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Medical Terminology research

Medical Terminology is a subfield of Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 7.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: language used in the field of medicine to precisely describe the human body including its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it.

Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
763
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Terminology

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

Which countries lead Medical Terminology research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (263 and 100 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 263 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 100 works
  3. 3 Netherlands 96 works
  4. 4 France 62 works
  5. 5 Canada 40 works
  6. 6 India 39 works
  7. 7 Australia 34 works
  8. 8 Japan 21 works
  9. 9 Germany 19 works
  10. 10 China 18 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: 38.0%United Kingdom: 14.5%Netherlands: 13.8%France: 8.9%6 others listed: 24.8%38%largest
United States263 · 38.0%United Kingdom100 · 14.5%Netherlands96 · 13.8%France62 · 8.9%6 others listed172 · 24.8%

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

Which institutions lead Medical Terminology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Wikimedia Nederland publishes the most Medical Terminology research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and ING Direct.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Wikimedia NederlandNetherlands 39 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  3. 3 ING DirectUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 5 works
  5. 5 Health AffairsUnited States 5 works
  6. 6 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 4 works
  7. 7 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 4 works
  8. 8 Université Paris CitéFrance 4 works
  9. 9 University of OttawaCanada 4 works
  10. 10 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Terminology?

Counting only their work in Medical Terminology, Tony Delamothe, Clare E. Liddy and Gordon Henry Guyatt have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Tony Delamothe United Kingdom · #5,172,075 worldwide overall 4.0 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Clare E. Liddy Canada · #983,497 worldwide overall 3.2 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada · #1,246 worldwide overall 2.7 of 3 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Kerin Robinson Australia · #1,708,580 worldwide overall 2.9 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Amir Afkham Canada · #945,061 worldwide overall 2.5 of 4 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Elie A. Akl Canada · #3,267 worldwide overall 2.3 of 3 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Dean F. Sittig United States · #81,435 worldwide overall 2.3 of 3 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Timothy J. Steiner Norway · #35,658 worldwide overall 2.2 of 2 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Merilyn M. Riley Australia · #1,521,945 worldwide overall 2.2 of 3 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Sara Urowitz Canada · #468,836 worldwide overall 1.8 of 2 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Medical Terminology alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 37,646 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 Terminology researchers

What are the most cited papers in Medical Terminology?

The most cited paper in Medical Terminology is "New Patterns of Management." (Amitai Etzioni, Rensis Likert, 1962), with 3,153 citations. Next come "Personal communication" (2,888) and "Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010" (1,753).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New Patterns of Management. Amitai Etzioni, Rensis Likert · American Sociological Review Oct 1962 3,153
2 Personal communication Glen W. Davidson, Danell Crase · Death Studies 1989 2,888
3 Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010 Anders Gustavsson et al. · European Neuropsychopharmacology Open access 15 Sep 2011 1,753
4 The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder Stephen V. Faraone et al. · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Open access 4 Feb 2021 1,541
5 Coproduction of healthcare service Maren Batalden, Paul B. Batalden, Peter A. Margolis et al. · BMJ Quality & Safety Open access 16 Sep 2015 1,123
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medical Terminology research done?

The largest centres of Medical Terminology research in 2022-now are Utrecht (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom), Paris (France) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utrecht and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 UtrechtNetherlands 51 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 22 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 AmsterdamNetherlands 13 works
  6. 6 BethesdaUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 10 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 8 works
  9. 9 OttawaCanada 8 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UtrechtNL · 50.6 works50×
  2. LondonGB · 26.6 works3.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medical Terminology than the world average.

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Is Medical Terminology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Medical Research and Practices.

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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 Terminology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medical Terminology 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.

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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 Terminology include?

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