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Geriatrics and Gerontology research

Geriatrics and Gerontology is a subfield of Medicine. Science Explorer counts 91k research works in it since 1950. 19.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: specialty that focuses on health care of elderly people.

Research works
91k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
17k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
3
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+47%
the tick is no change

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

What is Geriatrics and Gerontology research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2019–23, its most used keywords are Aging, Frailty, Geriatric Assessment, Inappropriate Medication Use, Polypharmacy, Resveratrol. Gaining share since 2009–13: Frailty, Geriatric Assessment, Aging. Losing share: Resveratrol, Sirtuins, Inappropriate Medication Use, Polypharmacy.

▲ 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. Aging15k▲ 1.20×2 topics
  2. Frailty11k▲ 1.61×1 topic
  3. Geriatric Assessment11k▲ 1.61×1 topic
  4. Inappropriate Medication Use11k▼ 0.81×1 topic
  5. Polypharmacy11k▼ 0.81×1 topic
  6. Resveratrol4,104▼ 0.71×1 topic
  7. Sirtuins4,104▼ 0.71×1 topic

Which countries lead Geriatrics and Gerontology research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, China, the United States and the United Kingdom rank highest in Geriatrics and Gerontology. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (5.1k and 3k works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China · #2 all time 32.4% top 10% · 3k works
  2. 2 United States · #1 all time 13.7% top 10% · 5.1k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom · #3 all time 15.8% top 10% · 1.5k works
  4. 4 Australia · #5 all time 21.8% top 10% · 793 works
  5. 5 Italy · #6 all time 25.8% top 10% · 532 works
  6. 6 Canada · #4 all time 17.7% top 10% · 716 works
  7. 7 Japan · #9 all time 15.0% top 10% · 994 works
  8. 8 Spain · #10 all time 14.6% top 10% · 742 works
  9. 9 India · #14 all time 10.9% top 10% · 873 works
  10. 10 Netherlands · #7 all time 22.7% top 10% · 368 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 20 countries ranked in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Geriatrics and Gerontology

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 5.1k works
  2. 2 China 3k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 1.5k works
  4. 4 Japan 994 works
  5. 5 India 873 works
  6. 6 Australia 793 works
  7. 7 Spain 742 works
  8. 8 Canada 716 works
  9. 9 France 652 works
  10. 10 Brazil 566 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: 34.0%China: 19.9%United Kingdom: 10.3%Japan: 6.7%6 others listed: 29.2%34%largest
United States5,069 · 34.0%China2,956 · 19.9%United Kingdom1,530 · 10.3%Japan994 · 6.7%6 others listed4,342 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Geriatrics and Gerontology research?

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (China) ranks first in Geriatrics and Gerontology on research quality in 2022–2025, followed by Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University.

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College China · Beijing · #27 all time 33.1% top 10% · 62 works
  2. 2 Harvard University United States · Cambridge · #1 all time 26.9% top 10% · 65 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins University United States · Baltimore · #2 all time 21.3% top 10% · 64 works
  4. 4 The University of Sydney Australia · Sydney · #9 all time 21.9% top 10% · 61 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States · Chapel Hill · #15 all time 6.5% top 10% · 105 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 5 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Top 100 Geriatrics and Gerontology institutions

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 105 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 65 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 62 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 61 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 52 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 52 works
  8. 8 Peking UniversityChina 51 works
  9. 9 Monash UniversityAustralia 51 works
  10. 10 University of PittsburghUnited States 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geriatrics and Gerontology?

Among the most productive authors in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Roger Chou, Gordon Guyatt and Aziz Sheikh rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Roger Chou United States · #6 worldwide 14k citations · 187 works
  2. 2 Gordon Guyatt Canada · #11 worldwide 6.8k citations · 254 works
  3. 3 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom · #17 worldwide 5.8k citations · 274 works
  4. 4 Maciej Banach Poland · #49 worldwide 5.2k citations · 199 works
  5. 5 Perminder S. Sachdev Australia · #56 worldwide 4.6k citations · 215 works
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada · #68 worldwide 14k citations · 133 works
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom · #69 worldwide 6.7k citations · 266 works
  8. 8 Carol Brayne United Kingdom · #131 worldwide 3.9k citations · 167 works
  9. 9 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom · #144 worldwide 7.2k citations · 486 works
  10. 10 Alice K. Jacobs United States · #197 worldwide 3.5k citations · 127 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 3,635 highest-output authors in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Geriatrics and Gerontology researchers

Where is Geriatrics and Gerontology research done?

The largest centres of Geriatrics and Gerontology research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ōbu.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 407 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 367 works
  3. 3 Tokyo Japan 261 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 221 works
  5. 5 Boston United States 215 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 208 works
  7. 7 New York United States 198 works
  8. 8 Melbourne Australia 180 works
  9. 9 Paris France 174 works
  10. 10 Baltimore United States 168 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ŌbuJP · 32.4 works49×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Geriatrics and Gerontology research by country

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

Where is the best place to study Geriatrics and Gerontology?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Duke-NUS Medical School and National University Health System 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 26.35%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Sichuan University: 52, 38.2%Duke-NUS Medical School: 11, 26.1%National University Health System: 12, 27.8%Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: 15, 14.0%University College Cork: 35, 16.6%Capital Medical University: 42, 29.3%Jilin University: 21, 45.3%University of Science and Technology of Fujairah: 19, 9.0%Dalhousie University: 36, 25.8%Zhejiang Chinese Medical University: 20, 31.4%Sichuan UniversityNational University …Duke-NUS Medical Sch…Royal College of Sur…
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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 Sichuan UniversityChina 55.538.2%1.4×52 +179.3%
2 Duke-NUS Medical SchoolSingapore 54.326.1%6.8×11 +356.8%
3 National University Health SystemSingapore 53.627.8%8.7×12 +74.4%
4 Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandIreland 53.414.0%8.7×15 +192.9%
5 University College CorkIreland 53.016.6%6.4×35 +160.9%
6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 52.729.3%3.4×42 +170.0%
7 Jilin UniversityChina 52.145.3%1.0×21 +325.6%
8 University of Science and Technology of FujairahUnited Arab Emirates 51.99.0%69.4×19 —
9 Dalhousie UniversityCanada 50.025.8%4.7×36 +95.5%
10 Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina 49.231.4%3.6×20 +321.4%

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 Geriatrics and Gerontology research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Frailty in Older Adults, Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes.

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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. Frailty in Older Adults+302%
  2. Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine+201%
  3. Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes+131%
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Growth in output from 2005–09 to 2015–19. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Geriatrics and Gerontology include?