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Neurology and Historical Studies

Neurology and Historical Studies is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses the historical evolution of neurological studies, from the pioneering work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi to the exploration of neurological disorders, brain localization, neuron doctrine, and neuroanatomy milestones. It also delves into the development of electricity in neuroscience and the advancements in neurology training.

  • neurological history
  • neuroscience pioneers
  • brain research evolution
  • neuron doctrine
  • neurological disorders
  • brain localization
  • neuroanatomy milestones
  • electricity in neuroscience
  • cerebral cortex studies
  • neurology training
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neurology and Historical Studies

Which countries lead Neurology and Historical Studies research?

By volume, the United States and France publish the most (545 and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 545 works
  2. 2 France 219 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 189 works
  4. 4 Germany 133 works
  5. 5 India 111 works
  6. 6 Italy 105 works
  7. 7 Spain 89 works
  8. 8 Brazil 74 works
  9. 9 Canada 73 works
  10. 10 China 53 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: 34.3%France: 13.8%United Kingdom: 11.9%Germany: 8.4%6 others listed: 31.7%34%largest
United States545 · 34.3%France219 · 13.8%United Kingdom189 · 11.9%Germany133 · 8.4%6 others listed504 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Neurology and Historical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Neurology and Historical Studies research, followed by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 41 works
  2. 2 Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece 33 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 13 works
  6. 6 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 11 works
  7. 7 Université Paris CitéFrance 10 works
  8. 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 10 works
  9. 9 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 9 works
  10. 10 McGill UniversityCanada 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neurology and Historical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neurology and Historical Studies include Christopher J L Murray, Theo Vos and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  5. 5 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  6. 6 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k 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 Neurology and Historical Studies?

The most cited paper in Neurology and Historical Studies is "Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord and roots: basic principles and procedures for routine clinical application. Report of an IFCN committee" (Paolo Maria Rossini, A.T. Barker, Alfredo Berardelli et al., 1994), with 3,084 citations. Next come "Neural Simulation of Action: A Unifying Mechanism for Motor Cognition" (2,582) and "Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015" (2,329).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord and roots: basic principles and procedures for routine clinical application. Report of an IFCN committee Paolo Maria Rossini, A.T. Barker, Alfredo Berardelli et al. · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology Aug 1994 3,084
2 Neural Simulation of Action: A Unifying Mechanism for Motor Cognition Marc Jeannerod · NeuroImage Jul 2001 2,582
3 Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Valery L. Feigin et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access243 authors 18 Sep 2017 2,329
4 Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain Herbert S. Gross · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Jun 2004 2,060
5 Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010 Anders Gustavsson et al. · European Neuropsychopharmacology Open access 15 Sep 2011 1,753
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Neurology and Historical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Neurology and Historical Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Thessaloniki (Greece). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Thessaloniki.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 81 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 73 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 ThessalonikiGreece 33 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 30 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 20 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 20 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 20 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ThessalonikiGR · 33.1 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neurology and Historical Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neurology and Historical Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Harvard University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 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 10.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityUniversity College L…Imperial College Lon…Aristotle 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 96.422.3%9.2×29 +100.3%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 76.722.5%3.9×24 +8.3%
3Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece 54.62.1%34.0×32 +1300.3%
4Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 39.48.7%4.5×9 +243.1%
5McGill UniversityCanada 39.27.7%4.6×9 -4.0%
6Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 39.18.3%9.3×10 +641.3%
7University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 36.77.9%5.1×11 +4.8%
8Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27.47.7%2.4×10 +161.4%
9Université Paris CitéFrance 25.89.8%7.1×10 -29.6%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 24.46.3%3.4×9 +47.4%

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 Neurology and Historical Studies, country by country

Is Neurology and Historical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neurology and Historical Studies.

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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 Neurology and Historical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Neurology and Historical Studies0.0097% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neurology and Historical Studies 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%Neurology and Historical Studies9.8% 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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