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Women's cancer prevention and management

Women's cancer prevention and management is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and psychosocial impact of cervical cancer and breast cancer in women. It covers topics such as the Papanicolaou test, mastectomy experiences, healthcare access, social support, and the overall quality of life for women affected by these cancers.

  • Cervical Cancer
  • Papanicolaou Test
  • Mastectomy
  • Breast Cancer
  • Women's Health
  • Preventive Care
  • Psychological Impact
  • Healthcare Access
  • Social Support
  • Quality of Life
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+46%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
80% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Women's cancer prevention and management

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

Which countries lead Women's cancer prevention and management research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (2.8k and 215 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.8k works
  2. 2 United States 215 works
  3. 3 Portugal 81 works
  4. 4 Mexico 76 works
  5. 5 Spain 71 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 60 works
  7. 7 China 57 works
  8. 8 ?? 45 works
  9. 9 Uruguay 42 works
  10. 10 India 40 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: 80.3%United States: 6.2%Portugal: 2.3%Mexico: 2.2%6 others listed: 9.0%80%largest
Brazil2,805 · 80.3%United States215 · 6.2%Portugal81 · 2.3%Mexico76 · 2.2%6 others listed315 · 9.0%

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

Which institutions lead Women's cancer prevention and management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA publishes the most Women's cancer prevention and management research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Pará.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCABrazil 109 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 56 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 40 works
  4. 4 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 39 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 37 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 37 works
  7. 7 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 35 works
  8. 8 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 33 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 33 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Women's cancer prevention and management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Women's cancer prevention and management include Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  2. 2 Jacques Ferlay France 486k citations
  3. 3 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  4. 4 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  5. 5 Elisabete Weiderpass France 221k citations
  6. 6 Benn K. D. Sartorius South Africa 208k 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 Women's cancer prevention and management?

The most cited paper in Women's cancer prevention and management is "Natural History of Cervicovaginal Papillomavirus Infection in Young Women" (Gloria Y.F. Ho, Robert H. Bierman, Leah Beardsley et al., 1998), with 2,285 citations. Next come "Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States" (1,601) and "HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer in Rural India" (1,300).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Natural History of Cervicovaginal Papillomavirus Infection in Young Women Gloria Y.F. Ho, Robert H. Bierman, Leah Beardsley et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Feb 1998 2,285
2 Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States Eileen Frances Dunne, Elizabeth R. Unger, Maya Sternberg et al. · JAMA Open access 27 Feb 2007 1,601
3 HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer in Rural India Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Bhagwan M. Nene, Surendra Srinivas Shastri et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Apr 2009 1,300
4 2001 Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Women With Cervical Cytological Abnormalities Thomas C. Wright · JAMA 24 Apr 2002 1,232
5 Human Papillomavirus DNA versus Papanicolaou Screening Tests for Cervical Cancer Marie‐Hélène Mayrand, Eliane Duarte‐Franco, Isabel Rodrigues et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 17 Oct 2007 1,123
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Where is Women's cancer prevention and management research done?

The largest centres of Women's cancer prevention and management research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Recife (Brazil) and Belém (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vassouras and Maldonado.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 397 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 347 works
  3. 3 RecifeBrazil 111 works
  4. 4 BelémBrazil 109 works
  5. 5 Belo HorizonteBrazil 107 works
  6. 6 BrasíliaBrazil 106 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 74 works
  8. 8 CuritibaBrazil 57 works
  9. 9 Porto AlegreBrazil 56 works
  10. 10 SalvadorBrazil 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VassourasBR · 24.2 works115×
  2. MaldonadoUY · 23.6 works79×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Women's cancer prevention and management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Women's cancer prevention and management?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo score highest, combining citation 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 10.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…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.

Citation 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 78.412.4%7.7×56 +19.4%
2Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 74.614.2%12.5×33 +64.1%
3Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil 71.315.6%13.8×15 +66.9%
4Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 70.312.6%15.9×24 +32.0%
5Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 65.113.0%11.3×30 +4.1%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 63.28.8%19.2×26 +49.2%
7Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 62.67.6%23.6×37 +74.3%
8Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 61.07.1%28.4×40 +70.3%
9Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 60.36.4%87.1×39 +52.7%
10Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 59.66.3%18.7×31 +75.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Women's cancer prevention and management, country by country

Is Women's cancer prevention and management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Women's cancer prevention and management.

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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 Women's cancer prevention and management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Women's cancer prevention and management 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%Women's cancer prevention and management10.7% 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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