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Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies is a research topic within Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of hypertension, including the use of antihypertensive drugs, cardiovascular risk factors, renal denervation, and the impact of hypertension on conditions such as diabetes mellitus. It also addresses the global burden of hypertension, provides clinical guidelines for hypertension management, and explores the relationship between hypertension and cardiovascular events.

  • Hypertension
  • Blood Pressure
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Antihypertensive Drugs
  • Renal Denervation
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Global Burden
  • Clinical Guidelines
  • Cardiovascular Events
  • Risk Factors
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

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

Which countries lead Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.1k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 575 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 431 works
  5. 5 Japan 417 works
  6. 6 Italy 347 works
  7. 7 Brazil 335 works
  8. 8 South Korea 274 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 269 works
  10. 10 Spain 266 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: 34.1%China: 18.9%India: 9.3%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 30.8%34%largest
United States2,111 · 34.1%China1,168 · 18.9%India575 · 9.3%United Kingdom431 · 7.0%6 others listed1,908 · 30.8%

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

Which institutions lead Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Jichi Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 92 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 59 works
  3. 3 Jichi Medical UniversityJapan 54 works
  4. 4 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 52 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 52 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 46 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 46 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 39 works
  10. 10 InsermFrance 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Christopher J L Murray.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k 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 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  9. 9 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  10. 10 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k 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 Pressure and Hypertension Studies?

The most cited paper in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies is "The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure The JNC 7 Report" (Aram V. Chobanian, 2003), with 25,591 citations. Next come "Prediction of Creatinine Clearance from Serum Creatinine" (15,456) and "2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension" (13,694).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure The JNC 7 Report Aram V. Chobanian · JAMA 20 May 2003 25,591
2 Prediction of Creatinine Clearance from Serum Creatinine Donald W. Cockcroft, Henry Gault · ˜The œNephron journals/Nephron journals 28 Nov 2008 15,456
3 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension Authors Task Force Members et al. · European Heart Journal Open access108 authors 14 Jun 2013 13,694
4 Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure Aram V. Chobanian, George L. Bakris, Henry Richard Black et al. · Hypertension Dec 2003 13,366
5 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association Emelia J. Benjamin et al. · Circulation 25 Jan 2017 12,804
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research done?

The largest centres of Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), London (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shimotsuke, Thessaloniki and Winston-Salem.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 231 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 166 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 155 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 115 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 114 works
  6. 6 AthensGreece 113 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 96 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 94 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 94 works
  10. 10 MilanItaly 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ShimotsukeJP · 48.2 works53×
  2. ThessalonikiGR · 63.1 works7.2×
  3. Winston-SalemUS · 28.3 works7.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Johns Hopkins University 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.818.7%3.1×92 +15.3%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 71.820.8%5.9×58 +64.4%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 69.518.1%3.6×52 +7.9%
4Jichi Medical UniversityJapan 68.419.4%51.6×54 +42.4%
5UNSW SydneyAustralia 62.720.5%2.8×24 +87.0%
6University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 62.419.7%12.5×34 -7.7%
7Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 62.027.0%2.9×12 +5.2%
8The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 60.118.2%4.7×19 +30.2%
9Sichuan UniversityChina 59.220.9%1.6×34 +95.6%
10Northwestern UniversityUnited States 59.116.1%3.1×24 +34.3%

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 Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, country by country

Is Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies.

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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 Pressure and Hypertension Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies 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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