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Medicoat (Switzerland)

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Research works
9
▼ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
210
23.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
100%
world 40%
International
0%
world 18%
Medicoat (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: Medicoat (Switzerland) 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 Medicoat (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 65% of research at Medicoat (Switzerland) is in Physical Sciences, 33% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (56%), Medicine (22%), Dentistry (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 64.6% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 55.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 20.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 16.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 32.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 22.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 16.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKMedicoat(Switzerland)9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences33%

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 3 domains and 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering555.5%
    2. Materials Science16.9%
    3. Environmental Science01.3%
    4. Chemistry00.9%
    1. Medicine222.4%
    2. Dentistry110.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.9%
    2. Neuroscience00.9%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Medicoat (Switzerland)?

Ranked on the quality score, Philipp J. Gruner and H. Gruner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Medicoat (Switzerland).

  1. 1 Philipp J. Gruner Switzerland · #1,382,166 worldwide 1k citations · 28 works
  2. 2 H. Gruner Switzerland · #3,487,513 worldwide 255 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Medicoat (Switzerland)

What are the most cited papers from Medicoat (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from Medicoat (Switzerland) is "Coating of carbon fiber‐reinforced polyetheretherketone implants with titanium to improve bone apposition" (Declan M. Devine, Joachim Hahn, R. Geoff Richards et al., 2012), with 103 citations. Next come "Enhancement of CRF-PEEK osseointegration by plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite: A rabbit model" (58) and "Topographical characterization and microstructural interface analysis of vacuum-plasma-sprayed titanium and hydroxyapatite coatings on carbon fibre-reinforced poly(etheretherketone)" (50).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Coating of carbon fiber‐reinforced polyetheretherketone implants with titanium to improve bone apposition Declan M. Devine, Joachim Hahn, R. Geoff Richards et al. · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials 20 Dec 2012 103
2 Enhancement of CRF-PEEK osseointegration by plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite: A rabbit model Felicia Suska, Omar Omar, Lena Emanuelsson et al. · Journal of Biomaterials Applications 3 Feb 2014 58
3 Topographical characterization and microstructural interface analysis of vacuum-plasma-sprayed titanium and hydroxyapatite coatings on carbon fibre-reinforced poly(etheretherketone) Suk‐Woo Ha, A. Gisep, Joachim Mayer et al. · Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine Open access Dec 1997 50
4 In vivo comparison of the osseointegration of vacuum plasma sprayed titanium‐ and hydroxyapatite‐coated implants Nikolaus Aebli, Jörg Krebs, Hermann Stich et al. · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 9 Jul 2003 47
5 Chemical and Morphological Changes of Vacuum‐Plasma‐Sprayed Hydroxyapatite Coatings during Immersion in Simulated Physiological Solutions Suk‐Woo Ha, R. Reber, K.-L. Eckert et al. · Journal of the American Ceramic Society 1998 41
All 23 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Medicoat (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Orthopedic Infections and Treatments, Bone Tissue Engineering Materials and Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty.

Orthopedic Infections an…0Orthopedic Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksBone Tissue Engineering …0Bone Tissue Engineering Materials: 0 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and…0Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 0 fractional works
SurgeryBiomedical Engineering

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

  1. 1 Orthopedic Infections and Treatments Surgery 0 works
  2. 2 Bone Tissue Engineering Materials Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 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 available99.5%not open0.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors0.3%domestic only99.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Medicoat (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

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

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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 Medicoat (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000067% in 2020.

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Fractional works of Medicoat (Switzerland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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