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Vascular Procedures and Complications

Vascular Procedures and Complications is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on vascular access for coronary procedures, comparing radial and femoral approaches, as well as the management of vascular trauma and complications. It includes studies on percutaneous coronary intervention, arterial injuries, pseudoaneurysms, and the use of vascular closure devices to prevent complications. The cluster also covers topics such as hemostasis, access site bleeding, and outcomes of different access approaches in various patient populations.

  • Radial Access
  • Femoral Access
  • Vascular Complications
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  • Arterial Injury
  • Vascular Trauma
  • Transradial Approach
  • Vascular Closure Devices
  • Pseudoaneurysms
  • Hemostasis
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vascular Procedures and Complications

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

Which countries lead Vascular Procedures and Complications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 497 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 497 works
  3. 3 Japan 438 works
  4. 4 India 324 works
  5. 5 Italy 210 works
  6. 6 Germany 202 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 200 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 153 works
  9. 9 South Korea 132 works
  10. 10 Brazil 123 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: 39.3%China: 13.2%Japan: 11.7%India: 8.6%6 others listed: 27.2%39%largest
United States1,477 · 39.3%China497 · 13.2%Japan438 · 11.7%India324 · 8.6%6 others listed1,020 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Vascular Procedures and Complications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Vascular Procedures and Complications research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 54 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 44 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 Yale UniversityUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
  6. 6 New York Medical CollegeUnited States 19 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 19 works
  8. 8 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Emory UniversityUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vascular Procedures and Complications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vascular Procedures and Complications include Stephan Windecker, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  2. 2 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  5. 5 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  6. 6 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  7. 7 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  8. 8 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom 273k citations
  9. 9 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  10. 10 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k 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 Procedures and Complications?

The most cited paper in Vascular Procedures and Complications is "Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism" (William H Geerts, Graham Frederick Pineo, John A. Heit et al., 2004), with 5,923 citations. Next come "Transfemoral Intraluminal Graft Implantation for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms" (3,364) and "Incidence, Predictors, and Outcome of Thrombosis After Successful Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents" (3,137).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism William H Geerts, Graham Frederick Pineo, John A. Heit et al. · CHEST Journal Sep 2004 5,923
2 Transfemoral Intraluminal Graft Implantation for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Juan Carlos Parodi, J C Palmaz, Hector D. Baronè · Annals of Vascular Surgery Nov 1991 3,364
3 Incidence, Predictors, and Outcome of Thrombosis After Successful Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents Ιoannis Iakovou · JAMA Open access 3 May 2005 3,137
4 Radial versus femoral access for coronary angiography and intervention in patients with acute coronary syndromes (RIVAL): a randomised, parallel group, multicentre trial Sanjit S. Jolly, Salim Yusuf, John A. Cairns et al. · The Lancet Apr 2011 2,130
5 A Prospective Study of Venous Thromboembolism after Major Trauma William H Geerts, Karen I. Code, Richard M. Jay et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 15 Dec 1994 1,446
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Where is Vascular Procedures and Complications research done?

The largest centres of Vascular Procedures and Complications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Boston (United States) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 72 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 69 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 55 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 47 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 45 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 45 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 42 works
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Where is the best place to study Vascular Procedures and Complications?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Catholic University of Korea 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 17.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Catholic University …Harvard UniversityUniversità Cattolica…University of Toronto
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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 87.820.4%3.6×54 +14.9%
2Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 68.418.3%7.5×15 +63.2%
3Catholic University of KoreaSouth Korea 61.929.6%5.4×8 +47.2%
4University of TorontoCanada 58.913.2%2.0×19 +4.4%
5Emory UniversityUnited States 56.811.3%4.7×18 +38.5%
6University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 56.217.8%3.5×14 +5.9%
7University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 55.910.9%5.8×13 +38.9%
8Yale UniversityUnited States 55.08.7%4.8×24 +13.3%
9The University of QueenslandAustralia 53.423.7%2.2×10 -16.7%
10University of PatrasGreece 52.419.7%8.3×10 -4.8%

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 Vascular Procedures and Complications, country by country

Is Vascular Procedures and Complications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Vascular Procedures and Complications.

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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 Procedures and Complications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Vascular Procedures and Complications 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 Procedures and Complications10.0% 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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