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United States

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Foundation: 1937

Mission: NCI leads, conducts, and supports cancer research across the nation to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.cancer.gov

2nd
Overall percentile
4th
Research percentile
5th
Innovation percentile
2nd
Societal percentile

Evolution of the institution

The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.

Compared to its context

The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.

Compared to All sectors (percentiles)
Compared to Health sector (percentiles)

Ranks by Subject areas/categories

We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.

 
AreaWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +183rd61st125th59th
Arts and Humanities 232nd85th208th77th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 57th30th43rd29th
Chemistry 86th33rd50th31st
Computer Science 436th120th277th108th
Engineering +148th45th75th44th
Environmental Science 648th133rd359th124th
Mathematics 280th72nd159th67th
Medicine +109th55th89th52nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 54th15th22nd15th
Physics and Astronomy 111th43rd72nd43rd
Psychology 581st236th512th207th
Social Sciences 781st211th592nd183rd

Publishing profile

These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.

This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.

Where is the institution located?

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  • Health
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