Acute Kidney Injury Research

Acute Kidney Injury Research is a research topic within Nephrology. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management, outcomes, and biomarkers of acute kidney injury (AKI), including its association with critical care, sepsis, chronic kidney disease, and contrast-induced nephropathy. The papers also discuss the use of hemodialysis and the prognosis of patients with AKI.

Acute Kidney Injury
Biomarkers
Renal Failure
Nephrotoxicity
Critical Care
Sepsis
Chronic Kidney Disease
Hemodialysis
Contrast-Induced Nephropathy
Prognosis

Research works: 29k
In the world top 10%: 2.9k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +17%
Largest producer: China

Acute Kidney Injury Research

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

Which countries lead Acute Kidney Injury Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 1.9k works
2 United States 1.5k works
3 Japan 369 works
4 India 346 works
5 United Kingdom 252 works
6 Türkiye 230 works
7 Germany 229 works
8 Italy 215 works
9 South Korea 206 works
10 Brazil 179 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.

China1,922 · 35.6%United States1,458 · 27.0%Japan369 · 6.8%India346 · 6.4%6 others listed1,311 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Acute Kidney Injury Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Acute Kidney Injury Research research, followed by Capital Medical University and Nanjing Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Sichuan UniversityChina 58 works
2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 54 works
3 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 53 works
4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 47 works
5 Central South UniversityChina 46 works
6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 46 works
7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 43 works
8 Peking UniversityChina 42 works
9 Southern Medical UniversityChina 41 works
10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Acute Kidney Injury Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Acute Kidney Injury Research include Douglas G. Altman, Zhong Lin Wang and Ali H. Mokdad.

1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
2 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
4 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
5 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
6 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
7 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
8 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
9 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
10 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k 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 Acute Kidney Injury Research?

The most cited paper in Acute Kidney Injury Research is "A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation" (Andrew S. Levey, Juan P. Bosch, Julia Breyer Lewis et al., 1999), with 15,196 citations. Next come "KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury" (8,233) and "Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury" (7,137).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation Andrew S. Levey, Juan P. Bosch, Julia Breyer Lewis et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine	16 Mar 1999	15,196
2	KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury Arif Khwaja · Nephron Clinical Practice	7 Aug 2012	8,233
3	Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury Ravindra L. Mehta, John A. Kellum, Sudhir V. Shah et al. · Critical Care Open access	Mar 2007	7,137
4	Acute renal failure – definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group Rinaldo Bellomo, Claudio Ronco, John A. Kellum et al. · Critical Care Open access	22 May 2004	6,870
5	Intravenous Fluids and Acute Kidney Injury Xiaoqiang Ding, Zhen Cheng, Qi Qian · Blood Purification Open access	2017	6,843

All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Acute Kidney Injury Research research done?

The largest centres of Acute Kidney Injury Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Birmingham.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 233 works
2 GuangzhouChina 139 works
3 ShanghaiChina 135 works
4 SeoulSouth Korea 100 works
5 TokyoJapan 100 works
6 NanjingChina 92 works
7 ChengduChina 86 works
8 HangzhouChina 79 works
9 LondonUnited Kingdom 78 works
10 São PauloBrazil 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

BirminghamUS · 32.5 works7.7×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Acute Kidney Injury Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Acute Kidney Injury Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Sichuan University and Southern Medical 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.

above the meannear itbelow it

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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Central South UniversityChina	79.3	23.9%	3.5×	46	+52.3%
2	Sichuan UniversityChina	76.0	19.8%	3.8×	58	+38.3%
3	Southern Medical UniversityChina	70.0	16.3%	9.8×	41	+23.9%
4	Nanjing Medical UniversityChina	68.4	12.9%	8.8×	53	+36.0%
5	Anhui Medical UniversityChina	68.2	18.0%	8.9×	28	+136.7%
6	Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina	64.3	23.6%	8.2×	15	+252.1%
7	Harvard UniversityUnited States	62.9	14.8%	1.9×	40	-19.0%
8	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	62.7	19.1%	2.1×	26	+28.7%
9	University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States	62.6	10.8%	8.3×	27	+39.0%
10	Zhejiang UniversityChina	62.2	13.0%	2.4×	43	+65.2%
11	Capital Medical UniversityChina	60.6	7.6%	7.5×	54	+38.7%
12	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina	60.6	12.0%	5.2×	37	+119.6%
13	Indiana UniversityUnited States	60.4	12.9%	4.2×	28	+74.3%
14	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	60.1	12.9%	2.7×	28	-1.1%
15	Tianjin Medical UniversityChina	60.0	17.9%	10.0×	25	+24.1%
16	Wuhan UniversityChina	60.0	26.5%	2.5×	24	-9.5%
17	Yale UniversityUnited States	59.4	14.0%	3.2×	24	+3.8%
18	University of CincinnatiUnited States	59.3	12.3%	6.5×	26	-10.2%
19	Fujian Medical UniversityChina	58.6	13.0%	7.3×	27	+92.2%
20	Chongqing Medical UniversityChina	57.5	15.2%	6.4×	24	+76.9%
21	Peking UniversityChina	57.0	9.5%	3.0×	42	+40.5%
22	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	57.0	13.3%	2.5×	36	+11.0%
23	Soochow UniversityChina	56.8	14.0%	4.1×	27	+64.6%
24	Nanchang UniversityChina	56.0	21.9%	3.0×	15	+79.3%
25	Fudan UniversityChina	55.1	15.1%	2.6×	28	+12.8%
26	Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina	54.7	11.5%	6.7×	23	+74.0%
27	National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan	54.6	13.8%	4.5×	20	+58.8%
28	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	53.5	22.2%	2.2×	9	+15.7%
29	The University of MelbourneAustralia	53.3	14.2%	2.5×	19	+5.8%
30	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	53.1	14.6%	4.0×	19	-6.1%
31	Southeast UniversityChina	52.7	17.8%	1.7×	17	+29.3%
32	Jinan UniversityChina	52.7	17.2%	3.7×	14	+137.0%
33	University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina	52.7	24.2%	1.1×	8	+369.3%
34	Harbin Medical UniversityChina	51.9	15.6%	6.6×	15	+90.4%
35	University of GroningenNetherlands	51.8	11.4%	3.2×	15	+6.0%
36	University of PittsburghUnited States	51.6	17.2%	3.6×	19	-28.8%
37	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	51.5	10.9%	2.3×	46	-11.3%
38	University of MichiganUnited States	50.0	9.5%	2.5×	26	+3.7%
39	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain	49.9	10.7%	3.1×	16	+31.4%
40	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	49.9	12.3%	4.1×	16	-4.3%
41	Xuzhou Medical CollegeChina	46.0	11.9%	10.5×	14	+39.2%
42	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	44.3	10.2%	1.5×	16	+6.3%
43	Army Medical UniversityChina	44.3	12.3%	10.3×	11	+143.0%
44	University of Hong KongChina	44.2	13.0%	1.6×	10	+25.5%
45	Augusta UniversityUnited States	42.9	10.5%	9.5×	12	+9.3%
46	Tufts UniversityUnited States	41.9	16.0%	3.2×	10	-27.6%
47	KU LeuvenBelgium	39.2	12.2%	1.2×	8	+13.5%
48	Guangxi Medical UniversityChina	38.0	6.6%	8.6×	15	+84.4%
49	University of CopenhagenDenmark	37.8	9.9%	1.8×	12	-4.8%
50	University of BernSwitzerland	37.6	12.4%	2.5×	9	-0.6%
51	Ghent UniversityBelgium	33.1	11.2%	1.7×	9	-43.8%
52	Xinjiang Medical UniversityChina	32.6	6.5%	8.5×	10	+133.4%
53	National University of SingaporeSingapore	31.0	11.2%	1.1×	9	-0.6%

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 Acute Kidney Injury Research, country by country

Is Acute Kidney Injury Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Acute Kidney Injury Research.

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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 Acute Kidney Injury Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

Fractional works of Acute Kidney Injury Research 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.

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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Which countries lead Acute Kidney Injury Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Acute Kidney Injury Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Acute Kidney Injury Research?

What are the most cited papers in Acute Kidney Injury Research?

Where is Acute Kidney Injury Research research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Acute Kidney Injury Research?

Is Acute Kidney Injury Research research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion