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Effects of Radiation Exposure

Effects of Radiation Exposure is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 explores the biological and clinical effects of ionizing radiation, including topics such as radiation-induced bystander effects, hormesis, radioprotectors, genomic instability, normal tissue injury, oxidative stress, radiotherapy strategies, apoptosis, and fibrosis. The research encompasses a wide range of mechanisms and implications related to the exposure to ionizing radiation.

  • Radiation
  • Bystander Effects
  • Hormesis
  • Radioprotectors
  • Genomic Instability
  • Normal Tissue Injury
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Radiotherapy
  • Apoptosis
  • Fibrosis
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Effects of Radiation Exposure

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

Which countries lead Effects of Radiation Exposure research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (955 and 808 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 955 works
  2. 2 China 808 works
  3. 3 Japan 245 works
  4. 4 Russia 203 works
  5. 5 Germany 186 works
  6. 6 India 169 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 126 works
  8. 8 Italy 125 works
  9. 9 France 123 works
  10. 10 South Korea 108 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: 31.3%China: 26.5%Japan: 8.0%Russia: 6.6%6 others listed: 27.5%31%largest
United States955 · 31.3%China808 · 26.5%Japan245 · 8.0%Russia203 · 6.6%6 others listed837 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Effects of Radiation Exposure research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Effects of Radiation Exposure research, followed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Soochow University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 37 works
  2. 2 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 Soochow UniversityChina 32 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 28 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 26 works
  6. 6 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 24 works
  8. 8 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 Egyptian Atomic Energy AuthorityEgypt 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Effects of Radiation Exposure?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Effects of Radiation Exposure include Guido Kroemer, Hermann Brenner and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  5. 5 Charles M. Perou United States 263k 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 Effects of Radiation Exposure?

The most cited paper in Effects of Radiation Exposure is "A simple technique for quantitation of low levels of DNA damage in individual cells" (Narendra Prasad Singh, Michael T. McCoy, Raymond R. Tice et al., 1988), with 10,851 citations. Next come "The limited in vitro lifetime of human diploid cell strains" (5,907) and "Oxidative stress, inflammation, and cancer: How are they linked?" (5,431).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A simple technique for quantitation of low levels of DNA damage in individual cells Narendra Prasad Singh, Michael T. McCoy, Raymond R. Tice et al. · Experimental Cell Research Mar 1988 10,851
2 The limited in vitro lifetime of human diploid cell strains Leonard Hayflick · Experimental Cell Research Mar 1965 5,907
3 Oxidative stress, inflammation, and cancer: How are they linked? Simone Reuter, Subash C. Gupta, Madan Mohan Chaturvedi et al. · Free Radical Biology and Medicine Open access 17 Sep 2010 5,431
4 Toxicity criteria of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the European organization for research and treatment of cancer (EORTC) James D. Cox, JoAnn Stetz, Thomas F. Pajak · International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics Mar 1995 4,860
5 Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation Bahman Emami, Jacqueline Lyman, Adam S. Brown et al. · International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics May 1991 4,510
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Where is Effects of Radiation Exposure research done?

The largest centres of Effects of Radiation Exposure research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 122 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 105 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 65 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 59 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 52 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 52 works
  7. 7 BethesdaUnited States 50 works
  8. 8 HoustonUnited States 49 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 45 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BethesdaUS · 49.9 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Effects of Radiation Exposure than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Effects of Radiation Exposure?

Among universities, judged by research, Soochow University, Aarhus University and Stanford 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.

0%20%40%mean 17.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aarhus UniversitySoochow UniversityUniversity of TorontoStanford 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
1Soochow UniversityChina 70.118.4%8.9×32 +34.9%
2Aarhus UniversityDenmark 66.930.6%3.2×10 +34.5%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 64.716.1%3.5×19 +27.7%
4University of TorontoCanada 63.818.2%2.2×16 +34.2%
5Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 61.49.7%32.1×23 +51.5%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.013.6%2.4×28 -20.5%
7Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States 54.925.6%6.6×8 +14.4%
8Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 54.111.6%6.9×26 -7.6%
9Jilin UniversityChina 50.426.8%2.4×10 +22.0%
10Shandong First Medical UniversityChina 49.79.1%17.7×19 +62.1%

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 Effects of Radiation Exposure, country by country

Is Effects of Radiation Exposure research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Effects of Radiation Exposure.

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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 Effects of Radiation Exposure as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Effects of Radiation Exposure0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Effects of Radiation Exposure 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%Effects of Radiation Exposure9.8% 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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