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Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment

Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 management, natural history, genetic aspects, and treatment outcomes of vascular malformations in the brain, including arteriovenous malformations, cerebral cavernous malformations, and dural arteriovenous fistulas. It covers topics such as predictors of hemorrhage, endovascular treatment techniques, genetic mutations associated with these malformations, and the clinical management guidelines.

  • Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
  • Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
  • Radiosurgery
  • Embolization
  • Hemorrhage Predictors
  • Genetic Mutations
  • Endovascular Treatment
  • Clinical Management
  • Natural History
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment

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

Which countries lead Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 712 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 712 works
  3. 3 Japan 508 works
  4. 4 India 335 works
  5. 5 Germany 194 works
  6. 6 Italy 177 works
  7. 7 France 145 works
  8. 8 South Korea 137 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 132 works
  10. 10 Brazil 122 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: 35.9%China: 18.5%Japan: 13.2%India: 8.7%6 others listed: 23.6%36%largest
United States1,380 · 35.9%China712 · 18.5%Japan508 · 13.2%India335 · 8.7%6 others listed908 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research, followed by Capital Medical University and Neurological Surgery.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 69 works
  2. 2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 67 works
  3. 3 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 60 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 46 works
  6. 6 St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical CenterUnited States 42 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 30 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 28 works
  9. 9 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment include Jost Bruno Jonas, Jun Wang and Graeme J. Hankey.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  4. 4 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 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment?

The most cited paper in Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment is "Unruptured intracranial aneurysms: natural history, clinical outcome, and risks of surgical and endovascular treatment" (David O. Wiebers, 2003), with 3,930 citations. Next come "Relation of Cerebral Vasospasm to Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Visualized by Computerized Tomographic Scanning" (3,124) and "A Proposed Grading System for Arteriovenous Malformations" (2,531).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Unruptured intracranial aneurysms: natural history, clinical outcome, and risks of surgical and endovascular treatment David O. Wiebers · The Lancet Jul 2003 3,930
2 Relation of Cerebral Vasospasm to Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Visualized by Computerized Tomographic Scanning C. MILLER FISHER, J. Philip Kistler, JM Davis · Neurosurgery 1980 3,124
3 A Proposed Grading System for Arteriovenous Malformations Robert F. Spetzler, Neil A. Martin · Journal of neurosurgery Oct 1986 2,531
4 Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Gustavo Saposnik, Fernando Barinagarrementería, Robert D. Brown et al. · Stroke Open access 3 Feb 2011 1,979
5 Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms — Risk of Rupture and Risks of Surgical Intervention The International Study of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Investigators · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 10 Dec 1998 1,910
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Where is Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre, Phoenix and Rochester.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 155 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 109 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 73 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 62 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 60 works
  7. 7 Rockville CentreUnited States 60 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 55 works
  9. 9 PhoenixUnited States 49 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 60.3 works84×
  2. PhoenixUS · 49.1 works30×
  3. RochesterUS · 24.3 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Capital Medical University and University of Toronto score highest, combining citation 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 19.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TorontoHarvard UniversityCapital Medical Univ…University of Califo…
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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.

Citation 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 87.917.5%4.8×69 +22.2%
2Capital Medical UniversityChina 74.016.8%13.8×67 +15.8%
3University of TorontoCanada 66.220.3%3.0×28 -14.6%
4University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 64.815.2%7.5×24 -1.0%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.016.9%3.5×24 -0.9%
6University of CincinnatiUnited States 61.920.8%4.6×12 +62.6%
7Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 61.226.1%2.6×10 +11.7%
8University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 59.619.4%6.5×12 +22.1%
9Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 58.722.6%5.6×11 +61.8%
10University of IowaUnited States 58.322.1%4.6×10 +48.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment, country by country

Is Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment.

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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 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment 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%Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment10.2% 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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