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Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control

Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in laboratory medicine and testing procedures, including the determination of reference intervals, management of preanalytical variables, establishment of quality indicators, utilization of point-of-care testing, understanding biological variation, development of clinical laboratory guidelines, identification and prevention of diagnostic errors, and implementation of laboratory quality management practices. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to improving the accuracy and reliability of laboratory testing in healthcare.

  • Reference Intervals
  • Preanalytical Variables
  • Quality Indicators
  • Hematology Analyzers
  • Point-of-Care Testing
  • Biological Variation
  • Clinical Laboratory Guidelines
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Laboratory Quality Management
  • Hemolysis Interference
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control

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

Which countries lead Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (673 and 223 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 673 works
  2. 2 India 223 works
  3. 3 China 190 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 151 works
  5. 5 Italy 105 works
  6. 6 Germany 102 works
  7. 7 Canada 98 works
  8. 8 Australia 89 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 86 works
  10. 10 Spain 80 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: 37.5%India: 12.4%China: 10.6%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 31.2%37%largest
United States673 · 37.5%India223 · 12.4%China190 · 10.6%United Kingdom151 · 8.4%6 others listed560 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research, followed by Harvard University and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 20 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 19 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
  5. 5 University of PaduaItaly 15 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 The University of SydneyAustralia 12 works
  8. 8 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 Royal College of Pathologists of AustralasiaAustralia 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  7. 7 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  8. 8 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  9. 9 Penny F. Whiting United Kingdom 264k citations
  10. 10 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control?

The most cited paper in Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control is "STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT" (J Martin Bland, DouglasG. Altman, 1986), with 48,188 citations. Next come "Basic principles of ROC analysis" (6,107) and "Methods for the determination of limit of detection and limit of quantitation of the analytical methods" (3,214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT J Martin Bland, DouglasG. Altman · The Lancet Feb 1986 48,188
2 Basic principles of ROC analysis Charles E. Metz · Seminars in Nuclear Medicine Oct 1978 6,107
3 Methods for the determination of limit of detection and limit of quantitation of the analytical methods Alankar Shrivastava, VipinB Gupta · Chronicles of young scientists 2011 3,214
4 Albumin standards and the measurement of serum albumin with bromcresol green Basil T. Doumas, W. Ard Watson, Homer G. Biggs · Clinica Chimica Acta 1971 3,074
5 Review of 1027 Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Robert A. Kyle, Morie Abraham Gertz, Thomas Elmer Witzig et al. · Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2003 2,463
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Where is Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research done?

The largest centres of Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 40 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 39 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 37 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 26 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 25 works
  8. 8 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 25 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 23 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 21 works
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Where is the best place to study Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Padua, The University of Sydney and University of Toronto 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%30%mean 14.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of PaduaThe University of Sy…Washington Universit…University of Toronto
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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
1University of PaduaItaly 84.926.3%7.3×15 +20.7%
2The University of SydneyAustralia 64.926.0%3.7×12 +20.0%
3University of TorontoCanada 62.112.3%3.5×19 -20.1%
4Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 60.218.1%6.2×12 +32.7%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.810.2%2.4×19 -20.3%
6All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 53.02.8%7.1×20 +15.1%
7Yale UniversityUnited States 48.415.7%4.0×11 +37.5%
8University of VeronaItaly 44.311.9%16.5×10 -40.9%
9Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 40.910.4%3.2×13 -26.1%
10University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 37.912.8%3.6×10 +0.7%

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 Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control, country by country

Is Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control.

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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 Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control 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.

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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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