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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. 17.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of 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
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
11k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
the tick is no change

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 (4k and 678 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 4k works
  2. 2 China 678 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 589 works
  4. 4 Germany 525 works
  5. 5 Japan 470 works
  6. 6 India 455 works
  7. 7 Canada 411 works
  8. 8 Australia 388 works
  9. 9 Italy 381 works
  10. 10 France 304 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: 48.7%China: 8.3%United Kingdom: 7.2%Germany: 6.4%6 others listed: 29.4%49%largest
United States3,986 · 48.7%China678 · 8.3%United Kingdom589 · 7.2%Germany525 · 6.4%6 others listed2,410 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Pittsburgh publishes the most Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research, followed by University of Pennsylvania and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of PittsburghUnited States 55 works
  2. 2 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 44 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 43 works
  4. 4 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 43 works
  5. 5 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 42 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 42 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 University of WashingtonUnited States 40 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation include Roger Chou, Jay B. Dean and Naohiro Yonemoto.

  1. 1 Roger Chou United States 14k citations
  2. 2 Jay B. Dean United States 9.6k citations
  3. 3 Naohiro Yonemoto United States 9.4k citations
  4. 4 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 7.9k citations
  5. 5 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 6k citations
  6. 6 Suzanne Barker‐Collo New Zealand 5.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research done?

The largest centres of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Boston United States 167 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 160 works
  3. 3 New York United States 157 works
  4. 4 Philadelphia United States 151 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 135 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 130 works
  7. 7 Paris France 122 works
  8. 8 Baltimore United States 121 works
  9. 9 Beijing China 121 works
  10. 10 Tokyo Japan 117 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. InvernessGB · 22.3 works79×
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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, Duke-NUS Medical School, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Medical University of Vienna 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 25.68%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Duke-NUS Medical School: 10, 24.0%Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: 14, 26.4%Medical University of Vienna: 28, 22.0%University of Pittsburgh: 55, 21.3%University of Southern Denmark: 10, 35.1%University of Copenhagen: 17, 37.2%Monash University: 33, 25.0%University of Maryland, Baltimore: 27, 17.1%Harvard University: 39, 23.1%Karolinska Institutet: 17, 25.6%Uniformed Services U…Duke-NUS Medical Sch…Medical University o…University of Pittsb…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Duke-NUS Medical SchoolSingapore 69.424.0%11.8×10 +316.6%
2 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 60.826.4%13.5×14 +78.8%
3 Medical University of ViennaAustria 58.022.0%8.1×28 -29.6%
4 University of PittsburghUnited States 57.921.3%6.3×55 +8.1%
5 University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 57.135.1%2.6×10 +193.4%
6 University of CopenhagenDenmark 56.937.2%2.1×17 +90.0%
7 Monash UniversityAustralia 54.725.0%3.5×33 +46.9%
8 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 54.617.1%7.3×27 +91.4%
9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.423.1%2.7×39 +48.6%
10 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 50.425.6%3.3×17 +38.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.