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Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies

Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on pulmonary calcification, nodular tumors, and ossification in the lung, including conditions such as Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis and Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma. It also covers diagnostic approaches, genetic mutations, and clinical features associated with these pulmonary conditions.

  • Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis
  • Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma
  • Ciliated Muconodular Papillary Tumor
  • Diffuse Pulmonary Ossification
  • Metastatic Pulmonary Calcification
  • High-Resolution CT
  • Immunohistochemical Studies
  • SLC34A2 Gene Mutations
  • Lung Nodules
  • Clinicopathologic Analysis
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies

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

Which countries lead Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 700 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 700 works
  3. 3 Japan 449 works
  4. 4 India 406 works
  5. 5 Germany 264 works
  6. 6 Italy 208 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 203 works
  8. 8 France 173 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 161 works
  10. 10 Spain 153 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: 36.4%China: 16.4%Japan: 10.5%India: 9.5%6 others listed: 27.2%36%largest
United States1,553 · 36.4%China700 · 16.4%Japan449 · 10.5%India406 · 9.5%6 others listed1,161 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research, followed by Mayo Clinic and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 54 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 52 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 48 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 28 works
  5. 5 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies include Gad A. Getz, Cyrus Cooper and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Gad A. Getz United States 364k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  5. 5 Matthew M. Meyerson United States 280k citations
  6. 6 Charles M. Perou United States 263k 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 Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies?

The most cited paper in Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies is "The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors" (William David Travis, Elisabeth M. Brambilla, Andrew Gordon Nicholson et al., 2015), with 4,651 citations. Next come "Fleischner Society: Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging" (4,302) and "Guidelines for Management of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Images: From the Fleischner Society 2017" (2,516).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors William David Travis, Elisabeth M. Brambilla, Andrew Gordon Nicholson et al. · Journal of Thoracic Oncology Open access 21 Aug 2015 4,651
2 Fleischner Society: Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging David M. Hansell, Alexander A. Bankier, Heber MacMahon et al. · Radiology 14 Jan 2008 4,302
3 Guidelines for Management of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Images: From the Fleischner Society 2017 Heber MacMahon, David P. Naidich, Jin Mo Goo et al. · Radiology Mar 2017 2,516
4 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Talmadge E. King, Annie Pardo, Moisés Selman · The Lancet 30 Jun 2011 2,212
5 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis David J. Lederer, Fernando J. Martínez · New England Journal of Medicine 9 May 2018 2,095
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Where is Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), New York (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Casablanca, Scottsdale and Jacksonville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 104 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 93 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 60 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 60 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 53 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 52 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CasablancaMA · 23.3 works8.4×
  2. ScottsdaleUS · 21.8 works7.7×
  3. JacksonvilleUS · 20.6 works7.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of British Columbia and University of Colorado Denver 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%20%40%mean 26.37%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Britis…University of Colora…Harvard UniversityUniversity of Zurich
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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 75.522.5%3.3×54 +0.1%
2University of British ColumbiaCanada 72.131.8%2.8×17 +42.0%
3University of Colorado DenverUnited States 61.629.2%6.6×11 +1.3%
4University of ZurichSwitzerland 58.812.3%5.0×18 +58.9%
5Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.425.0%2.5×13 +58.7%
6University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 56.832.8%4.6×11 +10.7%
7University of ChicagoUnited States 55.323.7%3.4×15 +2.0%
8University of MinnesotaUnited States 55.034.8%2.2×8 +43.6%
9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 54.621.4%4.2×22 -20.0%
10University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 53.630.2%2.3×11 +5.9%

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 Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies, country by country

Is Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies.

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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 Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies 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%Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies10.3% 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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