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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the diagnosis and management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, including prenatal prediction of survival, fetal surgery, lung volume assessment, the impact of DICER1 mutations, pulmonary hypoplasia, and outcomes of treatments such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and thoracoscopic repair. It also covers related topics such as fetal lung development, pleuropulmonary blastoma, and the long-term follow-up of patients with this condition.

  • Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
  • Fetal Surgery
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Lung Volume
  • DICER1 Mutations
  • Pulmonary Hypoplasia
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Fetal Lung Development
  • Thoracoscopic Repair
  • Pleuropulmonary Blastoma
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies

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

Which countries lead Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 713 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 713 works
  3. 3 India 572 works
  4. 4 Japan 399 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 288 works
  6. 6 Germany 287 works
  7. 7 Italy 202 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 190 works
  9. 9 Spain 180 works
  10. 10 Canada 143 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: 34.8%China: 15.6%India: 12.5%Japan: 8.7%6 others listed: 28.3%35%largest
United States1,588 · 34.8%China713 · 15.6%India572 · 12.5%Japan399 · 8.7%6 others listed1,290 · 28.3%

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

Which institutions lead Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and University of Cincinnati.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 60 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57 works
  3. 3 University of CincinnatiUnited States 42 works
  4. 4 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 41 works
  5. 5 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 36 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 34 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 33 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 31 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  5. 5 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  6. 6 Hans C. Clevers Netherlands 260k 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 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies?

The most cited paper in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies is "Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia" (Alan Hall Jobe, Eduardo Bancalari, 2001), with 4,884 citations. Next come "ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS IN ADULTS" (4,318) and "A Perivascular Origin for Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Multiple Human Organs" (4,028).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Alan Hall Jobe, Eduardo Bancalari · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Jun 2001 4,884
2 ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS IN ADULTS D G Ashbaugh, D. Boyd Bigelow, ThomasL. Petty et al. · The Lancet Aug 1967 4,318
3 A Perivascular Origin for Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Multiple Human Organs Mihaela Crisan et al. · Cell stem cell Open access Sep 2008 4,028
4 Pulmonary Disease Following Respirator Therapy of Hyaline-Membrane Disease William H. Northway, Robert C. Rosan, David Y. Porter · New England Journal of Medicine 16 Feb 1967 3,039
5 Surgical repair of tricuspid atresia Francis M. Fontan, E Baudet · Thorax Open access May 1971 2,898
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Where is Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research done?

The largest centres of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Giessen and Cincinnati.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 92 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 90 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 90 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 86 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 79 works
  6. 6 HoustonUnited States 69 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 61 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 59 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 58 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GiessenDE · 21.1 works8.7×
  2. CincinnatiUS · 43.6 works8.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Copenhagen 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%20%40%mean 22.49%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…University of Pennsy…Harvard UniversityUniversity 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 76.223.6%3.2×60 -12.9%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 70.733.6%2.6×14 +125.0%
3University of TorontoCanada 68.821.8%2.9×34 -5.8%
4University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 67.831.8%4.2×26 -19.8%
5Heidelberg UniversityGermany 65.621.3%5.8×26 +43.6%
6University of CincinnatiUnited States 63.913.1%12.1×42 -15.2%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62.026.2%2.7×24 -5.4%
8Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 60.421.7%4.1×17 +13.6%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 58.918.2%5.9×18 -26.6%
10Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 58.513.6%13.5×40 -21.2%

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 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies, country by country

Is Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia 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%Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies10.1% 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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