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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. 9.4% 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%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+21%
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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 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.4k and 934 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 India 934 works
  3. 3 China 597 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 349 works
  5. 5 Japan 281 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 281 works
  7. 7 Germany 251 works
  8. 8 Brazil 189 works
  9. 9 Italy 188 works
  10. 10 France 164 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: 30.8%India: 20.0%China: 12.8%United Kingdom: 7.5%6 others listed: 29.0%31%largest
United States1,438 · 30.8%India934 · 20.0%China597 · 12.8%United Kingdom349 · 7.5%6 others listed1,354 · 29.0%

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

Which institutions lead Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research?

By volume in 2022–2025, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research, followed by Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi and Creative Commons.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 68 works
  2. 2 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 33 works
  3. 3 Creative CommonsUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 25 works
  5. 5 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 25 works
  6. 6 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 24 works
  7. 7 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 21 works
  8. 8 Cairo UniversityEgypt 19 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and ResearchIndia 18 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.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 4.9k citations

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

Where is Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New Delhi India 129 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 95 works
  3. 3 Istanbul Türkiye 83 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 81 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 77 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 66 works
  7. 7 Tokyo Japan 62 works
  8. 8 Philadelphia United States 59 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 58 works
  10. 10 New York United States 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PuducherryIN · 23.3 works8.3×
  2. ErnakulamIN · 20.6 works7.8×
  3. Mountain ViewUS · 27.8 works7.5×
  4. ManipalIN · 25.9 works6.5×
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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, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research 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%5%10%mean 4.5%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →All India Institute of Medical Sciences: 68, 4.0%Institute of Medical Sciences: 24, 2.4%Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research: 26, 6.0%All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar: 11, 10.3%Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi: 33, 1.9%All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur: 16, 4.9%Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research: 18, 2.1%King George's Medical University: 9, 8.4%All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal: 16, 2.9%Kasturba Medical College, Manipal: 15, 2.1%All India Institute …Post Graduate Instit…All India Institute …Institute of Medical…
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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 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57.14.0%16.9×68 +65.4%
2 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 54.52.4%11.4×24 +311.9%
3 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 47.86.0%11.8×26 +26.5%
4 All India Institute of Medical Sciences BhubaneswarIndia 47.110.3%13.5×11 —
5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 46.51.9%8.7×33 —
6 All India Institute of Medical Sciences RaipurIndia 44.14.9%20.8×16 —
7 Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and ResearchIndia 43.82.1%19.5×18 +96.1%
8 King George's Medical UniversityIndia 43.18.4%10.2×9 +62.8%
9 All India Institute of Medical Sciences BhopalIndia 42.12.9%21.0×16 —
10 Kasturba Medical College, ManipalIndia 38.62.1%25.3×15 +18.4%

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 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.