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Maternal and fetal healthcare

Maternal and fetal healthcare is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 various aspects of maternal morbidity associated with pregnancy and childbirth, including conditions such as placenta accreta, postpartum hemorrhage, and peripartum hysterectomy. It also explores topics like racial/ethnic disparities, conservative management strategies, prenatal diagnosis techniques, and the impact of ICU admissions on maternal outcomes.

  • Placenta Accreta
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Severe Obstetric Morbidity
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Peripartum Hysterectomy
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities
  • Conservative Management
  • Near Miss Events
  • ICU Admissions
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maternal and fetal healthcare

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

Which countries lead Maternal and fetal healthcare research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 678 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 678 works
  3. 3 India 649 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 362 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 229 works
  6. 6 Japan 218 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 218 works
  8. 8 Brazil 199 works
  9. 9 Canada 182 works
  10. 10 Egypt 182 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: 37.0%China: 14.6%India: 14.0%United Kingdom: 7.8%6 others listed: 26.5%37%largest
United States1,715 · 37.0%China678 · 14.6%India649 · 14.0%United Kingdom362 · 7.8%6 others listed1,228 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Maternal and fetal healthcare research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Maternal and fetal healthcare research, followed by University of Toronto and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 81 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 43 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 43 works
  4. 4 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 41 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 38 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 36 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works
  8. 8 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 29 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maternal and fetal healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maternal and fetal healthcare include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  7. 7 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  8. 8 Lesley A. Stewart United Kingdom 308k citations
  9. 9 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  10. 10 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 Maternal and fetal healthcare?

The most cited paper in Maternal and fetal healthcare is "Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis" (Lale Say, Doris Chou, Alison Gemmill et al., 2014), with 6,771 citations. Next come "WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review" (4,048) and "Circulating Angiogenic Factors and the Risk of Preeclampsia" (3,647).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis Lale Say, Doris Chou, Alison Gemmill et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 5 May 2014 6,771
2 WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review Khalid Saeed Khan, DANIEL M. WOJDYLA, Lale Say et al. · The Lancet Review 30 Mar 2006 4,048
3 Circulating Angiogenic Factors and the Risk of Preeclampsia Richard J. Levine, Sharon E. Maynard, Cong Qian et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 11 Feb 2004 3,647
4 Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–2008 Roch Cantwell et al. · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Open access Mar 2011 2,999
5 Pre-eclampsia Eric A.P. Steegers, Peter von Dadelszen, Johannes J. Duvekot et al. · The Lancet 3 Jul 2010 2,823
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Where is Maternal and fetal healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Maternal and fetal healthcare research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Boston (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 139 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 89 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 71 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 67 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 55 works
  7. 7 HoustonUnited States 55 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 54 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 54 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 52 works
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Where is the best place to study Maternal and fetal healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, King's College London and Johns Hopkins University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King's College LondonJohns Hopkins Univer…London School of Hyg…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.

Citation 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 74.918.6%3.9×81 -1.1%
2King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.527.2%3.9×22 -22.6%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.020.4%2.8×28 +28.1%
4London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 62.319.4%8.9×9 +2.2%
5University of GondarEthiopia 61.925.3%8.9×8 +63.6%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 59.316.8%3.1×31 +11.8%
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 57.522.8%2.2×21 -20.6%
8University of TorontoCanada 57.214.3%3.2×43 -34.4%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.522.4%1.7×18 -1.6%
10Chinese University of Hong KongChina 56.229.9%1.7×8 +37.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Maternal and fetal healthcare, country by country

Is Maternal and fetal healthcare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Maternal and fetal healthcare.

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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 Maternal and fetal healthcare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Maternal and fetal healthcare 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%Maternal and fetal healthcare10.4% 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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