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Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors is a research topic within Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Science Explorer counts 86k 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 recommendations and updates for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults, with a particular emphasis on evaluating left ventricular diastolic function. It also explores the association of obesity, diabetic cardiomyopathy, and cardiac metabolism with heart failure. The papers cover the use of advanced imaging techniques such as strain imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography to assess cardiac mechanics and function.

  • Echocardiography
  • Chamber Quantification
  • Diastolic Function
  • Heart Failure
  • Obesity
  • Cardiac Metabolism
  • Left Ventricular Function
  • Strain Imaging
  • Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiovascular Risk
Research works
86k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

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

Which countries lead Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.7k and 2.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.7k works
  2. 2 China 2.8k works
  3. 3 Italy 1.1k works
  4. 4 Japan 956 works
  5. 5 Germany 816 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 802 works
  7. 7 India 576 works
  8. 8 Spain 538 works
  9. 9 France 440 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 425 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: 35.5%China: 21.7%Italy: 8.0%Japan: 7.3%6 others listed: 27.4%36%largest
United States4,656 · 35.5%China2,846 · 21.7%Italy1,051 · 8.0%Japan956 · 7.3%6 others listed3,597 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research, followed by Harvard University and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 232 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 209 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 153 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 118 works
  5. 5 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 116 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 107 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 83 works
  8. 8 University of CopenhagenDenmark 82 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 81 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 78 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Eric S. Lander.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  7. 7 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  8. 8 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  9. 9 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  10. 10 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k 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 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors?

The most cited paper in Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors 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 "Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association" (12,804) and "2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure" (12,642).

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 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association Emelia J. Benjamin et al. · Circulation 25 Jan 2017 12,804
3 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure Clyde W. Yancy et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access 5 Jun 2013 12,642
4 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
5 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
All 96 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research done?

The largest centres of Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). 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 BeijingChina 469 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 304 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 226 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 224 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 215 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 212 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 198 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 194 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 180 works
  10. 10 MilanItaly 177 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Bad OeynhausenDE · 20.6 works48×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Johns Hopkins University score highest, combining citation 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 16.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Gronin…Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…Chinese Academy of M…
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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.

Citation 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 79.916.9%4.0×209 +12.5%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 70.615.7%8.7×153 +94.4%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 69.816.2%3.2×83 +26.1%
4University of GroningenNetherlands 63.921.6%3.1×36 +5.9%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 62.419.1%1.9×45 +11.3%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 62.214.2%2.6×63 +37.0%
7Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 61.814.3%5.2×34 +21.4%
8Northwestern UniversityUnited States 61.712.9%5.2×72 +12.9%
9Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.418.5%4.9×46 +2.3%
10University of BernSwitzerland 60.615.9%3.9×35 +61.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, country by country

Is Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.

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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 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.078% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors 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%Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors9.8% 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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