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Anesthesia and Sedative Agents

Anesthesia and Sedative Agents is a research topic within Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to anesthesia and sedation management, including the use of dexmedetomidine, bispectral index monitoring, pharmacokinetics of anesthetic agents, pediatric anesthesia, and neuromuscular blockade reversal. It also explores consciousness monitoring, propofol administration, and the application of sedation in endoscopic procedures.

  • Anesthesia
  • Sedation
  • Dexmedetomidine
  • Bispectral Index Monitoring
  • Neuromuscular Blockade
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Pediatric Anesthesia
  • Propofol
  • Consciousness Monitoring
  • Endoscopic Sedation
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Anesthesia and Sedative Agents

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

Which countries lead Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 920 works
  4. 4 Japan 295 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 263 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 227 works
  7. 7 South Korea 214 works
  8. 8 Egypt 212 works
  9. 9 Germany 200 works
  10. 10 Brazil 191 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: 28.5%China: 25.0%India: 16.9%Japan: 5.4%6 others listed: 24.1%29%largest
United States1,548 · 28.5%China1,360 · 25.0%India920 · 16.9%Japan295 · 5.4%6 others listed1,307 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 82 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 76 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 54 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 48 works
  5. 5 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 43 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 40 works
  7. 7 Mayo ClinicUnited States 38 works
  8. 8 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 38 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 35 works
  10. 10 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Anesthesia and Sedative Agents?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Anesthesia and Sedative Agents include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  6. 6 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  7. 7 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k 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 Sedative Agents?

The most cited paper in Anesthesia and Sedative Agents is "The Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale: Validity and Reliability in Adult Intensive Care Unit Patients" (Curtis N. Sessler, Mark S. Gosnell, Mary Jo Grap et al., 2002), with 3,776 citations. Next come "Controlled Sedation with Alphaxalone-Alphadolone" (2,925) and "Neuromuscular Blockers in Early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" (2,470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale: Validity and Reliability in Adult Intensive Care Unit Patients Curtis N. Sessler, Mark S. Gosnell, Mary Jo Grap et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Nov 2002 3,776
2 Controlled Sedation with Alphaxalone-Alphadolone Michael A. E. Ramsay, T.M. Savege, B. R. J. Simpson et al. · BMJ Open access 22 Jun 1974 2,925
3 Neuromuscular Blockers in Early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Laurent Papazian, Jean-Marie Forel, Arnaud Gacouin et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 15 Sep 2010 2,470
4 Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 1: Anaesthesia Tim M. Cook, N.M. Woodall, Chris Frerk · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access 29 Mar 2011 2,397
5 STOP Questionnaire Frances F. Chung, Balaji Yegneswaran, Pu Liao et al. · Anesthesiology 17 Apr 2008 2,356
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Where is Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research done?

The largest centres of Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 140 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 109 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 106 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 91 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 82 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 80 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 78 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 71 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 68 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 67 works
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Where is the best place to study Anesthesia and Sedative Agents?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Anhui Medical University and Guangxi Medical 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 24.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi Medical Univ…Anhui Medical Univer…Zhejiang UniversityHarvard 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 68.516.1%3.9×82 -13.7%
2Anhui Medical UniversityChina 65.725.4%9.7×30 +93.0%
3Guangxi Medical UniversityChina 61.833.9%5.9×10 +180.8%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.621.2%2.0×35 +116.1%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 61.315.5%3.6×54 +111.8%
6Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 60.631.1%3.3×20 +22.5%
7Technical University of MunichGermany 58.427.8%2.3×14 +78.2%
8Zunyi Medical UniversityChina 58.033.1%9.0×10 +273.7%
9Peking UniversityChina 56.920.2%2.2×30 +48.4%
10University of TorontoCanada 56.822.9%2.0×28 -19.5%

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 Sedative Agents, country by country

Is Anesthesia and Sedative Agents research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Anesthesia and Sedative Agents.

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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 Sedative Agents as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Anesthesia and Sedative Agents 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 Sedative Agents10.2% 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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