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Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in breast cancer screening technology, including the use of mammographic density, digital mammography, breast tomosynthesis, and supplemental imaging modalities such as ultrasound and MRI. It also explores the impact of radiation dose, contrast-enhanced mammography, and the influence of hormone replacement therapy on screening accuracy and risk assessment.

  • Mammographic Density
  • Digital Mammography
  • Breast Tomosynthesis
  • Breast Cancer Risk
  • Screening Ultrasound
  • Radiation Dose
  • Contrast-enhanced Mammography
  • Breast Tissue Composition
  • Diagnostic Performance
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

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

Which countries lead Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (702 and 389 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 702 works
  2. 2 China 389 works
  3. 3 Japan 207 works
  4. 4 India 156 works
  5. 5 South Korea 139 works
  6. 6 Germany 138 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 132 works
  8. 8 Italy 124 works
  9. 9 Australia 92 works
  10. 10 Brazil 91 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: 32.3%China: 17.9%Japan: 9.5%India: 7.2%6 others listed: 33.0%32%largest
United States702 · 32.3%China389 · 17.9%Japan207 · 9.5%India156 · 7.2%6 others listed717 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research, followed by Mayo Clinic and The University of Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 33 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 The University of SydneyAustralia 19 works
  4. 4 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 19 works
  5. 5 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 15 works
  9. 9 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Duke UniversityUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging include Douglas G. Altman, George Davey Smith and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  7. 7 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  8. 8 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k 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 Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging?

The most cited paper in Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging is "The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository" (Kenneth Clark, Bruce A. Vendt, Kirk Smith et al., 2013), with 4,730 citations. Next come "Mammographic Density and the Risk and Detection of Breast Cancer" (2,510) and "Breast Density and Parenchymal Patterns as Markers of Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-analysis" (2,174).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository Kenneth Clark, Bruce A. Vendt, Kirk Smith et al. · Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine Open access 24 Jul 2013 4,730
2 Mammographic Density and the Risk and Detection of Breast Cancer Norman F. Boyd, Helen Guo, Lisa Joy Martin et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Jan 2007 2,510
3 Breast Density and Parenchymal Patterns as Markers of Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-analysis Valerie McCormack, Isabel dos‐Santos‐Silva · Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention Review Jun 2006 2,174
4 Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement Albert L. Siu, on behalf of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force · Annals of Internal Medicine 12 Jan 2016 2,144
5 Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians John D. Mathews, A. Forsythe, Zoe Brady et al. · BMJ Open access 21 May 2013 2,035
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Where is Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research done?

The largest centres of Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 74 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 67 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 48 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 43 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 36 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 31 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 29 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 24 works
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Where is the best place to study Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Zurich 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 15.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ZurichDuke UniversityRadboud University N…Harvard University
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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 64.213.9%3.6×33 -38.9%
2Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 57.514.2%8.5×15 -9.8%
3University of ZurichSwitzerland 55.827.1%4.0×8 -14.0%
4Duke UniversityUnited States 49.816.1%6.0×14 +0.9%
5The University of SydneyAustralia 46.97.8%5.4×19 -15.7%
6Lund UniversitySweden 46.611.3%6.5×10 +80.7%
7Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 46.219.1%4.7×9 +39.4%
8Karolinska InstitutetSweden 45.419.5%5.1×8 -27.4%
9Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 45.011.5%5.7×12 +60.0%
10Yale UniversityUnited States 44.814.6%2.8×9 +18.1%

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 Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging, country by country

Is Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging.

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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 Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging 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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