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Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 79k 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 covers a wide range of applications and techniques related to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the field of medicine. It includes topics such as perfusion imaging, spectroscopy, parallel imaging, susceptibility weighted imaging, deep learning applications, brain metabolites, functional MRI, quantitative susceptibility mapping, and cardiovascular MRI.

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Perfusion Imaging
  • Spectroscopy
  • Parallel Imaging
  • Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
  • Deep Learning
  • Brain Metabolites
  • Functional MRI
  • Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
  • Cardiovascular MRI
Research works
79k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

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

Which countries lead Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.1k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.1k works
  2. 2 China 2k works
  3. 3 Germany 844 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 617 works
  5. 5 Japan 543 works
  6. 6 France 426 works
  7. 7 Canada 372 works
  8. 8 Italy 324 works
  9. 9 India 310 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 309 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: 35.1%China: 22.2%Germany: 9.6%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 26.0%35%largest
United States3,083 · 35.1%China1,951 · 22.2%Germany844 · 9.6%United Kingdom617 · 7.0%6 others listed2,284 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 218 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 131 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 101 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 84 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 80 works
  6. 6 Beihang UniversityChina 80 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 77 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 68 works
  10. 10 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications include Yoshua Bengio, George Davey Smith and John J.V. McMurray.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  8. 8 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  9. 9 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  10. 10 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications is "Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL" (Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Mark W. Woolrich et al., 2004), with 14,361 citations. Next come "A default mode of brain function" (12,560) and "FSL" (12,165).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Mark W. Woolrich et al. · NeuroImage 2004 14,361
2 A default mode of brain function Marcus E. Raichle, Ann Mary MacLeod, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 16 Jan 2001 12,560
3 FSL Mark Jenkinson, Christian F. Beckmann, Timothy E.J. Behrens et al. · NeuroImage Open access 16 Sep 2011 12,165
4 Improved Optimization for the Robust and Accurate Linear Registration and Motion Correction of Brain Images Mark Jenkinson · NeuroImage Oct 2002 10,690
5 FreeSurfer Bruce R. Fischl · NeuroImage Open access 10 Jan 2012 10,317
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Forchheim, Malvern and Billerica.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 410 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 247 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 238 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 167 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 157 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 154 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 130 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 129 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 128 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 104 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ForchheimDE · 42.3 works169×
  2. MalvernUS · 28.1 works66×
  3. BillericaUS · 31.9 works59×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Beihang University, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University score highest, combining citation 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 14.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beihang UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…Harvard UniversityMcGill University
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.

Citation 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
1Beihang UniversityChina 80.725.8%7.5×80 +186.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 75.314.0%7.1×218 -3.6%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 67.116.8%5.7×84 +1.4%
4McGill UniversityCanada 66.312.5%5.0×48 +19.0%
5Yale UniversityUnited States 65.916.3%4.6×48 +25.8%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 61.79.7%5.4×77 +2.4%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 61.413.8%4.6×71 -18.4%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 59.615.0%3.9×53 -34.8%
9New York UniversityUnited States 59.012.4%5.2×56 +4.7%
10University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 58.510.9%5.8×59 +7.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications.

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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 Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.050% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications 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%Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications9.8% 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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