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Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 development, disorders, and imaging techniques related to the fetal brain. It covers topics such as fetal MRI, cerebral and cerebellar development, corpus callosum agenesis, prenatal diagnosis of brain abnormalities, neuroimaging methods, genetic classification of malformations, and conditions like ventriculomegaly and pontocerebellar hypoplasia.

  • Fetal MRI
  • Cerebral Development
  • Neurosonography
  • Corpus Callosum Agenesis
  • Cerebellar Malformations
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Neuroimaging
  • Genetic Classification
  • Ventriculomegaly
  • Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders

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

Which countries lead Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (962 and 706 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 962 works
  2. 2 China 706 works
  3. 3 India 409 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 217 works
  5. 5 Italy 186 works
  6. 6 Japan 176 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 169 works
  8. 8 Germany 156 works
  9. 9 France 146 works
  10. 10 Canada 124 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: 29.6%China: 21.7%India: 12.6%United Kingdom: 6.7%6 others listed: 29.5%30%largest
United States962 · 29.6%China706 · 21.7%India409 · 12.6%United Kingdom217 · 6.7%6 others listed958 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 68 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 31 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 30 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  6. 6 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 29 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 29 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  10. 10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders include Douglas G. Altman, Stacey L. Gabriel and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 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 Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders?

The most cited paper in Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders is "Tract-based spatial statistics: Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data" (Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Heidi Johansen‐Berg et al., 2006), with 6,706 citations. Next come "Incidence and evolution of subependymal and intraventricular hemorrhage: A study of infants with birth weights less than 1,500 gm" (6,550) and "The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system – a technical review" (4,640).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tract-based spatial statistics: Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Heidi Johansen‐Berg et al. · NeuroImage 20 Apr 2006 6,706
2 Incidence and evolution of subependymal and intraventricular hemorrhage: A study of infants with birth weights less than 1,500 gm L.A. Papile, Jerome Burstein, Rochelle Burstein et al. · The Journal of Pediatrics Apr 1978 6,550
3 The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system – a technical review Christian Beaulieu · NMR in Biomedicine Nov 2002 4,640
4 Characterization and propagation of uncertainty in diffusion‐weighted MR imaging Timothy E.J. Behrens, Mark W. Woolrich, Mark Jenkinson et al. · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 24 Oct 2003 3,127
5 Updated research nosology for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders Andrea Antinori et al. · Neurology Open access 4 Oct 2007 2,637
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Where is Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tel Aviv.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 101 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 86 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 68 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 56 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 53 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 52 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 52 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 44 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 43 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tel AvivIL · 21.4 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California, San Francisco and King's College London 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%10%20%30%mean 17.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BonnUniversity of Califo…Harvard UniversityKing's College London
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 82.819.2%5.3×68 +11.5%
2University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 66.924.3%5.0×15 +10.0%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.717.6%6.9×24 -4.4%
4University of BonnGermany 59.724.9%6.5×12 +142.0%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.013.9%4.5×29 -38.3%
6University of TorontoCanada 55.312.2%3.5×29 -12.5%
7University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 54.613.2%5.9×20 +20.7%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 53.620.0%2.8×16 -32.2%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 52.116.9%2.4×15 +7.2%
10Université Paris CitéFrance 51.313.0%6.0×19 -4.6%

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 Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, country by country

Is Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fetal and Pediatric Neurological 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 Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Fetal and Pediatric Neurological 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.

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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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