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Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies is a research topic within Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the diagnosis, management, and long-term outcomes of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in pediatric patients, with an emphasis on conditions such as vesicoureteral reflux, antibiotic prophylaxis, renal scarring, febrile infants, pyeloplasty, and hydronephrosis. It also covers the use of robotic surgery in pediatric urology.

  • Pediatric
  • Urinary Tract Infection
  • Vesicoureteral Reflux
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  • Renal Scarring
  • Febrile Infants
  • Pyeloplasty
  • Hydronephrosis
  • Robotic Surgery
  • Diagnosis and Management
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

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

Which countries lead Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 654 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 654 works
  3. 3 India 505 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 286 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 264 works
  6. 6 Germany 234 works
  7. 7 Japan 234 works
  8. 8 Italy 209 works
  9. 9 France 161 works
  10. 10 Russia 152 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: 29.0%China: 17.2%India: 13.3%Türkiye: 7.5%6 others listed: 33.0%29%largest
United States1,100 · 29.0%China654 · 17.2%India505 · 13.3%Türkiye286 · 7.5%6 others listed1,254 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research, followed by Harvard University and Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 44 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 31 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 26 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 24 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  8. 8 Mayo ClinicUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 22 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies include Walter Churchill Willett, Jun Wang and Giuseppe Remuzzi.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  4. 4 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  5. 5 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  6. 6 Penny F. Whiting United Kingdom 264k 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 Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies?

The most cited paper in Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies is "International Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis in Women: A 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases" (Kalpana Gupta, Thomas M. Hooton, Kurt G. Naber et al., 2011), with 3,056 citations. Next come "Comments on ‘KDIGO 2012 clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease’" (2,520) and "Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America" (2,137).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 International Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis in Women: A 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Kalpana Gupta, Thomas M. Hooton, Kurt G. Naber et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases 3 Feb 2011 3,056
2 Comments on ‘KDIGO 2012 clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease’ K. Andrássy · Kidney International Open access 30 Aug 2013 2,520
3 Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America Thomas M. Hooton, Suzanne Bradley, Diana D. Cardenas et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access Mar 2010 2,137
4 Epidemiology of urinary tract infections: incidence, morbidity, and economic costs Betsy Foxman · The American Journal of Medicine Jul 2002 1,911
5 The epidemiology of urinary tract infection Betsy Foxman · Nature Reviews Urology Review Dec 2010 1,824
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Peshawar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 101 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 96 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 78 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 68 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 66 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 66 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 53 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 51 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PeshawarPK · 23.5 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, Sorbonne Université and Harvard 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%20%40%mean 17.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sorbonne UniversitéUniversity of TorontoSichuan UniversityHarvard 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 of TorontoCanada 79.221.8%2.7×29 +3.1%
2Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 79.122.0%6.1×22 +22.4%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.813.5%2.1×36 -3.6%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 66.019.2%1.8×22 +61.2%
5Mahidol UniversityThailand 65.629.2%4.4×11 +30.6%
6Peking UniversityChina 64.916.3%2.4×26 +23.2%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.315.8%2.4×20 +12.0%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.010.3%2.8×24 -1.5%
9Ghent UniversityBelgium 61.419.2%2.5×10 +41.8%
10Université Paris CitéFrance 60.911.4%4.7×18 +39.4%

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 Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies, country by country

Is Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pediatric Urology and Nephrology 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 Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pediatric Urology and Nephrology 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%Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies10.1% 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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