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Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)

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Research works
36
▼ 17% vs 2018-21
Citations
679
18.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
76%
world 18%
Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 79% of research at Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) is in Health Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (66%), Engineering (12%), Health Professions (10%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 29 fractional works · 78.8% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 66.5% of its workSurgery: 16 fractional works · 45.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 10.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 17.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 12.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSmith & Nephew(Switzerland)36fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences79%Social Sciences3%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine2466.5%
    2. Health Professions410.1%
    3. Veterinary01.4%
    4. Dentistry00.9%
    1. Engineering412.4%
    2. Chemistry12.3%
    3. Materials Science11.6%
    4. Computer Science00.5%
    5. Environmental Science00.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences11.8%
    2. Psychology00.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
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.

Computer Science: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.28× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 3.44× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.45× its world share, 4 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.45×4 works
  2. Health Professions3.44×0 works
  3. Engineering1.28×1 works
  4. Psychology0.66×0 works
  5. Computer Science0.25×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.12×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) is "Surgical Management of Hip Fractures: An Evidence-based Review of the Literature. I: Femoral Neck Fractures" (Ryan G. Miyamoto, Kevin M Kaplan, Brett Russell Levine et al., 2008), with 280 citations. Next come "What Differences in Morphologic Features of the Knee Exist Among Patients of Various Races? A Systematic Review" (160) and "Pathogenesis and Prevention of Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis After Intra-articular Fracture" (144).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Surgical Management of Hip Fractures: An Evidence-based Review of the Literature. I: Femoral Neck Fractures Ryan G. Miyamoto, Kevin M Kaplan, Brett Russell Levine et al. · Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Oct 2008 280
2 What Differences in Morphologic Features of the Knee Exist Among Patients of Various Races? A Systematic Review Tae Kyoung Kim, Mark Phillips, Mohit Bhandari et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ReviewOpen access 4 Oct 2016 160
3 Pathogenesis and Prevention of Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis After Intra-articular Fracture Mara L. Schenker, Robert Leon Mauck, Jaimo Ahn et al. · Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Open access 2014 144
4 Hip Instability Robert E. Boykin, Adam William Anz, Brandon Dubose Bushnell et al. · Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Jun 2011 125
5 Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis of the Most Common Orthopaedic Surgery Procedures: Knee Arthroscopy and Knee Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction James H. Lubowitz, David Appleby · Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery 21 Aug 2011 108
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement, Complications, Epidemiology, Arthroplasty, Patient Satisfaction, Outcomes and Total Knee Replacement.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 36 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Revision Surgery8▲ 196×2 topics
  2. Total Hip Replacement8▲ 196×2 topics
  3. Epidemiology6▲ 4.4×11 topics
  4. Complications6▲ 31×5 topics
  5. Arthroplasty5▲ 160×2 topics
  6. Patient Satisfaction5▲ 51×4 topics
  7. Outcomes4▲ 171×1 topic
  8. Total Knee Replacement4▲ 223×1 topic
  9. Hip Arthroplasty4▲ 172×1 topic
  10. Wear Particles4▲ 172×1 topic
  11. Quality of Life2▲ 4.6×6 topics
  12. Cost Analysis2▲ 155×2 topics
  13. Prevention2▲ 15×5 topics
  14. Risk Assessment2▲ 9.6×3 topics
  15. Surgical Management2▲ 12×2 topics
  16. Infection Prevention2▲ 59×3 topics
  17. Inflammation2▲ 2.1×6 topics
  18. Treatment2▲ 3.9×3 topics
  19. Incidence2▲ 83×2 topics
  20. Periprosthetic Joint Infection2▲ 115×1 topic
  21. Prosthetic Joint Infections2▲ 115×1 topic
  22. Rehabilitation2▲ 13×4 topics
  23. Nutritional Support2▲ 49×1 topic
  24. Pressure Ulcers2▲ 277×1 topic
  25. Regeneration2▲ 24×3 topics
  26. Risk Factors2▲ 3.9×9 topics
  27. Mechanical Properties1▲ 4.1×7 topics
  28. Angiogenesis1▲ 8.8×2 topics
  29. Diabetes1▲ 6.7×4 topics
  30. Healthcare1▲ 5.0×5 topics
  31. Osteoarthritis1▲ 29×2 topics
  32. Wound Healing1▲ 16×4 topics
  33. Anterior Cruciate Ligament1▲ 94×1 topic
  34. Biomechanics1▲ 10×5 topics
  35. Injury Risk1▲ 94×1 topic
  36. Tissue Engineering1▲ 5.5×4 topics

Which research topics does Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, Shoulder Injury and Treatment, Biomedical and Engineering Education and Bone fractures and treatments.

Total Knee Arthroplasty …0Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 0 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Trea…0Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 0 fractional worksBiomedical and Engineering Education: 0 fractional worksBone fractures and treatments: 0 fractional worksQuality and Safety in Healthcare: 0 fractional worksOrthopedic Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksTechnology Assessment an…0Technology Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 0 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional worksKnee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 0 fractional works
SurgeryBiomedical EngineeringEpidemiologyMedical Laboratory Technology1 others

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

  1. 1 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 0 works
  2. 2 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Biomedical and Engineering Education Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 0 works
  5. 5 Quality and Safety in Healthcare Medical Laboratory Technology 0 works
  6. 6 Orthopedic Infections and Treatments Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Technology Assessment and Management Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  8. 8 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 0 works
  9. 9 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 0 works
  10. 10 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques 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 available27.8%not open72.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors75.9%domestic only24.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% 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 Smith & Nephew (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000030% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Smith & Nephew (Switzerland)0.000013% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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