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Anesthesia and Pain Management

Anesthesia and Pain Management is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 63k 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 focuses on the management of postoperative pain, risk factors, and complications associated with various anesthesia techniques. It covers topics such as regional anesthesia, chronic pain, analgesia efficacy, surgical outcomes, and perioperative care.

  • Postoperative Pain
  • Regional Anesthesia
  • Chronic Pain
  • Analgesia
  • Surgical Outcome
  • Epidural Analgesia
  • Pain Management
  • Neuraxial Blockade
  • Acute Pain
  • Perioperative Care
Research works
63k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Anesthesia and Pain Management

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

Which countries lead Anesthesia and Pain Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.9k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.9k works
  2. 2 China 1.6k works
  3. 3 India 1.6k works
  4. 4 Türkiye 605 works
  5. 5 Egypt 509 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 501 works
  7. 7 Japan 339 works
  8. 8 South Korea 313 works
  9. 9 Italy 300 works
  10. 10 Canada 289 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: 32.6%China: 18.2%India: 17.4%Türkiye: 6.7%6 others listed: 25.1%33%largest
United States2,923 · 32.6%China1,632 · 18.2%India1,560 · 17.4%Türkiye605 · 6.7%6 others listed2,251 · 25.1%

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

Which institutions lead Anesthesia and Pain Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Anesthesia and Pain Management research, followed by Ain Shams University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 168 works
  2. 2 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 112 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 103 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 81 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 73 works
  6. 6 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 64 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 62 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 61 works
  9. 9 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 58 works
  10. 10 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Anesthesia and Pain Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Anesthesia and Pain Management include George Davey Smith, Jost Bruno Jonas and Cyrus Cooper.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  3. 3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  8. 8 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  9. 9 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k 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 Anesthesia and Pain Management?

The most cited paper in Anesthesia and Pain Management is "Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale" (John T. Farrar, James P. Young, Linda LaMoreaux et al., 2001), with 5,825 citations. Next come "The short-form McGill pain questionnaire" (4,418) and "Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention" (4,102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale John T. Farrar, James P. Young, Linda LaMoreaux et al. · Pain Nov 2001 5,825
2 The short-form McGill pain questionnaire Ronald Melzack · Pain Aug 1987 4,418
3 Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention Henrik Kehlet, Troels Staehelin Jensen, Clifford J. Woolf · The Lancet May 2006 4,102
4 Management of Postoperative Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Regional Anesthesia, Executive Committee, and Administrative Council Roger Chou et al. · Journal of Pain Open access 28 Jan 2016 3,202
5 Cytokines, Inflammation, and Pain Jun‐Ming Zhang, Jian‐Xiong An · International Anesthesiology Clinics Open access 2007 3,004
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Anesthesia and Pain Management research done?

The largest centres of Anesthesia and Pain Management research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China), New Delhi (India) and Cairo (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kansas City and Secunderabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 218 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 174 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 161 works
  4. 4 CairoEgypt 157 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 156 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 147 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 128 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 118 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 114 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 105 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kansas CityUS · 60.8 works17×
  2. SecunderabadIN · 20.3 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Anesthesia and Pain Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Anesthesia and Pain Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Sichuan University and University of Copenhagen 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 20.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Poznan University of…University of Copenh…Sichuan UniversityDuke 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
1Poznan University of Medical SciencesPoland 64.236.7%6.5×12 +431.0%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 63.419.2%3.2×81 +79.6%
3University of CopenhagenDenmark 61.519.5%2.8×30 +21.1%
4Duke UniversityUnited States 61.419.0%4.1×37 +25.8%
5All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 60.27.4%13.6×168 +67.2%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.816.9%2.9×103 -16.4%
7Anhui Medical UniversityChina 57.623.0%5.6×29 +62.3%
8Samsun UniversityTürkiye 57.224.0%18.5×15 +1109.8%
9University of TorontoCanada 56.614.3%2.7×61 -8.3%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.320.5%1.5×46 +49.8%

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 Anesthesia and Pain Management, country by country

Is Anesthesia and Pain Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Anesthesia and Pain Management.

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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 Anesthesia and Pain Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.052% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Anesthesia and Pain Management 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%Anesthesia and Pain Management10.1% 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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