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Organ Donation and Transplantation

Organ Donation and Transplantation is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ethical, medical, and societal aspects of organ donation, with a focus on living kidney donors, brain death determination, transplantation outcomes, ethical considerations, donor management, and family decision-making. It also delves into the health risks and long-term consequences for both donors and recipients. The papers provide insights into the global landscape of organ trafficking and the impact of legislation on donation rates.

  • Organ Donation
  • Living Kidney Donors
  • Brain Death
  • Transplantation
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Donor Management
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Organ Trafficking
  • Family Decision-Making
  • Health Risks
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organ Donation and Transplantation

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

Which countries lead Organ Donation and Transplantation research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (2k and 399 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 India 399 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 344 works
  4. 4 Brazil 274 works
  5. 5 Canada 233 works
  6. 6 China 226 works
  7. 7 Germany 176 works
  8. 8 Japan 169 works
  9. 9 Spain 166 works
  10. 10 Australia 163 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: 47.7%India: 9.7%United Kingdom: 8.4%Brazil: 6.7%6 others listed: 27.6%48%largest
United States1,959 · 47.7%India399 · 9.7%United Kingdom344 · 8.4%Brazil274 · 6.7%6 others listed1,132 · 27.6%

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

Which institutions lead Organ Donation and Transplantation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Organ Donation and Transplantation research, followed by New York University and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 65 works
  2. 2 New York UniversityUnited States 62 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 49 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 41 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 35 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 32 works
  8. 8 The University of SydneyAustralia 31 works
  9. 9 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 Columbia UniversityUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organ Donation and Transplantation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organ Donation and Transplantation include Giuseppe Remuzzi, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  5. 5 Martin McKee United Kingdom 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 Organ Donation and Transplantation?

The most cited paper in Organ Donation and Transplantation is "Comparison of Mortality in All Patients on Dialysis, Patients on Dialysis Awaiting Transplantation, and Recipients of a First Cadaveric Transplant" (Robert A. Wolfe, Valarie B. Ashby, Edgar Louis Milford et al., 1999), with 5,394 citations. Next come "The Banff 97 working classification of renal allograft pathology" (3,059) and "BIRTH AFTER THE REIMPLANTATION OF A HUMAN EMBRYO" (2,624).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Comparison of Mortality in All Patients on Dialysis, Patients on Dialysis Awaiting Transplantation, and Recipients of a First Cadaveric Transplant Robert A. Wolfe, Valarie B. Ashby, Edgar Louis Milford et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Dec 1999 5,394
2 The Banff 97 working classification of renal allograft pathology Lorraine C. Racusen et al. · Kidney International Open access Feb 1999 3,059
3 BIRTH AFTER THE REIMPLANTATION OF A HUMAN EMBRYO P. C. Steptoe, Robert Edwards · The Lancet Aug 1978 2,624
4 Chronic Renal Failure after Transplantation of a Nonrenal Organ AKINLOLU O. OJO, Philip J. Held, Friedrich K. Port et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 3 Sep 2003 2,220
5 WT-1 is required for early kidney development Jordan A. Kreidberg, Hannu V. Sariola, Janet M. Loring et al. · Cell Aug 1993 2,019
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Where is Organ Donation and Transplantation research done?

The largest centres of Organ Donation and Transplantation research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Seoul (South Korea) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aurora and Minneapolis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 133 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 88 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 87 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 64 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 64 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 62 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 60 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 57 works
  9. 9 ChicagoUnited States 56 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AuroraUS · 25.2 works10×
  2. MinneapolisUS · 45.2 works6.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Organ Donation and Transplantation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Organ Donation and Transplantation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, New York University and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 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%10%20%30%mean 17.29%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Colora…University of Gronin…Harvard UniversityNew York 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.

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 83.019.5%3.9×65 +23.8%
2New York UniversityUnited States 75.816.0%10.4×62 +170.0%
3University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusUnited States 74.826.3%14.7×20 +391.8%
4University of GroningenNetherlands 73.622.1%5.8×21 +7.2%
5University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 66.816.4%5.9×33 +48.1%
6Columbia UniversityUnited States 65.016.3%4.8×28 +18.2%
7Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.611.7%4.1×32 +44.8%
8University of TorontoCanada 61.015.0%3.2×35 -7.4%
9University of MinnesotaUnited States 60.519.3%5.5×22 -2.2%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 59.810.3%4.8×31 +12.5%

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 Organ Donation and Transplantation, country by country

Is Organ Donation and Transplantation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Organ Donation and Transplantation.

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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 Organ Donation and Transplantation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Organ Donation and Transplantation0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Organ Donation and Transplantation 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%Organ Donation and Transplantation9.9% 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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