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Abdominal Surgery and Complications

Abdominal Surgery and Complications is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the diagnosis, management, and complications of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome, particularly in the context of critical care and surgical interventions. It covers topics such as damage control surgery, open abdomen management, vacuum-assisted closure, enterocutaneous fistula, pneumoperitoneum effects, renal dysfunction, and the hemodynamic consequences of these conditions.

  • Intra-abdominal Hypertension
  • Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
  • Damage Control Surgery
  • Open Abdomen Management
  • Vacuum-Assisted Closure
  • Enterocutaneous Fistula
  • Pneumoperitoneum Effects
  • Renal Dysfunction
  • Critical Care Management
  • Hemodynamic Consequences
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Abdominal Surgery and Complications

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

Which countries lead Abdominal Surgery and Complications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (648 and 410 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 648 works
  2. 2 China 410 works
  3. 3 India 279 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 179 works
  5. 5 Japan 173 works
  6. 6 Russia 147 works
  7. 7 Brazil 142 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 136 works
  9. 9 Spain 118 works
  10. 10 Germany 117 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: 27.6%China: 17.4%India: 11.9%United Kingdom: 7.6%6 others listed: 35.4%28%largest
United States648 · 27.6%China410 · 17.4%India279 · 11.9%United Kingdom179 · 7.6%6 others listed833 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Abdominal Surgery and Complications research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Abdominal Surgery and Complications research, followed by Harvard University and Cleveland Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 27 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 16 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 15 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 15 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 13 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 13 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 13 works
  10. 10 Mexican Social Security InstituteMexico 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Abdominal Surgery and Complications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Abdominal Surgery and Complications include Jean‐Louis Vincent, Piotr P. Ponikowski and Michael Snyder.

  1. 1 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  2. 2 Piotr P. Ponikowski Poland 253k citations
  3. 3 Michael Snyder United States 224k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Andrew S. Levey United States 197k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Abdominal Surgery and Complications?

The most cited paper in Abdominal Surgery and Complications is "ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit" (Pierre Singer, Annika Reintam Blaser, Mette M. Berger et al., 2018), with 2,930 citations. Next come "‘The Ideal Mesh?'" (1,786) and "The Use of Plasma Creatinine Concentration for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Infants, Children, and Adolescents" (1,739).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit Pierre Singer, Annika Reintam Blaser, Mette M. Berger et al. · Clinical Nutrition Open access 29 Sep 2018 2,930
2 ‘The Ideal Mesh?' U. Klinge, Joon-Keun Park, B. Klosterhalfen · Pathobiology Open access 2013 1,786
3 The Use of Plasma Creatinine Concentration for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Infants, Children, and Adolescents George J. Schwartz, Luc P. Brion, Adrian Spitzer · Pediatric Clinics of North America Jun 1987 1,739
4 Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Andrew W. Kirkpatrick et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 14 May 2013 1,648
5 Results from the International Conference of Experts on Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. I. Definitions Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Michael L. Cheatham, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick et al. · Intensive Care Medicine 11 Sep 2006 1,536
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Where is Abdominal Surgery and Complications research done?

The largest centres of Abdominal Surgery and Complications research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cleveland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 52 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 44 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 38 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 33 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 32 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 30 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 29 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 27 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ClevelandUS · 22.8 works4.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Abdominal Surgery and Complications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Abdominal Surgery and Complications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen, Harvard University and Sichuan 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%10%20%30%mean 15.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityUniversity of Copenh…Harvard UniversityAll India Institute …
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of CopenhagenDenmark 67.922.1%3.5×10 +92.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 61.713.2%2.2×22 -8.0%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 59.322.2%1.8×13 +31.2%
4All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57.87.1%7.7×27 +56.2%
5Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 51.527.8%1.5×10 -6.2%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 50.516.8%1.7×15 +76.3%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 49.019.8%1.2×11 +6.2%
8Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 48.615.1%4.6×13 +70.9%
9Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 44.54.4%8.7×15 +25.2%
10Heidelberg UniversityGermany 43.010.8%3.5×9 +87.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Abdominal Surgery and Complications, country by country

Is Abdominal Surgery and Complications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Abdominal Surgery and Complications.

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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 Abdominal Surgery and Complications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Abdominal Surgery and Complications0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Abdominal Surgery and Complications 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%Abdominal Surgery and Complications10.3% 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.

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