German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ)
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (DKFZ)
Germany
Time frame: 1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026Research
German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ) has the following research output in the current window (1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles representing the corresponding Share value.
Overall research output
| Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 382 | 35.87 |
Overall Count and Share for 'German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ)' based on the 12-month time frame mentioned above.
Research outputs by subject area
| Subject | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Applied sciences | 30 | 4.32 |
| Biological sciences | 67 | 7.24 |
| Chemistry | 15 | 1.76 |
| Health sciences | 265 | 22.52 |
| Physical sciences | 2 | 0.01 |
| Social sciences | 3 | 0.02 |
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Relationships
Affiliated institutions
The following affiliated institutions are wholly owned, operated, administered or contains research facilities for German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ). All affiliations for an affiliated institution are credited to the institution to which it is affiliated. Each of the affiliated institutions listed below has its own research profile.
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
- German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ)
- Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases within the Helmholtz Association (DZNE)
- German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)
- Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)
- Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
- Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH (GSI)
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)
- Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)
- Helmholtz Virtual Institute (HVI)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH
- Jülich Research Centre (FZJ)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
Represents joint institutions and consortia for which the institution is designated as a partner institution. Each partner institution of a joint institution or consortium receives an equivalent Share for every affiliation in which the consortium is included.
- AI Health Innovation Cluster (AIH)
- Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC)
- CHS Research Group Proteostasis in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Centre for Applied Research - Applied Biomedical Mass Spectrometry (ZAFH-ABIMAS)
- Collaborative Oncological Gene-Environment Study (COGS)
- Cooperational Division of Clinical Neurobiology
- DKFZ-Bayer Immunotherapeutic Lab
- DKFZ-Hector Cancer Institute at the University Medical Centre Mannheim
- DKFZ-INSERM Division Pathogenesis of Virus Associated Tumors
- DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance
- DZHK Partner Site Heidelberg/Mannheim
- DZIF Partner Site Heidelberg
- Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE)
- Division of Molecular Metabolic Control
- EchoGen Consortium
- Elucidating Loci Involved in Prostate Cancer Susceptibility (ELLIPSE)
- European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Study
- Gene-Environment Interaction and Breast Cancer in Germany (GENICA)
- Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO)
- German-Israeli Helmholtz International Research School in Cancer Biology
- Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR)
- Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technologies and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM gGmbH)
- Heidelberger Institut für Radioonkologie (HIRO)
- Helmholtz Imaging
- Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health)
- Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology Mainz (HI-TRON Mainz)
- Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
- ICGC PedBrainTumor Project
- ICGC-MMML-Seq Consortium
- Infections par le Virus d'Epstei-Barr et Cancer
- Integrative Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (iBioS)
- InterAct Consortium
- International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO)
- International Max Planck Research School for Quantum Dynamics in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IMPRS-QD)
- Joint Research Division Molecular Metabolic Control
- Max Planck School Matter to Life
- MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) Consortium
- NCT WERA
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Site Berlin
- National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT Dresden)
- National Center for Tumor Diseases West (NCT West)
- Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome (PRACTICAL) Consortium
- Schaller Research Groups
- The Autism Genome Project Consortium (AGP)
- The QT Interval International GWAS Consortium (QT-IGC)
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC)
- ViroCarb: Glycans controlling non-enveloped Virus Infections