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Neurological and metabolic disorders

Neurological and metabolic disorders is a research topic within Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the association between hyperglycemia, basal ganglia lesions, and various movement disorders such as chorea, hemichorea-hemiballismus, and seizures. It explores the clinical manifestations, neuroimaging findings, differential diagnosis, and management of hyperglycemic chorea and related conditions in patients with diabetes or uremia.

  • Chorea
  • Hyperglycemia
  • Basal Ganglia
  • MRI
  • Diabetes
  • Hemichorea-Hemiballismus
  • Neuroimaging
  • Stroke
  • Seizures
  • Movement Disorders
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neurological and metabolic disorders

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

Which countries lead Neurological and metabolic disorders research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (898 and 317 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 898 works
  2. 2 India 317 works
  3. 3 China 287 works
  4. 4 Japan 193 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 128 works
  6. 6 France 126 works
  7. 7 Brazil 109 works
  8. 8 Italy 105 works
  9. 9 Germany 101 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 93 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: 38.1%India: 13.4%China: 12.2%Japan: 8.2%6 others listed: 28.1%38%largest
United States898 · 38.1%India317 · 13.4%China287 · 12.2%Japan193 · 8.2%6 others listed661 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Neurological and metabolic disorders research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 30 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 22 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 17 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 14 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 12 works
  10. 10 Northwell HealthUnited States 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neurological and metabolic disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neurological and metabolic disorders include John J.V. McMurray, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Graeme J. Hankey.

  1. 1 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  2. 2 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  3. 3 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  4. 4 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  9. 9 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  10. 10 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Neurological and metabolic disorders?

The most cited paper in Neurological and metabolic disorders is "Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies" (Ian Grant McKeith et al., 2005), with 5,092 citations. Next come "Isolated Hand Paresis: A Case Series" (4,075) and "Primate models of movement disorders of basal ganglia origin" (3,891).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies Ian Grant McKeith et al. · Neurology 27 Dec 2005 5,092
2 Isolated Hand Paresis: A Case Series Karl Bjørnar Alstadhaug, Ane Skaare Sjulstad · Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra Open access 17 Apr 2013 4,075
3 Primate models of movement disorders of basal ganglia origin Mahlon R. DeLong · Trends in Neurosciences Review Jul 1990 3,891
4 A Rating Scale for Drug-Induced Akathisia Thomas R. E. Barnes · The British Journal of Psychiatry May 1989 2,191
5 Assessment of Alcohol Withdrawal: the revised clinical institute withdrawal assessment for alcohol scale (CIWA‐Ar) John T. Sullivan, Kathy Sykora, Joyce Schneiderman et al. · British Journal of Addiction Nov 1989 2,014
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Where is Neurological and metabolic disorders research done?

The largest centres of Neurological and metabolic disorders research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 44 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 43 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 41 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 33 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 29 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 28 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 27 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Neurological and metabolic disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Harvard University and Capital Medical 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%10%20%mean 13.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…New York UniversityCapital Medical Univ…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
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 73.922.2%2.8×13 +19.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.111.6%2.8×27 -6.3%
3Capital Medical UniversityChina 60.014.3%4.4×14 +50.0%
4New York UniversityUnited States 57.815.1%3.2×11 +48.1%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 56.921.5%1.2×10 +85.1%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 55.510.0%3.0×14 +10.6%
7University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 55.115.6%2.8×9 +57.3%
8Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 51.913.6%5.5×8 +30.0%
9All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 49.53.9%9.0×30 +72.2%
10Yale UniversityUnited States 49.39.9%3.1×10 +8.7%

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 Neurological and metabolic disorders, country by country

Is Neurological and metabolic disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neurological and metabolic disorders.

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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 Neurological and metabolic disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Neurological and metabolic disorders0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neurological and metabolic disorders 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%Neurological and metabolic disorders10.2% 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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