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Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions is a research topic within Obstetrics and Gynecology. Science Explorer counts 40k 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 explores the maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with cesarean section delivery, including its comparison with vaginal birth, the impact of labor induction, the influence of maternal age, and the experiences of childbirth. It also delves into post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth, the role of midwifery care, and global trends in cesarean section rates.

  • Cesarean Section
  • Vaginal Birth
  • Maternal Outcomes
  • Perinatal Outcomes
  • Labor Induction
  • Maternal Age
  • Childbirth Experience
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Midwifery Care
  • Global Trends
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
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
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions

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

Which countries lead Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.9k and 612 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 612 works
  3. 3 Brazil 590 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 560 works
  5. 5 China 554 works
  6. 6 Australia 459 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 386 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 252 works
  9. 9 Ethiopia 246 works
  10. 10 Canada 240 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: 32.8%India: 10.5%Brazil: 10.2%United Kingdom: 9.6%6 others listed: 36.8%33%largest
United States1,905 · 32.8%India612 · 10.5%Brazil590 · 10.2%United Kingdom560 · 9.6%6 others listed2,137 · 36.8%

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

Which institutions lead Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research, followed by Tel Aviv University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 65 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 40 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 37 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 34 works
  6. 6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 34 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 33 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  9. 9 University of GondarEthiopia 31 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions include Ali H. Mokdad, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  5. 5 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  6. 6 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k 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 Perinatal Health Interventions?

The most cited paper in Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions 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 "Effect of Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Pregnancy Outcomes" (3,181).

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 Effect of Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Pregnancy Outcomes Caroline A Crowther, Janet E. Hiller, John Robert Moss et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Jun 2005 3,181
4 Rates and risk of postpartum depression—a meta-analysis Michael W. O’Hara, Annette M. Swain · International Review of Psychiatry Review 1996 3,171
5 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
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Where is Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research done?

The largest centres of Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Iranshahr and Gonder.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 198 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 98 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 97 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 96 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 82 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 81 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 78 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 63 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 62 works
  10. 10 CairoEgypt 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IranshahrIR · 22.9 works30×
  2. GonderET · 31.1 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gondar, Harvard University and Western Sydney 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%10%20%mean 19.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Techno…University of GondarHarvard UniversityWestern Sydney Unive…
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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 76.721.4%25.3×31 +47.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.420.2%2.4×66 -7.0%
3Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 64.917.6%10.1×24 +44.5%
4University of Technology SydneyAustralia 64.322.9%4.8×18 +20.1%
5Uppsala UniversitySweden 63.923.2%4.6×21 +23.4%
6King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.618.6%4.4×32 +5.8%
7Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.716.6%6.3×30 -8.6%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.519.9%1.9×25 +15.5%
9Monash UniversityAustralia 58.716.7%3.2×26 +47.8%
10Debre Markos UniversityEthiopia 57.322.3%21.9×10 +94.6%

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 Perinatal Health Interventions, country by country

Is Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions research growing?

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

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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 Perinatal Health Interventions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions0.039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions 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 Perinatal Health Interventions10.2% 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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