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Developmental Neuroscience research

Developmental Neuroscience is a subfield of Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 82k research works in it since 1950. 19.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: scientific study of the nervous system.

Research works
82k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
16k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
3
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-1%
the tick is no change

What is Developmental Neuroscience research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2019–23, its most used keywords are Brain Development, Anesthesia, Neurotoxicity, Adult Stem Cells, Neurogenesis, Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

▲ gaining share of this field◆ holding its share▼ losing share

Size is the world's fractional works in 2019–23 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2009–13. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 7 words, with their numbers
  1. Brain Development13k◆ 1.00×2 topics
  2. Anesthesia6,703◆ 1.12×1 topic
  3. Neurotoxicity6,703◆ 1.12×1 topic
  4. Adult Stem Cells5,838◆ 0.89×1 topic
  5. Neurogenesis5,838◆ 0.89×1 topic
  6. Neurodevelopmental Disorders786◆ 1.00×1 topic
  7. Williams Syndrome786◆ 1.00×1 topic

Which countries lead Developmental Neuroscience research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, the United States, China and Germany rank highest in Developmental Neuroscience. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.4k and 2.2k works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States · #1 all time 20.5% top 10% · 2.4k works
  2. 2 China · #4 all time 25.2% top 10% · 2.2k works
  3. 3 Germany · #3 all time 23.2% top 10% · 406 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom · #2 all time 21.8% top 10% · 364 works
  5. 5 Canada · #5 all time 23.0% top 10% · 280 works
  6. 6 Italy · #9 all time 26.9% top 10% · 284 works
  7. 7 India · #15 all time 10.4% top 10% · 457 works
  8. 8 France · #7 all time 18.0% top 10% · 254 works
  9. 9 Spain · #12 all time 18.7% top 10% · 250 works
  10. 10 Japan · #6 all time 12.3% top 10% · 457 works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 14 countries ranked in Developmental Neuroscience. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Developmental Neuroscience

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 China 2.2k works
  3. 3 India 457 works
  4. 4 Japan 457 works
  5. 5 Germany 406 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 364 works
  7. 7 Russia 321 works
  8. 8 Italy 284 works
  9. 9 Canada 280 works
  10. 10 France 254 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.

United States: 32.5%China: 29.7%India: 6.1%Japan: 6.1%6 others listed: 25.5%33%largest
United States2,436 · 32.5%China2,224 · 29.7%India457 · 6.1%Japan457 · 6.1%6 others listed1,909 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Developmental Neuroscience research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Harvard University publishes the most Developmental Neuroscience research, followed by Capital Medical University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works
  2. 2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 34 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 31 works
  6. 6 InsermFrance 30 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 30 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 30 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Developmental Neuroscience?

Among the most productive authors in Developmental Neuroscience, Perminder S. Sachdev, Darwin J. Prockop and Peter J. Schwartz rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Perminder S. Sachdev Australia · #56 worldwide 4.6k citations · 215 works
  2. 2 Darwin J. Prockop United States · #175 worldwide 3.8k citations · 131 works
  3. 3 Peter J. Schwartz Italy · #261 worldwide 3.3k citations · 179 works
  4. 4 Simon Baron‐Cohen United Kingdom · #719 worldwide 3.8k citations · 212 works
  5. 5 Bruce S. McEwen United States · #921 worldwide 3.6k citations · 181 works
  6. 6 Solomon H. Snyder United States · #1,095 worldwide 2.8k citations · 168 works
  7. 7 Fred H. Gage United States · #1,450 worldwide 2.9k citations · 116 works
  8. 8 Aviv Regev United States · #1,455 worldwide 2.2k citations · 110 works
  9. 9 Joseph D. Buxbaum United States · #1,850 worldwide 2k citations · 87 works
  10. 10 Dan J. Stein South Africa · #1,863 worldwide 7.7k citations · 620 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 3,639 highest-output authors in Developmental Neuroscience. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Developmental Neuroscience researchers

Where is Developmental Neuroscience research done?

The largest centres of Developmental Neuroscience research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zunyi, Nantong and Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 266 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 203 works
  3. 3 Moscow Russia 143 works
  4. 4 Guangzhou China 140 works
  5. 5 London United Kingdom 129 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Japan 122 works
  7. 7 Paris France 121 works
  8. 8 New York United States 102 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 102 works
  10. 10 Seoul South Korea 100 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZunyiCN · 20.9 works10×
  2. NantongCN · 33.1 works7.1×
  3. XuzhouCN · 21.4 works6.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Developmental Neuroscience than the world average.

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Developmental Neuroscience research by country

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

Where is the best place to study Developmental Neuroscience?

Among universities, judged by research, Zunyi Medical University, Harvard University and Nantong University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 28.94%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Zunyi Medical University: 16, 30.8%Harvard University: 40, 32.6%Nantong University: 24, 33.5%University of California, San Francisco: 29, 31.7%Army Medical University: 16, 23.5%China Medical University: 21, 34.0%Xuzhou Medical College: 19, 24.8%Capital Medical University: 34, 23.2%Stanford University: 31, 33.2%Karolinska Institutet: 23, 22.1%Nantong UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Califo…Zunyi Medical Univer…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Zunyi Medical UniversityChina 66.130.8%10.6×16 +101.3%
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.432.6%3.1×40 +18.7%
3 Nantong UniversityChina 59.933.5%6.9×24 +12.6%
4 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 55.331.7%4.6×29 -20.6%
5 Army Medical UniversityChina 54.423.5%10.1×16 -13.0%
6 China Medical UniversityChina 54.234.0%6.4×21 -33.0%
7 Xuzhou Medical CollegeChina 53.424.8%9.1×19 -35.1%
8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 53.323.2%5.8×34 -3.0%
9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 52.933.2%2.6×31 -7.8%
10 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 52.622.1%5.2×23 -20.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Developmental Neuroscience research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, Williams Syndrome Research and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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.

  1. Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research+42%
  2. Williams Syndrome Research+31%
  3. Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms+15%
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Growth in output from 2005–09 to 2015–19. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Developmental Neuroscience include?