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AOSpine

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Research works
18
▲ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
408
22.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
85%
world 18%
AOSpine

Not ranked overall: AOSpine is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does AOSpine work in?

In all years, 88% of research at AOSpine is in Health Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (82%), Social Sciences (5%), Dentistry (5%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 16 fractional works · 87.7% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 82.3% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 35.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 16.1% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 6.8% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKAOSpine18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences88%Social Sciences7%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1582.3%
    2. Dentistry14.5%
    3. Health Professions00.8%
    1. Social Sciences15.2%
    2. Decision Sciences01.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    4. Psychology00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.8%
    1. Engineering00.8%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.21× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringDentistry: 1.98× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.73× its world share, 4 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 2.99× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.10× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.73×4 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.99×0 works
  3. Dentistry1.98×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.21×0 works
  5. Social Sciences1.10×1 works
  6. Health Professions0.70×0 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.19×0 works
  8. Engineering0.16×0 works

Who are the top researchers at AOSpine?

Ranked on the quality score, Niccole Germscheid lead among researchers whose main affiliation is AOSpine.

  1. 1 Niccole Germscheid Switzerland · #1,196,638 worldwide 1.6k citations · 61 works
All ranked researchers at AOSpine

What are the most cited papers from AOSpine?

The most cited paper from AOSpine is "Inflammatory and catabolic signalling in intervertebral discs: The roles of NF-B and MAP Kinases" (Karin Wuertz‐Kozak, Nam N. Vo, Dimitris Kletsas et al., 2012), with 229 citations. Next come "Inflammatory Mediators in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration and Discogenic Pain" (219) and "Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an international consensus" (135).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inflammatory and catabolic signalling in intervertebral discs: The roles of NF-B and MAP Kinases Karin Wuertz‐Kozak, Nam N. Vo, Dimitris Kletsas et al. · European Cells and Materials Open access 16 Feb 2012 229
2 Inflammatory Mediators in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration and Discogenic Pain Karin Wuertz‐Kozak, Lisbet Haglund · Global Spine Journal Open access 21 May 2013 219
3 Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an international consensus Marinus de Kleuver, Stephen J. Lewis, Niccole Germscheid et al. · European Spine Journal Open access 23 Jun 2014 135
4 Mobile spine chordoma: results of 166 patients from the AOSpine Knowledge Forum Tumor database Ziya L. Gokaslan et al. · Journal of Neurosurgery Spine Open access 18 Dec 2015 129
5 Surgical treatment of sacral chordoma: prognostic variables for local recurrence and overall survival Peter Pal Varga, Zsolt Szövérfi, Charles G. Fisher et al. · European Spine Journal 22 Dec 2014 116
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does AOSpine publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment.

Spine and Intervertebral…1Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 1 fractional worksSpinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques: 1 fractional worksCervical and Thoracic Myelopathy: 0 fractional worksScoliosis diagnosis and treatment: 0 fractional worksAnthropological Studies and Insights: 0 fractional worksAfrican Studies and Ethn…0African Studies and Ethnography: 0 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 0 fractional worksBiotechnology and Related Fields: 0 fractional worksManagement of metastatic bone disease: 0 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 0 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicineSurgeryAnthropologySociology and Political Science3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 1 works
  2. 2 Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques Surgery 1 works
  3. 3 Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment Surgery 0 works
  5. 5 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 0 works
  6. 6 African Studies and Ethnography Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 Biotechnology and Related Fields Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Management of metastatic bone disease Surgery 0 works
  10. 10 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available74.1%not open25.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors84.9%domestic only15.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has AOSpine's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is AOSpine as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%AOSpine0.000037% in 202520102020

Fractional works of AOSpine over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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