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Swiss Paraplegic Research

In research, Swiss Paraplegic Research stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,912 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,339 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (Pathology and Forensic Medicine is 24.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,640
of 22,385 · #8,321 all time
Rank in Switzerland
#82
of 186
Research works
630
▲ 31% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
23.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
47%
world 18%
Swiss Paraplegic Research

What is Swiss Paraplegic Research 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 #2,912 of 9,902 11.5%104 #2463
MedicineField #3,339 of 8,541 10.3%89 #2802

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Swiss Paraplegic Research 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 Swiss Paraplegic Research work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at Swiss Paraplegic Research is in Health Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (59%), Health Professions (10%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 119 fractional works · 69.2% of its workMedicine: 101 fractional works · 58.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 22 fractional works · 12.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 13 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSurgery: 11 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEpidemiology: 10 fractional works · 5.7% of its workRehabilitation: 9 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 3.7% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workUrology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 17 fractional works · 9.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 10 fractional works · 5.6% of its workOccupational Therapy: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 16.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 5.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 9.5% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.0% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSwiss ParaplegicResearch172fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences69%Social Sciences16%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine10158.9%
    2. Health Professions179.8%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences147.9%
    2. Psychology95.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    6. Decision Sciences10.4%
    1. Engineering74.3%
    2. Computer Science52.8%
    3. Environmental Science20.9%
    4. Materials Science10.7%
    5. Chemistry00.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Neuroscience42.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Swiss Paraplegic Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pathology and Forensic Medicine takes 24.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 21.6 works24×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.59× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.28× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.71× its world share, 17 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.06× its world share, 101 worksMedicineNursing: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.70× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions3.71×17 works
  2. Medicine3.06×101 works
  3. Psychology1.70×9 works
  4. Neuroscience1.59×4 works
  5. Nursing0.79×1 works
  6. Social Sciences0.63×14 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.45×1 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.43×1 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.39×2 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.36×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.36×5 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×1 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.30×3 works
  14. Veterinary0.29×0 works
  15. Engineering0.28×7 works
  16. Dentistry0.27×0 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.25×1 works
  18. Materials Science0.21×1 works
  19. Environmental Science0.19×2 works
  20. Chemistry0.18×0 works
  21. Energy0.13×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  23. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Swiss Paraplegic Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Gerold Stucki, Martin W. G. Brinkhof and Jerome Bickenbach lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Swiss Paraplegic Research.

  1. 1 Gerold Stucki Switzerland · #164,356 worldwide 38k citations · 575 works
  2. 2 Martin W. G. Brinkhof Switzerland · #361,211 worldwide 7.6k citations · 168 works
  3. 3 Jerome Bickenbach Switzerland · #372,791 worldwide 3.3k citations · 105 works
  4. 4 Nicola Diviani Switzerland · #399,715 worldwide 3.1k citations · 103 works
  5. 5 Jerome Edmond Bickenbach Switzerland · #415,484 worldwide 6.4k citations · 130 works
  6. 6 Christine Fekete Switzerland · #428,709 worldwide 2.9k citations · 83 works
  7. 7 Carla Sabariego Switzerland · #437,427 worldwide 3.1k citations · 175 works
  8. 8 Jan Dietrich Reinhardt Switzerland · #572,451 worldwide 4.5k citations · 166 works
  9. 9 Melissa Selb Switzerland · #610,585 worldwide 2.4k citations · 88 works
  10. 10 Szilvia Geyh Switzerland · #699,237 worldwide 4.8k citations · 67 works
All ranked researchers at Swiss Paraplegic Research

What are the most cited papers from Swiss Paraplegic Research?

The most cited paper from Swiss Paraplegic Research is "Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project" (Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas et al., 2012), with 1,202 citations. Next come "A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research" (672) and "Refinements of the ICF Linking Rules to strengthen their potential for establishing comparability of health information" (600).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series A Open access 16 Apr 2012 1,202
2 A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research Taulant Muka, Marija Glišić, Jelena Milić et al. · European Journal of Epidemiology ReviewOpen access 13 Nov 2019 672
3 Refinements of the ICF Linking Rules to strengthen their potential for establishing comparability of health information Alarcos Cieza, Nora Fayed, Jerome Bickenbach et al. · Disability and Rehabilitation 17 Mar 2016 600
4 Social relationships, mental health and wellbeing in physical disability: a systematic review Hannah Tough, Johannés Siegrist, Christine Fekete · BMC Public Health ReviewOpen access 8 May 2017 487
5 Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Medicine: Analysis of the Scientific Literature Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Anela Tosevska, Elisabeth Klager et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research Open access 10 Feb 2021 431
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Swiss Paraplegic Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Functional Recovery, Recovery, Inflammation, Clinical Trials, Physical Activity, Spinal Cord Injury and Neuromodulation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology51▲ 7.5×49 topics
  2. Functional Recovery29▲ 111×4 topics
  3. Recovery25▲ 134×2 topics
  4. Inflammation25▲ 6.8×19 topics
  5. Clinical Trials22▲ 20×5 topics
  6. Physical Activity21▲ 26×8 topics
  7. Spinal Cord Injury21▲ 272×2 topics
  8. Neuromodulation21▲ 189×2 topics
  9. Neurological Classification20▲ 497×1 topic
  10. Neuroprotection20▲ 34×2 topics
  11. Quality of Life19▲ 7.6×32 topics
  12. Rehabilitation19▲ 27×11 topics
  13. Interventions11▲ 52×2 topics
  14. Cerebral Palsy11▲ 88×2 topics
  15. Gross Motor Function11▲ 156×1 topic
  16. ICF Model11▲ 156×1 topic
  17. Neural Plasticity9▲ 29×3 topics
  18. Constraint-Induced Therapy8▲ 58×1 topic
  19. Motor Recovery8▲ 58×1 topic
  20. Public Health6▲ 2.6×24 topics
  21. Depression6▲ 4.2×13 topics
  22. Urinary Incontinence6▲ 43×2 topics
  23. Neuropathology6▲ 25×2 topics
  24. Cardiovascular Disease5▲ 2.7×20 topics
  25. Concussion5▲ 65×1 topic
  26. Encephalopathy5▲ 42×1 topic
  27. Social Support5▲ 5.2×11 topics
  28. Primary Care5▲ 7.2×10 topics
  29. Surgical Treatment4▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Anxiety4▲ 4.6×6 topics
  31. Mortality Risk4▲ 8.6×4 topics
  32. Shoulder Function4▲ 24×2 topics
  33. Muscle Strength3▲ 17×4 topics
  34. Pelvic Floor Dysfunction3▲ 41×1 topic
  35. Pelvic Organ Prolapse3▲ 41×1 topic
  36. Mobile Health3▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Adherence3▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Health Disparities3▲ 6.4×3 topics
  39. Reconstruction3▲ 9.2×2 topics
  40. Evidence-Based Practice3▲ 11×4 topics

Which research topics does Swiss Paraplegic Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Spinal Cord Injury Research, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery and Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

Spinal Cord Injury Resea…20Spinal Cord Injury Research: 20 fractional worksCerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders: 11 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 8 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 5 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders t…3Pelvic floor disorders treatments: 3 fractional worksUrinary Bladder and Prostate Research: 3 fractional worksNerve Injury and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 2 fractional worksDigital Mental Health Interventions: 2 fractional worksMuscle activation and electromyography studies: 2 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicinePsychiatry and Mental healthRehabilitationEpidemiology6 others

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

  1. 1 Spinal Cord Injury Research Pathology and Forensic Medicine 20 works
  2. 2 Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health 11 works
  3. 3 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 8 works
  4. 4 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 5 works
  5. 5 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 3 works
  6. 6 Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research Urology 3 works
  7. 7 Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  9. 9 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Muscle activation and electromyography studies Biomedical Engineering 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 available53.0%not open47.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.4%domestic only52.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Swiss Paraplegic Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Swiss Paraplegic Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00061% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Swiss Paraplegic Research0.00078% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Swiss Paraplegic Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Swiss Paraplegic Research8.7% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.3% in 2022.

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