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Urinary Tract Infections Management

Urinary Tract Infections Management is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 epidemiology, mechanisms of infection, treatment options, and antimicrobial resistance of urinary tract infections (UTIs). It covers topics such as catheter-associated UTIs, uropathogenic Escherichia coli, asymptomatic bacteriuria, prevention strategies, the urinary microbiome, and the use of fosfomycin. The papers also discuss clinical practice guidelines for the management of UTIs in different patient populations.

  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Epidemiology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Catheter-Associated Infections
  • Treatment Guidelines
  • Uropathogenic Escherichia coli
  • Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
  • Prevention Strategies
  • Microbiome
  • Fosfomycin
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urinary Tract Infections Management

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

Which countries lead Urinary Tract Infections Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 800 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 800 works
  3. 3 India 541 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 387 works
  5. 5 Japan 248 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 246 works
  7. 7 Italy 225 works
  8. 8 Iraq 214 works
  9. 9 France 201 works
  10. 10 Spain 193 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: 34.8%China: 17.1%India: 11.5%United Kingdom: 8.3%6 others listed: 28.3%35%largest
United States1,632 · 34.8%China800 · 17.1%India541 · 11.5%United Kingdom387 · 8.3%6 others listed1,327 · 28.3%

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

Which institutions lead Urinary Tract Infections Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Urinary Tract Infections Management research, followed by The Ohio State University and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 38 works
  2. 2 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 28 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 28 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 28 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 24 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urinary Tract Infections Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urinary Tract Infections Management include Christopher J L Murray, Eric S. Lander and Rob Knight.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  3. 3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  7. 7 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Urinary Tract Infections Management?

The most cited paper in Urinary Tract Infections Management is "Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome" (Curtis Huttenhower et al., 2012), with 12,195 citations. Next come "Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns" (4,819) and "An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU" (4,420).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome Curtis Huttenhower et al. · Nature Open access248 authors Jun 2012 12,195
2 Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns Maria Gloria Domínguez-Bello, Elizabeth K. Costello, Mónica Contreras et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 21 Jun 2010 4,819
3 An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU Peter J. Pronovost, Dale M. Needham, Sean M. Berenholtz et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 27 Dec 2006 4,420
4 Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women Jacques Ravel, Pawel Gajer, Zaid Abdo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 3 Jun 2010 4,394
5 Urinary tract infections: epidemiology, mechanisms of infection and treatment options Ana Lidia Flores‐Mireles, Jennifer N. Walker, Michael G. Caparon et al. · Nature Reviews Microbiology ReviewOpen access 8 Apr 2015 4,336
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Where is Urinary Tract Infections Management research done?

The largest centres of Urinary Tract Infections Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Najaf.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 107 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 99 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 96 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 74 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 69 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 65 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 60 works
  8. 8 BaghdadIraq 60 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 56 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NajafIQ · 21.4 works9.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urinary Tract Infections Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Urinary Tract Infections Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Washington University in St. Louis, The Ohio State University and Duke 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%30%mean 16.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Washington Universit…University of MichiganDuke UniversityThe Ohio State Unive…
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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
1Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 65.825.2%3.9×20 -38.7%
2The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 61.111.5%3.2×28 +68.7%
3Duke UniversityUnited States 59.616.0%3.6×21 +16.0%
4University of MichiganUnited States 57.919.3%2.2×24 -38.6%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.817.5%1.2×27 -27.7%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 57.721.2%1.7×27 +4.1%
7All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56.86.5%4.8×38 +126.5%
8University of WashingtonUnited States 56.612.7%1.9×15 +27.1%
9Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 56.117.7%3.2×16 +30.3%
10Tzu Chi UniversityTaiwan 56.022.3%35.4×11 +42.5%

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 Urinary Tract Infections Management, country by country

Is Urinary Tract Infections Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Urinary Tract Infections Management.

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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 Urinary Tract Infections Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Urinary Tract Infections Management0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urinary Tract Infections Management 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%Urinary Tract Infections Management10.2% 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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