Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation is a research topic within Emergency Medicine. Science Explorer counts 65k 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 of cardiac arrest and resuscitation, including topics such as therapeutic hypothermia, out-of-hospital survival rates, advanced life support, bystander intervention, and neurological outcomes. The research covers various aspects of resuscitation protocols, post-cardiac arrest care, and the use of automated external defibrillators.

Cardiac Arrest
Resuscitation
Hypothermia
Out-of-Hospital
Survival Rates
Therapeutic Hypothermia
Advanced Life Support
Bystander Intervention
Neurological Outcome
CPR Quality

Research works: 65k
In the world top 10%: 6.6k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +2%
Largest producer: United States

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

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

Which countries lead Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.4k and 789 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 4.4k works
2 China 789 works
3 United Kingdom 660 works
4 Germany 592 works
5 Japan 521 works
6 India 501 works
7 Canada 451 works
8 Australia 424 works
9 Italy 421 works
10 France 344 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 States4,380 · 48.2%China789 · 8.7%United Kingdom660 · 7.3%Germany592 · 6.5%6 others listed2,661 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research, followed by University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 169 works
2 University of TorontoCanada 82 works
3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 77 works
4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 71 works
5 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 63 works
6 University of PittsburghUnited States 60 works
7 University of WashingtonUnited States 60 works
8 University of MichiganUnited States 58 works
9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58 works
10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Ronald C. Kessler.

1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
4 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
5 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
6 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
8 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
9 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
10 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k 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 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

The most cited paper in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation is "Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke" (Edward C. Jauch, Jeffrey L. Saver, Harold P. Adams et al., 2013), with 7,675 citations. Next come "Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia" (5,437) and "Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021" (5,314).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Edward C. Jauch, Jeffrey L. Saver, Harold P. Adams et al. · Stroke Open access	Feb 2013	7,675
2	Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia Stephen A. Bernard, Timothy W. Gray, Michael Buist et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access	21 Feb 2002	5,437
3	Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021 Laura Evans et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access	2 Oct 2021	5,314
4	Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve the Neurologic Outcome after Cardiac Arrest The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group · New England Journal of Medicine	21 Feb 2002	5,244
5	Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program Stephen F. Jencks, Mark V. Williams, Eric A. Coleman · New England Journal of Medicine	Apr 2009	5,226

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Where is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research done?

The largest centres of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research in 2022-now are Boston (United States), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Inverness.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BostonUnited States 183 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 178 works
3 New YorkUnited States 173 works
4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 165 works
5 SeoulSouth Korea 154 works
6 MelbourneAustralia 144 works
7 ParisFrance 138 works
8 BeijingChina 138 works
9 BaltimoreUnited States 131 works
10 TokyoJapan 129 works

Where it is the local speciality

InvernessGB · 23.3 works75×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen, Harvard University and University of Southern Denmark 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of CopenhagenDenmark	73.8	19.8%	5.3×	58	+14.3%
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States	73.5	13.6%	4.6×	169	+5.0%
3	University of Southern DenmarkDenmark	68.8	21.3%	5.8×	27	+20.0%
4	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	65.7	18.7%	3.7×	37	+20.4%
5	University of TorontoCanada	65.3	17.9%	3.5×	82	-16.0%
6	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	63.5	15.0%	4.3×	77	0.0%
7	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	62.9	26.3%	1.9×	13	+5.0%
8	University of PittsburghUnited States	62.0	17.2%	6.5×	60	-0.3%
9	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	61.5	23.2%	3.9×	24	-0.7%
10	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom	61.4	22.3%	2.9×	15	+23.1%
11	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	60.8	17.8%	4.4×	29	-1.2%
12	National University of SingaporeSingapore	59.4	15.5%	1.9×	25	+25.9%
13	University of WashingtonUnited States	58.8	13.2%	4.5×	60	-9.9%
14	University of LausanneSwitzerland	58.2	16.8%	3.6×	19	+10.4%
15	Monash UniversityAustralia	57.6	15.3%	4.6×	52	-21.7%
16	Medical University of ViennaAustria	57.1	13.5%	8.7×	32	+11.1%
17	University of ZurichSwitzerland	56.8	28.2%	1.9×	15	-3.2%
18	University of CalgaryCanada	56.5	17.3%	3.2×	25	-10.2%
19	University of OsloNorway	56.4	15.2%	3.7×	27	+2.7%
20	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	56.3	21.7%	2.9×	13	+7.5%
21	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	55.9	17.1%	2.5×	33	+2.4%
22	University of BernSwitzerland	55.9	16.9%	3.7×	24	+11.8%
23	University of UtahUnited States	55.6	12.0%	5.1×	40	+43.1%
24	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	55.5	11.0%	5.2×	63	-3.3%
25	Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityItaly	55.5	22.0%	5.9×	8	+29.2%
26	University of British ColumbiaCanada	55.1	16.7%	2.8×	39	-19.4%
27	University of TurinItaly	54.3	24.2%	1.6×	10	+17.0%
28	Heidelberg UniversityGermany	54.0	13.5%	3.2×	28	+52.1%
29	University of GothenburgSweden	53.9	19.9%	3.0×	16	-9.4%
30	Duke UniversityUnited States	53.7	14.1%	3.9×	36	+5.2%
31	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	53.4	14.4%	4.0×	33	-2.2%
32	Emory UniversityUnited States	52.9	8.6%	4.5×	42	+19.7%
33	The University of SydneyAustralia	52.7	12.7%	2.9×	41	+5.6%
34	Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States	51.8	8.4%	8.9×	35	+28.4%
35	Yale UniversityUnited States	51.3	5.5%	4.2×	52	+42.8%
36	University of OttawaCanada	50.8	15.1%	3.0×	23	-15.8%
37	McMaster UniversityCanada	50.8	19.1%	2.2×	14	-2.1%
38	University of MichiganUnited States	50.4	11.9%	3.3×	58	-13.9%
39	Cornell UniversityUnited States	50.2	11.5%	2.7×	41	-7.9%
40	University of VirginiaUnited States	50.0	14.0%	3.9×	28	+19.9%
41	Mahidol UniversityThailand	49.0	13.1%	4.1×	23	+60.2%
42	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	48.4	17.3%	2.8×	20	-28.1%
43	University of BaselSwitzerland	48.4	22.8%	2.5×	11	-23.2%
44	Innsbruck Medical UniversityAustria	47.2	16.5%	8.8×	9	+43.2%
45	University of GenevaSwitzerland	47.1	14.1%	2.8×	13	+10.7%
46	New York Medical CollegeUnited States	46.1	8.1%	8.9×	23	+49.5%
47	University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States	45.3	10.7%	8.7×	35	-32.1%
48	King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesSaudi Arabia	44.4	9.7%	9.7×	11	+41.4%
49	Medical University of GrazAustria	43.7	11.2%	9.1×	12	+10.2%
50	Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States	42.7	11.5%	14.2×	32	-31.4%
51	All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia	42.3	3.6%	4.5×	58	+60.6%
52	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	40.0	10.7%	1.5×	17	-3.3%
53	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	39.3	3.7%	2.8×	57	-7.6%
54	Curtin UniversityAustralia	38.3	11.8%	2.2×	8	-10.7%
55	Wuhan UniversityChina	37.5	26.1%	0.7×	11	-18.5%
56	Nippon Medical SchoolJapan	36.1	9.6%	12.0×	12	+83.5%
57	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	35.4	6.7%	1.0×	11	+61.4%
58	S. M. Kirov Military Medical AcademyRussia	21.3	0.2%	9.9×	8	+113.6%

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 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, country by country

Is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation.

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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 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.056% in 2024.

Fractional works of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation 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.

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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Which countries lead Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

What are the most cited papers in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

Where is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

Is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion