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Medical Laboratory Technology research

Medical Laboratory Technology is a subfield of Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 36k 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: equipment and software used in medical laboratories.

Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
2
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Laboratory Technology

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

Which countries lead Medical Laboratory Technology research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and the United Kingdom rank highest in Medical Laboratory Technology. By volume, the United States and India publish the most (920 and 741 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States #1 all time 0.89× citation excellence · 1.53× journals · 100% breadth 10.8% top 10% · 844 works
  2. 2 China #8 all time 1.26× citation excellence · 1.03× journals · 100% breadth 19.4% top 10% · 439 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom #2 all time 0.99× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth 13.7% top 10% · 232 works
  4. 4 India #11 all time 1.00× citation excellence · 0.45× journals · 100% breadth 9.2% top 10% · 674 works
  5. 5 Brazil #12 all time 0.81× citation excellence · 0.33× journals · 100% breadth 3.6% top 10% · 530 works
  6. 6 Indonesia #17 all time 0.28× citation excellence · 0.06× journals · 100% breadth 1.3% top 10% · 327 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 6 countries ranked in Medical Laboratory Technology. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Medical Laboratory Technology

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 920 works
  2. 2 India 741 works
  3. 3 Brazil 571 works
  4. 4 China 469 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 363 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 252 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 209 works
  8. 8 Italy 189 works
  9. 9 France 171 works
  10. 10 Iran 158 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: 22.8%India: 18.3%Brazil: 14.1%China: 11.6%6 others listed: 33.2%23%largest
United States920 · 22.8%India741 · 18.3%Brazil571 · 14.1%China469 · 11.6%6 others listed1,343 · 33.2%

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

Which institutions lead Medical Laboratory Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Medical Laboratory Technology research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  3. 3 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 25 works
  4. 4 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 20 works
  5. 5 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 19 works
  6. 6 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 17 works
  7. 7 Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia 16 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 15 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 15 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Laboratory Technology?

Counting only their work in Medical Laboratory Technology, Lars L. Andersen, William H. Woodall and Marion R. Reynolds have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Lars L. Andersen Denmark · #233,133 worldwide overall 11.2 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 William H. Woodall United States · #65,179 worldwide overall 10.7 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Marion R. Reynolds United States · #84,293 worldwide overall 8.2 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Alex Burdorf Netherlands · #100,525 worldwide overall 8.0 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Derek Richard SMITH Australia · #1,590,915 worldwide overall 7.7 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Leon Melville Straker Australia · #124,072 worldwide overall 7.7 of 19 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Jiju Antony United Kingdom · #4,172 worldwide overall 6.2 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Jack Tigh Dennerlein United States · #304,721 worldwide overall 6.1 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Almir Badnjević Bosnia and Herzegovina · #537,771 worldwide overall 9.6 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Mats Hagberg Sweden · #656,057 worldwide overall 6.3 of 11 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Medical Laboratory Technology alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 136,187 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 Medical Laboratory Technology researchers

What are the most cited papers in Medical Laboratory Technology?

The most cited paper in Medical Laboratory Technology is "Human error: models and management" (JAMES T. REASON, 2000), with 5,556 citations. Next come "Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts" (2,923) and "Applications of machine learning to machine fault diagnosis: A review and roadmap" (2,905).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human error: models and management JAMES T. REASON · BMJ Open access 18 Mar 2000 5,556
2 Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts R L Wears · BMJ Quality & Safety Open access Dec 2006 2,923
3 Applications of machine learning to machine fault diagnosis: A review and roadmap Yaguo Lei, Bin Yang, Xinwei Jiang et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Open access 5 Jan 2020 2,905
4 Organizational Innovation: The Influence of Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors on Hospital Adoption of Technological and Administrative Innovations. John R. Kimberly, Michael J. Evanisko · Academy of Management Journal Dec 1981 2,380
5 A new accident model for engineering safer systems Nancy Leveson · Safety Science Open access 16 Sep 2003 2,249
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medical Laboratory Technology research done?

The largest centres of Medical Laboratory Technology research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sarajevo, Ambato and Cuenca.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 107 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 88 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 71 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 59 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 58 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 56 works
  8. 8 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 55 works
  9. 9 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 54 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SarajevoBA · 23.1 works14×
  2. AmbatoEC · 34.1 works12×
  3. CuencaEC · 25.9 works9.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Medical Laboratory Technology on the map

Medical Laboratory Technology research by country

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

Where is the best place to study Medical Laboratory Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Harvard University and University of Johannesburg 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.

0%20%40%mean 17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Johns Hopkins Univer…Harvard UniversitySRM Institute of Sci…University of Johann…
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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%
Citation 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
1SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 30.3-16.5%2.8×17 +254.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 29.4-16.8%0.8×15 +12.4%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 29.2-12.1%3.8×15 +429.0%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 28.6-21.1%1.2×11 +9.1%
5Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 28.1-29.0%2.0×8 -3.9%
6University of Naples Federico IIItaly 27.9-25.8%2.1×9 +67.7%
7Chandigarh UniversityIndia 27.4-20.4%3.2×11 +397.8%
8Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27.0- (#1)2.1%2.1×27 +7.6%
9Politecnico di MilanoItaly 26.8-11.3%2.5×11 +24.6%
10University of AlbertaCanada 26.1-14.9%2.3×12 +241.9%

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 Medical Laboratory Technology, country by country

Is Medical Laboratory Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Quality and Safety in Healthcare and Occupational health in dentistry.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Medical Laboratory Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Medical Laboratory Technology0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Medical Laboratory Technology 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%Medical Laboratory Technology10.4% 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.

What does Medical Laboratory Technology include?

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