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Aortic aneurysm repair treatments

Aortic aneurysm repair treatments is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 37k 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 focuses on the management, pathophysiology, and risk factors associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms. It covers topics such as endovascular repair, aneurysm screening, inflammatory mechanisms, genetic susceptibility, biomechanics, and thrombus formation. The research also delves into the role of matrix metalloproteinases and vascular inflammation in the development and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

  • Endovascular Repair
  • Aneurysm Screening
  • Aneurysm Rupture
  • Inflammatory Mechanisms
  • Matrix Metalloproteinases
  • Biomechanics
  • Risk Factors
  • Thrombus Formation
  • Genetic Susceptibility
  • Vascular Inflammation
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aortic aneurysm repair treatments

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

Which countries lead Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 Japan 625 works
  4. 4 Italy 398 works
  5. 5 Germany 382 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 326 works
  7. 7 France 236 works
  8. 8 India 183 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 172 works
  10. 10 Canada 168 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: 36.0%China: 19.8%Japan: 11.1%Italy: 7.1%6 others listed: 26.1%36%largest
United States2,028 · 36.0%China1,113 · 19.8%Japan625 · 11.1%Italy398 · 7.1%6 others listed1,468 · 26.1%

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

Which institutions lead Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 93 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 77 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 57 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 51 works
  5. 5 Yale UniversityUnited States 46 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 45 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 43 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 Universität HamburgGermany 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aortic aneurysm repair treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aortic aneurysm repair treatments include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  5. 5 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  6. 6 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  9. 9 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  10. 10 Trevor Hastie United States 301k 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 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments?

The most cited paper in Aortic aneurysm repair treatments is "Validation of a combined comorbidity index" (Mary E. Charlson, Ted P. Szatrowski, Janey C. Peterson et al., 1994), with 6,676 citations. Next come "Hospital Volume and Surgical Mortality in the United States" (5,019) and "2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases" (4,507).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Validation of a combined comorbidity index Mary E. Charlson, Ted P. Szatrowski, Janey C. Peterson et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Nov 1994 6,676
2 Hospital Volume and Surgical Mortality in the United States John D. Birkmeyer, Andrea E. Siewers, Emily V. A. Finlayson et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Apr 2002 5,019
3 2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases Authors Task Force Members et al. · European Heart Journal Open access 29 Aug 2014 4,507
4 The International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD) Peter G. Hagan et al. · JAMA 16 Feb 2000 3,661
5 Transfemoral Intraluminal Graft Implantation for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Juan Carlos Parodi, J C Palmaz, Hector D. Baronè · Annals of Vascular Surgery Nov 1991 3,364
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Where is Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research done?

The largest centres of Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 192 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 104 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 100 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 91 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 85 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 82 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 74 works
  8. 8 HoustonUnited States 69 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 67 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 61 works
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Where is the best place to study Aortic aneurysm repair treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Michigan and Southern Medical University score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 17.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southern Medical Uni…Erasmus University R…University of MichiganHarvard 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.

Citation 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 73.813.0%4.5×93 +0.4%
2University of MichiganUnited States 71.318.8%4.5×45 +17.1%
3Southern Medical UniversityChina 68.825.9%4.6×19 +167.9%
4Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 68.319.3%6.0×20 +20.4%
5Karolinska InstitutetSweden 67.912.9%7.2×26 +18.7%
6Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 66.914.8%8.2×57 +43.6%
7The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States 64.413.7%15.1×28 +48.3%
8Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.023.3%3.4×22 -12.5%
9University of KentuckyUnited States 63.419.4%6.8×20 -0.6%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.213.6%4.7×46 -2.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, country by country

Is Aortic aneurysm repair treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Aortic aneurysm repair treatments.

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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 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Aortic aneurysm repair treatments0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aortic aneurysm repair treatments 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%Aortic aneurysm repair treatments9.8% 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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