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Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies

Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies is a research topic within Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 use of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in the management of heart failure, particularly in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and ventricular arrhythmias. The cluster covers topics such as the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, echocardiography-guided lead placement, remote monitoring, and the impact of CRT on dyssynchrony and sudden cardiac death.

  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
  • Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
  • Heart Failure
  • Ventricular Arrhythmias
  • Left Ventricular Dysfunction
  • Echocardiography
  • Pacemaker Therapy
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Dyssynchrony
  • Sudden Cardiac Death
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies

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

Which countries lead Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research?

By volume, the United States and Italy publish the most (2.8k and 642 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.8k works
  2. 2 Italy 642 works
  3. 3 Japan 605 works
  4. 4 China 574 works
  5. 5 Germany 543 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 488 works
  7. 7 Spain 426 works
  8. 8 France 259 works
  9. 9 India 248 works
  10. 10 Australia 230 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: 41.5%Italy: 9.4%Japan: 8.8%China: 8.4%6 others listed: 32.0%41%largest
United States2,847 · 41.5%Italy642 · 9.4%Japan605 · 8.8%China574 · 8.4%6 others listed2,193 · 32.0%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research, followed by Harvard University and Cleveland Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 127 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 101 works
  3. 3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 72 works
  4. 4 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 45 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 44 works
  6. 6 Emory UniversityUnited States 44 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 37 works
  8. 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 35 works
  9. 9 Medical University of SilesiaPoland 34 works
  10. 10 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies include Douglas G. Altman, John J.V. McMurray and Emelia J. Benjamin.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  6. 6 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  9. 9 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  10. 10 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k 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 pacing and defibrillation studies?

The most cited paper in Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies is "2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure" (Piotr Ponikowski et al., 2016), with 11,598 citations. Next come "ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012" (6,931) and "Prophylactic Implantation of a Defibrillator in Patients with Myocardial Infarction and Reduced Ejection Fraction" (6,923).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure Piotr Ponikowski et al. · European Heart Journal Open access134 authors 20 May 2016 11,598
2 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012 Authors Task Force Members et al. · European Heart Journal 18 May 2012 6,931
3 Prophylactic Implantation of a Defibrillator in Patients with Myocardial Infarction and Reduced Ejection Fraction Arthur J. Moss, Wojciech Zaręba, William Jackson Hall et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 21 Mar 2002 6,923
4 Amiodarone or an Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillator for Congestive Heart Failure Gust H. Bardy, Kerry L. Lee, Daniel B. Mark et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Jan 2005 6,586
5 The Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization on Morbidity and Mortality in Heart Failure John G.F. Cleland, Jean‐Claude Daubert, Erland Erdmann et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 7 Mar 2005 6,311
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Where is Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research done?

The largest centres of Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Madrid (Spain), Tokyo (Japan) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bad Oeynhausen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 174 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 146 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 128 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 123 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 111 works
  6. 6 ClevelandUnited States 106 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 103 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 98 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 98 works
  10. 10 OsakaJapan 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Bad OeynhausenDE · 20.1 works91×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and University of Copenhagen 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 20.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Modena…Karolinska InstitutetUniversity of Copenh…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 76.516.4%3.7×101 +10.0%
2University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaItaly 68.531.6%6.5×13 +38.1%
3University of CopenhagenDenmark 68.017.8%4.6×37 +18.8%
4Karolinska InstitutetSweden 64.120.3%6.0×29 -1.8%
5Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 63.416.0%10.0×34 -3.1%
6University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 63.023.2%5.1×24 +6.6%
7Duke UniversityUnited States 60.817.9%3.7×26 +32.9%
8University of GenevaSwitzerland 60.531.9%3.1×11 +27.0%
9Vrije Universiteit BrusselBelgium 59.221.7%6.3×15 +161.1%
10Emory UniversityUnited States 57.911.1%6.5×44 +48.6%

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 pacing and defibrillation studies, country by country

Is Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiac pacing and defibrillation 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 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cardiac pacing and defibrillation 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.

still counting5%10%15%Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies9.9% 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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