Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Topic · Psychiatry and Mental health

Epilepsy research and treatment

Epilepsy research and treatment is a research topic within Psychiatry and Mental health. Science Explorer counts 62k 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 the diagnosis, classification, management, and neurobiological aspects of epilepsy and seizures. It covers topics such as antiepileptic drugs, status epilepticus, surgical therapy, inflammation, genetics, and drug resistance in epilepsy.

  • Epilepsy
  • Seizures
  • Classification
  • Antiepileptic Drugs
  • Status Epilepticus
  • Neurobiology
  • Surgery
  • Inflammation
  • Genetics
  • Drug Resistance
Research works
62k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Epilepsy research and treatment

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

Which countries lead Epilepsy research and treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 791 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 537 works
  5. 5 Germany 469 works
  6. 6 Japan 430 works
  7. 7 Italy 420 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 357 works
  9. 9 France 344 works
  10. 10 Canada 296 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: 34.7%China: 17.9%India: 10.3%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 30.1%35%largest
United States2,671 · 34.7%China1,374 · 17.9%India791 · 10.3%United Kingdom537 · 7.0%6 others listed2,315 · 30.1%

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

Which institutions lead Epilepsy research and treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Epilepsy research and treatment research, followed by University College London and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 142 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 117 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 86 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 73 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 72 works
  6. 6 InsermFrance 70 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 63 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 52 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 48 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Epilepsy research and treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Epilepsy research and treatment include Eric S. Lander, Theo Vos and Mark J. Daly.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  4. 4 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  5. 5 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  6. 6 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  9. 9 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  10. 10 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Epilepsy research and treatment?

The most cited paper in Epilepsy research and treatment is "Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation: II. Motor seizure" (Ronald J. Racine, 1972), with 7,266 citations. Next come "ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy" (6,110) and "Early Identification of Refractory Epilepsy" (5,229).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation: II. Motor seizure Ronald J. Racine · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology Mar 1972 7,266
2 ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy Robert S. Fisher, Carlos Alberto Acevedo, Alexis A. Arzimanoglou et al. · Epilepsia Open access Apr 2014 6,110
3 Early Identification of Refractory Epilepsy Patrick Kwan, Martin J. Brodie · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 3 Feb 2000 5,229
4 ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology Ingrid Eileen Scheffer, Samuel Frank Berkovic, Giuseppe Capovilla et al. · Epilepsia Open access 8 Mar 2017 5,051
5 Definition of drug resistant epilepsy: Consensus proposal by the ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies Patrick Kwan, Alexis A. Arzimanoglou, Anne T. Berg et al. · Epilepsia 3 Nov 2009 4,888
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Epilepsy research and treatment research done?

The largest centres of Epilepsy research and treatment research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 237 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 219 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 137 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 134 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 124 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 114 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 107 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 102 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 95 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 29.3 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Epilepsy research and treatment than the world average.

See Epilepsy research and treatment on the map

Where is the best place to study Epilepsy research and treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Harvard University and The University of Melbourne 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 18.66%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aarhus UniversityThe University of Me…University College L…Harvard University
above the meannear itbelow it

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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 84.015.5%7.4×117 +19.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 74.914.9%4.5×142 +2.6%
3The University of MelbourneAustralia 73.822.3%3.8×41 +6.1%
4Aarhus UniversityDenmark 70.727.5%2.4×21 +11.2%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 67.316.5%3.8×37 +38.1%
6McGill UniversityCanada 66.819.8%3.4×34 -16.0%
7Yale UniversityUnited States 65.710.3%4.3×46 +57.1%
8University of ZurichSwitzerland 65.520.8%3.4×23 +46.9%
9Paracelsus Medical UniversityAustria 64.523.4%28.8×17 -33.6%
10University of GothenburgSweden 63.615.6%5.8×27 +36.9%

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 Epilepsy research and treatment, country by country

Is Epilepsy research and treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Epilepsy research and treatment.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Epilepsy research and treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.044% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Epilepsy research and treatment0.049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Epilepsy research and treatment 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%Epilepsy research and treatment9.8% 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.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for epilepsy?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Epilepsy research and treatment research, followed by University College London and Capital Medical University. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

All 1,273 questions in the Question Catalogue

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Epilepsy research and treatment. Posts are plain text and can be reported.