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Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management is a research topic within Emergency Medicine. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 appendicitis in both adults and children. It covers topics such as the use of antibiotic therapy versus surgery, the role of CT scans in diagnosis, and guidelines for treatment. The cluster also explores complications, outcomes, and global perspectives on the condition.

  • Appendicitis
  • Diagnosis
  • Management
  • Antibiotic Therapy
  • Surgery
  • CT Scan
  • Guidelines
  • Children
  • Complications
  • Meta-Analysis
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management

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

Which countries lead Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 610 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 610 works
  3. 3 India 536 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 423 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 290 works
  6. 6 Japan 244 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 213 works
  8. 8 Italy 196 works
  9. 9 Spain 157 works
  10. 10 Germany 152 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: 29.0%China: 15.3%India: 13.5%United Kingdom: 10.6%6 others listed: 31.5%29%largest
United States1,155 · 29.0%China610 · 15.3%India536 · 13.5%United Kingdom423 · 10.6%6 others listed1,252 · 31.5%

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

Which institutions lead Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 44 works
  3. 3 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 37 works
  4. 4 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 26 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 25 works
  7. 7 Mexican Social Security InstituteMexico 23 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 20 works
  9. 9 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management include Ali H. Mokdad and Patrick M. Bossuyt.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k 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 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management?

The most cited paper in Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management is "Infliximab for the Treatment of Fistulas in Patients with Crohn's Disease" (Daniel H. Present, Paul Rutgeerts, Stephan Targan et al., 1999), with 2,765 citations. Next come "Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome" (1,648) and "Diagnosis and Management of Complicated Intra-abdominal Infection in Adults and Children: Guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America" (1,577).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Infliximab for the Treatment of Fistulas in Patients with Crohn's Disease Daniel H. Present, Paul Rutgeerts, Stephan Targan et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 6 May 1999 2,765
2 Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Andrew W. Kirkpatrick et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 14 May 2013 1,648
3 Diagnosis and Management of Complicated Intra-abdominal Infection in Adults and Children: Guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America Joseph S. Solomkin, John E. Mazuski, John S. Bradley et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases 24 Dec 2009 1,577
4 Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos) Masamichi Yokoe et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences Open access 15 Oct 2017 1,544
5 Results from the International Conference of Experts on Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. I. Definitions Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Michael L. Cheatham, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick et al. · Intensive Care Medicine 11 Sep 2006 1,536
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Where is Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research done?

The largest centres of Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 88 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 82 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 52 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 51 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 50 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 48 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 46 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 45 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 45 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 44 works
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Where is the best place to study Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Split, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi 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%60%mean 21.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of SplitUniversity of Copenh…Sağlık Bilimleri Üni…All India Institute …
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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
1University of SplitCroatia 64.950.9%10.4×10 +129.8%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 54.86.8%6.8×44 +37.0%
3Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 54.87.4%11.3×37 +47.3%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 54.127.2%3.3×18 +98.8%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.315.6%2.4×45 -18.3%
6Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 48.89.7%5.5×26 +51.5%
7University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 42.319.4%2.6×17 +6.7%
8Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 42.223.0%4.8×12 +27.8%
9Chongqing Medical UniversityChina 40.122.8%3.5×12 +37.2%
10University of CincinnatiUnited States 39.831.1%3.1×11 +43.4%

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 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management, country by country

Is Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Appendicitis Diagnosis and 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 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Appendicitis Diagnosis and 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%Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management10.4% 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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