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Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on clinical studies related to coronary stents, myocardial revascularization, and the use of drug-eluting stents in the treatment of coronary artery disease. It covers topics such as the comparison of different stent types, optimal medical therapy with or without percutaneous coronary intervention, plaque vulnerability, and the assessment of stent thrombosis using various imaging techniques.

  • Coronary Stents
  • Myocardial Revascularization
  • Drug-Eluting Stents
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Fractional Flow Reserve
  • Intravascular Ultrasound
  • Plaque Vulnerability
  • Stent Thrombosis
  • Optimal Medical Therapy
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics

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

Which countries lead Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.2k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.2k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 Japan 776 works
  4. 4 Italy 556 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 459 works
  6. 6 India 429 works
  7. 7 South Korea 389 works
  8. 8 Germany 360 works
  9. 9 Spain 267 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 238 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: 31.1%China: 19.9%Japan: 11.0%Italy: 7.8%6 others listed: 30.2%31%largest
United States2,206 · 31.1%China1,408 · 19.9%Japan776 · 11.0%Italy556 · 7.8%6 others listed2,141 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 88 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 88 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 85 works
  4. 4 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 70 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50 works
  6. 6 Minneapolis Heart Institute FoundationUnited States 47 works
  7. 7 Mayo ClinicUnited States 44 works
  8. 8 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 41 works
  9. 9 Fudan UniversityChina 41 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics include Douglas G. Altman, John J.V. McMurray and Emelia J. Benjamin.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  6. 6 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  7. 7 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  8. 8 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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 Interventions and Diagnostics?

The most cited paper in Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics is "Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II)" (Lars Norgren, William R. Hiatt, John Dormandy et al., 2007), with 8,242 citations. Next come "2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization" (7,291) and "Clinical End Points in Coronary Stent Trials" (5,449).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II) Lars Norgren, William R. Hiatt, John Dormandy et al. · Journal of Vascular Surgery Open access 2007 8,242
2 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization Franz‐Josef Neumann et al. · European Heart Journal Open access152 authors 25 Aug 2018 7,291
3 Clinical End Points in Coronary Stent Trials Donald E. Cutlip, Stephan Windecker, Roxana Mehran et al. · Circulation 30 Apr 2007 5,449
4 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation Jean‐Philippe Collet et al. · European Heart Journal Open access143 authors 10 Jul 2020 5,150
5 Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease William E. Boden et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 Mar 2007 4,725
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Where is Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research done?

The largest centres of Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), New York (United States) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 327 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 179 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 174 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 165 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 139 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 137 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 98 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 89 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 88 works
  10. 10 MinneapolisUnited States 86 works
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Where is the best place to study Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics?

Among universities, judged by research, Humanitas University, Harvard University and Radboud University Nijmegen 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%20%40%mean 19.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Politecnico di MilanoHumanitas UniversityHarvard UniversityRadboud University N…
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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
1Humanitas UniversityItaly 68.122.0%19.1×25 +94.5%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.815.8%3.0×88 -16.0%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 63.814.9%5.7×31 +51.0%
4Politecnico di MilanoItaly 62.529.7%1.7×11 +34.0%
5Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of GalwayIreland 60.312.7%14.9×30 +94.3%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 59.517.2%3.4×26 +13.1%
7McMaster UniversityCanada 59.028.7%2.4×12 +23.5%
8University of UlsanSouth Korea 58.721.0%10.9×19 +13.1%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 58.214.4%8.6×41 -19.5%
10University of BernSwitzerland 57.322.7%5.3×26 -21.0%

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 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, country by country

Is Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics.

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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 Interventions and Diagnostics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics 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%Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics9.9% 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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