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Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 48k 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 advancements in mechanical circulatory support systems, including the use of left ventricular assist devices, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and ventricular assist devices for patients with cardiogenic shock and heart failure. It also covers topics such as cardiac resuscitation, percutaneous coronary intervention, thrombosis, and hemodynamic support.

  • Left Ventricular Assist Device
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Heart Failure
  • ECMO
  • Ventricular Assist Device
  • Cardiac Resuscitation
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  • Thrombosis
  • Hemodynamic Support
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

Which countries lead Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.7k and 979 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.7k works
  2. 2 China 979 works
  3. 3 Germany 719 works
  4. 4 Japan 637 works
  5. 5 Italy 453 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 384 works
  7. 7 France 314 works
  8. 8 Spain 294 works
  9. 9 Australia 274 works
  10. 10 Canada 273 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: 51.9%China: 10.9%Germany: 8.0%Japan: 7.1%6 others listed: 22.2%52%largest
United States4,666 · 51.9%China979 · 10.9%Germany719 · 8.0%Japan637 · 7.1%6 others listed1,992 · 22.2%

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

Which institutions lead Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 162 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 133 works
  3. 3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 94 works
  4. 4 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 83 works
  5. 5 Columbia UniversityUnited States 79 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 70 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 70 works
  8. 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 69 works
  9. 9 Cornell UniversityUnited States 66 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 61 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices include John J.V. McMurray, Jun Wang and Stephan Windecker.

  1. 1 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  4. 4 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  8. 8 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  9. 9 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  10. 10 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom 273k 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 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices?

The most cited paper in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices is "The Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization on Morbidity and Mortality in Heart Failure" (John G.F. Cleland, Jean‐Claude Daubert, Erland Erdmann et al., 2005), with 6,311 citations. Next come "Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy with or without an Implantable Defibrillator in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure" (5,848) and "An International Randomized Trial Comparing Four Thrombolytic Strategies for Acute Myocardial Infarction" (4,083).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization on Morbidity and Mortality in Heart Failure John G.F. Cleland, Jean‐Claude Daubert, Erland Erdmann et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 7 Mar 2005 6,311
2 Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy with or without an Implantable Defibrillator in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure Michael R. Bristow, Leslie Ann Saxon, JOHN P. BOEHMER et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 19 May 2004 5,848
3 An International Randomized Trial Comparing Four Thrombolytic Strategies for Acute Myocardial Infarction The GUSTO Investigators · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 2 Sep 1993 4,083
4 Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure Eric A. Rose et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 15 Nov 2001 3,992
5 Efficacy and economic assessment of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR): a multicentre randomised controlled trial Giles J. Peek, Miranda Mugford, Ravindranath Tiruvoipati et al. · The Lancet 16 Sep 2009 3,434
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Where is Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research done?

The largest centres of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Beijing (China), Philadelphia (United States) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Darlinghurst.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 231 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 198 works
  3. 3 PhiladelphiaUnited States 185 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 185 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 156 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 155 works
  7. 7 HoustonUnited States 149 works
  8. 8 ClevelandUnited States 130 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 121 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 120 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DarlinghurstAU · 20.9 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Duke 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 18.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityDuke UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…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 66.114.0%5.0×162 +6.6%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 59.214.5%4.5×70 +18.8%
3Duke UniversityUnited States 56.917.9%5.6×46 +19.3%
4Monash UniversityAustralia 55.919.2%3.8×37 +19.9%
5Cornell UniversityUnited States 55.610.9%4.9×66 +29.7%
6Northeastern UniversityChina 55.435.2%1.1×10 +27.8%
7University of TorontoCanada 55.115.2%3.4×70 -9.1%
8University of CopenhagenDenmark 54.719.3%2.5×24 +37.3%
9University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 53.525.4%2.9×12 +17.1%
10Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 53.414.4%7.7×56 +14.0%

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 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, country by country

Is Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices.

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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 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices 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%Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices9.7% 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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