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Hughston Clinic

In research, Hughston Clinic stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,966 of 16,688 worldwide), Surgery (#1,212 of 3,248 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,057 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery and Medicine (Surgery is 19.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#20,801
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,319
of 7,310
Research works
322
▲ 63% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
48.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
16%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
Hughston Clinic

What is Hughston Clinic known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #4,966 of 16,688 17.9%277
SurgerySubfield #1,212 of 3,248 18.3%135
MedicineField #6,057 of 14,558 18.1%266

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hughston Clinic sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Hughston Clinic work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Hughston Clinic is in Health Sciences, 9% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (79%), Social Sciences (4%), Arts and Humanities (3%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 37 fractional works · 81.6% of its workMedicine: 36 fractional works · 79.5% of its workSurgery: 21 fractional works · 45.9% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 10.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 9.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKHughston Clinic45fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences82%Social Sciences9%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3679.5%
    2. Health Professions11.9%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Social Sciences24.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities12.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.6%
    4. Decision Sciences00.5%
    5. Psychology00.2%
    1. Engineering12.5%
    2. Environmental Science11.4%
    3. Materials Science11.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    5. Computer Science00.4%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology11.4%
    2. Neuroscience00.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hughston Clinic specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 19.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 20.7 works20×
  2. MedicineField · 35.9 works4.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.41× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.13× its world share, 36 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.81× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.02× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.13×36 works
  2. Veterinary1.81×0 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.41×1 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.02×1 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.75×1 works
  6. Health Professions0.71×1 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.51×0 works
  8. Neuroscience0.46×0 works
  9. Materials Science0.39×1 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.36×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.33×2 works
  12. Environmental Science0.27×1 works
  13. Engineering0.16×1 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×0 works
  15. Psychology0.06×0 works
  16. Computer Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hughston Clinic?

Ranked on the quality score, Jack C. Hughston, Lyle A. Norwood and Champ L. Baker lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hughston Clinic.

  1. 1 Jack C. Hughston United States · #126,711 worldwide 7.3k citations · 95 works
  2. 2 Lyle A. Norwood United States · #265,069 worldwide 3k citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Champ L. Baker United States · #303,008 worldwide 7.9k citations · 187 works
  4. 4 John Kenneth Burkus United States · #475,880 worldwide 8.1k citations · 160 works
  5. 5 Glenn C. Terry United States · #794,957 worldwide 3.5k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Richard A. Sanders United States · #804,886 worldwide 1.7k citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Kurt E. Jacobson United States · #964,113 worldwide 1.4k citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Fred C. Flandry United States · #1,350,916 worldwide 1.6k citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Thomas N. Bernard United States · #1,588,772 worldwide 1.1k citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Kenneth Burkus United States · #2,090,427 worldwide 675 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Hughston Clinic

What are the most cited papers from Hughston Clinic?

The most cited paper from Hughston Clinic is "Glenoid labrum tears related to the long head of the biceps" (James Robertson Andrews, William Glasgow Bruce Carson, William D. McLeod, 1985), with 994 citations. Next come "Autograft, Allograft, and Bone Graft Substitutes: Clinical Evidence and Indications for Use in the Setting of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery" (780) and "Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using rhBMP-2 With Tapered Interbody Cages" (702).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Glenoid labrum tears related to the long head of the biceps James Robertson Andrews, William Glasgow Bruce Carson, William D. McLeod · The American Journal of Sports Medicine Sep 1985 994
2 Autograft, Allograft, and Bone Graft Substitutes: Clinical Evidence and Indications for Use in the Setting of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Paul C. Baldwin, Deborah J. Li, Darryl A. Auston et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma 19 Jan 2019 780
3 Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using rhBMP-2 With Tapered Interbody Cages John Kenneth Burkus, Matthew F. Gornet, Curtis A. Dickman et al. · Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques Oct 2002 702
4 Clinical and radiographic analysis of cervical disc arthroplasty compared with allograft fusion: a randomized controlled clinical trial Praveen V. Mummaneni, John Kenneth Burkus, Regis W. Haid et al. · Journal of Neurosurgery Spine Mar 2007 620
5 Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes of Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 John Kenneth Burkus, Ensor E. Transfeldt, Scott H. Kitchel et al. · Spine Nov 2002 483
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Which keywords describe research at Hughston Clinic?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Complications, Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Shoulder Function, Surgical Management, Rotator Cuff Tears, Shoulder Pathology and Revision Surgery.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology8▲ 4.6×15 topics
  2. Complications7▲ 31×8 topics
  3. Rehabilitation5▲ 29×4 topics
  4. Shoulder Function5▲ 124×2 topics
  5. Surgical Management5▲ 26×5 topics
  6. Rotator Cuff Tears4▲ 132×1 topic
  7. Shoulder Pathology4▲ 132×1 topic
  8. Revision Surgery4▲ 63×2 topics
  9. Total Hip Replacement4▲ 63×2 topics
  10. Internal Fixation3▲ 109×2 topics
  11. Biomechanics3▲ 23×4 topics
  12. Mortality3▲ 12×6 topics
  13. Infection Prevention3▲ 71×2 topics
  14. Risk Factors3▲ 5.4×4 topics
  15. Diagnostic Imaging2▲ 46×2 topics
  16. Periprosthetic Joint Infection2▲ 122×1 topic
  17. Prosthetic Joint Infections2▲ 122×1 topic
  18. Acromioclavicular Joint2▲ 192×1 topic
  19. Bone Healing2▲ 105×1 topic
  20. Clavicle Fractures2▲ 192×1 topic
  21. Fracture Epidemiology2▲ 105×1 topic
  22. Surgical Treatment2▲ 24×3 topics
  23. Arthroplasty2▲ 45×2 topics
  24. Injury Prevention2▲ 36×3 topics
  25. Patient Satisfaction2▲ 14×2 topics
  26. Hip Arthroplasty2▲ 67×1 topic
  27. Outcomes2▲ 49×1 topic
  28. Total Knee Replacement2▲ 60×1 topic
  29. Wear Particles2▲ 67×1 topic
  30. Clinical Guidelines2▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Anterior Cruciate Ligament2▲ 84×1 topic
  32. Injury Risk2▲ 84×1 topic
  33. Muscle Injuries2▲ 55×1 topic
  34. Sports Injury2▲ 55×1 topic
  35. Distal Radius Fractures2▲ 63×1 topic
  36. Flexor Tendon Repair2▲ 63×1 topic
  37. Surgery2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  38. Elbow Injuries1▲ 136×1 topic
  39. Osteoarthritis1▲ 22×4 topics
  40. Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction1▲ 136×1 topic

Which research topics does Hughston Clinic publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Shoulder Injury and Treatment, Orthopedic Infections and Treatments, Bone fractures and treatments and Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries.

Shoulder Injury and Trea…4Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 4 fractional worksOrthopedic Infections an…2Orthopedic Infections and Treatments: 2 fractional worksBone fractures and treat…2Bone fractures and treatments: 2 fractional worksShoulder and Clavicle In…2Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries: 2 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 2 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 2 fractional worksSports injuries and prev…2Sports injuries and prevention: 2 fractional worksKnee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 2 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksElbow and Forearm Trauma…1Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment: 1 fractional works
SurgeryEpidemiologyOrthopedics and Sports MedicineRehabilitation

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

  1. 1 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 4 works
  2. 2 Orthopedic Infections and Treatments Surgery 2 works
  3. 3 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 2 works
  4. 4 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries Epidemiology 2 works
  5. 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 2 works
  6. 6 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 2 works
  10. 10 Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment Rehabilitation 1 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 available16.2%not open83.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.2%domestic only96.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hughston Clinic's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 63% 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 Hughston Clinic as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00011% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Hughston Clinic0.00013% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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