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Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Neonatal and fetal brain pathology is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 neonatal brain injury, particularly related to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and perinatal brain injury in preterm infants. It explores the use of hypothermia as a treatment, the impact on neurodevelopmental outcomes, the association with white matter injury and cerebral palsy, and the role of inflammation in these conditions.

  • Neonatal Encephalopathy
  • Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
  • Perinatal Brain Injury
  • Preterm Infants
  • Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
  • Hypothermia Treatment
  • White Matter Injury
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Inflammation
  • Neurological Assessment
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

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

Which countries lead Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 969 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 969 works
  3. 3 India 632 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 350 works
  5. 5 Canada 286 works
  6. 6 Italy 253 works
  7. 7 Germany 229 works
  8. 8 Australia 221 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 216 works
  10. 10 Japan 215 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: 33.0%China: 19.3%India: 12.6%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 28.2%33%largest
United States1,660 · 33.0%China969 · 19.3%India632 · 12.6%United Kingdom350 · 7.0%6 others listed1,421 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research, followed by University of Toronto and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 81 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 59 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 47 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 38 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 36 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 34 works
  8. 8 University of CalgaryCanada 31 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neonatal and fetal brain pathology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neonatal and fetal brain pathology include Douglas G. Altman, George Davey Smith and Julian P. T. Higgins.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  4. 4 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  5. 5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  6. 6 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  9. 9 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  10. 10 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k 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 Neonatal and fetal brain pathology?

The most cited paper in Neonatal and fetal brain pathology is "Parkinsonism" (Margaret M. Maier Hoehn, Melvin D. Yahr, 1967), with 12,181 citations. Next come "Incidence and evolution of subependymal and intraventricular hemorrhage: A study of infants with birth weights less than 1,500 gm" (6,550) and "A report: the definition and classification of cerebral palsy April 2006" (4,833).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Parkinsonism Margaret M. Maier Hoehn, Melvin D. Yahr · Neurology Open access May 1967 12,181
2 Incidence and evolution of subependymal and intraventricular hemorrhage: A study of infants with birth weights less than 1,500 gm L.A. Papile, Jerome Burstein, Rochelle Burstein et al. · The Journal of Pediatrics Apr 1978 6,550
3 A report: the definition and classification of cerebral palsy April 2006 Peter Rosenbaum, Nigel Paneth, Alan Edward Leviton et al. · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Open access Feb 2007 4,833
4 Contributions of anterior cingulate cortex to behaviour Orrin Devinsky, Martha J. Morrell, Brent Alan Vogt · Brain Feb 1995 3,406
5 The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism Adriana Di Martino et al. · Molecular Psychiatry Open access 18 Jun 2013 2,929
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Where is Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research done?

The largest centres of Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cork, Auckland and Calgary.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 158 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 110 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 92 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 81 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 76 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 75 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 71 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 70 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 67 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CorkIE · 24.4 works8.6×
  2. AucklandNZ · 37.6 works5.5×
  3. CalgaryCA · 33.3 works5.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neonatal and fetal brain pathology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neonatal and fetal brain pathology?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California, San Francisco and University of Toronto 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%10%20%mean 16.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Califo…University of TorontoUniversity College L…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.

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 77.313.4%3.8×81 -14.4%
2University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 73.518.0%5.7×27 +3.0%
3University of TorontoCanada 71.215.9%4.3×59 -15.6%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.614.2%3.5×38 -0.1%
5Karolinska InstitutetSweden 69.621.1%6.3×24 -7.0%
6University of British ColumbiaCanada 67.218.9%2.8×23 +12.8%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.912.3%5.0×29 +0.4%
8University of AucklandNew Zealand 65.514.3%7.2×26 +4.7%
9McGill UniversityCanada 65.214.0%4.2×28 +11.2%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 63.219.5%2.0×13 +28.8%

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 Neonatal and fetal brain pathology, country by country

Is Neonatal and fetal brain pathology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

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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 Neonatal and fetal brain pathology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Neonatal and fetal brain pathology0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neonatal and fetal brain pathology 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%Neonatal and fetal brain pathology10.0% 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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