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Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders

Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 48k 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 and management of biliary tract disorders, including cholecystitis, pancreatitis, gallstones, cholangiocarcinoma, and bile duct injuries. It covers various techniques such as ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, biliary drainage, and the use of metal stents. The cluster also discusses guidelines such as the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis.

  • ERCP
  • Cholecystitis
  • Biliary Drainage
  • Pancreatitis
  • Gallstones
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Bile Duct Injury
  • Endoscopic Ultrasound
  • Metal Stents
  • Tokyo Guidelines
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders

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

Which countries lead Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.8k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 1.7k works
  3. 3 Japan 1.1k works
  4. 4 India 760 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 532 works
  6. 6 Italy 426 works
  7. 7 South Korea 358 works
  8. 8 Germany 283 works
  9. 9 Spain 277 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 239 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: 23.8%China: 22.3%Japan: 15.1%India: 10.2%6 others listed: 28.5%24%largest
United States1,770 · 23.8%China1,657 · 22.3%Japan1,125 · 15.1%India760 · 10.2%6 others listed2,115 · 28.5%

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

Which institutions lead Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Sun Yat-sen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 80 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 68 works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 58 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 52 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49 works
  6. 6 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 45 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 45 works
  8. 8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 41 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders include Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  2. 2 Jacques Ferlay France 486k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k 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 Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders?

The most cited paper in Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders is "Cisplatin plus Gemcitabine versus Gemcitabine for Biliary Tract Cancer" (Juan W. Valle, Harpreet Singh Wasan, Daniel H. Palmer et al., 2010), with 4,489 citations. Next come "The 2016 update of the International Study Group (ISGPS) definition and grading of postoperative pancreatic fistula: 11 Years After" (4,323) and "Postoperative pancreatic fistula: An international study group (ISGPF) definition" (4,297).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cisplatin plus Gemcitabine versus Gemcitabine for Biliary Tract Cancer Juan W. Valle, Harpreet Singh Wasan, Daniel H. Palmer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 7 Apr 2010 4,489
2 The 2016 update of the International Study Group (ISGPS) definition and grading of postoperative pancreatic fistula: 11 Years After Claudio Bassi et al. · Surgery Open access 28 Dec 2016 4,323
3 Postoperative pancreatic fistula: An international study group (ISGPF) definition Claudio Bassi, Christos Dervenis, Giovanni Butturini et al. · Surgery Jul 2005 4,297
4 Endoscopic sphincterotomy complications and their management: an attempt at consensus Peter B. Cotton, Glen A. Lehman, Jack A. Vennes et al. · Gastrointestinal Endoscopy May 1991 2,873
5 Postpancreatectomy hemorrhage (PPH)–An International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) definition Moritz N. Wente, Johannes A. Veit, Claudio Bassi et al. · Surgery Jul 2007 2,637
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Where is Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), 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 Takatsuki and Rozzano.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 226 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 182 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 177 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 156 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 115 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 113 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 106 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 86 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 79 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TakatsukiJP · 28.5 works37×
  2. RozzanoIT · 23.2 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Karolinska Institutet, Sichuan University and Vita-Salute San Raffaele 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%10%20%mean 19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…Karolinska InstitutetVita-Salute San Raff…Sichuan 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
1Karolinska InstitutetSweden 74.621.2%4.5×23 +56.0%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 68.413.4%3.9×80 +46.4%
3Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityItaly 67.020.9%11.8×14 +24.2%
4University of AmsterdamNetherlands 67.023.6%2.5×13 +14.8%
5Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 66.214.8%3.0×58 +52.8%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.319.3%1.7×49 -38.8%
7Fudan UniversityChina 64.722.4%2.2×32 +15.4%
8University of TorontoCanada 64.015.7%1.5×28 +24.3%
9Université Paris CitéFrance 62.420.2%3.2×22 +0.6%
10Humanitas UniversityItaly 62.118.5%17.2×23 -8.7%

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 Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders, country by country

Is Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gallbladder and Bile Duct 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 Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gallbladder and Bile Duct 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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