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Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Neonatal Respiratory Health Research is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 85k 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 lung development, respiratory morbidity, and the impact of various interventions on outcomes for preterm infants. It covers topics such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, lung stem cells, surfactant proteins, pulmonary hypertension, and the use of antenatal corticosteroids. The research also delves into neonatal resuscitation, oxygen saturation targeting, and the potential for lung regeneration in this population.

  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
  • Preterm Infants
  • Lung Stem Cells
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Surfactant Proteins
  • Neonatal Resuscitation
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Oxygen Saturation
  • Antenatal Corticosteroids
  • Lung Regeneration
Research works
85k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

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

Which countries lead Neonatal Respiratory Health Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.5k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.7k works
  3. 3 India 757 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 734 works
  5. 5 Germany 618 works
  6. 6 Canada 462 works
  7. 7 Italy 450 works
  8. 8 Australia 422 works
  9. 9 Japan 392 works
  10. 10 France 380 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: 37.1%China: 17.8%India: 8.1%United Kingdom: 7.9%6 others listed: 29.2%37%largest
United States3,465 · 37.1%China1,661 · 17.8%India757 · 8.1%United Kingdom734 · 7.9%6 others listed2,725 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Neonatal Respiratory Health Research research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 164 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 90 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 82 works
  4. 4 University of CincinnatiUnited States 79 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 73 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68 works
  7. 7 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 66 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 56 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neonatal Respiratory Health Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neonatal Respiratory Health Research include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Eric S. Lander.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  10. 10 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k 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 Respiratory Health Research?

The most cited paper in Neonatal Respiratory Health Research is "Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria" (Volker Brinkmann, Ulrike Reichard, Christian Goosmann et al., 2004), with 10,383 citations. Next come "Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease" (10,099) and "Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth" (7,914).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria Volker Brinkmann, Ulrike Reichard, Christian Goosmann et al. · Science 4 Mar 2004 10,383
2 Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease Jean Paul Thiery, Hervé Acloque, Ruby Yun‐Ju Huang et al. · Cell Open access Nov 2009 10,099
3 Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth Robert L. Goldenberg, Jennifer Flatow Culhane, Jay D. Iams et al. · The Lancet Open access 2008 7,914
4 The American-European Consensus Conference On Ards. Definitions, Mechanisms, Relevant Outcomes, And Clinical Trial Coordination Gordon R. Bernard, Antonio Artigas, Kenneth L. Brigham et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Mar 1994 6,812
5 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
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Neonatal Respiratory Health Research research done?

The largest centres of Neonatal Respiratory Health Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Giessen and Cincinnati.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 264 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 179 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 176 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 163 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 152 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 149 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 144 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 130 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 121 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 115 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GiessenDE · 61.2 works12×
  2. CincinnatiUS · 83.6 works7.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neonatal Respiratory Health Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neonatal Respiratory Health Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Dundee and Stanford 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 18.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of DundeeStanford UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Toronto
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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 70.415.0%4.3×164 +1.9%
2University of DundeeUnited Kingdom 61.742.8%5.7×12 +0.4%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 58.817.8%3.1×54 +3.1%
4University of TorontoCanada 57.514.2%3.7×90 -24.4%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 57.013.2%3.7×68 -5.7%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 56.419.0%2.0×55 +63.2%
7University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 56.220.0%4.6×39 -14.7%
8University of CincinnatiUnited States 56.112.4%11.2×80 -18.0%
9Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.419.0%3.5×41 -12.8%
10University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 54.913.4%8.8×51 +1.9%

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 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, country by country

Is Neonatal Respiratory Health Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Respiratory Health Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.057% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Neonatal Respiratory Health Research0.053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neonatal Respiratory Health Research 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 Respiratory Health Research10.2% 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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