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Infant Development and Preterm Care

Infant Development and Preterm Care is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 43k 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 mortality, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and long-term sequelae of preterm birth, with an emphasis on interventions such as family-centered care and kangaroo mother care in neonatal intensive care units. It also explores the cognitive and behavioral outcomes, as well as the challenges associated with developmental surveillance and executive functioning in individuals born preterm.

  • Preterm Birth
  • Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
  • Infant Mortality
  • Family-Centered Care
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Cognitive Function
  • Developmental Surveillance
  • Kangaroo Mother Care
  • Executive Functioning
  • Behavioral Outcomes
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infant Development and Preterm Care

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

Which countries lead Infant Development and Preterm Care research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (2.5k and 786 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 Brazil 786 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 613 works
  4. 4 India 578 works
  5. 5 China 518 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 466 works
  7. 7 Australia 458 works
  8. 8 Canada 448 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 403 works
  10. 10 Spain 269 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: 35.2%Brazil: 11.2%United Kingdom: 8.8%India: 8.3%6 others listed: 36.6%35%largest
United States2,461 · 35.2%Brazil786 · 11.2%United Kingdom613 · 8.8%India578 · 8.3%6 others listed2,561 · 36.6%

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

Which institutions lead Infant Development and Preterm Care research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Infant Development and Preterm Care research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 88 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 75 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 68 works
  4. 4 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 51 works
  5. 5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 45 works
  6. 6 University of CincinnatiUnited States 44 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 44 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  9. 9 University of British ColumbiaCanada 40 works
  10. 10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infant Development and Preterm Care?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infant Development and Preterm Care include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  9. 9 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k 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 Infant Development and Preterm Care?

The most cited paper in Infant Development and Preterm Care is "Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy" (Robert J. Palisano, Peter Rosenbaum, Stephen D. Walter et al., 1997), with 6,826 citations. Next come "National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications" (4,710) and "National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary" (4,437).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy Robert J. Palisano, Peter Rosenbaum, Stephen D. Walter et al. · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Apr 1997 6,826
2 National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications Hannah K. Blencowe, Simon Cousens, Mikkel Z. Oestergaard et al. · The Lancet Jun 2012 4,710
3 National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary Max Hirshkowitz, Kaitlyn Whiton, Steven M. Albert et al. · Sleep Health Open access Mar 2015 4,437
4 Global, regional, and national estimates of levels of preterm birth in 2014: a systematic review and modelling analysis Saifon Chawanpaiboon, Joshua Peter Vogel, Ann‐Beth Moller et al. · The Lancet Global Health ReviewOpen access 30 Oct 2018 3,215
5 Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course Maureen M. Black, Susan P. Walker, Lia C. H. Fernald et al. · The Lancet Open access 8 Oct 2016 3,075
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Where is Infant Development and Preterm Care research done?

The largest centres of Infant Development and Preterm Care research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), Melbourne (Australia) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cincinnati.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 200 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 125 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 122 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 104 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 101 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 100 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 91 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 87 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 86 works
  10. 10 Chapel HillUnited States 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CincinnatiUS · 47.7 works5.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Infant Development and Preterm Care than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Infant Development and Preterm Care?

Among universities, judged by research, University of British Columbia, Harvard University and Karolinska Institutet 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 20.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Karolinska InstitutetLondon School of Hyg…University of Britis…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 British ColumbiaCanada 74.318.8%3.5×40 +26.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 74.213.2%2.9×88 +7.4%
3Karolinska InstitutetSweden 73.026.8%6.6×35 -6.5%
4London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 70.320.5%7.8×12 +68.7%
5The University of MelbourneAustralia 68.917.4%4.2×45 -9.0%
6University of GothenburgSweden 67.724.0%3.7×17 +38.9%
7Curtin UniversityAustralia 67.125.5%3.8×11 +41.8%
8University of TorontoCanada 66.617.1%3.5×68 -18.4%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.516.6%2.8×43 -1.0%
10Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 66.023.7%2.6×18 +11.6%

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 Infant Development and Preterm Care, country by country

Is Infant Development and Preterm Care research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infant Development and Preterm Care.

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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 Infant Development and Preterm Care as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Infant Development and Preterm Care 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%Infant Development and Preterm Care10.1% 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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