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Retinal Imaging and Analysis

Retinal Imaging and Analysis is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and validation of deep learning algorithms for the detection and management of retinal diseases, particularly diabetic retinopathy. It includes topics such as vessel segmentation, optic nerve localization, cardiovascular risk prediction, macular degeneration, and glaucoma detection.

  • Retinal Disease
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Deep Learning
  • Vessel Segmentation
  • Ophthalmology
  • Image Analysis
  • Optic Nerve
  • Cardiovascular Risk
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Glaucoma
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Retinal Imaging and Analysis

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

Which countries lead Retinal Imaging and Analysis research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (2.2k and 2.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2.2k works
  2. 2 China 2.2k works
  3. 3 United States 1.4k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 378 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 293 works
  6. 6 South Korea 264 works
  7. 7 Japan 253 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 246 works
  9. 9 Germany 236 works
  10. 10 Spain 219 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.

India: 29.0%China: 28.0%United States: 18.6%United Kingdom: 4.9%6 others listed: 19.5%29%largest
India2,242 · 29.0%China2,167 · 28.0%United States1,441 · 18.6%United Kingdom378 · 4.9%6 others listed1,512 · 19.5%

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

Which institutions lead Retinal Imaging and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Retinal Imaging and Analysis research, followed by Saveetha University and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 104 works
  2. 2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 66 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 65 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61 works
  7. 7 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 61 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 55 works
  9. 9 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 51 works
  10. 10 Chitkara UniversityIndia 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Retinal Imaging and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Retinal Imaging and Analysis include Theo Vos, George Davey Smith and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  5. 5 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  8. 8 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  9. 9 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  10. 10 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 Retinal Imaging and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Retinal Imaging and Analysis is "Optical Coherence Tomography" (David T. Huang, Eric A. Swanson, Charles P. Lin et al., 1991), with 13,894 citations. Next come "Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs" (7,873) and "Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (5,452).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Optical Coherence Tomography David T. Huang, Eric A. Swanson, Charles P. Lin et al. · Science Open access 22 Nov 1991 13,894
2 Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs Varun Gulshan, Lily Peng, Marc Coram et al. · JAMA 29 Nov 2016 7,873
3 Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis Wan Ling Wong, Xinyi Su, Xiang Li et al. · The Lancet Global Health ReviewOpen access 3 Jan 2014 5,452
4 Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy Joanne Wen Yee Yau et al. · Diabetes Care Open access 2 Feb 2012 5,033
5 Identifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable Diseases by Image-Based Deep Learning Daniel Kermany et al. · Cell Open access Feb 2018 4,903
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Retinal Imaging and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Retinal Imaging and Analysis research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), Beijing (China), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madurai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChennaiIndia 351 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 329 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 184 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 156 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 136 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 132 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 126 works
  8. 8 SingaporeSingapore 119 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 108 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaduraiIN · 27.6 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Retinal Imaging and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Retinal Imaging and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Saveetha University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and National University of Singapore 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 17.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Chinese University o…Saveetha UniversityVellore Institute of…
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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
1Saveetha UniversityIndia 69.715.4%7.2×66 +638.8%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 67.219.6%4.5×32 +1.6%
3National University of SingaporeSingapore 66.924.7%2.5×28 -30.0%
4Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 66.014.5%6.5×61 +209.5%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 65.118.2%2.0×43 +127.0%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.816.6%4.3×66 -14.6%
7Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.123.1%3.9×10 +297.2%
8Chitkara UniversityIndia 62.412.1%13.5×50 +819.3%
9King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.121.0%1.7×16 +53.6%
10SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 62.06.6%10.7×104 +385.3%

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 Retinal Imaging and Analysis, country by country

Is Retinal Imaging and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Retinal Imaging and Analysis.

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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 Retinal Imaging and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.048% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Retinal Imaging and Analysis0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Retinal Imaging and Analysis 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%Retinal Imaging and Analysis9.9% 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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