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Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics

Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 89k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advanced cardiac imaging techniques and diagnostics for the assessment of coronary artery disease, myocardial perfusion, and myocardial infarction using computed tomography angiography and magnetic resonance imaging. It also explores the association of coronary calcium, microvascular dysfunction, and cardiovascular risk assessment with cardiac imaging, while addressing concerns related to radiation exposure.

  • Cardiac Imaging
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Myocardial Perfusion
  • Computed Tomography Angiography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Coronary Calcium
  • Microvascular Dysfunction
  • Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Radiation Exposure
Research works
89k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics

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

Which countries lead Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4k works
  2. 2 China 1.8k works
  3. 3 Japan 867 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 867 works
  5. 5 Italy 866 works
  6. 6 Germany 702 works
  7. 7 India 506 works
  8. 8 Spain 407 works
  9. 9 South Korea 403 works
  10. 10 Russia 383 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: 36.8%China: 16.8%Japan: 8.0%United Kingdom: 8.0%6 others listed: 30.3%37%largest
United States3,970 · 36.8%China1,812 · 16.8%Japan867 · 8.0%United Kingdom867 · 8.0%6 others listed3,267 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 184 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 149 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 115 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 108 works
  5. 5 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 86 works
  6. 6 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States 77 works
  7. 7 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 76 works
  8. 8 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 74 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 71 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 71 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics 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 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  10. 10 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k 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 Imaging and Diagnostics?

The most cited paper in Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics is "Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging" (Roberto Miguel Lang, Luigi Paolo Badano, Victor Mor‐Avi et al., 2015), with 18,398 citations. Next come "Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology" (11,395) and "2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation" (9,924).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Roberto Miguel Lang, Luigi Paolo Badano, Victor Mor‐Avi et al. · Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Open access 2015 18,398
2 Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology Roberto Miguel Lang, Michelle Bierig, Richard B. Devereux et al. · Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Dec 2005 11,395
3 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation Borja Ibáñez et al. · European Heart Journal Open access127 authors 26 Aug 2017 9,924
4 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction—Executive Summary Elliott Marshall Antman et al. · Circulation 2 Aug 2004 8,374
5 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation Marco Roffi et al. · European Heart Journal Open access118 authors 29 Aug 2015 8,343
All 93 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research done?

The largest centres of Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Roslyn, Tsuchiura and Aalst.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 380 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 334 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 215 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 206 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 190 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 190 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 171 works
  8. 8 ClevelandUnited States 159 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 156 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 149 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RoslynUS · 22.6 works192×
  2. TsuchiuraJP · 21.3 works144×
  3. AalstBE · 21.1 works93×
  4. ForchheimDE · 22.0 works61×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Zurich and Radboud University Nijmegen 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 16.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ZurichMaastricht UniversityRadboud University N…Harvard 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 75.514.9%4.2×184 -10.8%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 70.722.9%4.6×44 -24.4%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 70.015.4%5.3×44 +49.8%
4Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 70.017.6%4.6×25 +39.2%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 69.216.4%2.6×53 +21.9%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68.716.8%3.1×66 +0.1%
7University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 67.510.2%4.7×74 +14.9%
8Humanitas UniversityItaly 67.417.1%12.1×24 +253.7%
9University of BernSwitzerland 66.913.0%5.6×42 +56.4%
10Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 65.817.0%6.1×44 -7.8%

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 Imaging and Diagnostics, country by country

Is Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics.

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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 Imaging and Diagnostics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.069% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics0.067% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics 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%Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics9.8% 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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