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Historical and Scientific Studies

Historical and Scientific Studies is a research topic within Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of medical serial killers, forensic toxicology, historical clinical chemistry, criminal poisoning, patient safety, healthcare regulation, and ethical considerations. It delves into cases like Shipman, explores the use of anonymity in healthcare, and discusses the development of forensic toxicology and surveillance photography. The papers also touch upon the historical milestones and discoveries that have shaped the toxicology sciences.

  • Forensic Toxicology
  • Medical Chemistry
  • Serial Homicide
  • Anonymity in Healthcare
  • Criminal Poisoning
  • Patient Safety
  • Healthcare Regulation
  • Historical Clinical Chemistry
  • Surveillance Photography
  • Ethical Considerations
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Scientific Studies

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

Which countries lead Historical and Scientific Studies research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (940 and 216 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 940 works
  2. 2 United States 216 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 110 works
  4. 4 Canada 104 works
  5. 5 Germany 65 works
  6. 6 Switzerland 43 works
  7. 7 Belgium 42 works
  8. 8 ?? 38 works
  9. 9 Italy 36 works
  10. 10 Spain 25 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.

France: 58.1%United States: 13.3%United Kingdom: 6.8%Canada: 6.4%6 others listed: 15.4%58%largest
France940 · 58.1%United States216 · 13.3%United Kingdom110 · 6.8%Canada104 · 6.4%6 others listed249 · 15.4%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Scientific Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical and Scientific Studies research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université Paris Cité.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 226 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 44 works
  3. 3 Université Paris CitéFrance 39 works
  4. 4 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 24 works
  5. 5 Université Paris NanterreFrance 23 works
  6. 6 Université de LorraineFrance 21 works
  7. 7 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 20 works
  8. 8 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 17 works
  9. 9 Université Paris 8France 16 works
  10. 10 École des hautes études en sciences socialesFrance 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical and Scientific Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical and Scientific Studies include Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k 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 Historical and Scientific Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical and Scientific Studies is "Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons" (Akira Ishii, 2004), with 774 citations. Next come "Migraine is first cause of disability in under 50s: will health politicians now take notice?" (684) and "2014 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 32nd Annual Report" (508).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons Akira Ishii · Legal Medicine 22 Jun 2004 774
2 Migraine is first cause of disability in under 50s: will health politicians now take notice? Timothy J. Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner, Theo Vos et al. · The Journal of Headache and Pain Open access 21 Feb 2018 684
3 2014 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 32nd Annual Report James B. Mowry, Daniel A. Spyker, Daniel E. Brooks et al. · Clinical Toxicology Open access 26 Nov 2015 508
4 Le moi-peau Sylvie G. Consoli · médecine/sciences Open access Feb 2006 505
5 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHARMACEUTICALS: A Biographical Approach Sjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Anita Petra Hardon · Annual Review of Anthropology Review Oct 1996 497
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical and Scientific Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Scientific Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Nanterre (France) and Montreal (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanterre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 325 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 59 works
  3. 3 NanterreFrance 33 works
  4. 4 MontrealCanada 31 works
  5. 5 LilleFrance 30 works
  6. 6 ToulouseFrance 29 works
  7. 7 NancyFrance 22 works
  8. 8 BordeauxFrance 22 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  10. 10 MarseilleFrance 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NanterreFR · 33.0 works64×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical and Scientific Studies than the world average.

See Historical and Scientific Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Historical and Scientific Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, University of Geneva and Université Paris Cité 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%5%10%15%mean 9.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GenevaUniversité de LyonUniversité Paris CitéUniversité Paris Sci…
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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
1Université de LyonFrance 81.111.3%42.4×44 -16.3%
2University of GenevaSwitzerland 71.311.8%13.2×9 +20.7%
3Université Paris CitéFrance 69.07.9%31.6×39 -43.3%
4Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 59.46.5%19.5×12 +1.5%
5Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 54.18.2%74.8×20 -46.0%
6Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 53.55.9%21.2×24 -6.5%
7Université de BordeauxFrance 53.413.4%27.9×9 -47.9%
8Université Paris NanterreFrance 53.35.1%70.0×24 +8.6%
9Université de PoitiersFrance 49.59.7%48.2×10 +22.5%
10Université de Picardie Jules VerneFrance 48.310.3%48.1×11 -26.8%

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 Historical and Scientific Studies, country by country

Is Historical and Scientific Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Historical and Scientific Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Historical and Scientific Studies0.0046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical and Scientific Studies 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%Historical and Scientific Studies10.4% 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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