Disease Research Trackerfrom CloudDots

Is the science moving in your disease area?

Five independent R&D signals per disease: new publications, clinical trials, NIH grants, patents and preprints. Each month's count is compared with the same month a year earlier, and ranked against every month we hold on record, back to 2000 for publications and clinical trials. Publications and patents are measured as a share of everything the source indexed that month.

Biggest movers by publications as a share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records vs the same month last year

  1. 1rareCystic Fibrosis+33.8%provisional settling
  2. 2rareDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy+17.5%provisional settling
  3. 3metabolicObesity+7.0%provisional settling
  4. 4oncologyPancreatic Cancer+3.3%provisional settling
  5. 5oncologyMultiple Myeloma+0.9%provisional settling

Rare disease

rareAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
-7.4%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs -7%Trials +14%Grants highPatents peakPreprints highrareCystic Fibrosis
+33.8%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +34%Trials typicalGrants lowPatents highPreprints peakrareDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy
+17.5%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +18%Trials typicalGrants highPatents highPreprints peakrareHuntington's Disease
-5.4%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs -5%Grants typicalPatents peakPreprints low

Metabolic

metabolicMASH / NASH
-17.4%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs -17%Trials -15%Grants typicalPatents typicalPreprints typicalmetabolicObesity
+7.0%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +7%Trials +61%Grants typicalPatents highPreprints high

Oncology

oncologyGlioblastoma
+0.1%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +0%Trials typicalGrants peakPatents peakPreprints peakoncologyMultiple Myeloma
+0.9%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +1%Trials -35%Grants peakPatents highPreprints typicaloncologyNon-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
-2.5%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs -2%Trials -28%Grants typicalPatents peakPreprints peakoncologyPancreatic Cancer
+3.3%publications share vs same month last year
provisional settlingPubs +3%Trials +36%Grants highPatents peakPreprints high

How it works

Each disease page tracks five signals. Each month's count is compared with the same month a year earlier. Publications are counted as a share of the PubMed records given MeSH headings that month, and patents as a share of all US pre-grant applications published that month. Where both months are under 15 records, or a signal has fewer than 24 months of history, the page shows where the reading sits in its own history instead of a percentage. The term mappings (PubMed MeSH heading, OpenAlex topics, ClinicalTrials.gov conditions, patent CPC) are published on each page.