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West Michigan Cancer Center

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Research works
88
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.9k
21.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
27%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: West Michigan Cancer Center is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.66× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 2.89× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.03× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.08× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 1.36× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.04× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at West Michigan Cancer Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Renu Sharma lead among researchers whose main affiliation is West Michigan Cancer Center.

  1. 1 Renu Sharma United States · #1,412,274 worldwide 15 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at West Michigan Cancer Center

Which keywords describe research at West Michigan Cancer Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Dosimetry, Monte Carlo Simulation, Image-Guided Radiotherapy, Radiotherapy Physics, Particle Therapy, Proton Therapy and Radiotherapy.

▲ 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 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. Chemotherapy7▲ 11×19 topics
  2. Dosimetry7▲ 82×2 topics
  3. Monte Carlo Simulation6▲ 23×2 topics
  4. Image-Guided Radiotherapy6▲ 132×1 topic
  5. Radiotherapy Physics6▲ 132×1 topic
  6. Quality of Life5▲ 4.3×11 topics
  7. Particle Therapy4▲ 157×1 topic
  8. Proton Therapy4▲ 157×1 topic
  9. Radiotherapy4▲ 12×11 topics
  10. Cancer4▲ 3.1×16 topics
  11. Immunotherapy3▲ 5.1×11 topics
  12. Cancer Treatment3▲ 12×4 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 5.4×10 topics
  14. Genomic Stability3▲ 31×2 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors2▲ 6.1×9 topics
  16. Genetic Variants2▲ 13×2 topics
  17. Food Safety2▲ 9.1×2 topics
  18. Genomic Instability2▲ 19×3 topics
  19. Inhibitors2▲ 35×2 topics
  20. Cost of Care2▲ 130×1 topic
  21. Financial Toxicity2▲ 130×1 topic
  22. Survival Analysis2▲ 8.9×6 topics
  23. DNA2▲ 68×1 topic
  24. Medical Education2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  25. Metastasis2▲ 6.4×6 topics
  26. Patient Satisfaction2▲ 8.4×5 topics
  27. Topoisomerases2▲ 68×1 topic
  28. Cancer Incidence2▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Targeted Therapy2▲ 9.6×4 topics
  30. Cancer Risk2▲ 7.2×3 topics
  31. Food Irradiation2▲ 148×1 topic
  32. Inorganic Scintillators2▲ 44×1 topic
  33. Irradiation Effects2▲ 148×1 topic
  34. Medical Imaging2▲ 7.3×2 topics
  35. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 8.8×3 topics
  36. Scintillation Detectors2▲ 44×1 topic
  37. Cancer Survivorship2▲ 31×2 topics
  38. Health Disparities2▲ 8.8×3 topics
  39. Health-related Quality of Life2▲ 8.7×3 topics
  40. Occupational Exposure2▲ 27×3 topics

Which research topics does West Michigan Cancer Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening.

Economic and Financial I…1Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 1 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 0 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 0 fractional worksRadiation Dose and Imaging: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 0 fractional worksClinical practice guidelines implementation: 0 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 0 fractional worksAdvanced X-ray and CT Imaging: 0 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Treatment: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsRadiationOncologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  2. 2 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 1 works
  3. 3 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 0 works
  4. 4 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 0 works
  5. 5 Radiation Dose and Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  6. 6 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 0 works
  7. 7 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment 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 available26.8%not open73.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.6%domestic only96.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has West Michigan Cancer Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% 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.

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