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Peripheral Artery Disease Management

Peripheral Artery Disease Management is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 42k 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 focuses on the management, treatment, and epidemiology of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), covering topics such as guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, comparison of revascularization methods, risk factors, and the impact of PAD on patients with diabetes. It also includes discussions on the use of ankle-brachial index, stents, and the prevalence of atherosclerosis-related conditions.

  • Peripheral Arterial Disease
  • Guidelines
  • Angioplasty
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Claudication
  • Revascularization
  • Risk Factors
  • Ankle-Brachial Index
  • Stents
  • Diabetes
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
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
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peripheral Artery Disease Management

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

Which countries lead Peripheral Artery Disease Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 900 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 900 works
  3. 3 Japan 584 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 448 works
  5. 5 Germany 389 works
  6. 6 Italy 311 works
  7. 7 India 295 works
  8. 8 France 240 works
  9. 9 South Korea 193 works
  10. 10 Spain 191 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: 43.6%China: 14.3%Japan: 9.3%United Kingdom: 7.1%6 others listed: 25.7%44%largest
United States2,741 · 43.6%China900 · 14.3%Japan584 · 9.3%United Kingdom448 · 7.1%6 others listed1,619 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Peripheral Artery Disease Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Peripheral Artery Disease Management research, followed by Yale University and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 135 works
  2. 2 Yale UniversityUnited States 81 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 58 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 48 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 36 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
  9. 9 University of California San DiegoUnited States 32 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peripheral Artery Disease Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peripheral Artery Disease Management include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  5. 5 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  10. 10 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k 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 Peripheral Artery Disease Management?

The most cited paper in Peripheral Artery Disease Management is "Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II)" (Lars Norgren, William R. Hiatt, John Dormandy et al., 2007), with 8,242 citations. Next come "Recommended standards for reports dealing with lower extremity ischemia: Revised version" (3,597) and "Comparison of global estimates of prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2000 and 2010: a systematic review and analysis" (3,519).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II) Lars Norgren, William R. Hiatt, John Dormandy et al. · Journal of Vascular Surgery Open access 2007 8,242
2 Recommended standards for reports dealing with lower extremity ischemia: Revised version Robert Bruce Rutherford, J.Dennis Baker, Calvin B. Ernst et al. · Journal of Vascular Surgery Open access Sep 1997 3,597
3 Comparison of global estimates of prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2000 and 2010: a systematic review and analysis F. Gerald R. Fowkes, Diana Rudan, Igor Rudan et al. · The Lancet Review 31 Jul 2013 3,519
4 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) Victor Aboyans et al. · European Heart Journal Open access119 authors 26 Aug 2017 3,338
5 Catheter Replacement of the Needle in Percutaneous Arteriography: A new technique Sven Ivar Seldinger · Acta Radiologica Open access May 1953 3,286
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Where is Peripheral Artery Disease Management research done?

The largest centres of Peripheral Artery Disease Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Boston (United States), New York (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hershey.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 179 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 152 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 119 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 113 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 101 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 97 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 93 works
  8. 8 New HavenUnited States 79 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 74 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 73 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HersheyUS · 21.0 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peripheral Artery Disease Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peripheral Artery Disease Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University 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%20%40%mean 18.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityHarvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…Yale 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 75.814.4%5.5×135 +67.0%
2Yale UniversityUnited States 60.69.5%9.5×81 +55.0%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 57.014.4%3.3×40 +18.9%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 54.922.6%1.6×27 +168.5%
5University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom 54.418.4%7.7×16 +94.4%
6University of CopenhagenDenmark 53.826.1%2.0×14 +13.4%
7University of California San DiegoUnited States 53.48.9%4.3×32 +14.3%
8University of AmsterdamNetherlands 52.533.0%1.8×8 -14.1%
9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 51.715.8%3.5×29 +13.7%
10Dartmouth CollegeUnited States 51.721.5%9.5×19 -16.7%

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 Peripheral Artery Disease Management, country by country

Is Peripheral Artery Disease Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Peripheral Artery Disease Management.

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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 Peripheral Artery Disease Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Peripheral Artery Disease Management0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Peripheral Artery Disease Management 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%Peripheral Artery Disease Management10.2% 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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