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Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques is a research topic within Radiation. Science Explorer counts 58k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in radiotherapy physics and technology, including topics such as dosimetry, image-guided radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, respiratory motion management, Monte Carlo simulation, quality assurance, brachytherapy dose calculation, second cancer risk, and clinical implementation.

  • Radiotherapy Physics
  • Dosimetry
  • Image-Guided Radiotherapy
  • Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
  • Respiratory Motion Management
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Quality Assurance
  • Brachytherapy Dose Calculation
  • Second Cancer Risk
  • Clinical Implementation
Research works
58k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Which countries lead Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.5k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 Japan 708 works
  4. 4 Germany 506 works
  5. 5 India 434 works
  6. 6 Italy 419 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 394 works
  8. 8 Canada 380 works
  9. 9 France 329 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 281 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 34.6%China: 18.3%Japan: 9.7%Germany: 6.9%6 others listed: 30.6%35%largest
United States2,530 · 34.6%China1,340 · 18.3%Japan708 · 9.7%Germany506 · 6.9%6 others listed2,237 · 30.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center publishes the most Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research, followed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 98 works
  2. 2 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 96 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 94 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 84 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 78 works
  6. 6 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 67 works
  7. 7 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 66 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 63 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 62 works
  10. 10 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques include Ahmedin Jemal, Freddie Bray and Zhong Lin Wang.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  4. 4 Jacques Ferlay France 486k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 Lesley A. Stewart United Kingdom 308k citations
  7. 7 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques?

The most cited paper in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques is "Toxicity criteria of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the European organization for research and treatment of cancer (EORTC)" (James D. Cox, JoAnn Stetz, Thomas F. Pajak, 1995), with 4,860 citations. Next come "Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation" (4,510) and "Clonogenic assay of cells in vitro" (4,254).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Toxicity criteria of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the European organization for research and treatment of cancer (EORTC) James D. Cox, JoAnn Stetz, Thomas F. Pajak · International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics Mar 1995 4,860
2 Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation Bahman Emami, Jacqueline Lyman, Adam S. Brown et al. · International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics May 1991 4,510
3 Clonogenic assay of cells in vitro Nicolaas A.P. Franken, Hans M. Rodermond, Jan Stap et al. · Nature Protocols Dec 2006 4,254
4 Postoperative Irradiation with or without Concomitant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Jacques Bernier, Christian Domenge, Mahmut Özsahin et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 5 May 2004 3,214
5 MRI-Targeted or Standard Biopsy for Prostate-Cancer Diagnosis Veeru Kasivisvanathan et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Mar 2018 3,101
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Where is Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 230 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 176 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 159 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 147 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 143 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 140 works
  7. 7 HoustonUnited States 125 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 124 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 112 works
  10. 10 HeidelbergGermany 100 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Groningen, University of Zurich and Radboud University Nijmegen score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 17.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Gronin…University of ZurichRadboud University N…Aarhus University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of GroningenNetherlands 77.222.7%5.5×33 +2.5%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 73.222.7%4.8×30 +14.5%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 72.822.3%4.8×26 +4.9%
4Aarhus UniversityDenmark 71.416.3%4.9×38 +22.9%
5Heidelberg UniversityGermany 67.615.8%9.8×66 -21.8%
6University of LausanneSwitzerland 66.729.8%3.2×13 +24.1%
7Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 65.613.4%3.7×67 +45.7%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.010.5%3.3×94 -16.4%
9University of BernSwitzerland 62.412.5%6.1×30 +54.2%
10University of TorontoCanada 61.010.9%4.4×78 -15.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, country by country

Is Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques 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.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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