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Thermal Regulation in Medicine

Thermal Regulation in Medicine is a research topic within Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 use of therapeutic hypothermia and fever management in the context of brain injury, stroke, and critical care. It explores the effects of hypothermia on neuroprotection, inflammation, and body temperature regulation, as well as its potential therapeutic mechanisms.

  • Hypothermia
  • Fever
  • Brain Injury
  • Thermoregulation
  • Neuroprotection
  • Stroke
  • Inflammation
  • Body Temperature
  • Critical Care
  • Therapeutic Mechanisms
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thermal Regulation in Medicine

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

Which countries lead Thermal Regulation in Medicine research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (911 and 705 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 911 works
  2. 2 China 705 works
  3. 3 India 216 works
  4. 4 Japan 202 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 198 works
  6. 6 Germany 177 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 159 works
  8. 8 Italy 125 works
  9. 9 South Korea 116 works
  10. 10 Canada 116 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: 31.1%China: 24.1%India: 7.4%Japan: 6.9%6 others listed: 30.4%31%largest
United States911 · 31.1%China705 · 24.1%India216 · 7.4%Japan202 · 6.9%6 others listed890 · 30.4%

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

Which institutions lead Thermal Regulation in Medicine research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Thermal Regulation in Medicine research, followed by Sichuan University and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 33 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 21 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 20 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 18 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 17 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 17 works
  8. 8 InsermFrance 15 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thermal Regulation in Medicine?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thermal Regulation in Medicine include David Moher, Valery L. Feigin and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  5. 5 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k 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 Thermal Regulation in Medicine?

The most cited paper in Thermal Regulation in Medicine is "Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia" (Stephen A. Bernard, Timothy W. Gray, Michael Buist et al., 2002), with 5,437 citations. Next come "Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve the Neurologic Outcome after Cardiac Arrest" (5,244) and "Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study" (3,009).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia Stephen A. Bernard, Timothy W. Gray, Michael Buist et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 21 Feb 2002 5,437
2 Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve the Neurologic Outcome after Cardiac Arrest The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group · New England Journal of Medicine 21 Feb 2002 5,244
3 Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study Antonio Gasparrini et al. · The Lancet Open access 21 May 2015 3,009
4 A Multicomponent Intervention to Prevent Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients Sharon K. Inouye, Sidney T. Bogardus, Peter A. Charpentier et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 4 Mar 1999 2,941
5 Targeted Temperature Management at 33°C versus 36°C after Cardiac Arrest Niklas Nielsen et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Nov 2013 2,799
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Where is Thermal Regulation in Medicine research done?

The largest centres of Thermal Regulation in Medicine research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 103 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 54 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 52 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 46 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 40 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 39 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 33 works
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Where is the best place to study Thermal Regulation in Medicine?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Ottawa and Capital Medical 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.

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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 73.120.2%2.7×33 -4.1%
2University of OttawaCanada 64.732.8%3.9×10 +5.8%
3Capital Medical UniversityChina 56.317.6%4.8×20 +29.1%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 55.118.6%2.4×21 +49.5%
5University of TorontoCanada 53.315.4%1.9×14 +26.1%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.517.9%1.7×17 +19.8%
7Stanford UniversityUnited States 49.214.5%2.1×12 +24.5%
8Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 48.725.0%5.1×10 +84.4%
9University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 48.717.5%3.1×8 +63.6%
10Anhui Medical UniversityChina 48.410.5%7.5×13 +35.8%

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 Thermal Regulation in Medicine, country by country

Is Thermal Regulation in Medicine research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Thermal Regulation in Medicine.

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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 Thermal Regulation in Medicine as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thermal Regulation in Medicine 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.

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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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