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Biomedical and Engineering Education

Biomedical and Engineering Education is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 34k 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 explores the role of hackathons and challenge-based learning in advancing innovation, education, and adaptive expertise in the field of biomedical engineering. It delves into topics such as open innovation, healthcare entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the application of learning sciences in biomedical technology innovation. The cluster also emphasizes the impact of hackathons as informal learning platforms and their significance in addressing grand challenges in healthcare.

  • Hackathons
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Challenge-Based Learning
  • Innovation
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Adaptive Expertise
  • Learning Sciences
  • Open Innovation
  • Game Jams
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Biomedical and Engineering Education

Which countries lead Biomedical and Engineering Education research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.9k and 685 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.9k works
  2. 2 China 685 works
  3. 3 India 483 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 421 works
  5. 5 Germany 255 works
  6. 6 Canada 242 works
  7. 7 Spain 187 works
  8. 8 Australia 172 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 168 works
  10. 10 Italy 166 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: 51.3%China: 12.0%India: 8.5%United Kingdom: 7.4%6 others listed: 20.8%51%largest
United States2,932 · 51.3%China685 · 12.0%India483 · 8.5%United Kingdom421 · 7.4%6 others listed1,189 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Biomedical and Engineering Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tecnológico de Monterrey publishes the most Biomedical and Engineering Education research, followed by Harvard University and Purdue University West Lafayette.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 69 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 57 works
  3. 3 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 40 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 39 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 35 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 34 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 33 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 33 works
  10. 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Biomedical and Engineering Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Biomedical and Engineering Education include Elaine R. Mardis, John P. A. Ioannidis and Matthias Mann.

  1. 1 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k 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 Biomedical and Engineering Education?

The most cited paper in Biomedical and Engineering Education is "Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics" (Peter Cock, Tiago Antão, Jeffrey T. Chang et al., 2009), with 6,801 citations. Next come "The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research" (3,461) and "Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning" (2,805).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics Peter Cock, Tiago Antão, Jeffrey T. Chang et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 20 Mar 2009 6,801
2 The answer is 17 years, what is the question: understanding time lags in translational research Zoë Slote Morris, Steven Wooding, Jonathan Grant · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Open access Dec 2011 3,461
3 Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Clive L. Dym, Alice Merner Agogino, Özgür Eriş et al. · Journal of Engineering Education 2005 2,805
4 Overview of Problem-based Learning: Definitions and Distinctions John Savery · Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning Open access 22 May 2006 2,675
5 Problem‐based learning in medicine and beyond: A brief overview Howard S. Barrows · New Directions for Teaching and Learning Dec 1996 2,000
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Where is Biomedical and Engineering Education research done?

The largest centres of Biomedical and Engineering Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Monterrey (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Monterrey and Eindhoven.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 122 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 94 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 MonterreyMexico 70 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 69 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 60 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 57 works
  8. 8 CambridgeUnited States 54 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 49 works
  10. 10 SeattleUnited States 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MonterreyMX · 70.0 works24×
  2. EindhovenNL · 23.3 works6.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Biomedical and Engineering Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Biomedical and Engineering Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Tecnológico de Monterrey and Nanyang Technological 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 19.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…Eindhoven University…Harvard UniversityTecnológico de Monte…
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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 70.617.2%2.5×56 +39.6%
2Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 69.78.9%36.8×69 +69.5%
3Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 66.735.2%2.0×11 +127.2%
4Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 64.420.9%8.1×21 +289.9%
5University of TwenteNetherlands 64.140.4%4.1×9 +16.6%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 58.510.3%3.5×38 +76.3%
7University of TorontoCanada 58.08.5%2.7×39 +48.4%
8University of WashingtonUnited States 53.27.7%4.0×33 +40.0%
9ETH ZurichSwitzerland 53.229.1%1.8×9 +95.4%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 53.013.1%1.9×22 +44.3%

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 Biomedical and Engineering Education, country by country

Is Biomedical and Engineering Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Biomedical and Engineering Education.

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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 Biomedical and Engineering Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.049% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Biomedical and Engineering Education0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Biomedical and Engineering Education 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%Biomedical and Engineering Education10.1% 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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