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Academic Writing and Publishing

Academic Writing and Publishing is a research topic within History and Philosophy of Science. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on scientific writing, publication practices, and citation accuracy in academic journals. It covers topics such as the impact of article titles on citations, best practices for writing research papers, the role of peer review, and the use of nanoscience in scholarly communication. Additionally, it explores the effectiveness of poster presentations and the challenges of referencing in various fields.

  • Scientific Writing
  • Publication
  • Citation Accuracy
  • Research Paper
  • Academic Journals
  • Title Characteristics
  • Peer Review
  • Nanoscience
  • Poster Presentations
  • Scholarly Communication
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Academic Writing and Publishing

Which countries lead Academic Writing and Publishing research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1k and 252 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 252 works
  3. 3 India 209 works
  4. 4 Canada 115 works
  5. 5 China 107 works
  6. 6 Australia 94 works
  7. 7 Germany 93 works
  8. 8 Japan 85 works
  9. 9 Spain 58 works
  10. 10 France 57 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: 48.8%United Kingdom: 12.1%India: 10.0%Canada: 5.5%6 others listed: 23.6%49%largest
United States1,021 · 48.8%United Kingdom252 · 12.1%India209 · 10.0%Canada115 · 5.5%6 others listed494 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Academic Writing and Publishing research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Pittsburgh publishes the most Academic Writing and Publishing research, followed by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Chennai Mathematical Institute.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of PittsburghUnited States 17 works
  2. 2 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchIndia 17 works
  3. 3 Chennai Mathematical InstituteIndia 17 works
  4. 4 Stanford UniversityUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 Health AffairsUnited States 14 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 11 works
  9. 9 The Nature ConservancyUnited States 10 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Academic Writing and Publishing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Academic Writing and Publishing include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Jennifer Tetzlaff.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Jennifer Tetzlaff Canada 495k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  8. 8 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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 Academic Writing and Publishing?

The most cited paper in Academic Writing and Publishing is "PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis" (Neal Haddaway, Matthew James Page, Chris C. Pritchard et al., 2022), with 3,425 citations. Next come "PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews" (3,377) and "Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement" (3,360).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis Neal Haddaway, Matthew James Page, Chris C. Pritchard et al. · Campbell Systematic Reviews Open access 27 Mar 2022 3,425
2 PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews Melissa Lyle Rethlefsen et al. · Systematic Reviews ReviewOpen access 26 Jan 2021 3,377
3 Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement Colin B. Begg · JAMA 28 Aug 1996 3,360
4 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Kate E. DeCleene, Jennifer Fogo · Occupational Therapy In Health Care 24 Nov 2011 3,201
5 The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production: How great is the impact? Ole Ellegaard, Johan Albert Wallin · Scientometrics Open access 27 Jul 2015 3,145
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Academic Writing and Publishing research done?

The largest centres of Academic Writing and Publishing research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Bengaluru (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pittsburgh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 30 works
  4. 4 BengaluruIndia 27 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 24 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 24 works
  7. 7 PittsburghUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 22 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 21 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PittsburghUS · 23.4 works4.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Academic Writing and Publishing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Academic Writing and Publishing?

Among universities, judged by research, Stanford University, University of Copenhagen and University of Pittsburgh 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 13.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…University of TorontoStanford UniversityUniversity of Pittsb…
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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
1Stanford UniversityUnited States 68.613.5%4.0×15 +67.6%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 65.826.9%3.6×9 +99.0%
3University of PittsburghUnited States 65.42.8%8.6×17 +308.1%
4University of TorontoCanada 62.718.3%2.1×11 +20.0%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.111.1%1.7×14 -24.2%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 50.615.9%2.5×10 +76.8%
7Chennai Mathematical InstituteIndia 48.30.2%119.4×17 -
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 45.514.1%3.0×8 +36.6%
9All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 44.919.8%3.2×9 +52.5%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 39.710.2%2.0×8 +3.3%

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 Academic Writing and Publishing, country by country

Is Academic Writing and Publishing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Academic Writing and Publishing.

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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 Academic Writing and Publishing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Academic Writing and Publishing0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Academic Writing and Publishing 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%Academic Writing and Publishing10.0% 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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