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Neonatal and Maternal Infections

Neonatal and Maternal Infections is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 focuses on the epidemiology, management, prevention, and microbiological characteristics of neonatal sepsis, with a specific emphasis on Group B Streptococcus. It covers topics such as early-onset and late-onset sepsis, antibiotic prophylaxis, diagnostic markers, and the global burden of neonatal sepsis.

  • Neonatal Sepsis
  • Group B Streptococcus
  • Early-Onset Sepsis
  • Late-Onset Sepsis
  • Prevention
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  • Invasive Infections
  • Microbiological Characteristics
  • Diagnostic Markers
  • Global Burden
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
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
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neonatal and Maternal Infections

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

Which countries lead Neonatal and Maternal Infections research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (695 and 603 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 695 works
  2. 2 China 603 works
  3. 3 India 361 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 186 works
  5. 5 Italy 116 works
  6. 6 Brazil 112 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 109 works
  8. 8 Japan 104 works
  9. 9 Germany 102 works
  10. 10 Australia 98 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: 28.0%China: 24.3%India: 14.5%United Kingdom: 7.5%6 others listed: 25.8%28%largest
United States695 · 28.0%China603 · 24.3%India361 · 14.5%United Kingdom186 · 7.5%6 others listed640 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Neonatal and Maternal Infections research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Neonatal and Maternal Infections research, followed by Zhejiang University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 29 works
  2. 2 Zhejiang UniversityChina 21 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina 20 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 18 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 14 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neonatal and Maternal Infections?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neonatal and Maternal Infections include Douglas G. Altman, Rob Knight and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  5. 5 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  6. 6 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  7. 7 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k 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 Maternal Infections?

The most cited paper in Neonatal and Maternal Infections is "The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)" (Mervyn Singer, Clifford Scott Deutschman, Christopher W. Seymour et al., 2016), with 29,012 citations. Next come "The “Golden Age” of Probiotics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Observational Studies in Preterm Infants" (24,491) and "Parkinsonism" (12,181).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) Mervyn Singer, Clifford Scott Deutschman, Christopher W. Seymour et al. · JAMA Open access 22 Feb 2016 29,012
2 The “Golden Age” of Probiotics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Observational Studies in Preterm Infants Elda Dermyshi, Yizhong Wang, Chongbing Yan et al. · Neonatology Review 2017 24,491
3 Parkinsonism Margaret M. Maier Hoehn, Melvin D. Yahr · Neurology Open access May 1967 12,181
4 Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Kristina E. Rudd et al. · The Lancet Open access 2020 8,189
5 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012 Richard P. Dellinger et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 29 Jan 2013 7,373
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Where is Neonatal and Maternal Infections research done?

The largest centres of Neonatal and Maternal Infections research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Karachi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 63 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 47 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 42 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 34 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 33 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 30 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 30 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KarachiPK · 23.8 works4.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neonatal and Maternal Infections than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neonatal and Maternal Infections?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, Harvard University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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 14.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityLondon School of Hyg…University of TorontoChongqing Medical Un…
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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
1University of TorontoCanada 70.215.3%2.5×19 +42.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.921.7%1.7×20 -25.4%
3London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 67.715.4%17.3×10 +55.1%
4Chongqing Medical UniversityChina 63.012.9%9.7×20 +44.9%
5The University of MelbourneAustralia 60.718.2%3.1×13 +15.2%
6Emory UniversityUnited States 58.915.2%3.4×10 +27.6%
7All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57.13.0%7.0×28 +73.5%
8Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 56.911.4%7.5×14 +4.8%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 54.310.1%2.1×21 +195.3%
10University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 54.219.2%3.1×12 -27.6%

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 Maternal Infections, country by country

Is Neonatal and Maternal Infections research growing?

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

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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 Maternal Infections as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Neonatal and Maternal Infections0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neonatal and Maternal Infections 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 Maternal Infections10.3% 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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