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Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection

Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection is a research topic within Oncology. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 15.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on global patterns, trends, and research related to colorectal cancer, including screening, colonoscopy, polyps, incidence, mortality, guidelines, risk factors, surveillance, and prevention.

  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Screening
  • Colonoscopy
  • Polyps
  • Incidence
  • Mortality
  • Guidelines
  • Risk Factors
  • Surveillance
  • Prevention
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+26%
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 Cancer Screening and Detection research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.4k and 1.3k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 641 works
  4. 4 Japan 424 works
  5. 5 India 323 works
  6. 6 Italy 285 works
  7. 7 South Korea 263 works
  8. 8 Germany 240 works
  9. 9 Canada 230 works
  10. 10 Australia 212 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: 37.9%China: 20.6%United Kingdom: 10.2%Japan: 6.7%6 others listed: 24.6%38%largest
United States2,389 · 37.9%China1,302 · 20.6%United Kingdom641 · 10.2%Japan424 · 6.7%6 others listed1,553 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Cleveland Clinic publishes the most Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Who are the leading researchers in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection include Patrick M. Bossuyt, Walter C. Willett and Reza Malekzadeh.

  1. 1 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 14k citations
  2. 2 Walter C. Willett United States 6.8k citations
  3. 3 Reza Malekzadeh Iran 6.7k citations

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

Where is Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection research done?

The largest centres of Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rozzano.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 170 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 167 works
  3. 3 New York United States 140 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 131 works
  5. 5 Tokyo Japan 115 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 114 works
  7. 7 Guangzhou China 96 works
  8. 8 Boston United States 82 works
  9. 9 Cleveland United States 72 works
  10. 10 Los Angeles United States 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RozzanoIT · 26.3 works20×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection?

Among universities, judged by research, Humanitas University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Indiana University School of Medicine 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 23.86%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Humanitas University: 14, 26.4%Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College: 30, 28.9%Indiana University School of Medicine: 14, 18.3%Chinese University of Hong Kong: 27, 22.8%Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy: 9, 17.9%Sun Yat-sen University: 26, 21.1%Universidade do Porto: 14, 24.3%Harvard University: 30, 21.4%Fujian Medical University: 11, 25.8%Heidelberg University: 15, 31.7%Chinese Academy of M…Humanitas UniversityChinese University o…Indiana University S…
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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 Humanitas UniversityItaly 59.526.4%19.9×14
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 59.228.9%3.5×30 +218.2%
3Indiana University School of Medicine?? 54.718.3%10.4×14 +96.5%
4 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong 51.722.8%4.5×27 +29.4%
5 Carol Davila University of Medicine and PharmacyRomania 46.117.9%6.5×9 +220.9%
6 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 45.721.1%1.8×26 +161.7%
7 Universidade do PortoPortugal 45.524.3%2.8×14 +161.4%
8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 45.121.4%2.7×30 +39.9%
9 Fujian Medical UniversityChina 44.925.8%3.6×11 +223.5%
10 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 44.431.7%3.3×15 +13.3%

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 Cancer Screening and Detection research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection.

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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.