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Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas

Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 12.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the treatment and management of anal cancer, including the use of chemoradiation, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. It also explores the impact of HIV infection on treatment outcomes, imaging techniques such as FDG-PET/CT, and the long-term quality of life for survivors. Additionally, it delves into salvage surgery for recurrent or persistent anal cancer.

  • Anal Cancer
  • Chemoradiation
  • Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
  • Squamous-Cell Carcinoma
  • Chemotherapy
  • HIV-positive Patients
  • Metastatic Anal Cancer
  • FDG-PET/CT Imaging
  • Quality of Life
  • Salvage Surgery
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
12.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
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 Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 1k works
  3. 3 Japan 377 works
  4. 4 India 232 works
  5. 5 Italy 202 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 185 works
  7. 7 Germany 180 works
  8. 8 Brazil 172 works
  9. 9 Spain 144 works
  10. 10 France 133 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: 29.1%China: 27.2%Japan: 10.1%India: 6.2%6 others listed: 27.3%29%largest
United States1,083 · 29.1%China1,011 · 27.2%Japan377 · 10.1%India232 · 6.2%6 others listed1,016 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research?

By volume in 2022–2025, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center publishes the most Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Cleveland Clinic.

Who are the leading researchers in Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas include Ionuţ Negoi, Daniel J. Sargent and Ying Liu.

  1. 1 Ionuţ Negoi Romania 4.8k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Sargent United States 4.1k citations
  3. 3 Ying Liu China 3.6k citations

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

Where is Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research done?

The largest centres of Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cleveland.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 137 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 93 works
  3. 3 Guangzhou China 91 works
  4. 4 Tokyo Japan 84 works
  5. 5 New York United States 78 works
  6. 6 Seoul South Korea 62 works
  7. 7 Houston United States 57 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 57 works
  9. 9 São Paulo Brazil 57 works
  10. 10 London United Kingdom 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ClevelandUS · 48.2 works6.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas?

Among universities, judged by research, Hebei Medical University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Fujian Medical University 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%10%20%30%mean 15.27%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Hebei Medical University: 10, 25.6%Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College: 40, 13.8%Fujian Medical University: 22, 8.8%Sun Yat-sen University: 29, 16.5%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 15, 8.7%Shandong First Medical University: 9, 15.4%Sichuan University: 22, 12.1%Capital Medical University: 9, 21.5%University of Miami: 11, 16.9%Peking University: 16, 13.4%Hebei Medical Univer…Sun Yat-sen UniversityChinese Academy of M…Fujian Medical Unive…
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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 Hebei Medical UniversityChina 70.125.6%10.0×10 +153.0%
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 64.613.8%8.4×40 +81.4%
3 Fujian Medical UniversityChina 56.68.8%13.1×22 +96.0%
4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 53.316.5%3.7×29 +126.3%
5 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 44.08.7%6.2×15 +134.5%
6 Shandong First Medical UniversityChina 42.015.4%7.3×9 +35.0%
7 Sichuan UniversityChina 41.312.1%2.6×22 +139.3%
8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 40.521.5%3.3×9 +78.0%
9 University of MiamiUnited States 38.716.9%4.7×11 +18.2%
10 Peking UniversityChina 37.613.4%2.0×16 +125.4%

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 Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas.

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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.