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oncology

Glioblastoma

Is the science moving here?

Publications down -10.0% as of 2026-03 provisional settling

Advocacy: National Brain Tumor Society

Publications: 240 in 2026-03. -10.0% share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records vs the same month last year (272 in 2025-03).
PublicationsPubMed
2402026-03
-10.0% share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records vs same month last year (272 in 2025-03) provisional settling
0.21% share

The most recent PubMed months are still being indexed. This number will change as they settle.

Counts PubMed records indexed under this disease's MeSH heading, by the month each record was published, as a share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records that month. MeSH indexing lags about 5 months behind publication; the newest months are still filling in.
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Clinical trials: 13 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: both months are under 15 records. The count is ranked in its own history instead. Clinical trials: latest count 13 is in the 92nd percentile, near its historical high, versus 319 months since 2000.
Clinical trialsClinicalTrials.gov
132026-08
92nd percentilenear its historical high, versus 319 months since 2000low volume
Counts clinical trials newly registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, by the date each registration was first posted. Scope is global, with no country filter.
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NIH grants: 111 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: fewer than 24 months on record. The count is ranked in the history held. NIH grants: latest count 111 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
NIH grantsNIH RePORTER
1112026-08
90th percentilenear its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)short history
Counts NIH awards whose award notice is dated in the month, from NIH RePORTER, matched on the project text. Awards cluster at the end of the federal fiscal year. Scope is the United States. No investigator or contact data is collected.
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Patents: 657 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: fewer than 24 months on record. The count is ranked in the history held. Patents: latest count 657 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
PatentsPatentsView / USPTO
6572026-08
90th percentilenear its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)short history
Counts US pre-grant patent applications in the CPC classes mapped to this disease, by the date each application was published, as a share of all US pre-grant applications published that month. A publication reflects a filing about 18 months earlier. The CPC classes are broader than a single disease.
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Preprints: 40 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: fewer than 24 months on record. The count is ranked in the history held. Preprints: latest count 40 is in the 83rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
PreprintsmedRxiv / bioRxiv
402026-08
83rd percentilerunning high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)short history
Counts new medRxiv and bioRxiv preprints whose title or abstract matches this disease, by posting date, deduplicated across the two servers. History starts at each server's first paper, 2013 for bioRxiv and 2019 for medRxiv. Scope is global. The only author detail kept is the corresponding author's institution.
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How unusual is this?

Each signal's latest reading ranked against this disease's own history
Publications
Publications: latest count 240 is in the 81st percentile, running high, versus 320 months since 2000.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials: latest count 13 is in the 92nd percentile, near its historical high, versus 319 months since 2000.
NIH grantsprovisional
NIH grants: latest count 111 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
Patentsprovisional
Patents: latest count 657 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
Preprintsprovisional
Preprints: latest count 40 is in the 83rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).

Publications and Clinical trials are ranked against every month since 2000. NIH grants, Patents and Preprints are ranked against the 15 months we hold and are marked provisional until the full history is loaded.

Recent history

All five signals on a shared 2025 to 2026 window, scoped to the youngest source so each reads at a comparable scale
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Plot scoped to 2025 to 2026. True monthly spans by source: Publications 2000 to 2026 · 320 mo; Clinical trials 2000 to 2026 · 319 mo; NIH grants 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo; Patents 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo; Preprints 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo.
Publications2000 to 2026 · 320 mopeak 449/mo
Clinical trials2000 to 2026 · 319 mopeak 89/mo
NIH grants2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 136/mo
Patents2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 859/mo
Preprints2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 46/mo

Plotted for 2025 to 2026. All five lines share one scale. Row labels show the full span.

Who's driving this

Top organizations behind each signal
Publications
Author institutions · 2023-07..2026-06
6% of works have an industry affiliation
  1. Heidelberg University473
  2. Neurological Surgery380
  3. German Cancer Research Center373
  4. University Hospital Heidelberg346
  5. Capital Medical University284
Clinical trials
Lead sponsors · 2023-09..2026-08
39% industry-led in 2026-08
  1. Mayo ClinicAcademic/other9
  2. National Cancer Institute (NCI)NIH6
  3. Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, School of MedicineAcademic/other6
  4. City of Hope Medical CenterAcademic/other5
  5. Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer CenterAcademic/other5
NIH grants
Funded institutions · 2025-06..2026-08
925 awards in window
  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCOCA · $32.2M · R01/P0151
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELESCA · $16.7M · P50/R0144
  3. BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALMA · $20.2M · R01/P0136
  4. UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILLNC · $16.2M · R01/P0130
  5. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALMA · $15.5M · R01/K0830
Patents
Applicants · 2025-06..2026-08
  1. The Regents of the University of California85
  2. Genentech, Inc.68
  3. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.68
  4. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company64
  5. BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM61
Preprints
Corresponding institutions · 2025-06..2026-08
  1. Weill Cornell Medicine8
  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign6
  3. Augusta University5
  4. Columbia University5
  5. Baylor College of Medicine4
Recent trials, filings & preprints

Organizations only. No person data.

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How we map "Glioblastoma"

We used the following search terms for our data.

Publications (PubMed MeSH)"Glioblastoma"[MeSH Terms] (exploded), counted on the month's [dp] range; heading verified live 2026-09-10
Author institutions (OpenAlex)topic T10129; search 'glioblastoma'
Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov)ConditionSearch: glioblastoma OR glioblastoma multiforme
NIH grants (RePORTER)advanced_text_search: glioblastoma
Patents (CPC)A61P35/00, A61K39/0011 (US pre-grant applications by earliest publication date, USPTO ODP)
Preprints (medRxiv)title/abstract match across medRxiv + bioRxiv: glioblastoma

Data refreshed 2026-09-11.