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Respiratory and Cough-Related Research

Respiratory and Cough-Related Research is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 35k 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 diagnosis and management of chronic cough, including topics such as cough reflex sensitivity, neuropathic disorder, vocal cord dysfunction, refractory chronic cough, cough hypersensitivity syndrome, laryngeal sensory neuropathy, airway afferent nerves, Pelargonium sidoides, and ambroxol.

  • Chronic Cough
  • Cough Reflex Sensitivity
  • Neuropathic Disorder
  • Vocal Cord Dysfunction
  • Refractory Chronic Cough
  • Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome
  • Laryngeal Sensory Neuropathy
  • Airway Afferent Nerves
  • Pelargonium Sidoides
  • Ambroxol
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Respiratory and Cough-Related Research

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

Which countries lead Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 759 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 759 works
  3. 3 India 459 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 448 works
  5. 5 Germany 278 works
  6. 6 Japan 219 works
  7. 7 Italy 219 works
  8. 8 Russia 207 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 185 works
  10. 10 Spain 167 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: 29.7%China: 18.1%India: 11.0%United Kingdom: 10.7%6 others listed: 30.5%30%largest
United States1,245 · 29.7%China759 · 18.1%India459 · 11.0%United Kingdom448 · 10.7%6 others listed1,276 · 30.5%

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

Which institutions lead Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research, followed by Imperial College London and King's College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  3. 3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  4. 4 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 26 works
  5. 5 Sechenov UniversityRussia 26 works
  6. 6 McMaster UniversityCanada 24 works
  7. 7 AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)United Kingdom 23 works
  8. 8 Mayo ClinicUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustUnited Kingdom 22 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Respiratory and Cough-Related Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Respiratory and Cough-Related Research include George Davey Smith, Robert John Tibshirani and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  8. 8 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Respiratory and Cough-Related Research?

The most cited paper in Respiratory and Cough-Related Research is "An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management" (Ganesh Raghu et al., 2011), with 7,347 citations. Next come "Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008*" (4,764) and "Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper" (4,464).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management Ganesh Raghu et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Open access Mar 2011 7,347
2 Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008* Jean Bousquet et al. · Allergy Open access 7 Mar 2008 4,764
3 Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper Bartolomé R. Celli et al. · European Respiratory Journal Open access Jun 2004 4,464
4 A Phase 3 Trial of Pirfenidone in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Talmadge E. King, Williamson Z. Bradford, Socorro Castro-Bernardini et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 May 2014 4,051
5 International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma Kian Fan Chung et al. · European Respiratory Journal 12 Dec 2013 3,995
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Where is Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research done?

The largest centres of Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manchester and Hamilton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 151 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 117 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 93 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 77 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 74 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 67 works
  7. 7 ManchesterUnited Kingdom 56 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 54 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 53 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManchesterGB · 56.3 works7.2×
  2. HamiltonCA · 24.9 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Respiratory and Cough-Related Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Respiratory and Cough-Related Research?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Imperial College London and McMaster 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 22.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of DundeeKing's College LondonImperial College Lon…McMaster 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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 81.828.9%5.6×26 +9.9%
2Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 79.820.2%6.1×33 -2.2%
3McMaster UniversityCanada 77.017.6%7.7×24 +47.6%
4University of DundeeUnited Kingdom 71.930.2%13.0×12 +75.9%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.117.6%2.6×45 -16.0%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 70.914.4%5.7×26 +12.4%
7Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 67.628.4%3.7×10 +36.0%
8Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 65.622.7%5.6×10 +14.6%
9University of HullUnited Kingdom 61.419.9%17.4×11 +58.9%
10McGill UniversityCanada 61.321.4%2.2×12 +40.4%

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 Respiratory and Cough-Related Research, country by country

Is Respiratory and Cough-Related Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Respiratory and Cough-Related Research.

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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 Respiratory and Cough-Related Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Respiratory and Cough-Related Research0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Respiratory and Cough-Related Research 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%Respiratory and Cough-Related Research10.9% 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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