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Blood properties and coagulation

Blood properties and coagulation is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 35k 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 study of blood rheology, coagulation mechanisms, and the role of fibrinogen, transglutaminases, and red blood cells in hemodynamics. It covers topics such as clot structure, microcirculation, thrombin generation, and the influence of viscosity on hemostasis.

  • Fibrinogen
  • Transglutaminases
  • Red Blood Cells
  • Hemodynamics
  • Clot Structure
  • Microcirculation
  • Rheology
  • Thrombin Generation
  • Viscosity
  • Hemostasis
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Blood properties and coagulation

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

Which countries lead Blood properties and coagulation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (848 and 814 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 848 works
  2. 2 China 814 works
  3. 3 India 244 works
  4. 4 Japan 202 works
  5. 5 Germany 189 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 155 works
  7. 7 France 147 works
  8. 8 Italy 142 works
  9. 9 Russia 128 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 117 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: 28.4%China: 27.3%India: 8.2%Japan: 6.8%6 others listed: 29.4%28%largest
United States848 · 28.4%China814 · 27.3%India244 · 8.2%Japan202 · 6.8%6 others listed877 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Blood properties and coagulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Blood properties and coagulation research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 39 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 37 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 28 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 24 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 23 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 20 works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 18 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Blood properties and coagulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Blood properties and coagulation include George Davey Smith, Stacey L. Gabriel and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  5. 5 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  6. 6 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  8. 8 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  9. 9 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Mann Germany 308k 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 properties and coagulation?

The most cited paper in Blood properties and coagulation is "Acute-Phase Proteins and Other Systemic Responses to Inflammation" (Cem Gabay, Irving Kushner, 1999), with 6,808 citations. Next come "Biomechanics. Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues" (6,056) and "Avoiding bias from weak instruments in Mendelian randomization studies" (4,293).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Acute-Phase Proteins and Other Systemic Responses to Inflammation Cem Gabay, Irving Kushner · New England Journal of Medicine 11 Feb 1999 6,808
2 Biomechanics. Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues Y. C. Fung, Richard Skalak · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1982 6,056
3 Avoiding bias from weak instruments in Mendelian randomization studies Stephen Burgess, Simon G. Thompson · International Journal of Epidemiology 16 Mar 2011 4,293
4 Opsonization, biodistribution, and pharmacokinetics of polymeric nanoparticles D OWENSIII, Nicholas A. Peppas · International Journal of Pharmaceutics 22 Nov 2005 3,607
5 C-reactive protein: a critical update Mark B. Pepys, Gideon Morris Hirschfield · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access 15 Jun 2003 3,527
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Blood properties and coagulation research done?

The largest centres of Blood properties and coagulation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 118 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 65 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 55 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 53 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 42 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 39 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 38 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 38.9 works5.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Blood properties and coagulation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Blood properties and coagulation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Leeds and University of Pennsylvania 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 19.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LeedsUniversity of Pennsy…Zhejiang UniversityHarvard University
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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 65.614.5%2.3×28 -2.5%
2University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 64.427.6%6.2×13 -14.0%
3University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 62.821.8%4.2×17 -2.2%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.415.7%2.4×24 +107.1%
5Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 58.010.9%7.3×11 +23.1%
6University of GenevaSwitzerland 57.014.6%6.7×10 +14.2%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 55.221.6%3.5×10 +38.9%
8Emory UniversityUnited States 53.616.9%5.2×16 -0.7%
9Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 53.531.2%2.9×9 -1.8%
10McGill UniversityCanada 53.420.9%2.9×11 +50.9%

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 properties and coagulation, country by country

Is Blood properties and coagulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Blood properties and coagulation.

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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 properties and coagulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Blood properties and coagulation0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Blood properties and coagulation 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 properties and coagulation10.1% 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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