Reproductive Health and Technologies

Reproductive Health and Technologies is a research topic within Reproductive Medicine. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 explores global trends in infertility prevalence, treatment-seeking behavior, and the impact of assisted reproductive technologies on individuals and couples. It delves into the psychological, social, and economic aspects of infertility, as well as disparities in access to infertility services across different regions. The papers also address the implications of delayed childbearing, the influence of lifestyle factors on fertility, and the experiences of individuals conceived through donor insemination.

Infertility
Reproductive Technologies
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Global Trends
Psychological Impact
Epidemiology
Gender Differences
Quality of Life
Stress
Access to Care

Research works: 41k
In the world top 10%: 4.2k
Top-10% rate: 10.2%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +17%
Largest producer: United States

Reproductive Health and Technologies

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

Which countries lead Reproductive Health and Technologies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.8k and 669 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2.8k works
2 China 669 works
3 United Kingdom 541 works
4 India 446 works
5 Brazil 439 works
6 Australia 308 works
7 France 285 works
8 Italy 278 works
9 Iran 277 works
10 Canada 258 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 States2,812 · 44.5%China669 · 10.6%United Kingdom541 · 8.6%India446 · 7.1%6 others listed1,845 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Reproductive Health and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Reproductive Health and Technologies research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 93 works
2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
3 Monash UniversityAustralia 50 works
4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 47 works
5 University of MichiganUnited States 44 works
6 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 44 works
7 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 41 works
8 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 36 works
9 University of TorontoCanada 34 works
10 Emory UniversityUnited States 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Reproductive Health and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Reproductive Health and Technologies include Walter Churchill Willett, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Virginia Braun.

1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
3 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
6 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
7 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
8 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k 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 Reproductive Health and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Reproductive Health and Technologies is "Impotence and Its Medical and Psychosocial Correlates: Results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study" (Henry A. Feldman, Irwin Goldstein, Dimitrios G. Hatzichristou et al., 1994), with 5,126 citations. Next come "Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7" (3,164) and "World Health Organization reference values for human semen characteristics*‡" (2,857).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Impotence and Its Medical and Psychosocial Correlates: Results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study Henry A. Feldman, Irwin Goldstein, Dimitrios G. Hatzichristou et al. · The Journal of Urology	1994	5,126
2	Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7 Eli Coleman et al. · International Journal of Transgenderism	Aug 2012	3,164
3	World Health Organization reference values for human semen characteristics‡ Trevor G. Cooper, Elizabeth A. Noonan, Sigrid von Eckardstein et al. · Human Reproduction Update*	24 Nov 2009	2,857
4	Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 Eli Coleman et al. · International Journal of Transgender Health Open access119 authors	19 Aug 2022	2,672
5	International estimates of infertility prevalence and treatment-seeking: potential need and demand for infertility medical care Jacky Boivin, Laura Bunting, John A. Collins et al. · Human Reproduction Open access	21 Mar 2007	2,507

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Reproductive Health and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Reproductive Health and Technologies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 New YorkUnited States 206 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 173 works
3 MelbourneAustralia 123 works
4 TehranIran 97 works
5 BostonUnited States 90 works
6 ParisFrance 88 works
7 São PauloBrazil 79 works
8 RomeItaly 74 works
9 BeijingChina 74 works
10 Los AngelesUnited States 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

RockvilleUS · 25.3 works13×

← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Reproductive Health and Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Reproductive Health and Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Monash University and Sapienza University of Rome 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	68.7	14.2%	3.5×	92	+7.5%
2	Monash UniversityAustralia	66.6	14.0%	6.3×	50	+61.5%
3	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	65.8	23.7%	3.4×	32	+24.8%
4	Vrije Universiteit BrusselBelgium	61.9	20.3%	6.7×	16	+57.1%
5	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	60.8	19.3%	2.4×	32	+26.2%
6	University of MichiganUnited States	60.4	14.5%	3.5×	44	+29.1%
7	The University of MelbourneAustralia	60.2	19.1%	3.0×	28	+31.4%
8	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	59.9	22.8%	3.3×	15	-0.9%
9	Ghent UniversityBelgium	59.8	15.0%	4.5×	28	+28.9%
10	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	59.6	25.9%	2.7×	13	+25.5%
11	National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece	59.2	28.8%	3.1×	13	+66.3%
12	University of CopenhagenDenmark	58.7	18.1%	3.1×	24	-4.1%
13	University of GothenburgSweden	58.3	24.3%	2.9×	11	+18.5%
14	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	58.1	15.8%	7.0×	41	-9.8%
15	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	57.7	13.8%	2.6×	33	+26.4%
16	Nanjing Medical UniversityChina	55.7	26.6%	2.2×	16	+65.3%
17	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	55.3	31.4%	0.8×	13	+70.4%
18	Yale UniversityUnited States	55.1	21.9%	3.8×	34	-5.5%
19	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael	54.6	12.3%	5.5×	36	+11.7%
20	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	53.8	15.5%	6.5×	44	-12.5%
21	Emory UniversityUnited States	53.7	14.4%	5.1×	34	+9.5%
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	53.6	10.0%	3.8×	55	+65.6%
23	KU LeuvenBelgium	53.6	17.3%	1.7×	14	+57.7%
24	The University of SydneyAustralia	53.4	18.2%	2.1×	21	+34.1%
25	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	53.4	19.6%	2.4×	18	+54.9%
26	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	52.8	19.8%	1.9×	11	+45.0%
27	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	52.6	31.0%	1.9×	9	-26.2%
28	Sichuan UniversityChina	52.2	24.4%	0.9×	17	+163.2%
29	University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom	51.7	16.7%	5.5×	10	+17.4%
30	University of GroningenNetherlands	51.5	27.3%	1.7×	9	+53.8%
31	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	50.6	15.6%	3.0×	21	+43.0%
32	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	50.5	13.0%	1.1×	26	+43.0%
33	Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran	49.7	16.0%	4.1×	20	+37.6%
34	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	49.6	8.5%	3.2×	30	+54.0%
35	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	49.5	9.4%	3.2×	28	+35.1%
36	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain	49.4	12.9%	3.2×	17	+44.8%
37	University of FlorenceItaly	49.1	21.4%	2.3×	11	+10.9%
38	University of WashingtonUnited States	48.6	10.3%	2.8×	26	+47.7%
39	Peking UniversityChina	48.4	14.1%	1.4×	24	+95.0%
40	Zhejiang UniversityChina	47.6	15.3%	0.9×	21	+156.6%
41	Chongqing Medical UniversityChina	46.8	22.7%	1.8×	8	+558.7%
42	University of TorontoCanada	46.2	12.2%	2.1×	34	-17.2%
43	Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityItaly	44.9	12.4%	8.5×	9	+164.1%
44	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	43.9	19.2%	1.4×	8	+1.3%
45	Iranshahr UniversityIran	43.8	17.4%	26.9×	18	-7.0%
46	University of Hong KongChina	40.9	16.6%	1.4×	10	-3.2%
47	De Montfort UniversityUnited Kingdom	40.1	10.7%	13.4×	10	-10.3%
48	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	39.7	19.0%	1.0×	8	+5.9%
49	University of ZurichSwitzerland	39.6	11.2%	2.2×	12	+172.7%
50	University of PecsHungary	36.0	4.7%	8.6×	14	+357.4%
51	Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and ResearchIndia	35.9	7.2%	8.5×	16	+523.2%
52	National University of SingaporeSingapore	35.6	12.2%	0.9×	8	+85.2%
53	University of BernSwitzerland	34.0	1.6%	2.5×	11	+52.6%
54	CHA UniversitySouth Korea	32.1	11.5%	14.6×	10	-12.7%
55	Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health ServicesIran	19.8	6.2%	12.3×	9	-21.8%

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 Reproductive Health and Technologies, country by country

Is Reproductive Health and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Reproductive Health and Technologies.

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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 Reproductive Health and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

Fractional works of Reproductive Health and Technologies 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.

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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Which countries lead Reproductive Health and Technologies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Reproductive Health and Technologies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Reproductive Health and Technologies?

What are the most cited papers in Reproductive Health and Technologies?

Where is Reproductive Health and Technologies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Reproductive Health and Technologies?

Is Reproductive Health and Technologies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion