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Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 23.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on pediatric cancer, survivorship, and the assessment of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. It includes research on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, pediatric palliative care, psychosocial outcomes, and long-term effects on survivors. The papers also cover topics such as parent-proxy reports, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and neurocognitive outcomes in pediatric cancer patients.

  • Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory
  • Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
  • Health-related Quality of Life
  • Pediatric Palliative Care
  • Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology
  • Psychosocial Outcomes
  • Long-term Survivors
  • Parent-proxy Reports
  • Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
  • Neurocognitive Outcomes
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
11k
per year above
Top-10% rate
23.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+35%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3k and 547 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 547 works
  3. 3 Canada 476 works
  4. 4 China 468 works
  5. 5 Germany 410 works
  6. 6 Brazil 381 works
  7. 7 India 322 works
  8. 8 Australia 306 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 293 works
  10. 10 Italy 230 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: 46.9%United Kingdom: 8.5%Canada: 7.4%China: 7.2%6 others listed: 30.0%47%largest
United States3,036 · 46.9%United Kingdom547 · 8.5%Canada476 · 7.4%China468 · 7.2%6 others listed1,942 · 30.0%

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

Which institutions lead Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research?

By volume in 2022–2025, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital publishes the most Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States 87 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 54 works
  3. 3 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 47 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 45 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  6. 6 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 39 works
  8. 8 Boston Children's HospitalUnited States 35 works
  9. 9 Hospital for Sick ChildrenCanada 34 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life include Hagop M. Kantarjian.

  1. 1 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 4k citations

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

Where is Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research done?

The largest centres of Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), Toronto (Canada) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Memphis and Cincinnati.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 173 works
  2. 2 Boston United States 161 works
  3. 3 Toronto Canada 147 works
  4. 4 New York United States 127 works
  5. 5 Houston United States 115 works
  6. 6 Philadelphia United States 108 works
  7. 7 Memphis United States 102 works
  8. 8 São Paulo Brazil 86 works
  9. 9 Melbourne Australia 83 works
  10. 10 Seattle United States 79 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MemphisUS · 101.5 works23×
  2. CincinnatiUS · 53.0 works7.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life?

Among universities, judged by research, Iranshahr University, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Calgary 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 28.15%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Iranshahr University: 8, 28.3%Baylor College of Medicine: 30, 19.3%University of Calgary: 23, 32.3%Harvard University: 45, 28.9%University of Lucerne: 15, 18.9%University of Toronto: 41, 27.1%Duke University: 29, 26.4%University of Washington: 32, 30.8%Thomas Jefferson University: 9, 31.8%Chinese University of Hong Kong: 15, 37.7%University of CalgaryHarvard UniversityIranshahr UniversityBaylor College of Me…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Iranshahr UniversityIran 58.128.3%11.0×8 +355.4%
2 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 52.619.3%8.2×30 +87.4%
3 University of CalgaryCanada 51.732.3%4.0×23 +95.5%
4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 51.328.9%3.9×45 +29.2%
5 University of LucerneSwitzerland 50.218.9%27.1×15 —
6 University of TorontoCanada 48.627.1%3.1×41 +56.5%
7 Duke UniversityUnited States 48.426.4%4.6×29 +92.1%
8 University of WashingtonUnited States 48.330.8%3.5×32 +65.7%
9 Thomas Jefferson UniversityUnited States 48.131.8%4.9×9 +356.7%
10 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong 47.937.7%2.3×15 +33.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life.

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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.

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.