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Thermoregulation and physiological responses

Thermoregulation and physiological responses is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 explores the physiological responses to heat stress in humans, including topics such as heat stroke, fluid replacement, thermoregulation, hydration, cerebral blood flow, skin microcirculation, hyperthermia, sweating response, and exercise performance. It covers a wide range of aspects related to heat stress and its impact on the human body.

  • Heat Stroke
  • Fluid Replacement
  • Thermoregulation
  • Hydration
  • Cerebral Blood Flow
  • Skin Microcirculation
  • Hyperthermia
  • Sweating Response
  • Exercise Performance
  • Microvascular Function
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thermoregulation and physiological responses

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

Which countries lead Thermoregulation and physiological responses research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 948 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 948 works
  3. 3 Japan 357 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 261 works
  5. 5 India 228 works
  6. 6 Russia 220 works
  7. 7 Australia 194 works
  8. 8 Canada 184 works
  9. 9 Germany 180 works
  10. 10 Brazil 171 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: 31.2%China: 23.8%Japan: 9.0%United Kingdom: 6.5%6 others listed: 29.5%31%largest
United States1,242 · 31.2%China948 · 23.8%Japan357 · 9.0%United Kingdom261 · 6.5%6 others listed1,176 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Thermoregulation and physiological responses research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Thermoregulation and physiological responses research, followed by University of Ottawa and United States Department of Defense.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 54 works
  2. 2 University of OttawaCanada 34 works
  3. 3 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Donghua UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Indiana UniversityUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 19 works
  10. 10 The University of SydneyAustralia 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thermoregulation and physiological responses?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thermoregulation and physiological responses include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and John J.V. McMurray.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  8. 8 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  9. 9 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  10. 10 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Thermoregulation and physiological responses?

The most cited paper in Thermoregulation and physiological responses is "Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged from 16 to 72 Years" (J. V. G. A. Durnin, James R. G. Womersley, 1974), with 6,389 citations. Next come "Association between Water Intake, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES Data" (5,884) and "Noninvasive, Infrared Monitoring of Cerebral and Myocardial Oxygen Sufficiency and Circulatory Parameters" (3,921).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged from 16 to 72 Years J. V. G. A. Durnin, James R. G. Womersley · British Journal Of Nutrition Open access Jul 1974 6,389
2 Association between Water Intake, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES Data Jessica M. Sontrop, Stephanie N. Dixon, Amit X. Garg et al. · American Journal of Nephrology Open access 2013 5,884
3 Noninvasive, Infrared Monitoring of Cerebral and Myocardial Oxygen Sufficiency and Circulatory Parameters Frans F. Jöbsis · Science 23 Dec 1977 3,921
4 MCML—Monte Carlo modeling of light transport in multi-layered tissues Lihong V. Wang, Steven L. Jacques, Liqiong Zheng · Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Jul 1995 3,333
5 Generalized equations for predicting body density of men Andrew S. Jackson, M. L. Pollock · British Journal Of Nutrition Open access Nov 1978 3,210
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Where is Thermoregulation and physiological responses research done?

The largest centres of Thermoregulation and physiological responses research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 164 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 106 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 99 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 97 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 61 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 59 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 44 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 41 works
  10. 10 OttawaCanada 40 works
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Where is the best place to study Thermoregulation and physiological responses?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Ottawa, Qingdao University of Technology and Harvard 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%20%40%mean 19.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Qingdao University o…Tsinghua UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Ottawa
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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
1University of OttawaCanada 70.513.1%10.0×34 +15.9%
2Qingdao University of TechnologyChina 69.030.2%14.5×12 +237.5%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.219.7%1.6×26 +10.9%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.928.8%1.6×19 +64.2%
5National University of SingaporeSingapore 64.523.1%2.9×17 +32.9%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.617.3%4.2×18 +15.5%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60.120.5%1.2×18 +67.7%
8Donghua UniversityChina 59.17.9%17.0×32 +74.4%
9Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 57.715.1%4.1×23 +8.9%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 57.618.2%3.1×19 +7.0%

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 Thermoregulation and physiological responses, country by country

Is Thermoregulation and physiological responses research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Thermoregulation and physiological responses.

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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 Thermoregulation and physiological responses as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thermoregulation and physiological responses 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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