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Anatomy research

Anatomy is a subfield of Medicine. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: study of the structure and parts of organisms.

Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Anatomy

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

Which countries lead Anatomy research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, Ukraine and Russia rank highest in Anatomy. By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (1.1k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States #1 all time 0.82× excellence · 1.61× journals · 100% breadth 11.1% top 10% · 559 works
  2. 2 Ukraine #11 all time 1.31× excellence · 0.24× journals · 100% breadth 10.2% top 10% · 1.1k works
  3. 3 Russia #10 all time 0.87× excellence · 0.20× journals · 100% breadth 8.6% top 10% · 1.1k works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 3 countries ranked in Anatomy. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Anatomy

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 1.1k works
  2. 2 Russia 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 628 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 200 works
  5. 5 China 193 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 182 works
  7. 7 France 166 works
  8. 8 India 163 works
  9. 9 Germany 103 works
  10. 10 Italy 82 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.

Ukraine: 28.9%Russia: 27.9%United States: 15.8%United Kingdom: 5.0%6 others listed: 22.4%29%largest
Ukraine1,150 · 28.9%Russia1,108 · 27.9%United States628 · 15.8%United Kingdom200 · 5.0%6 others listed889 · 22.4%

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

Which institutions lead Anatomy research?

Poltava State Medical University (Ukraine) ranks first in Anatomy on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Bogomolets National Medical University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poltava State Medical University Ukraine · Poltava · #4 all time 11.0% top 10% · 100 works
  2. 2 Bogomolets National Medical University Ukraine · Kyiv · #8 all time 11.7% top 10% · 80 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of Sciences Russia · Moscow · #11 all time 7.4% top 10% · 74 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 3 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Anatomy.

Top 100 Anatomy institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poltava State Medical UniversityUkraine 105 works
  2. 2 Bogomolets National Medical UniversityUkraine 87 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 75 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 67 works
  5. 5 Bukovinian State Medical UniversityUkraine 62 works
  6. 6 Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical UniversityUkraine 46 works
  7. 7 Kharkiv National Medical UniversityUkraine 45 works
  8. 8 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 40 works
  9. 9 Sechenov UniversityRussia 39 works
  10. 10 Shupyk National Healthcare University of UkraineUkraine 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Anatomy?

Counting only their work in Anatomy, Dmitry Domenyuk, С. В. Дмитриенко and Vladimír Musil have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Dmitry Domenyuk Russia · #1,603,404 worldwide overall 28.1 of 40 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 С. В. Дмитриенко Russia · #3,284,076 worldwide overall 16.7 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Vladimír Musil Czechia · #1,076,754 worldwide overall 9.3 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Stanislav Domenyuk Russia · #1,677,475 worldwide overall 10.0 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 David Kachlík Czechia · #3,227,849 worldwide overall 10.9 of 23 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Gregory J. Meyer United States · #2,250,640 worldwide overall 8.0 of 9 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Václav Báča Czechia · #1,588,634 worldwide overall 6.7 of 8 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Taisiya Kochkonyan Russia · #2,640,842 worldwide overall 8.9 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Melvin L. Moss United States · #322,479 worldwide overall 5.8 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Paul E. Neumann Canada · #1,581,392 worldwide overall 7.8 of 14 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Anatomy alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 144,780 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Anatomy researchers

What are the most cited papers in Anatomy?

The most cited paper in Anatomy is "Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis" (Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence, 1957), with 12,624 citations. Next come "Histochemistry: Theoretical and Applied" (3,065) and "Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee" (2,599).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access Dec 1957 12,624
2 Histochemistry: Theoretical and Applied Leonard Nelson, A. G. E. Pearse · AIBS Bulletin Jun 1961 3,065
3 Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee David W. Dempster, Juliet Elizabeth Compston, Marc K. Drezner et al. · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Open access 29 Nov 2012 2,599
4 The International Classification of Headache Disorders Jes Olesen · Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain Open access May 2008 2,327
5 Genetic heterogeneity in osteogenesis imperfecta. David Owen Sillence, A Senn, D. M. Danks · Journal of Medical Genetics Open access Apr 1979 2,261
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Anatomy research done?

The largest centres of Anatomy research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Poltava (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Poltava, Chernivtsi and Uzhhorod.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 378 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 302 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 139 works
  4. 4 PoltavaUkraine 136 works
  5. 5 KharkivUkraine 109 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 81 works
  7. 7 LvivUkraine 73 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  9. 9 ChernivtsiUkraine 70 works
  10. 10 WeatherfordUnited States 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PoltavaUA · 135.6 works138×
  2. ChernivtsiUA · 70.4 works96×
  3. UzhhorodUA · 35.2 works74×
  4. Ivano-FrankivskUA · 60.1 works59×
  5. TernopilUA · 44.0 works42×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Anatomy than the world average.

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Anatomy research by country

The best places for Anatomy research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Anatomy?

Among universities, judged by research, Poltava State Medical University, Université Paris Cité and Bogomolets National Medical University score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, 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%30%mean 15.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shupyk National Heal…Bogomolets National …Poltava State Medica…Université Paris Cité
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Poltava State Medical UniversityUkraine 74.8#1 (#4)10.8%313.9×105 +373.1%
2Université Paris CitéFrance 64.5- (#1)5.5%3.8×13 -1.4%
3Bogomolets National Medical UniversityUkraine 46.6#2 (#8)11.3%150.9×87 -8.9%
4Shupyk National Healthcare University of UkraineUkraine 46.4- (#5)17.5%124.1×39 -25.0%
5Kharkiv National Medical UniversityUkraine 42.1- (#7)16.5%141.4×45 -13.4%
6Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical UniversityUkraine 40.2- (#6)15.0%105.4×34 -51.6%
7Sechenov UniversityRussia 35.2- (#9)10.9%27.9×39 -37.5%
8Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 35.2-22.9%182.8×23 +226.6%
9Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 30.9-19.3%17.6×26 +21.3%
10Harvard UniversityUnited States 30.6-24.3%0.9×14 +20.9%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Anatomy, country by country

Is Anatomy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Anatomy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Anatomy0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Anatomy 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%Anatomy10.6% 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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