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Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Acute Ischemic Stroke Management is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 62k research works in it since 1950. 15.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, management, and treatment of stroke, with an emphasis on ischemic stroke. It covers topics such as thrombolysis, endovascular therapy, risk factors, prevention guidelines, clinical outcomes, neuroprotection, infarction treatment, revascularization, and the global burden of stroke.

  • Ischemic Stroke
  • Thrombolysis
  • Endovascular Therapy
  • Risk Factors
  • Prevention Guidelines
  • Clinical Outcomes
  • Neuroprotection
  • Infarction Treatment
  • Revascularization
  • Global Burden
Research works
62k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
9.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
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This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.7k and 2.6k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.7k works
  2. 2 China 2.6k works
  3. 3 India 569 works
  4. 4 Japan 551 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 534 works
  6. 6 Germany 490 works
  7. 7 Canada 357 works
  8. 8 South Korea 353 works
  9. 9 France 342 works
  10. 10 Australia 314 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%China: 26.3%India: 5.8%Japan: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.3%38%largest
United States3,729 · 38.0%China2,582 · 26.3%India569 · 5.8%Japan551 · 5.6%6 others listed2,389 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Capital Medical University publishes the most Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research, followed by Massachusetts General Hospital and Yale University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Capital Medical UniversityChina 101 works
  2. 2 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 62 works
  3. 3 Yale UniversityUnited States 55 works
  4. 4 Beijing Tian Tan HospitalChina 48 works
  5. 5 The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 44 works
  8. 8 University of CalgaryCanada 40 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 Emory UniversityUnited States 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Acute Ischemic Stroke Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Acute Ischemic Stroke Management include Valery L. Feigin, Graeme J. Hankey and Mayowa Owolabi.

  1. 1 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 7.9k citations
  2. 2 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 7.2k citations
  3. 3 Mayowa Owolabi Nigeria 6.5k citations
  4. 4 Gelin Xu China 6.1k citations
  5. 5 Atte Meretoja Finland 6.1k citations
  6. 6 Charles Wolfe United Kingdom 6k citations
  7. 7 Foad Abd-Allah Egypt 5.6k citations
  8. 8 Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian Singapore 5.4k citations

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

Where is Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research done?

The largest centres of Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Boston (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Camden, Valhalla and Rockville Centre.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 414 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 182 works
  3. 3 Boston United States 172 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 157 works
  5. 5 New York United States 152 works
  6. 6 London United Kingdom 149 works
  7. 7 Tokyo Japan 115 works
  8. 8 Paris France 114 works
  9. 9 Nanjing China 114 works
  10. 10 Guangzhou China 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CamdenUS · 29.1 works26×
  2. ValhallaUS · 25.6 works15×
  3. Rockville CentreUS · 29.0 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Acute Ischemic Stroke Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Acute Ischemic Stroke Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Capital Medical University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Tennessee Health Science Center 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 17.53%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Capital Medical University: 100, 21.0%The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: 45, 9.9%University of Tennessee Health Science Center: 19, 11.7%Nanjing Medical University: 44, 15.9%Aalborg University: 10, 32.8%Yale University: 55, 17.0%Universität Hamburg: 23, 25.4%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 33, 10.4%Brown University: 30, 13.2%Soochow University: 33, 18.0%Capital Medical Univ…Nanjing Medical Univ…University of Tennes…The University of Te…
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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 Capital Medical UniversityChina 69.721.0%13.0×100 +65.0%
2 The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States 58.49.9%11.4×45 +117.9%
3 University of Tennessee Health Science CenterUnited States 57.711.7%10.3×19 +252.1%
4 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 55.115.9%6.4×44 +163.0%
5 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 50.932.8%1.5×10 +391.3%
6 Yale UniversityUnited States 49.917.0%4.1×55 +102.0%
7 Universität HamburgGermany 49.225.4%3.1×23 +118.7%
8 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 48.910.4%5.0×33 +229.4%
9 Brown UniversityUnited States 48.813.2%5.6×30 +155.3%
10 Soochow UniversityChina 48.618.0%3.1×33 +252.4%

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 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Acute Ischemic Stroke Management.

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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.