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Blood donation and transfusion practices

Blood donation and transfusion practices is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 management, optimization, and challenges of the blood supply chain, including blood donation behavior, disaster response, inventory management, donor recruitment, and the impact of demographic changes. It also explores altruistic motivations for blood donation and the implications for blood transfusion safety.

  • Blood Donation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Donor Behavior
  • Disaster Response
  • Blood Transfusion
  • Altruism
  • Inventory Management
  • Donor Recruitment
  • Risk Factors
  • Demographic Changes
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Blood donation and transfusion practices

Which countries lead Blood donation and transfusion practices research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (641 and 581 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 641 works
  2. 2 Brazil 581 works
  3. 3 India 459 works
  4. 4 China 165 works
  5. 5 France 155 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 136 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 128 works
  8. 8 Canada 119 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 109 works
  10. 10 Australia 79 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: 24.9%Brazil: 22.6%India: 17.8%China: 6.4%6 others listed: 28.2%25%largest
United States641 · 24.9%Brazil581 · 22.6%India459 · 17.8%China165 · 6.4%6 others listed726 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Blood donation and transfusion practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição publishes the most Blood donation and transfusion practices research, followed by Fundação Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia de Minas Gerais and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Grupo Hospitalar ConceiçãoBrazil 63 works
  2. 2 Fundação Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia de Minas GeraisBrazil 37 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 33 works
  4. 4 Fundação HemopaBrazil 26 works
  5. 5 Établissement Français du SangFrance 19 works
  6. 6 Mass General BrighamUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 Canadian Blood ServicesCanada 17 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 Fundação Hospitalar de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do AmazonasBrazil 16 works
  10. 10 National Blood Transfusion ServiceNigeria 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Blood donation and transfusion practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Blood donation and transfusion practices include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Gregory Y.H. Lip and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  2. 2 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k 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 Blood donation and transfusion practices?

The most cited paper in Blood donation and transfusion practices is "Anemia and Blood Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients" (Jean‐Louis Vincent, 2002), with 1,835 citations. Next come "Perishable Inventory Theory: A Review" (1,193) and "Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood transfusion" (1,130).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Anemia and Blood Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients Jean‐Louis Vincent · JAMA 25 Sep 2002 1,835
2 Perishable Inventory Theory: A Review Steven Nahmias · Operations Research Aug 1982 1,193
3 Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood transfusion C. A. Llewelyn, P. B Hewitt, RSG Knight et al. · The Lancet Feb 2004 1,130
4 Transfusion Medicine — Blood Transfusion Lawrence T. Goodnough, Mark E. Brecher, Michael H. Kanter et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Feb 1999 891
5 Activity‐based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals Aryeh Shander, Axel Hofmann, Sherri J. Ozawa et al. · Transfusion 9 Dec 2009 755
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Where is Blood donation and transfusion practices research done?

The largest centres of Blood donation and transfusion practices research in 2022-now are Porto Alegre (Brazil), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Porto Alegre, Abuja and Manaus.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Porto AlegreBrazil 81 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 79 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 61 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 59 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 50 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 43 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 41 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  9. 9 BelémBrazil 38 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Porto AlegreBR · 81.2 works20×
  2. AbujaNG · 20.3 works18×
  3. ManausBR · 23.6 works14×
  4. BelémBR · 38.4 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Blood donation and transfusion practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Blood donation and transfusion practices?

Among universities, judged by research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard 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%10%20%mean 12.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TorontoJohns Hopkins Univer…Harvard UniversityAll 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
1All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 71.911.3%8.8×33 +55.3%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.219.8%2.6×13 -1.5%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.016.1%1.5×16 -11.9%
4University of TorontoCanada 55.321.2%1.7×12 -16.7%
5New York UniversityUnited States 51.514.2%2.3×9 +125.8%
6Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 38.77.2%7.7×8 +59.0%
7University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 36.96.4%2.6×9 +66.8%
8Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia 36.89.7%4.1×10 +3.2%
9Universidade de São PauloBrazil 35.03.5%1.9×13 +22.2%
10University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 32.315.2%1.4×8 -5.3%

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 Blood donation and transfusion practices, country by country

Is Blood donation and transfusion practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Blood donation and transfusion practices.

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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 Blood donation and transfusion practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Blood donation and transfusion practices0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Blood donation and transfusion practices 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%Blood donation and transfusion practices10.5% 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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