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Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare

Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on maternal and child health in Brazil, with an emphasis on prenatal care, neonatal mortality, birth cohort studies, health inequalities, and the impact of social determinants on maternal and child health outcomes. The papers also evaluate the quality of health information systems and address public health interventions to improve maternal and child health in Brazil.

  • Maternal Health
  • Child Health
  • Prenatal Care
  • Neonatal Mortality
  • Health Inequalities
  • Birth Cohort Study
  • Health Information Systems
  • Perinatal Health
  • Public Health
  • Social Determinants
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare

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

Which countries lead Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (4.4k and 308 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 4.4k works
  2. 2 United States 308 works
  3. 3 Ecuador 174 works
  4. 4 Portugal 160 works
  5. 5 Peru 142 works
  6. 6 Mexico 124 works
  7. 7 Spain 111 works
  8. 8 Colombia 109 works
  9. 9 Ethiopia 96 works
  10. 10 ?? 89 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.

Brazil: 77.1%United States: 5.4%Ecuador: 3.0%Portugal: 2.8%6 others listed: 11.7%77%largest
Brazil4,415 · 77.1%United States308 · 5.4%Ecuador174 · 3.0%Portugal160 · 2.8%6 others listed671 · 11.7%

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

Which institutions lead Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research?

By volume in 2022-now, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz publishes the most Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 115 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 109 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 63 works
  4. 4 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 62 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 60 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 58 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil 58 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 57 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 55 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 54 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare include Christopher J L Murray, Freddie Bray and Jacques Ferlay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Jacques Ferlay France 486k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  9. 9 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  10. 10 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k 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 Neonatal Healthcare?

The most cited paper in Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare is "Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth" (Robert L. Goldenberg, Jennifer Flatow Culhane, Jay D. Iams et al., 2008), with 7,914 citations. Next come "Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data" (5,692) and "Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study" (4,525).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth Robert L. Goldenberg, Jennifer Flatow Culhane, Jay D. Iams et al. · The Lancet Open access 2008 7,914
2 Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data Alan D López, Colin Douglas Mathers, Majid Ezzati et al. · The Lancet May 2006 5,692
3 Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study Christopher J L Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet May 1997 4,525
4 Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study Christopher Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet May 1997 4,071
5 Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000 Li Liu, Hope L. Johnson, Simon Cousens et al. · The Lancet 10 May 2012 4,027
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in São Tomé, Vassouras and Nova Iguaçu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 569 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 411 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 188 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 169 works
  5. 5 BelémBrazil 162 works
  6. 6 RecifeBrazil 162 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 132 works
  8. 8 Porto AlegreBrazil 112 works
  9. 9 CascavelBrazil 96 works
  10. 10 SalvadorBrazil 90 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. São ToméST · 27.4 works151×
  2. VassourasBR · 36.7 works107×
  3. Nova IguaçuBR · 24.9 works99×
  4. Criciúma20.7 works99×
  5. Patos de MinasBR · 29.3 works85×
  6. MaldonadoUY · 38.6 works79×
  7. CascavelBR · 95.7 works72×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gondar, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Universidade de São Paulo 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%25%50%75%mean 19.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GondarLondon School of Hyg…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1University of GondarEthiopia 70.068.3%19.8×17 +24.4%
2London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 62.150.7%10.0×9 +46.1%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 56.613.3%9.3×109 +9.7%
4Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 52.316.9%14.7×63 +10.3%
5Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 51.612.8%13.0×58 +44.7%
6Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 49.08.8%15.2×50 +53.7%
7Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 48.36.2%84.8×62 +26.1%
8Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil 48.26.3%48.5×58 +52.7%
9Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 48.16.5%19.1×55 +23.4%
10Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 47.16.0%24.7×57 +81.7%

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 Neonatal Healthcare, country by country

Is Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Maternal and Neonatal 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 Neonatal Healthcare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Maternal and Neonatal 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 Neonatal Healthcare10.5% 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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