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Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes

Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in organ transplantation, including lung and heart transplants, rejection mechanisms such as allograft vasculopathy and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, the use of ex vivo perfusion, primary graft dysfunction, and donor selection criteria. It also discusses immunosuppressive therapy and its impact on post-transplant outcomes.

  • Transplantation
  • Rejection
  • Lung Transplant
  • Heart Transplant
  • Allograft Vasculopathy
  • Ex Vivo Perfusion
  • Primary Graft Dysfunction
  • Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome
  • Donor Criteria
  • Immunosuppressive Therapy
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes

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

Which countries lead Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.8k and 545 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.8k works
  2. 2 China 545 works
  3. 3 Germany 319 works
  4. 4 Canada 305 works
  5. 5 Japan 294 works
  6. 6 Italy 286 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 256 works
  8. 8 France 252 works
  9. 9 Spain 239 works
  10. 10 South Korea 206 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: 58.8%China: 8.3%Germany: 4.9%Canada: 4.6%6 others listed: 23.4%59%largest
United States3,849 · 58.8%China545 · 8.3%Germany319 · 4.9%Canada305 · 4.6%6 others listed1,533 · 23.4%

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

Which institutions lead Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research, followed by Mayo Clinic and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 137 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 128 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 115 works
  4. 4 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States 102 works
  5. 5 Columbia UniversityUnited States 90 works
  6. 6 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 89 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 89 works
  8. 8 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 86 works
  9. 9 Temple UniversityUnited States 75 works
  10. 10 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 73 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes include Zhong Lin Wang, John J.V. McMurray and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  6. 6 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  7. 7 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  8. 8 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  9. 9 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  10. 10 Victoria Delgado Netherlands 269k 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 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes is "Comparison of Mortality in All Patients on Dialysis, Patients on Dialysis Awaiting Transplantation, and Recipients of a First Cadaveric Transplant" (Robert A. Wolfe, Valarie B. Ashby, Edgar Louis Milford et al., 1999), with 5,394 citations. Next come "Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure" (3,992) and "Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension" (3,873).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Comparison of Mortality in All Patients on Dialysis, Patients on Dialysis Awaiting Transplantation, and Recipients of a First Cadaveric Transplant Robert A. Wolfe, Valarie B. Ashby, Edgar Louis Milford et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Dec 1999 5,394
2 Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure Eric A. Rose et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 15 Nov 2001 3,992
3 Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension Nazzareno Galiè et al. · European Heart Journal Open access 27 Aug 2009 3,873
4 Ischemia and reperfusion—from mechanism to translation Holger K. Eltzschig, Tobias de la Garza Eckle · Nature Medicine Open access Nov 2011 3,427
5 Advanced Heart Failure Treated with Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Mark S. Slaughter, Joseph G. Rogers, Carmelo A. Milano et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Nov 2009 3,083
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Where is Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Philadelphia (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Darlinghurst.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 219 works
  2. 2 PhiladelphiaUnited States 202 works
  3. 3 Los AngelesUnited States 191 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 158 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 137 works
  6. 6 ClevelandUnited States 115 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 110 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 108 works
  9. 9 PittsburghUnited States 107 works
  10. 10 HoustonUnited States 105 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DarlinghurstAU · 20.5 works52×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, KU Leuven and Stanford 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%10%20%mean 13.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →KU LeuvenDuke UniversityHarvard UniversityStanford 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.

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 87.513.5%6.1×137 +25.0%
2KU LeuvenBelgium 82.416.8%7.7×52 +14.1%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 80.212.8%8.5×88 +17.9%
4Duke UniversityUnited States 80.215.1%10.2×59 +19.6%
5University of TorontoCanada 79.112.0%8.0×115 -4.9%
6Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 76.115.3%14.3×73 +69.7%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 73.113.9%5.8×63 +4.1%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 72.98.8%11.6×90 +16.2%
9Cornell UniversityUnited States 72.912.6%4.8×44 +56.2%
10University of MichiganUnited States 71.411.5%5.0×54 +37.9%

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 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, country by country

Is Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes.

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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 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes 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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