Endocrinology research
Endocrinology is a subfield of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 109k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
In short: medical specialty.
- Research works
- 109k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 11k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Topics
- 7
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +9% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
What is Endocrinology research about, and what is growing?
By the world's output in 2021-25, its most used keywords are Epidemiology, Genomic Analysis, Cholera, Vibrio cholerae, Vaccine Development, Biofilm Formation. Gaining share since 2011-15: Nosocomial Infections, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Losing share: Escherichia coli, Pathogenicity, Genomic Analysis.
- Infections
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Legionella
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
- Mycoviruses
- Pathogenesis
- Escherichia coli
- Biofilm Formation
- Vibrio cholerae
- Genomic Analysis
- Epidemiology
- Cholera
- Vaccine Development
- Virulence Factors
- Pathogenicity
- Fungal Symbiosis
- Nosocomial Infections
- Amoebae
- Cronobacter sakazakii
- Corynebacterium
Size is the world's fractional works in 2021-25 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2011-15. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 20 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology8,179◆ 1.07×2 topics
- Genomic Analysis7,606▼ 0.85×3 topics
- Cholera6,550◆ 1.05×1 topic
- Vibrio cholerae6,550◆ 1.05×1 topic
- Vaccine Development5,368◆ 0.87×2 topics
- Biofilm Formation4,097◆ 1.11×2 topics
- Virulence Factors3,867◆ 0.93×2 topics
- Escherichia coli3,740▼ 0.79×1 topic
- Pathogenicity3,740▼ 0.79×1 topic
- Pathogenesis3,575◆ 0.99×2 topics
- Fungal Symbiosis3,423◆ 1.11×1 topic
- Mycoviruses3,423◆ 1.11×1 topic
- Nosocomial Infections2,176▲ 1.26×1 topic
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia2,176▲ 1.26×1 topic
- Amoebae1,946◆ 0.89×1 topic
- Legionella1,946◆ 0.89×1 topic
- Cronobacter sakazakii1,921◆ 0.97×1 topic
- Enterobacteriaceae1,921◆ 0.97×1 topic
- Corynebacterium1,628◆ 1.14×1 topic
- Infections1,628◆ 1.14×1 topic
Which countries lead Endocrinology research?
On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and France rank highest in Endocrinology. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.4k and 3.2k works in 2022-now).
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
United States #1 all time
1.11× citation excellence · 1.86× journals · 100% breadth
11.7% top 10% · 2.7k works
- 2
China #6 all time
1.28× citation excellence · 1.11× journals · 100% breadth
14.4% top 10% · 2.9k works
- 3
France #2 all time
1.31× citation excellence · 1.78× journals · 100% breadth
11.2% top 10% · 576 works
- 4
United Kingdom #3 all time
1.40× citation excellence · 1.70× journals · 100% breadth
15.3% top 10% · 514 works
- 5
Germany #4 all time
1.29× citation excellence · 1.65× journals · 100% breadth
13.0% top 10% · 390 works
- 6
Australia #8 all time
1.35× citation excellence · 1.53× journals · 100% breadth
14.7% top 10% · 274 works
- 7
Canada #7 all time
1.29× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth
12.4% top 10% · 317 works
- 8
Spain #9 all time
1.17× citation excellence · 0.97× journals · 100% breadth
10.6% top 10% · 411 works
- 9
South Korea #15 all time
0.96× citation excellence · 0.76× journals · 100% breadth
9.6% top 10% · 341 works
- 10
Italy #16 all time
1.20× citation excellence · 0.54× journals · 100% breadth
13.8% top 10% · 376 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 19 countries ranked in Endocrinology. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.
All countries ranked in EndocrinologyBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
China
3.4k works
- 2
United States
3.2k works
- 3
India
1.4k works
- 4
France
680 works
- 5
United Kingdom
614 works
- 6
Japan
611 works
- 7
Brazil
597 works
- 8
Spain
483 works
- 9
Germany
465 works
- 10
Türkiye
459 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Endocrinology research?
Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) ranks first in Endocrinology on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Zhejiang University.
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #9 all time
19.2% top 10% · 94 works
- 2
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris · #2 all time
11.9% top 10% · 114 works
- 3
Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou · #31 all time
20.1% top 10% · 72 works
- 4
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences China · Beijing · #41 all time
13.3% top 10% · 169 works
- 5
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs China · Beijing · #100 all time
10.5% top 10% · 68 works
- 6
United States Department of Agriculture United States · Washington · #90 all time
10.7% top 10% · 100 works
- 7
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia · Moscow
3.9% top 10% · 84 works
- 8
Indian Council of Agricultural Research India · New Delhi
4.9% top 10% · 105 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 8 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Endocrinology.
Top 100 Endocrinology institutionsBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina
196 works
- 2
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
136 works
- 3
Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia
123 works
- 4
United States Department of AgricultureUnited States
115 works
- 5
Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
105 works
- 6
Russian Academy of SciencesRussia
97 works
- 7
Zhejiang UniversityChina
79 works
- 8
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina
77 works
- 9
Institut PasteurFrance
69 works
- 10
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance
67 works
Who are the leading researchers in Endocrinology?
Counting only their work in Endocrinology, John J. Mekalanos, James B. Kaper and Stanley Falkow have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.
- 1
John J. Mekalanos
United States · #4,479 worldwide overall
51.7 of 110 papers here in the top 10%
- 2
James B. Kaper
United States · #42,845 worldwide overall
48.1 of 138 papers here in the top 10%
- 3
Stanley Falkow
United States · #1,587 worldwide overall
37.8 of 66 papers here in the top 10%
- 4
Rita R. Colwell
United States · #91,139 worldwide overall
46.2 of 158 papers here in the top 10%
- 5
Philippe Jean Sansonetti
France · #22,657 worldwide overall
40.2 of 109 papers here in the top 10%
- 6
B. Brett Finlay
Canada · #9,923 worldwide overall
37.9 of 106 papers here in the top 10%
- 7
Scott J. Hultgren
United States · #3,018 worldwide overall
30.9 of 62 papers here in the top 10%
- 8
Gordon Dougan
United Kingdom · #21,002 worldwide overall
35.0 of 110 papers here in the top 10%
- 9
Myron M. Levine
United States · #57,276 worldwide overall
36.3 of 129 papers here in the top 10%
- 10
Jorge E. Galán
United States · #5,464 worldwide overall
24.0 of 42 papers here in the top 10%
Ranked on their work in Endocrinology alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 469,171 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 Endocrinology researchersWhere is Endocrinology research done?
The largest centres of Endocrinology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China).
Endocrinology research by country
The best places for Endocrinology research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.
Where is the best place to study Endocrinology?
Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and Washington University in St. Louis score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
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.
Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation 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 Endocrinology, country by countryIs Endocrinology research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infections and bacterial resistance, Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus and Vibrio bacteria research studies.
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 Endocrinology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.077% in 2024.
Fractional works of Endocrinology 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.
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.
- Infections and bacterial resistance+26%
- Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus+14%
- Vibrio bacteria research studies+10%
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research+9%
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research+5%
- Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research+2%
Growth in output from 2018-21 to 2022-25. Every topic is a page of its own.
What does Endocrinology include?
Area is fractional works in that topic. Every name below is a page of its own.
Share who leads Endocrinology
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