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Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes

Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the advancements in post-mortem imaging techniques, such as virtual autopsy, forensic pathology, and the use of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography for diagnostic validation. The focus is on minimizing errors in autopsy diagnosis, validating alternative autopsy methods, improving death certification accuracy, and analyzing medical errors.

  • Post-mortem Imaging
  • Virtual Autopsy
  • Forensic Pathology
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Computed Tomography
  • Autopsy Validation
  • Death Certification
  • Minimally Invasive Autopsy
  • Medical Error Analysis
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes

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

Which countries lead Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (489 and 424 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 489 works
  2. 2 India 424 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 175 works
  4. 4 Germany 136 works
  5. 5 Italy 115 works
  6. 6 China 114 works
  7. 7 Australia 98 works
  8. 8 Japan 93 works
  9. 9 Russia 85 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 80 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: 27.0%India: 23.4%United Kingdom: 9.7%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 32.3%27%largest
United States489 · 27.0%India424 · 23.4%United Kingdom175 · 9.7%Germany136 · 7.5%6 others listed585 · 32.3%

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

Which institutions lead Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research, followed by Harvard University and Banaras Hindu University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 39 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 15 works
  4. 4 Institute of Forensic ScienceChina 14 works
  5. 5 University of ZurichSwitzerland 14 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  7. 7 Universität HamburgGermany 12 works
  8. 8 Victorian Institute of Forensic MedicineAustralia 11 works
  9. 9 University of CopenhagenDenmark 10 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes include Christopher J L Murray, Freddie Bray and Jennifer Tetzlaff.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Jennifer Tetzlaff Canada 495k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  6. 6 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  7. 7 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  8. 8 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  9. 9 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  10. 10 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k 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 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes is "Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" (Rafael Lozano et al., 2012), with 14,344 citations. Next come "Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017" (8,782) and "“Gray's Anatomy”" (4,544).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Rafael Lozano et al. · The Lancet Open access191 authors Dec 2012 14,344
2 Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Gregory A. Roth et al. · The Lancet Open access1,020 authors Nov 2018 8,782
3 “Gray's Anatomy” Roger Warwick, Peter L. Williams, Mary Dyson et al. · British Journal of Radiology Oct 1985 4,544
4 Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study Christopher Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet May 1997 4,071
5 Association between Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerosis in Children and Young Adults Gerald S. Berenson, Sathanur R. Srinivasan, Weihang Bao et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 4 Jun 1998 4,020
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Where is Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New Delhi (India), Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New Delhi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 47 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 46 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 26 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 25 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 24 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 23 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 19 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New DelhiIN · 47.5 works3.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Copenhagen and University of Zurich 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%10%20%30%mean 15.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Harvard UniversityUniversity of ZurichUniversity of Oxford
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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 70.425.0%1.9×16 +30.2%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 63.327.0%4.0×10 +1.7%
3University of ZurichSwitzerland 58.819.9%7.9×14 -52.0%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 56.617.7%2.4×8 +24.3%
5All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 51.81.3%13.8×39 +154.1%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 50.213.7%3.3×13 -15.8%
7Universität HamburgGermany 49.213.0%6.5×12 +27.3%
8University of WashingtonUnited States 46.716.9%2.9×8 +118.2%
9University of TorontoCanada 46.617.7%1.6×8 +15.2%
10Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 34.43.5%7.4×15 +17.2%

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 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes, country by country

Is Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes.

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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 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes 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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