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Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors

Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors is a research topic within Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 8.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the promotion and reduction of cardiovascular disease through the concept of ideal cardiovascular health, preventive medicine, and lifestyle factors. It explores the global burden of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and community-based approaches to improve cardiovascular health.

  • Cardiovascular Health
  • Ideal Cardiovascular Health
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Global Burden of Disease
  • Health Promotion
  • Risk Factors
  • Community Health
  • Lifestyle Factors
  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
8.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+20%
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This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.3k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.3k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 243 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 204 works
  5. 5 Canada 117 works
  6. 6 Japan 114 works
  7. 7 Australia 106 works
  8. 8 South Korea 106 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 105 works
  10. 10 Italy 82 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: 60.3%China: 19.8%India: 4.5%United Kingdom: 3.8%6 others listed: 11.7%60%largest
United States3,260 · 60.3%China1,071 · 19.8%India243 · 4.5%United Kingdom204 · 3.8%6 others listed630 · 11.7%

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

Which institutions lead Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Johns Hopkins University publishes the most Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 92 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 84 works
  3. 3 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 56 works
  4. 4 Yale UniversityUnited States 54 works
  5. 5 Emory UniversityUnited States 53 works
  6. 6 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 44 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 42 works
  9. 9 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States 40 works
  10. 10 Columbia UniversityUnited States 37 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors include Theo Vos, Ali H. Mokdad and Valery L. Feigin.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 12k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 10k citations
  3. 3 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 7.9k citations
  4. 4 Erkin М Мirrakhimov Kyrgyzstan 7.8k citations
  5. 5 Young‐Ho Khang South Korea 7.6k citations
  6. 6 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 7.2k citations

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

Where is Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research done?

The largest centres of Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Baltimore (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New Orleans, Winston-Salem and Birmingham.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 259 works
  2. 2 New York United States 168 works
  3. 3 Boston United States 158 works
  4. 4 Baltimore United States 148 works
  5. 5 Atlanta United States 102 works
  6. 6 Chapel Hill United States 96 works
  7. 7 London United Kingdom 77 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 76 works
  9. 9 Houston United States 76 works
  10. 10 Shanghai China 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New OrleansUS · 51.8 works16×
  2. Winston-SalemUS · 35.9 works15×
  3. BirminghamUS · 49.4 works14×
  4. OaklandUS · 31.9 works13×
  5. EvanstonUS · 56.6 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Johns Hopkins University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Tulane University 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 8.49%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Johns Hopkins University: 92, 5.2%Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College: 44, 21.4%Tulane University: 37, 2.8%Northwestern University: 56, 9.6%Emory University: 53, 4.9%Harvard University: 42, 18.3%Yale University: 54, 4.3%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 84, 3.2%University of Alabama at Birmingham: 46, 5.4%Boston University: 26, 9.8%Chinese Academy of M…Northwestern Univers…Johns Hopkins Univer…Tulane University
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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 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62.65.2%13.6×92 +112.8%
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 58.121.4%7.2×44 +65.5%
3 Tulane UniversityUnited States 56.62.8%23.0×37 +180.7%
4 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 55.79.6%13.1×56 +9.8%
5 Emory UniversityUnited States 54.54.9%12.0×53 +85.6%
6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.418.3%5.3×42 +69.8%
7 Yale UniversityUnited States 53.74.3%8.6×54 +122.0%
8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 53.33.2%7.8×84 +152.4%
9 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 52.25.4%15.3×46 +65.8%
10 Boston UniversityUnited States 50.39.8%8.3×26 +95.1%

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 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiovascular Health 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.

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.