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Electrolyte and hormonal disorders

Electrolyte and hormonal disorders is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 32k 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, evaluation, and treatment of hyponatremia, with a particular emphasis on its association with heart failure, elderly patients, osteoporosis, and inappropriate antidiuresis. The role of vasopressin and copeptin as biomarkers, as well as the neurological complications associated with hyponatremia, are also explored.

  • Hyponatremia
  • Vasopressin
  • Copeptin
  • Heart Failure
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Elderly
  • Osteoporosis
  • Inappropriate Antidiuresis
  • Neurological Complications
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electrolyte and hormonal disorders

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

Which countries lead Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 343 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 343 works
  3. 3 India 299 works
  4. 4 Japan 244 works
  5. 5 Germany 175 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 172 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 132 works
  8. 8 Italy 129 works
  9. 9 Spain 113 works
  10. 10 France 85 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: 38.8%China: 12.4%India: 10.8%Japan: 8.8%6 others listed: 29.2%39%largest
United States1,075 · 38.8%China343 · 12.4%India299 · 10.8%Japan244 · 8.8%6 others listed807 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 21 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 University of BaselSwitzerland 17 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 15 works
  8. 8 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 14 works
  9. 9 New York Medical CollegeUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electrolyte and hormonal disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electrolyte and hormonal disorders include George Davey Smith, John J.V. McMurray and Cyrus Cooper.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  9. 9 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  10. 10 Josef Coresh United States 272k 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 Electrolyte and hormonal disorders?

The most cited paper in Electrolyte and hormonal disorders is "A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid β" (Jeffrey J. Iliff, Minghuan Wang, Yonghong Liao et al., 2012), with 5,906 citations. Next come "Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Medical ICU" (3,684) and "A rapid and potent natriuretic response to intravenous injection of atrial myocardial extract in rats" (3,166).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid β Jeffrey J. Iliff, Minghuan Wang, Yonghong Liao et al. · Science Translational Medicine Open access 15 Aug 2012 5,906
2 Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Medical ICU Greet Van den Berghe, Alexander Wilmer, Greet Hermans et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 2 Feb 2006 3,684
3 A rapid and potent natriuretic response to intravenous injection of atrial myocardial extract in rats A.J. de Bold, Heidi Borenstein, Anthony T. Veress et al. · Life Sciences 1981 3,166
4 Spironolactone for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Bertram Pitt et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 9 Apr 2014 2,808
5 K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease Shaul G. Massry et al. · University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) Oct 2003 2,541
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Where is Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research done?

The largest centres of Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 59 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 56 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 35 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 34 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 33 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 33 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 31 works
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Where is the best place to study Electrolyte and hormonal disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Basel, Harvard University and Erasmus University Rotterdam 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 20.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BaselVanderbilt UniversityErasmus University R…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
1University of BaselSwitzerland 83.230.2%12.6×17 +15.7%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.114.9%2.8×32 -9.3%
3Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 63.818.5%7.0×13 +158.8%
4Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 56.621.7%4.5×12 +24.0%
5Medical University of WarsawPoland 51.827.4%13.0×10 +15.4%
6University of PittsburghUnited States 51.417.3%4.0×12 +50.5%
7University of TorontoCanada 50.312.8%2.2×16 +2.7%
8Karolinska InstitutetSweden 49.221.0%5.3×11 -17.4%
9Aarhus UniversityDenmark 48.628.5%2.9×9 -34.2%
10Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 47.17.8%7.1×13 +26.4%

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 Electrolyte and hormonal disorders, country by country

Is Electrolyte and hormonal disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Electrolyte and hormonal disorders.

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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 Electrolyte and hormonal disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electrolyte and hormonal disorders 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%Electrolyte and hormonal disorders10.2% 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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