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Nausea and vomiting management

Nausea and vomiting management is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 21k 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 the prevention and management of postoperative nausea and vomiting, particularly in the context of chemotherapy-induced nausea. It covers a wide range of interventions including antiemetic therapy, neurokinin-1 antagonists, dexamethasone, and acupuncture. The papers also discuss consensus guidelines, patient satisfaction, quality of recovery, and the impact on health-related quality of life.

  • Postoperative Nausea
  • Vomiting Prevention
  • Chemotherapy-induced Nausea
  • Antiemetic Therapy
  • Guidelines
  • Quality of Recovery
  • Neurokinin-1 Antagonist
  • Dexamethasone
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Acupuncture
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nausea and vomiting management

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

Which countries lead Nausea and vomiting management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (953 and 684 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 953 works
  2. 2 United States 684 works
  3. 3 India 536 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 217 works
  5. 5 Japan 192 works
  6. 6 Egypt 190 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 141 works
  8. 8 South Korea 124 works
  9. 9 Germany 119 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 109 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.

China: 29.2%United States: 20.9%India: 16.4%Türkiye: 6.6%6 others listed: 26.8%29%largest
China953 · 29.2%United States684 · 20.9%India536 · 16.4%Türkiye217 · 6.6%6 others listed876 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Nausea and vomiting management research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Nausea and vomiting management research, followed by Sichuan University and Ain Shams University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 55 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 46 works
  3. 3 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 46 works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 27 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 26 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 25 works
  8. 8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 24 works
  9. 9 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 22 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nausea and vomiting management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nausea and vomiting management include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  6. 6 Isabelle Boutron France 271k citations
  7. 7 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k 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 Nausea and vomiting management?

The most cited paper in Nausea and vomiting management is "A Simplified Risk Score for Predicting Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting" (Christian C. Apfel, Esa Läärä, Merja K. Koivuranta et al., 1999), with 2,143 citations. Next come "Evidence-Based Surgical Care and the Evolution of Fast-Track Surgery" (1,837) and "Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting" (1,767).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Simplified Risk Score for Predicting Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Christian C. Apfel, Esa Läärä, Merja K. Koivuranta et al. · Anesthesiology Sep 1999 2,143
2 Evidence-Based Surgical Care and the Evolution of Fast-Track Surgery Henrik Kehlet, Douglas W. Wilmore · Annals of Surgery Aug 2008 1,837
3 Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Mehernoor F. Watcha, Paul F. White · Anesthesiology Open access Jul 1992 1,767
4 Enhanced recovery after surgery: A consensus review of clinical care for patients undergoing colonic resection Kenneth C. H. Fearon, Olle H. Ljungqvist, Maarten von Meyenfeldt et al. · Clinical Nutrition 22 Apr 2005 1,714
5 A Factorial Trial of Six Interventions for the Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Christian C. Apfel, Kari T. Korttila, Mona Abdalla et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 9 Jun 2004 1,568
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Where is Nausea and vomiting management research done?

The largest centres of Nausea and vomiting management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 84 works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 74 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 71 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 69 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 65 works
  6. 6 CairoEgypt 64 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 59 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 50 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 49 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 45 works
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Where is the best place to study Nausea and vomiting management?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Duke University and Soochow University 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 19.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai University …Duke UniversitySoochow UniversitySichuan 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.

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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 69.713.9%5.2×46 +63.2%
2Duke UniversityUnited States 62.421.2%3.3×11 +17.9%
3Soochow UniversityChina 61.020.4%4.1×16 +185.6%
4Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 60.724.1%10.7×12 +370.2%
5All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 60.65.4%12.6×55 +95.5%
6University of CopenhagenDenmark 60.622.3%3.1×11 +17.7%
7Zhengzhou UniversityChina 59.230.3%2.4×12 +45.4%
8KU LeuvenBelgium 57.322.7%2.5×10 +102.2%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.215.0%2.5×26 +92.7%
10Chinese University of Hong KongChina 57.023.2%3.3×9 +16.0%

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 Nausea and vomiting management, country by country

Is Nausea and vomiting management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nausea and vomiting management.

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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 Nausea and vomiting management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nausea and vomiting management 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%Nausea and vomiting management10.1% 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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