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Palliative and Oncologic Care

Palliative and Oncologic Care is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1955. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on palliative care, end-of-life issues, and the experiences of healthcare professionals and patients dealing with terminal illness. It covers topics such as nursing in palliative care, bioethical considerations, communication strategies, grief, spirituality, and ethical dilemmas surrounding euthanasia. The cluster also delves into the specific challenges of pediatric oncology and the holistic approach to caring for terminally ill patients.

  • Palliative Care
  • End-of-Life
  • Nursing
  • Bioethics
  • Communication
  • Grief
  • Terminal Illness
  • Spirituality
  • Euthanasia
  • Pediatric Oncology
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
75% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Palliative and Oncologic Care

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

Which countries lead Palliative and Oncologic Care research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (2.6k and 192 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.6k works
  2. 2 Portugal 192 works
  3. 3 Spain 152 works
  4. 4 United States 146 works
  5. 5 Ecuador 80 works
  6. 6 Colombia 76 works
  7. 7 Mexico 67 works
  8. 8 ?? 45 works
  9. 9 Chile 44 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 39 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.

Brazil: 75.4%Portugal: 5.6%Spain: 4.4%United States: 4.2%6 others listed: 10.3%75%largest
Brazil2,586 · 75.4%Portugal192 · 5.6%Spain152 · 4.4%United States146 · 4.2%6 others listed352 · 10.3%

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

Which institutions lead Palliative and Oncologic Care research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Palliative and Oncologic Care research, followed by Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 58 works
  2. 2 Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCABrazil 42 works
  3. 3 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 41 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 39 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 39 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 37 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 37 works
  8. 8 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 36 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 35 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Palliative and Oncologic Care?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Palliative and Oncologic Care include André Faro, Carlos Manuel Duarte and Pascual Ruben Valdez.

  1. 1 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 Pascual Ruben Valdez United States 126k 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 Palliative and Oncologic Care?

The most cited paper in Palliative and Oncologic Care is "Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition" (Lukas Radbruch et al., 2020), with 1,291 citations. Next come "The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions" (885) and "Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs" (818).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition Lukas Radbruch et al. · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Open access 6 May 2020 1,291
2 The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions Katherine E Sleeman, Maja Furlan de Brito, Simon Noah Etkind et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 23 May 2019 885
3 Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs R. Sean Morrison · Archives of Internal Medicine 8 Sep 2008 818
4 Evidence for Improving Palliative Care at the End of Life: A Systematic Review Karl Lorenz, Joanne Lynn, Sydney Morss Dy et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine Review 15 Jan 2008 598
5 Mapping Levels of Palliative Care Development in 198 Countries: The Situation in 2017 David Alexander Clark, Nicole Baur, David Clelland et al. · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Open access 21 Nov 2019 446
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Where is Palliative and Oncologic Care research done?

The largest centres of Palliative and Oncologic Care research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Porto Alegre (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 334 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 283 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 102 works
  4. 4 Porto AlegreBrazil 96 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 95 works
  6. 6 CuritibaBrazil 91 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 88 works
  8. 8 BelémBrazil 88 works
  9. 9 LisbonPortugal 79 works
  10. 10 RecifeBrazil 73 works
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Where is the best place to study Palliative and Oncologic Care?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos and Universidade Federal de São Paulo 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%mean 11.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidad Técnica …Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 73.212.4%8.7×58 -18.4%
2Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 71.114.2%18.3×23 +100.2%
3Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 69.520.6%16.4×24 -20.6%
4Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 66.016.1%32.3×16 +961.5%
5Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 64.311.3%17.0×37 -31.0%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 63.811.2%22.4×28 +17.2%
7Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 63.06.8%26.8×41 +34.5%
8Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 62.97.4%87.2×36 +19.5%
9Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 59.58.7%52.6×30 +83.4%
10Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 59.38.1%24.1×32 +27.4%

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 Palliative and Oncologic Care, country by country

Is Palliative and Oncologic Care research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Palliative and Oncologic Care.

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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 Palliative and Oncologic Care as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Palliative and Oncologic Care0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Palliative and Oncologic Care 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%Palliative and Oncologic Care10.5% 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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