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Poisoning and overdose treatments

Poisoning and overdose treatments is a research topic within Emergency Medicine. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of poisoning and toxic exposures, including surveillance systems for toxic exposures, treatment guidelines for specific poisonings such as methanol and ethylene glycol, pharmacological considerations for substances like bupropion, and the use of interventions like activated charcoal and extracorporeal treatments. It also covers the epidemiology, clinical features, and prognostic signs of various poisonings.

  • Poison Control Centers
  • Toxic Exposure Surveillance
  • Methanol Poisoning
  • Bupropion Pharmacology
  • Activated Charcoal
  • Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
  • Calcium Channel Blocker Toxicity
  • Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning
  • Pediatric Pharmaceutical Poisoning
  • Extracorporeal Treatments
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Poisoning and overdose treatments

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

Which countries lead Poisoning and overdose treatments research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.1k and 374 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 374 works
  3. 3 China 243 works
  4. 4 France 162 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 139 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 128 works
  7. 7 Iran 128 works
  8. 8 Spain 117 works
  9. 9 Japan 116 works
  10. 10 Australia 104 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: 41.1%India: 14.6%China: 9.5%France: 6.3%6 others listed: 28.5%41%largest
United States1,055 · 41.1%India374 · 14.6%China243 · 9.5%France162 · 6.3%6 others listed732 · 28.5%

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

Which institutions lead Poisoning and overdose treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Poisoning and overdose treatments research, followed by Tanta University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 35 works
  2. 2 Tanta UniversityEgypt 23 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 23 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 18 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 17 works
  6. 6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 17 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
  8. 8 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 15 works
  9. 9 Washington Poison CenterUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Poisoning and overdose treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Poisoning and overdose treatments include Douglas G. Altman, John J.V. McMurray and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  6. 6 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  7. 7 Reza Malekzadeh Iran 278k citations
  8. 8 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  9. 9 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  10. 10 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Poisoning and overdose treatments?

The most cited paper in Poisoning and overdose treatments is "A "DIRECT-COLORING" THIOCHOLINE METHOD FOR CHOLINESTERASES" (Morris J. Karnovsky, LOGAN ROOTS, 1964), with 3,395 citations. Next come "Opioid Complications and Side Effects" (2,261) and "Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015" (2,233).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A "DIRECT-COLORING" THIOCHOLINE METHOD FOR CHOLINESTERASES Morris J. Karnovsky, LOGAN ROOTS · Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry Open access Mar 1964 3,395
2 Opioid Complications and Side Effects Ramsin M Benyamin · Pain Physician 14 Mar 2008 2,261
3 Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015 Rose Anne Rudd, Puja Seth, Felicita David et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Open access 16 Dec 2016 2,233
4 Acetaminophen‐induced acute liver failure Anne M. Larson, Julie Polson, Robert J. Fontana et al. · Hepatology 29 Nov 2005 1,938
5 Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon S. S. Arnon, Robert Schechter, Thomas V. Inglesby et al. · JAMA 28 Feb 2001 1,814
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Where is Poisoning and overdose treatments research done?

The largest centres of Poisoning and overdose treatments research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Paris (France), Tehran (Iran) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tanta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 49 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 39 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 38 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 33 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 32 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 29 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TantaEG · 23.1 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Poisoning and overdose treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Poisoning and overdose treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Tanta University, University of Toronto and The University of Sydney 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 20.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TorontoTanta UniversityUniversity of Britis…The University of Sy…
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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
1Tanta UniversityEgypt 83.227.2%21.1×23 +123.2%
2University of TorontoCanada 70.727.5%2.3×16 +21.2%
3The University of SydneyAustralia 65.424.1%4.2×17 +0.2%
4University of British ColumbiaCanada 60.826.8%2.9×12 -12.6%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.419.9%2.1×23 -27.2%
6All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56.34.5%9.5×35 +71.5%
7The University of QueenslandAustralia 53.516.1%3.1×10 +32.9%
8University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 49.717.5%3.0×9 +45.0%
9New York UniversityUnited States 48.821.3%3.0×12 +5.7%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 48.422.7%2.1×11 -8.6%

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 Poisoning and overdose treatments, country by country

Is Poisoning and overdose treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Poisoning and overdose treatments.

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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 Poisoning and overdose treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Poisoning and overdose treatments0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Poisoning and overdose treatments 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%Poisoning and overdose treatments10.4% 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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