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Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency

Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the diagnosis and management of Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, a neurological disorder primarily caused by thiamine deficiency, often associated with alcohol misuse. The papers cover topics such as neuropathology, alcohol withdrawal, diabetic complications, benzodiazepine therapy, neuroimaging, alcoholic neuropathy, and the role of oxidative stress and vitamin B1 in the syndrome.

  • Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
  • Thiamine Deficiency
  • Alcohol Withdrawal
  • Neuropathology
  • Diabetic Complications
  • Benzodiazepine Therapy
  • Neuroimaging
  • Alcoholic Neuropathy
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Vitamin B1
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency

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

Which countries lead Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 314 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 314 works
  3. 3 India 248 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 181 works
  5. 5 Japan 137 works
  6. 6 France 109 works
  7. 7 Spain 108 works
  8. 8 Australia 103 works
  9. 9 Canada 97 works
  10. 10 Germany 96 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: 43.6%China: 12.7%India: 10.0%United Kingdom: 7.3%6 others listed: 26.3%44%largest
United States1,078 · 43.6%China314 · 12.7%India248 · 10.0%United Kingdom181 · 7.3%6 others listed650 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research, followed by University of Toronto and United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 38 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 20 works
  3. 3 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 19 works
  5. 5 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 17 works
  8. 8 InsermFrance 16 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency include Simon Iain Hay, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  10. 10 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k 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 Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency?

The most cited paper in Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency is "The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking" (Kristen Bush, 1998), with 6,306 citations. Next come "Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016" (3,639) and "Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in the United States" (2,935).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking Kristen Bush · Archives of Internal Medicine 14 Sep 1998 6,306
2 Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 Max Griswold et al. · The Lancet Open access514 authors 23 Aug 2018 3,639
3 Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in the United States Deborah S. Hasin, Frederick S. Stinson, Elizabeth L. Ogburn et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry Jul 2007 2,935
4 Epidemiology of DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder Bridget F. Grant, Risë B. Goldstein, Tulshi D. Saha et al. · JAMA Psychiatry Open access 3 Jun 2015 2,612
5 Hyperhomocysteinemia: An Independent Risk Factor for Vascular Disease Robert Clarke, Leslie Daly, Killian Robinson et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 25 Apr 1991 2,180
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Where is Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research done?

The largest centres of Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 38 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 36 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 35 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 34 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 31 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 28 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 26 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 25 works
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Where is the best place to study Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and University of Toronto 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%mean 15.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…University of TorontoYale University
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 90.519.7%3.9×38 +15.5%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 68.314.1%5.1×17 +14.1%
3University of TorontoCanada 63.015.0%3.1×20 -0.1%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 60.217.1%2.9×14 +32.0%
5Karolinska InstitutetSweden 60.114.8%5.9×10 +76.5%
6University of WashingtonUnited States 57.113.5%3.5×12 +66.0%
7University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 54.99.9%5.2×12 +21.4%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 53.518.2%3.0×10 +23.0%
9The University of SydneyAustralia 52.421.4%3.0×11 -18.3%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 51.812.5%2.5×12 +11.0%

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 Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency, country by country

Is Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency.

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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 Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency 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%Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency10.3% 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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