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Coronary Artery Anomalies

Coronary Artery Anomalies is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 21k 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 congenital coronary artery anomalies, including anomalous origin, myocardial bridging, aortic sinus aneurysms, and fistulas. It covers the clinical profile, management strategies, surgical interventions, and long-term outcomes associated with these anomalies. The papers also discuss the incidence of sudden death in young individuals with such anomalies.

  • Congenital
  • Coronary Artery Anomalies
  • Sudden Death
  • Myocardial Bridging
  • Aneurysms
  • Fistulas
  • Surgical Management
  • Multidetector CT Angiography
  • Pediatric Population
  • Anomalous Origin
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Coronary Artery Anomalies

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

Which countries lead Coronary Artery Anomalies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (951 and 411 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 951 works
  2. 2 China 411 works
  3. 3 India 321 works
  4. 4 Japan 243 works
  5. 5 Italy 179 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 126 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 117 works
  8. 8 Spain 99 works
  9. 9 Brazil 82 works
  10. 10 Germany 67 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: 36.6%China: 15.8%India: 12.4%Japan: 9.4%6 others listed: 25.8%37%largest
United States951 · 36.6%China411 · 15.8%India321 · 12.4%Japan243 · 9.4%6 others listed670 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Coronary Artery Anomalies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Coronary Artery Anomalies research, followed by Sichuan University and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 52 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 29 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  5. 5 Wuhan UniversityChina 24 works
  6. 6 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 23 works
  7. 7 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 Capital Medical UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Coronary Artery Anomalies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coronary Artery Anomalies include Jun Wang, Stephan Windecker and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Delgado Netherlands 269k citations
  6. 6 Valentı́n Fuster United States 257k citations
  7. 7 Patrizio Lancellotti Belgium 245k citations
  8. 8 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k 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 Coronary Artery Anomalies?

The most cited paper in Coronary Artery Anomalies is "The incidence of congenital heart disease" (Julien I.E. Hoffman, Samuel Kaplan, 2002), with 6,175 citations. Next come "Birth Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease Worldwide" (3,541) and "A Prospective Natural-History Study of Coronary Atherosclerosis" (3,303).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The incidence of congenital heart disease Julien I.E. Hoffman, Samuel Kaplan · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Jun 2002 6,175
2 Birth Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease Worldwide Denise van der Linde, Elisabeth E.M. Konings, M. A. Slager et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Nov 2011 3,541
3 A Prospective Natural-History Study of Coronary Atherosclerosis Gregg W. Stone, Akiko Maehara, Alexandra J. Lansky et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Jan 2011 3,303
4 Coronary artery anomalies in 126,595 patients undergoing coronary arteriography Osamu Yamanaka, Robert E. Hobbs · Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis Open access Sep 1990 2,082
5 ACC/AHA 2008 Guidelines for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Executive Summary Carole A. Warnes, Roberta G. Williams, Thomas M. Bashore et al. · Circulation 8 Nov 2008 2,072
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Where is Coronary Artery Anomalies research done?

The largest centres of Coronary Artery Anomalies research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chandigarh and Cleveland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 53 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 53 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 51 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 45 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 43 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 41 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 37 works
  9. 9 HoustonUnited States 36 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChandigarhIN · 23.0 works5.9×
  2. ClevelandUS · 30.5 works5.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Coronary Artery Anomalies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Coronary Artery Anomalies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bern, Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard 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.

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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 BernSwitzerland 62.433.3%5.1×10 +36.5%
2Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 56.818.0%13.3×23 +5.8%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.621.1%2.5×26 -31.7%
4University of California San DiegoUnited States 52.031.8%2.5×8 +1.1%
5Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 51.821.7%21.3×23 -4.7%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 49.313.3%3.8×29 +56.8%
7University of TorontoCanada 49.225.7%1.9×13 -11.5%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 46.221.6%2.6×13 -1.5%
9All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 45.53.2%13.9×52 +1.8%
10Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 43.720.0%5.8×8 +7.0%

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 Coronary Artery Anomalies, country by country

Is Coronary Artery Anomalies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Coronary Artery Anomalies.

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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 Coronary Artery Anomalies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Coronary Artery Anomalies 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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