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Airway Management and Intubation Techniques

Airway Management and Intubation Techniques is a research topic within Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of difficult airways in anesthesia practice, covering topics such as tracheal intubation, airway management complications, preoxygenation techniques, laryngoscopy methods, and specific challenges related to pediatric and obese patients. It also discusses the use of videolaryngoscopy and provides guidelines for emergency tracheal intubation.

  • Difficult Airway Society
  • Tracheal Intubation
  • Airway Management
  • Complications
  • Preoxygenation
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Obesity in Anesthesia
  • Emergency Tracheal Intubation
  • Pediatric Intubation
  • Videolaryngoscopy
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Airway Management and Intubation Techniques

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

Which countries lead Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.6k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 1k works
  3. 3 China 712 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 381 works
  5. 5 Japan 319 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 306 works
  7. 7 Germany 278 works
  8. 8 Italy 212 works
  9. 9 Brazil 203 works
  10. 10 France 180 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: 30.6%India: 19.9%China: 13.6%United Kingdom: 7.3%6 others listed: 28.6%31%largest
United States1,600 · 30.6%India1,040 · 19.9%China712 · 13.6%United Kingdom381 · 7.3%6 others listed1,498 · 28.6%

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

Which institutions lead Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research, followed by Harvard University and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 147 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 40 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works
  5. 5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 36 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 33 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
  8. 8 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 29 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Airway Management and Intubation Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Airway Management and Intubation Techniques include George Davey Smith, Jun Wang and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  7. 7 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  8. 8 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k 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 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques?

The most cited paper in Airway Management and Intubation Techniques is "International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound" (Giovanni Volpicelli et al., 2012), with 2,919 citations. Next come "A penetration-aspiration scale" (2,805) and "REVERSAL OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA BY CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE APPLIED THROUGH THE NARES" (2,746).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound Giovanni Volpicelli et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 5 Mar 2012 2,919
2 A penetration-aspiration scale John C. Rosenbek, Jo Anne Robbins, Ellen B. Roecker et al. · Dysphagia 1996 2,805
3 REVERSAL OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA BY CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE APPLIED THROUGH THE NARES ColinE. Sullivan, M Berthon-Jones, FaiqG. Issa et al. · The Lancet Apr 1981 2,746
4 Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, Carin A. Hagberg, Robert A. Caplan et al. · Anesthesiology 9 Jan 2013 2,593
5 Difficult tracheal intubation in obstetrics R. S. Cormack, J. R. Lehane · Anaesthesia Nov 1984 2,537
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Where is Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Puducherry, Ernakulam and Mountain View.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 143 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 105 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 93 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 89 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 86 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 76 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 68 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 68 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 64 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PuducherryIN · 27.2 works8.5×
  2. ErnakulamIN · 23.1 works7.7×
  3. Mountain ViewUS · 27.8 works7.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Airway Management and Intubation Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Airway Management and Intubation Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Bern and Harvard 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.

0%20%40%mean 20.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Università Cattolica…University of BernHarvard UniversityAll India Institute …
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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
1Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 63.135.6%3.8×11 +16.8%
2University of BernSwitzerland 61.027.4%5.1×18 -0.1%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.519.2%3.1×64 -33.3%
4All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58.85.6%20.1×146 +27.0%
5Universität HamburgGermany 57.829.4%3.0×14 +226.9%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 52.614.8%2.6×40 +133.4%
7University of TorontoCanada 52.519.4%2.2×30 -26.9%
8Capital Medical UniversityChina 50.416.3%4.6×33 +17.6%
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50.015.1%2.0×38 +57.2%
10Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 50.020.2%3.7×28 -10.8%

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 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques, country by country

Is Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Airway Management and Intubation Techniques.

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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 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Airway Management and Intubation Techniques0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Airway Management and Intubation Techniques 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%Airway Management and Intubation Techniques10.2% 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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