The University of Barcelona is the institution with the most scientific performance on research on cirrhosis worldwide.
The University of Barcelona is the institution with the most scientific performance on research on cirrhosis worldwide. The University of Barcelona is the institution with the most publications and number of bibliometric citations worldwide in research on liver cirrhosis, followed by the Virginia Commonwealth University (United States), the University College London (United Kingdom), the Mayo Clinic (United States) and the University of Padova (Italy). This is one of the main conclusions of a bibliometric study on liver cirrhosis published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology and signed by a team of experts from the Southwest Medical University in Luzhou (Sichuan, China). The study highlights Professor Pere Ginès, from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB, as the researcher with the top citation index per article and one of the experts with the most scientific performance worldwide. The study reviews a total of 7,775 bibliographic records from the Web of Science Core Collection on liver cirrhosis published in 1,511 scientific journals between 2011 and 2020, in an international context covering a total of 109 countries and 6,902 research institutions. The UB, leading institution in research on liver cirrhosis Liver cirrhosis is a chronic progressive pathology caused by several factors, and it affects the structure and functioning of the liver. It is now one of the leading causes of death and one of the primary diseases that generate the greatest economic expenditure on health resources.
