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Radiology practices and education

Radiology practices and education is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 errors and communication challenges in radiology imaging, including topics such as structured reporting, diagnostic accuracy, visual search, radiologist workload, incidental findings, patient-centered radiology, eye-tracking studies, teleradiology practice, and quality improvement.

  • Radiology Errors
  • Structured Reporting
  • Diagnostic Accuracy
  • Visual Search
  • Radiologist Workload
  • Incidental Findings
  • Patient-Centered Radiology
  • Eye-Tracking Study
  • Teleradiology Practice
  • Quality Improvement
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radiology practices and education

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

Which countries lead Radiology practices and education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 428 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 428 works
  3. 3 Canada 214 works
  4. 4 Germany 205 works
  5. 5 Australia 202 works
  6. 6 India 188 works
  7. 7 China 155 works
  8. 8 Japan 118 works
  9. 9 Italy 117 works
  10. 10 Spain 106 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: 50.6%United Kingdom: 12.2%Canada: 6.1%Germany: 5.8%6 others listed: 25.3%51%largest
United States1,774 · 50.6%United Kingdom428 · 12.2%Canada214 · 6.1%Germany205 · 5.8%6 others listed886 · 25.3%

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

Which institutions lead Radiology practices and education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Radiology practices and education research, followed by Mayo Clinic and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 100 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 38 works
  4. 4 Indiana UniversityUnited States 38 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 34 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 Emory UniversityUnited States 32 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radiology practices and education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radiology practices and education include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and John P. A. Ioannidis.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  6. 6 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  7. 7 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 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 Radiology practices and education?

The most cited paper in Radiology practices and education is "Refinement and reassessment of the SERVQUAL scale." (Anitha Parasuraman, Leonard L. Berry, Valarie A. Zeithaml, 1991), with 3,964 citations. Next come "ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee" (2,564) and "Accuracy of Physician Self-assessment Compared With Observed Measures of Competence" (2,386).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Refinement and reassessment of the SERVQUAL scale. Anitha Parasuraman, Leonard L. Berry, Valarie A. Zeithaml · Journal of Retailing 1991 3,964
2 ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee Franklin Neil Tessler, William Dana Middleton, Edward G. Grant et al. · Journal of the American College of Radiology Open access 2 Apr 2017 2,564
3 Accuracy of Physician Self-assessment Compared With Observed Measures of Competence David A. Davis, Paul E. Mazmanian, Michael Fordis et al. · JAMA 5 Sep 2006 2,386
4 Effective Doses in Radiology and Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine: A Catalog Fred A. Mettler, Walter Huda, Terry T. Yoshizumi et al. · Radiology 19 Jun 2008 2,009
5 Assessment in Medical Education Ronald M. Epstein · New England Journal of Medicine 25 Jan 2007 1,893
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radiology practices and education research done?

The largest centres of Radiology practices and education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), New York (United States) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Indianapolis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 103 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 95 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 88 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 64 works
  5. 5 BaltimoreUnited States 57 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 54 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 49 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 46 works
  9. 9 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 43 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IndianapolisUS · 29.7 works9.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radiology practices and education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radiology practices and education?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Bonn and Yale 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%10%20%30%mean 18.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BonnCharles Sturt Univer…Yale 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.312.7%7.3×100 -10.9%
2University of BonnGermany 65.727.2%6.0×12 +232.7%
3Yale UniversityUnited States 60.716.0%6.7×31 +43.4%
4Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 58.825.6%20.1×12 +139.5%
5Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 57.428.5%2.4×8 +275.3%
6University of TorontoCanada 54.513.4%4.3×38 -8.9%
7Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 53.922.1%6.0×10 +93.3%
8Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 53.120.4%3.7×10 +74.7%
9University College DublinIreland 52.211.0%8.9×20 +82.4%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 51.88.3%6.5×34 +35.3%

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 Radiology practices and education, country by country

Is Radiology practices and education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Radiology practices and education.

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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 Radiology practices and education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Radiology practices and education 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%Radiology practices and education10.1% 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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