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Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 46k 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 diagnosis and management of aortic diseases, including aortic dissection, bicuspid aortic valve disease, thoracic aortic aneurysms, and endovascular repair techniques. It covers topics such as risk prediction, surgical outcomes, complications, and long-term survival in patients with various aortic pathologies.

  • Aortic Dissection
  • Bicuspid Aortic Valve
  • Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
  • Endovascular Repair
  • Type B Aortic Dissection
  • Aortic Aneurysm
  • Aortic Root Replacement
  • Echocardiography
  • Spinal Cord Ischemia
  • False Lumen Patency
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

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

Which countries lead Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 Japan 897 works
  4. 4 Germany 587 works
  5. 5 Italy 547 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 384 works
  7. 7 France 290 works
  8. 8 Canada 268 works
  9. 9 India 262 works
  10. 10 Spain 242 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: 35.7%China: 18.8%Japan: 11.8%Germany: 7.7%6 others listed: 26.1%36%largest
United States2,722 · 35.7%China1,432 · 18.8%Japan897 · 11.8%Germany587 · 7.7%6 others listed1,993 · 26.1%

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

Which institutions lead Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 121 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 112 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 85 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 78 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 70 works
  6. 6 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 62 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 58 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 52 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 51 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches include Douglas G. Altman, Hermann Brenner and Emelia J. Benjamin.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  6. 6 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  7. 7 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  8. 8 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  9. 9 Róbert Langer United States 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 Disease and Treatment Approaches?

The most cited paper in Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches is "Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery" (Martin B. Leon et al., 2010), with 7,239 citations. Next come "Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients" (6,389) and "Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients" (5,107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery Martin B. Leon et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 20 Oct 2010 7,239
2 Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients Craig R. Smith et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 5 Jun 2011 6,389
3 Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients Martin B. Leon et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 2 Apr 2016 5,107
4 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients Michael J. Mack et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Mar 2019 4,895
5 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
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Where is Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches research done?

The largest centres of Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 259 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 158 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 126 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 125 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 117 works
  6. 6 HoustonUnited States 107 works
  7. 7 ClevelandUnited States 100 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 97 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 90 works
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Where is the best place to study Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bern, Harvard University and Université Laval 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 18.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BernUniversité LavalUniversity of TorontoHarvard 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
1University of BernSwitzerland 75.526.1%6.4×31 +23.3%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.915.3%4.0×112 -6.4%
3Université LavalCanada 69.021.0%5.3×20 +4.8%
4University of TorontoCanada 68.516.5%3.2×58 +0.9%
5University of MichiganUnited States 68.220.9%3.9×52 +5.6%
6University of PittsburghUnited States 64.521.4%3.5×24 +19.8%
7Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 64.315.1%6.5×23 +37.9%
8Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 64.213.8%4.7×25 +91.0%
9Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 64.011.7%9.1×85 +54.3%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 63.020.1%2.6×22 +84.0%

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 Disease and Treatment Approaches, country by country

Is Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches.

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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 Disease and Treatment Approaches as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches 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.

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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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