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Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the microstructural organization and connectivity of white matter in the brain. It covers topics such as tractography, brain connectivity, neuroimaging, and the development of brain microstructure using diffusion MRI techniques.

  • Diffusion MRI
  • White Matter
  • Tractography
  • Brain Connectivity
  • Neuroimaging
  • Fiber Tractography
  • Brain Microstructure
  • Axonal Tracking
  • Anisotropic Water Diffusion
  • Brain Development
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Neuroimaging 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 Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.1k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 China 1.5k works
  3. 3 Germany 424 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 386 works
  5. 5 Canada 297 works
  6. 6 Japan 279 works
  7. 7 France 246 works
  8. 8 Italy 221 works
  9. 9 South Korea 184 works
  10. 10 India 183 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: 36.0%China: 25.6%Germany: 7.3%United Kingdom: 6.7%6 others listed: 24.4%36%largest
United States2,076 · 36.0%China1,478 · 25.6%Germany424 · 7.3%United Kingdom386 · 6.7%6 others listed1,410 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications research, followed by University College London and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 158 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 69 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 56 works
  5. 5 McGill UniversityCanada 55 works
  6. 6 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 54 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 51 works
  8. 8 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 49 works
  9. 9 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 49 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 49 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications include Yoshua Bengio, Ronald C. Kessler and Mika Kivimäki.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  8. 8 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  9. 9 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications is "Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain" (N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al., 2002), with 17,037 citations. Next come "An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest" (14,405) and "Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL" (14,361).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al. · NeuroImage Open access 2002 17,037
2 An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce R. Fischl et al. · NeuroImage 14 Mar 2006 14,405
3 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
4 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
5 Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems Edward Thomas Bullmore, Olaf Sporns · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review 4 Feb 2009 12,340
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Neuroimaging 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 Nashville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 250 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 176 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 150 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 125 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 104 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 100 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 95 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 91 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 87 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 84 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NashvilleUS · 52.8 works8.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, McGill University, Harvard University and University College London 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 15.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →McGill UniversityImperial College Lon…Harvard UniversityUniversity College L…
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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
1McGill UniversityCanada 73.216.5%8.8×55 +17.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.115.1%8.0×158 -15.8%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.713.2%7.0×69 -15.1%
4Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.115.7%3.5×22 +28.9%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 58.212.7%4.6×41 -22.4%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.117.5%2.7×46 +28.8%
7Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 57.926.2%2.8×12 -2.6%
8Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 57.214.7%7.3×16 +59.0%
9Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 56.315.1%5.7×21 +10.7%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.18.5%5.3×49 -0.8%

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 Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Neuroimaging 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 Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications9.7% 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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