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Texas Back Institute

In research, Texas Back Institute stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,309 of 16,688 worldwide), Medicine (#4,759 of 14,558 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,213 of 3,248 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery, Medicine and Health Sciences (Surgery is 18.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#22,072
of 22,385 · #15,633 all time
Rank in United States
#3,279
of 3,332
Research works
413
▼ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Texas Back Institute

What is Texas Back Institute 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 #3,309 of 16,688 11.0%365
MedicineField #4,759 of 14,558 10.7%352
SurgerySubfield #1,213 of 3,248 12.7%152

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Texas Back Institute 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 Texas Back Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 89% of research at Texas Back Institute is in Health Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (87%), Engineering (7%), Health Professions (2%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 63 fractional works · 89.0% of its workMedicine: 61 fractional works · 86.7% of its workSurgery: 31 fractional works · 43.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 16 fractional works · 22.6% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 7.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 6.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKTexas BackInstitute71fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences89%Social Sciences2%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6186.7%
    2. Health Professions12.1%
    3. Dentistry00.2%
    1. Engineering57.4%
    2. Materials Science00.5%
    3. Computer Science00.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.5%
    2. Social Sciences00.3%
    3. Decision Sciences00.2%
    4. Psychology00.2%
    1. Neuroscience00.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Texas Back Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 18.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 30.9 works19×
  2. MedicineField · 61.3 works4.5×
  3. Health SciencesDomain · 62.9 works3.9×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.49× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.51× its world share, 61 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× 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, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.51×61 works
  2. Health Professions0.80×2 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×1 works
  4. Engineering0.49×5 works
  5. Dentistry0.49×0 works
  6. Neuroscience0.29×0 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.24×0 works
  8. Materials Science0.14×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×0 works
  10. Psychology0.05×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.03×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Texas Back Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, John J. Regan, Fred Harden Geisler and Ralph F. Rashbaum lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Texas Back Institute.

  1. 1 John J. Regan United States · #423,994 worldwide 4.8k citations · 83 works
  2. 2 Fred Harden Geisler United States · #441,319 worldwide 8.4k citations · 218 works
  3. 3 Ralph F. Rashbaum United States · #770,688 worldwide 2k citations · 51 works
  4. 4 Michael S. Hisey United States · #1,030,420 worldwide 1.2k citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Andrew R. Block United States · #1,077,362 worldwide 2.3k citations · 96 works
  6. 6 Barton L. Sachs United States · #1,222,685 worldwide 3.6k citations · 67 works
  7. 7 Steven L. Griffith United States · #1,261,386 worldwide 2.2k citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Isador H. Lieberman United States · #1,772,272 worldwide 8.4k citations · 306 works
  9. 9 Theodore A. Belanger United States · #1,819,373 worldwide 1.3k citations · 30 works
  10. 10 Xiaobang Hu United States · #1,867,326 worldwide 1.7k citations · 72 works
All ranked researchers at Texas Back Institute

What are the most cited papers from Texas Back Institute?

The most cited paper from Texas Back Institute is "A comprehensive classification of thoracic and lumbar injuries" (F. Magerl, Max Aebi, S. D. Gertzbein et al., 1994), with 2,077 citations. Next come "A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemptions Study of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement With the CHARITÉ™ Artificial Disc Versus Lumbar Fusion" (588) and "Results of the prospective, randomized, controlled multicenter Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption study of the ProDisc-C total disc replacement versus anterior discectomy and fusion for the treatment of 1-level symptomatic cervical disc disease" (561).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A comprehensive classification of thoracic and lumbar injuries F. Magerl, Max Aebi, S. D. Gertzbein et al. · European Spine Journal Aug 1994 2,077
2 A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemptions Study of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement With the CHARITÉ™ Artificial Disc Versus Lumbar Fusion Scott L. Blumenthal, Paul C. McAfee, Richard D. Guyer et al. · Spine Jul 2005 588
3 Results of the prospective, randomized, controlled multicenter Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption study of the ProDisc-C total disc replacement versus anterior discectomy and fusion for the treatment of 1-level symptomatic cervical disc disease Daniel B. Murrey, Michael E. Janssen, Rick B. Delamarter et al. · The Spine Journal 7 Sep 2008 561
4 Chronic Donor Site Pain Complicating Bone Graft Harvesting From the Posterior Iliac Crest for Spinal Fusion Jeffrey C. Fernyhough, Jeffrey J. Schimandle, M Weigel et al. · Spine Dec 1992 467
5 Results of the Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemption Study of the ProDisc®-L Total Disc Replacement Versus Circumferential Fusion for the Treatment of 1-Level Degenerative Disc Disease Jack E. Zigler et al. · Spine May 2007 466
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Which keywords describe research at Texas Back Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Degenerative Disc Disease, Spinal Fusion, Low Back Pain, Clinical Outcomes, Surgical Treatment, Spinal Surgery, Intervertebral Disc and Lumbar Disc Degeneration.

▲ 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. Degenerative Disc Disease26▲ 392×2 topics
  2. Spinal Fusion22▲ 320×2 topics
  3. Low Back Pain20▲ 171×2 topics
  4. Clinical Outcomes17▲ 112×3 topics
  5. Surgical Treatment17▲ 122×2 topics
  6. Spinal Surgery16▲ 300×2 topics
  7. Intervertebral Disc16▲ 341×1 topic
  8. Lumbar Disc Degeneration16▲ 341×1 topic
  9. Anterior Cervical Discectomy10▲ 504×1 topic
  10. Cervical Spine Surgery10▲ 504×1 topic
  11. Biomechanics8▲ 35×3 topics
  12. Pedicle Screw Fixation7▲ 273×1 topic
  13. Vertebroplasty7▲ 273×1 topic
  14. Scoliosis6▲ 274×1 topic
  15. Spinal Deformity6▲ 274×1 topic
  16. Epidemiology6▲ 2.0×7 topics
  17. Global Burden5▲ 14×2 topics
  18. Chronic Pain5▲ 32×2 topics
  19. Clinical Trials5▲ 9.7×3 topics
  20. Psychological Factors5▲ 31×2 topics
  21. Disability4▲ 60×1 topic
  22. Measurement Properties4▲ 87×1 topic
  23. Deep Learning4▲ 1.72×6 topics
  24. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 4.1×2 topics
  25. Spine Segmentation4▲ 166×1 topic
  26. Vertebrae Detection4▲ 166×1 topic
  27. Medical Education2▲ 13×5 topics
  28. Risk Factors2▲ 2.9×6 topics
  29. Magnetic Resonance Imaging2▲ 9.1×3 topics
  30. Surgical Skills2▲ 55×1 topic
  31. Virtual Reality Training2▲ 55×1 topic
  32. Clinical Guidelines1▲ 6.1×3 topics
  33. Guideline Development1▲ 88×1 topic
  34. Quality Assessment1▲ 9.4×1 topic
  35. Revascularization1▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Ischemic Optic Neuropathy1▲ 130×1 topic
  37. Spinal Cord Surgery1▲ 130×1 topic
  38. Endoscopic Surgery1▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Parathyroid Hormone1▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Postoperative Complications1▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Texas Back Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy, Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment.

Spine and Intervertebral…16Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 16 fractional worksCervical and Thoracic Myelopathy: 10 fractional worksSpinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques: 7 fractional worksScoliosis diagnosis and treatment: 6 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 4 fractional worksMedical Imaging and Analysis: 4 fractional worksSurgical Simulation and Training: 2 fractional worksClinical practice guidelines implementation: 1 fractional worksIntraoperative Neuromonitoring and Anesthetic Effects: 1 fractional worksAutopsy Techniques and Outcomes: 1 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicineSurgeryPharmacologyBiomedical Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 16 works
  2. 2 Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy Surgery 10 works
  3. 3 Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques Surgery 7 works
  4. 4 Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment Surgery 6 works
  5. 5 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 4 works
  6. 6 Medical Imaging and Analysis Biomedical Engineering 4 works
  7. 7 Surgical Simulation and Training Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  9. 9 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Anesthetic Effects Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available20.0%not open80.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.2%domestic only93.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Texas Back Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Texas Back Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00037% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Texas Back Institute0.00028% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Texas Back Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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