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Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 60k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of liver transplantation, including ischemia-reperfusion injury, graft survival analysis, donor risk index, biliary complications, living donor liver transplantation, hepatic ischemia, machine perfusion, and organ preservation. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to liver transplantation and provide insights into the mechanisms of injury, surgical techniques, and long-term outcomes.

  • Liver Transplantation
  • Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
  • Graft Survival
  • Donor Risk Index
  • Biliary Complications
  • Living Donor Liver Transplantation
  • Hepatic Ischemia
  • Machine Perfusion
  • Organ Preservation
  • Histopathologic Staging
Research works
60k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

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

Which countries lead Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.1k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.1k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 Japan 539 works
  4. 4 India 520 works
  5. 5 South Korea 459 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 396 works
  7. 7 Germany 392 works
  8. 8 Italy 386 works
  9. 9 France 316 works
  10. 10 Spain 305 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: 39.6%China: 17.5%Japan: 7.0%India: 6.7%6 others listed: 29.2%40%largest
United States3,063 · 39.6%China1,355 · 17.5%Japan539 · 7.0%India520 · 6.7%6 others listed2,253 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Sun Yat-sen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 109 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 109 works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 77 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 71 works
  5. 5 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 68 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 66 works
  7. 7 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 61 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 56 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 56 works
  10. 10 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes include Zhong Lin Wang, Hermann Brenner and Emelia J. Benjamin.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  4. 4 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  9. 9 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  10. 10 Reza Malekzadeh Iran 278k 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 Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes is "Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices" (R. N. H. Pugh, I M Murray-Lyon, J L Dawson et al., 1973), with 8,027 citations. Next come "Chapter 4 Preparation of Isolated Rat Liver Cells" (5,348) and "A Model to Predict Survival in Patients With End–Stage Liver Disease" (5,005).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices R. N. H. Pugh, I M Murray-Lyon, J L Dawson et al. · British journal of surgery Aug 1973 8,027
2 Chapter 4 Preparation of Isolated Rat Liver Cells Per O. Seglen · Methods in cell biology Book chapter 1976 5,348
3 A Model to Predict Survival in Patients With End–Stage Liver Disease Patrick S. Kamath, Russell H. Wiesner, Michael Malinchoc et al. · Hepatology Feb 2001 5,005
4 Hepatocellular carcinoma Josep Maria Llovet, Andrew Kenneth Burroughs, Jordi Bruix · The Lancet Dec 2003 3,620
5 Arterial embolisation or chemoembolisation versus symptomatic treatment in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a randomised controlled trial Josep Maria Llovet, María Isabel Real, Xavier Montañá et al. · The Lancet May 2002 3,526
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ulsan and Malatya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 268 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 159 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 159 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 134 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 124 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 119 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 118 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 109 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 102 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UlsanKR · 54.0 works12×
  2. MalatyaTR · 22.0 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Toronto and Medical University of Vienna 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%mean 14.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Medical University o…New York UniversityUniversity of TorontoHarvard 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 76.213.8%3.9×109 +26.8%
2University of TorontoCanada 70.614.8%4.0×71 +7.8%
3Medical University of ViennaAustria 65.219.2%8.7×24 +16.2%
4New York UniversityUnited States 65.115.0%4.5×46 +488.5%
5Duke UniversityUnited States 65.014.6%5.6×41 +38.4%
6University of GroningenNetherlands 64.817.7%6.4×39 -12.8%
7University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 64.411.0%5.7×53 +20.8%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.511.1%5.0×66 +75.5%
9Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 63.212.3%10.9×32 +47.2%
10University of ZurichSwitzerland 63.118.3%4.1×25 +6.8%

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 Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, country by country

Is Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes research growing?

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

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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 Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes 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 Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes9.7% 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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