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Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments

Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 9.6k 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 chylothorax and chylous ascites, particularly in pediatric and surgical settings. It covers topics such as the lymphatic system, thoracic duct, various management and treatment strategies, including lymphangiography and octreotide therapy.

  • Chylothorax
  • Chylous Ascites
  • Lymphatic System
  • Thoracic Duct
  • Management
  • Treatment
  • Pediatric
  • Surgery
  • Lymphangiography
  • Octreotide
Research works
9.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
960
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments

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

Which countries lead Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (575 and 412 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 575 works
  2. 2 China 412 works
  3. 3 Japan 237 works
  4. 4 India 143 works
  5. 5 Germany 83 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 82 works
  7. 7 South Korea 76 works
  8. 8 Italy 75 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 58 works
  10. 10 Spain 50 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: 32.1%China: 23.0%Japan: 13.2%India: 8.0%6 others listed: 23.7%32%largest
United States575 · 32.1%China412 · 23.0%Japan237 · 13.2%India143 · 8.0%6 others listed424 · 23.7%

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

Which institutions lead Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research, followed by Capital Medical University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 24 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 16 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 15 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 13 works
  8. 8 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 University of BonnGermany 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments include Reza Malekzadeh, Alberto Mantovani and Ralph H. Hruban.

  1. 1 Reza Malekzadeh Iran 278k citations
  2. 2 Alberto Mantovani Italy 224k citations
  3. 3 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k 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 Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments is "Incidence of unilateral arm lymphoedema after breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (Tracey DiSipio, Sheree Rye, Beth M Newman et al., 2013), with 1,900 citations. Next come "Mutations of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis" (967) and "Relation between Mutations of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene and Idiopathic Pancreatitis" (936).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Incidence of unilateral arm lymphoedema after breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis Tracey DiSipio, Sheree Rye, Beth M Newman et al. · The Lancet Oncology Review 26 Mar 2013 1,900
2 Mutations of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis NICHOLAS H. SHARER, Martin J Schwarz, Geraldine Malone et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 3 Sep 1998 967
3 Relation between Mutations of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene and Idiopathic Pancreatitis Jonathan Allen Cohn, Kenneth J. Friedman, Peadar G. Noone et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 3 Sep 1998 936
4 Therapy for thymic epithelial tumors: a clinical study of 1,320 patients from Japan Kazuya Kondo, Yasumasa Monden · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Open access Sep 2003 811
5 Refractory sprue, coeliac disease, and enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma Christophe Cellier, Éric Delabesse, Christine Helmer et al. · The Lancet Jul 2000 762
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Where is Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Philadelphia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 64 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 53 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 35 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 35 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 32 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 25 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PhiladelphiaUS · 31.3 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Zurich and University of Pennsylvania 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 12.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ZurichUniversity of Pennsy…Harvard UniversityCapital Medical Univ…
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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 80.411.0%3.7×25 -0.7%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 69.026.6%6.2×9 +172.4%
3University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 57.412.3%6.0×13 -10.1%
4Capital Medical UniversityChina 54.56.7%10.5×24 +92.8%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 45.510.9%3.0×15 +52.1%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 43.515.0%2.3×13 +65.0%
7University of BonnGermany 41.68.5%11.6×11 +63.0%
8Cornell UniversityUnited States 39.312.7%3.1×9 +67.0%
9Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 38.916.1%4.6×9 +108.5%
10All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 35.24.7%6.8×16 +36.6%

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 Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments, country by country

Is Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments.

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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 Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments 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%Lymphatic Disorders and Treatments10.1% 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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