pulmonary sequelae" (111) and "Circulating nucleosomes as new blood-based biomarkers for detection of colorectal cancer" (86).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Circulating nucleosomes as epigenetic biomarkers in pancreatic cancer Monika Posaric Bauden, Dorian Pamart, Daniel Ansari et al. · Clinical Epigenetics Open access 7 Oct 2015 116
2 A persistent neutrophil-associated immune signature characterizes post–COVID-19 pulmonary sequelae Peter Myles George et al. · Science Translational Medicine Open access 16 Nov 2022 111
3 Circulating nucleosomes as new blood-based biomarkers for detection of colorectal cancer Jean‐François Rahier, Anne Druez, Laurence Faugeras et al. · Clinical Epigenetics Open access 15 May 2017 86
4 EZH2 Inhibition: A Promising Strategy to Prevent Cancer Immune Editing Ning Kang, Mark Eccleston, Pier‐Luc Clermont et al. · Epigenomics Open access Aug 2020 74
5 Liquid Biopsy in Glioblastoma Lorian Ronvaux, Mattéo Riva, An Coosemans et al. · Cancers Open access 13 Jul 2022 69
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Volition (Belgium)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Targeted Therapy, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Cancer, m6A-seq, RNA methylation, Gene Expression and DNA Methylation.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 37 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 37 words, with their numbers
  1. Targeted Therapy5▲ 77×3 topics
  2. Cancer Genomics4▲ 239×1 topic
  3. Mutational Signatures4▲ 239×1 topic
  4. Cancer4▲ 8.6×8 topics
  5. RNA methylation3▲ 142×1 topic
  6. m6A-seq3▲ 142×1 topic
  7. Gene Expression3▲ 17×6 topics
  8. DNA Methylation3▲ 80×1 topic
  9. Histone Modification3▲ 143×1 topic
  10. Epigenetic Regulation2▲ 37×3 topics
  11. Immunotherapy2▲ 10×6 topics
  12. Prognostic Factors2▲ 14×4 topics
  13. Epigenetics2▲ 90×2 topics
  14. Long Noncoding RNAs2▲ 86×1 topic
  15. RNA Regulation2▲ 48×1 topic
  16. Chemotherapy1▲ 6.6×6 topics
  17. Clinical Trials1▲ 7.5×3 topics
  18. Data Analysis1▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Epidemiology1▲ 1.17×5 topics
  20. Normalization1▲ 64×2 topics
  21. Oxidative Stress1▲ 2.5×4 topics
  22. Quantitative1▲ 37×1 topic
  23. Real-Time PCR1▲ 105×1 topic
  24. Chromatin1▲ 49×1 topic
  25. Molecular Pathology1▲ 38×2 topics
  26. Transcription1▲ 109×1 topic
  27. Cancer Risk1▲ 15×2 topics
  28. Cell Death1▲ 20×2 topics
  29. Molecular Characterization1▲ 22×2 topics
  30. Tumor Microenvironment1▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Ferroptosis1▲ 129×1 topic
  32. Lipid Peroxidation1▲ 51×1 topic
  33. Hereditary Syndromes1▲ 96×1 topic
  34. Machine Learning1▲ 1.61×2 topics
  35. Medical Imaging1▲ 12×1 topic
  36. Microsatellite Instability1▲ 96×1 topic
  37. Radiomics1▲ 52×1 topic

Which research topics does Volition (Belgium) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: RNA modifications and cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

RNA modifications and ca…2RNA modifications and cancer: 2 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…2Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 2 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 1 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 1 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 1 fractional worksGenomics and Chromatin D…1Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics: 1 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 1 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Studies: 0 fractional worksMolecular Biology Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional works
Molecular BiologyCancer ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineGenetics1 others

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

  1. 1 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 2 works
  2. 2 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 2 works
  3. 3 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 1 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 1 works
  5. 5 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  6. 6 Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Molecular Biology 1 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 0 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 0 works
  10. 10 Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications Molecular Biology 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 available61.0%not open39.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.7%domestic only52.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Volition (Belgium)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 113% 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 Volition (Belgium) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Volition (Belgium)0.000045% in 20252020

Fractional works of Volition (Belgium) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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