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Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions

Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 management of vascular graft infections, including mycotic aneurysms, prosthetic graft infections, and aortoenteric fistulas. It covers topics such as endovascular repair, diagnostic imaging, surgical management, and long-term outcomes of antibiotic treatment.

  • Vascular Graft Infections
  • Aortic Aneurysms
  • Endovascular Repair
  • Mycotic Aneurysms
  • Prosthetic Graft Infection
  • Aortoenteric Fistula
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Surgical Management
  • Antibiotic Treatment
  • Long-term Outcomes
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions

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

Which countries lead Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (798 and 351 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 798 works
  2. 2 China 351 works
  3. 3 Japan 289 works
  4. 4 Germany 154 works
  5. 5 Italy 150 works
  6. 6 India 117 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 102 works
  8. 8 France 98 works
  9. 9 Spain 86 works
  10. 10 Russia 59 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: 36.2%China: 15.9%Japan: 13.1%Germany: 7.0%6 others listed: 27.8%36%largest
United States798 · 36.2%China351 · 15.9%Japan289 · 13.1%Germany154 · 7.0%6 others listed612 · 27.8%

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

Which institutions lead Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research, followed by Harvard University and Cleveland Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 31 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 17 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 15 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 15 works
  7. 7 Henry Ford Macomb HospitalUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 Yale UniversityUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 13 works
  10. 10 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions include Douglas G. Altman, Stephan Windecker and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  5. 5 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  6. 6 Patrizio Lancellotti Belgium 245k 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 Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions?

The most cited paper in Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions is "Treatment of Infections Associated with Surgical Implants" (Rabih O. Darouiche, 2004), with 2,275 citations. Next come "Transluminal Placement of Endovascular Stent-Grafts for the Treatment of Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms" (1,711) and "Aneurysm Syndromes Caused by Mutations in the TGF-β Receptor" (1,663).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Treatment of Infections Associated with Surgical Implants Rabih O. Darouiche · New England Journal of Medicine 31 Mar 2004 2,275
2 Transluminal Placement of Endovascular Stent-Grafts for the Treatment of Descending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Michael D. Dake, D. Craig Miller, Charles P. Semba et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 29 Dec 1994 1,711
3 Aneurysm Syndromes Caused by Mutations in the TGF-β Receptor Bart Loeys et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Aug 2006 1,663
4 Sonication of Removed Hip and Knee Prostheses for Diagnosis of Infection Andrej Trampuž, Kerryl E. Piper, Melissa J. Jacobson et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 15 Aug 2007 1,448
5 Iliac Crest Bone Graft Harvest Donor Site Morbidity J Christopher Banwart, Marc A. Asher, RUTH STEPHENSON HASSANEIN · Spine May 1995 1,281
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Where is Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research done?

The largest centres of Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), New York (United States) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cleveland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 58 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 54 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 28 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 28 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 26 works
  9. 9 ClevelandUnited States 25 works
  10. 10 HoustonUnited States 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ClevelandUS · 25.1 works5.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Sichuan University and University of Bern 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% →Sichuan UniversityUniversity of BernCapital Medical Univ…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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.012.8%3.2×27 +11.0%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 65.222.5%2.8×17 +90.6%
3University of BernSwitzerland 62.021.9%6.6×10 +92.4%
4Capital Medical UniversityChina 60.220.2%5.3×15 +6.6%
5University of BolognaItaly 56.521.3%5.3×12 -7.2%
6University of MichiganUnited States 55.427.5%1.9×8 +25.0%
7Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 53.815.1%5.1×15 +83.6%
8Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 53.115.4%7.7×10 -3.9%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 49.815.8%2.3×9 +7.1%
10Central South UniversityChina 49.714.1%2.4×13 +25.7%

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 Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions, country by country

Is Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions.

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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 Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions 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%Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions9.9% 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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