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Sports Surgery Clinic

In research, Sports Surgery Clinic stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,308 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery, Medicine and Health Sciences (Surgery is 16.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,241
of 22,385 · #20,461 all time
Rank in Ireland
#51
of 52
Research works
258
▲ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.2k
20.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
Sports Surgery Clinic

What is Sports Surgery Clinic known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #4,308 of 9,902 17.3%64 #3986

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sports Surgery 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 Sports Surgery Clinic work in?

In 2022-now, 88% of research at Sports Surgery Clinic is in Health Sciences, 6% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (81%), Health Professions (5%), Engineering (5%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 70 fractional works · 87.8% of its workMedicine: 65 fractional works · 81.3% of its workSurgery: 31 fractional works · 39.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 10 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEpidemiology: 9 fractional works · 11.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 5.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 5.7% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSports SurgeryClinic80fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences88%Social Sciences4%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6581.3%
    2. Health Professions45.5%
    3. Veterinary00.6%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    5. Nursing00.2%
    1. Engineering44.9%
    2. Computer Science00.5%
    3. Materials Science00.2%
    4. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Psychology22.6%
    2. Social Sciences10.7%
    3. Decision Sciences00.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.0%
    2. Neuroscience00.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sports Surgery Clinic specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 16.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 31.5 works17×
  2. MedicineField · 64.9 works4.2×
  3. Health SciencesDomain · 70.0 works3.8×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.07× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.23× its world share, 65 worksMedicineNursing: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.61× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryDecision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.85× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary4.61×0 works
  2. Medicine4.23×65 works
  3. Health Professions2.07×4 works
  4. Psychology0.85×2 works
  5. Dentistry0.43×0 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.40×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.38×2 works
  8. Neuroscience0.35×0 works
  9. Nursing0.35×0 works
  10. Engineering0.32×4 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.20×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.06×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.06×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  16. Environmental Science0.03×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sports Surgery Clinic?

Ranked on the quality score, Ray Moran, Enda A. King and Chris Richter lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sports Surgery Clinic.

  1. 1 Ray Moran Ireland · #408,497 worldwide 1.2k citations · 43 works
  2. 2 Enda A. King Ireland · #517,351 worldwide 2.7k citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Chris Richter Ireland · #609,884 worldwide 4.5k citations · 149 works
  4. 4 Leo Pauzenberger Ireland · #714,083 worldwide 3.6k citations · 130 works
  5. 5 Damien P. Byrne Ireland · #873,312 worldwide 1.3k citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Connor Montgomery Ireland · #961,766 worldwide 732 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Cathal J. Moran Ireland · #985,590 worldwide 2.2k citations · 52 works
  8. 8 Hannan Mullett Ireland · #1,445,454 worldwide 4k citations · 178 works
  9. 9 Daren Lim Fat Ireland · #1,527,267 worldwide 659 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Mohamed Gaafar Ireland · #1,794,016 worldwide 444 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Sports Surgery Clinic

What are the most cited papers from Sports Surgery Clinic?

The most cited paper from Sports Surgery Clinic is "Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity" (Siobhan F. Clarke, Eileen F. Murphy, Órla O’Sullivan et al., 2014), with 1,449 citations. Next come "The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement" (1,036) and "Skeletal muscle lipid metabolism with obesity" (339).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity Siobhan F. Clarke, Eileen F. Murphy, Órla O’Sullivan et al. · Gut Open access 9 Jun 2014 1,449
2 The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement Damian R. Griffin et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 14 Sep 2016 1,036
3 Skeletal muscle lipid metabolism with obesity Matthew W. Hulver, Jason R. Berggren, Ronald N. Cortright et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism Apr 2003 339
4 Adiponectin is not altered with exercise training despite enhanced insulin action Matthew W. Hulver, Donghai Zheng, Charles J. Tanner et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism Oct 2002 292
5 Isokinetic muscle strength and readiness to return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: is there an association? A systematic review and a protocol recommendation Marit Baste Undheim, Ciaran Cosgrave, Enda A. King et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Review 23 Jun 2015 268
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Which keywords describe research at Sports Surgery Clinic?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology21▲ 6.5×25 topics
  2. Shoulder Function13▲ 195×2 topics
  3. Rehabilitation11▲ 36×5 topics
  4. Rotator Cuff Tears11▲ 217×1 topic
  5. Shoulder Pathology11▲ 217×1 topic
  6. Complications10▲ 26×8 topics
  7. Risk Factors8▲ 9.2×10 topics
  8. Surgical Management8▲ 24×5 topics
  9. Injury Prevention7▲ 71×3 topics
  10. Acromioclavicular Joint7▲ 364×1 topic
  11. Athletic Training7▲ 95×2 topics
  12. Clavicle Fractures7▲ 364×1 topic
  13. Prevention7▲ 20×4 topics
  14. Muscle Injuries7▲ 128×1 topic
  15. Sports Injury7▲ 128×1 topic
  16. Biomechanical Analysis6▲ 115×2 topics
  17. Anterior Cruciate Ligament6▲ 172×1 topic
  18. Injury Risk6▲ 172×1 topic
  19. Biomechanics5▲ 22×7 topics
  20. Gait Analysis4▲ 48×3 topics
  21. Revision Surgery4▲ 35×2 topics
  22. Total Hip Replacement4▲ 35×2 topics
  23. Osteoarthritis4▲ 34×3 topics
  24. Muscle Strength3▲ 39×4 topics
  25. Kinematics3▲ 82×2 topics
  26. Foot Strike Patterns3▲ 103×1 topic
  27. Running Injuries3▲ 103×1 topic
  28. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Arthroplasty2▲ 31×2 topics
  30. Brachial Plexus2▲ 135×1 topic
  31. Nerve Transfer2▲ 135×1 topic
  32. Outcomes2▲ 36×1 topic
  33. Total Knee Replacement2▲ 44×1 topic
  34. Femoroacetabular Impingement2▲ 111×1 topic
  35. Hip Arthroscopy2▲ 111×1 topic
  36. Regeneration2▲ 14×3 topics
  37. Distal Radius Fractures2▲ 47×1 topic
  38. Flexor Tendon Repair2▲ 47×1 topic
  39. Extracellular Matrix2▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Resistance Training2▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Sports Surgery Clinic publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Shoulder Injury and Treatment, Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries, Sports injuries and prevention and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques.

Shoulder Injury and Trea…11Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 11 fractional worksShoulder and Clavicle Injuries: 7 fractional worksSports injuries and prevention: 7 fractional worksKnee injuries and recons…6Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 6 fractional worksLower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies: 3 fractional worksNerve Injury and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 2 fractional worksHip disorders and treatments: 2 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 2 fractional works
SurgeryEpidemiologyOrthopedics and Sports MedicineBiomedical Engineering

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

  1. 1 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 11 works
  2. 2 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries Epidemiology 7 works
  3. 3 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 7 works
  4. 4 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 6 works
  5. 5 Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  6. 6 Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Hip disorders and treatments Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 2 works
  10. 10 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2 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 available38.6%not open61.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.5%domestic only62.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sports Surgery Clinic's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% 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 Sports Surgery Clinic as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00034% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Sports Surgery Clinic0.00027% in 20251990200020102020

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