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Soft tissue tumors and treatment

Soft tissue tumors and treatment is a research topic within Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the clinical, molecular, and genetic characteristics of glomus tumors, including atypical and malignant variants. It covers topics such as diagnosis, imaging modalities, surgical approaches, and the association with neurofibromatosis type 1.

  • Glomus Tumors
  • Angioleiomyoma
  • Gastrointestinal Glomus Tumors
  • Malignant Glomus Tumor
  • Genetic Mutations
  • Clinical Diagnosis
  • Radiological Imaging
  • Surgical Treatment
  • Soft Tissue Tumors
  • Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
923
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

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

Which countries lead Soft tissue tumors and treatment research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (302 and 227 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 302 works
  2. 2 India 227 works
  3. 3 China 186 works
  4. 4 Japan 104 works
  5. 5 Spain 54 works
  6. 6 Brazil 51 works
  7. 7 Italy 44 works
  8. 8 South Korea 44 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 42 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 41 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: 27.6%India: 20.7%China: 16.9%Japan: 9.5%6 others listed: 25.2%28%largest
United States302 · 27.6%India227 · 20.7%China186 · 16.9%Japan104 · 9.5%6 others listed276 · 25.2%

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

Which institutions lead Soft tissue tumors and treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Soft tissue tumors and treatment research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Sichuan University.

Who are the leading researchers in Soft tissue tumors and treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Soft tissue tumors and treatment include Marc Ladanyi and Ralph H. Hruban.

  1. 1 Marc Ladanyi United States 217k citations
  2. 2 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k 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 Soft tissue tumors and treatment?

The most cited paper in Soft tissue tumors and treatment is "Soft‐tissue sarcomas of adults; study of pathological prognostic variables and definition of a histopathological grading system" (Monique Trojani, G Contesso, Jean‐Michel Coindre et al., 1984), with 1,327 citations. Next come "The 2020 WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumours: news and perspectives" (1,135) and "Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of individuals with neurofibromatosis 1" (1,068).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soft‐tissue sarcomas of adults; study of pathological prognostic variables and definition of a histopathological grading system Monique Trojani, G Contesso, Jean‐Michel Coindre et al. · International Journal of Cancer 15 Jan 1984 1,327
2 The 2020 WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumours: news and perspectives Marta Sbaraglia, Elena Bellan, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos · Pathologica Open access Nov 2020 1,135
3 Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of individuals with neurofibromatosis 1 Rosalie E. Ferner, Susan Huson, Nick Thomas et al. · Journal of Medical Genetics Open access 14 Nov 2006 1,068
4 Soft tissue and visceral sarcomas: ESMO–EURACAN–GENTURIS Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up☆ Alessandro Gronchi et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 22 Jul 2021 1,057
5 Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Adults Matthew A. Clark, Cyril Fisher, Ian Robert Judson et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 17 Aug 2005 920
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Soft tissue tumors and treatment research done?

The largest centres of Soft tissue tumors and treatment research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New Delhi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 31 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 25 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 19 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 18 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 17 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 16 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 15 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 15 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New DelhiIN · 31.3 works4.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Soft tissue tumors and treatment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Soft tissue tumors and treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Harvard University and Sichuan 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%20%40%mean 17.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversitySichuan UniversityAll India Institute …University of Delhi
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57.110.8%15.6×24 +132.3%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.935.7%2.5×11 -13.9%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 35.620.5%3.6×11 +44.1%
4University of DelhiIndia 21.03.8%10.7×10 +39.9%

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 Soft tissue tumors and treatment, country by country

Is Soft tissue tumors and treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Soft tissue tumors and treatment.

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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 Soft tissue tumors and treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0066% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Soft tissue tumors and treatment0.0065% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Soft tissue tumors and treatment 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%Soft tissue tumors and treatment10.0% 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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