Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Hospital / health system · Santa Monica · United States

The Spine Institute

In research, The Spine Institute stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,743 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#7,199 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery, Medicine and Health Sciences (Surgery is 18.4× its share of world research).

laspine.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#21,595
of 22,385 · #22,498 all time
Rank in United States
#3,199
of 3,332
Research works
353
▲ 47% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.4k
20.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
The Spine Institute

What is The Spine Institute 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 #6,743 of 9,902 6.0%65 #6239
MedicineField #7,199 of 8,541 5.9%64 #7769

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

In 2022-now, 88% of research at The Spine Institute is in Health Sciences, 7% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (86%), Engineering (5%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 73 fractional works · 88.3% of its workMedicine: 71 fractional works · 86.4% of its workSurgery: 35 fractional works · 43.0% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 14 fractional works · 17.6% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 5.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKThe SpineInstitute82fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences88%Social Sciences0%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7186.4%
    2. Health Professions11.2%
    3. Dentistry00.6%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Engineering45.1%
    2. Environmental Science10.9%
    3. Materials Science00.5%
    4. Chemistry00.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology33.1%
    2. Neuroscience11.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    2. Social Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does The Spine Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 18.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 35.4 works18×
  2. MedicineField · 71.1 works4.5×
  3. Health SciencesDomain · 72.7 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.59× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.49× its world share, 71 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.01× 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 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.49×71 works
  2. Dentistry1.25×0 works
  3. Neuroscience0.85×1 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.59×3 works
  5. Health Professions0.45×1 works
  6. Engineering0.34×4 works
  7. Nursing0.28×0 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.21×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.18×1 works
  10. Materials Science0.13×0 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×0 works
  12. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at The Spine Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Rick B. Delamarter, Kiran V. Patel and James W. Hardacker lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Spine Institute.

  1. 1 Rick B. Delamarter United States · #221,055 worldwide 9.7k citations · 201 works
  2. 2 Kiran V. Patel United States · #867,025 worldwide 568 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 James W. Hardacker United States · #1,390,610 worldwide 1k citations · 17 works
  4. 4 William J. Beutler United States · #1,627,761 worldwide 1.4k citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Walter C. Peppelman United States · #1,689,584 worldwide 745 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Jian Shen United States · #1,734,530 worldwide 321 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Ben B. Pradhan United States · #2,357,681 worldwide 923 citations · 77 works
  8. 8 Michael A. Kropf United States · #2,375,363 worldwide 953 citations · 47 works
  9. 9 John C. Chiu United States · #5,363,070 worldwide 458 citations · 49 works
  10. 10 Ankita Das United States · #5,824,336 worldwide 98 citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at The Spine Institute

What are the most cited papers from The Spine Institute?

The most cited paper from The Spine Institute is "Spinal Fusion in the United States" (Sean S. Rajaee, Hyun W. Bae, Linda E.A. Kanim et al., 2011), with 1,046 citations. Next come "Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis" (630) 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 Spinal Fusion in the United States Sean S. Rajaee, Hyun W. Bae, Linda E.A. Kanim et al. · Spine Open access 11 Feb 2011 1,046
2 Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Judith Axler Turner, Mary T. Ersek, LARRY D. HERRON et al. · Spine 1992 630
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 Thoracic Pedicle Screw Fixation in Spinal Deformities Se-II Suk, Won-Joong Kim, Sang‐Min Lee et al. · Spine Sep 2001 502
5 Posterior Vertebral Column Resection For Severe Spinal Deformities Se-Il Suk, Jin-Hyok Kim, Wonjoong Kim et al. · Spine Nov 2002 501
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at The Spine Institute?

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

▲ 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. Spinal Fusion24▲ 298×2 topics
  2. Degenerative Disc Disease20▲ 259×2 topics
  3. Low Back Pain18▲ 126×3 topics
  4. Surgical Treatment16▲ 101×4 topics
  5. Spinal Surgery14▲ 224×2 topics
  6. Intervertebral Disc14▲ 257×1 topic
  7. Lumbar Disc Degeneration14▲ 257×1 topic
  8. Scoliosis10▲ 387×1 topic
  9. Spinal Deformity10▲ 387×1 topic
  10. Biomechanics9▲ 35×3 topics
  11. Pedicle Screw Fixation9▲ 280×1 topic
  12. Vertebroplasty9▲ 280×1 topic
  13. Epidemiology8▲ 2.4×21 topics
  14. Anterior Cervical Discectomy6▲ 265×1 topic
  15. Cervical Spine Surgery6▲ 265×1 topic
  16. Dysphagia6▲ 127×2 topics
  17. Chronic Pain6▲ 32×3 topics
  18. Clinical Trials4▲ 7.7×4 topics
  19. Psychological Factors4▲ 22×3 topics
  20. Global Burden4▲ 8.3×2 topics
  21. Disability4▲ 41×1 topic
  22. Measurement Properties4▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Neuropathic Pain4▲ 63×3 topics
  24. Computer-Aided Diagnosis3▲ 71×2 topics
  25. Surgical Management3▲ 9.4×8 topics
  26. Pain Management3▲ 16×5 topics
  27. Mortality3▲ 6.4×7 topics
  28. Spine Segmentation3▲ 111×1 topic
  29. Vertebrae Detection3▲ 111×1 topic
  30. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome3▲ 163×1 topic
  31. Spinal Cord Stimulation3▲ 163×1 topic
  32. Complications2▲ 6.0×7 topics
  33. Perioperative Care2▲ 21×2 topics
  34. Embolization2▲ 35×2 topics
  35. Hemorrhage2▲ 32×2 topics
  36. Postoperative Pain2▲ 24×2 topics
  37. Acetabular Fractures2▲ 95×1 topic
  38. Pelvic Fractures2▲ 95×1 topic
  39. Postoperative Complications2▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Analgesia1▲ 26×1 topic

Which research topics does The Spine Institute publish most on?

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

Spine and Intervertebral…14Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 14 fractional worksScoliosis diagnosis and treatment: 10 fractional worksSpinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques: 9 fractional worksCervical and Thoracic Myelopathy: 6 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 4 fractional worksMedical Imaging and Analysis: 3 fractional worksPain Management and Treatment: 3 fractional worksPelvic and Acetabular Injuries: 2 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Management: 1 fractional worksMyofascial pain diagnosis and treatment: 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 14 works
  2. 2 Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment Surgery 10 works
  3. 3 Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques Surgery 9 works
  4. 4 Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy Surgery 6 works
  5. 5 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 4 works
  6. 6 Medical Imaging and Analysis Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  7. 7 Pain Management and Treatment Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Anesthesia and Pain Management Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment Cell Biology 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 available28.5%not open71.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.2%domestic only79.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Spine Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% 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 The Spine Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00031% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%The Spine Institute0.00029% in 20251990200020102020

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

Other research institutions in Santa Monica

All research institutions in Santa Monica

Share The Spine Institute's ranking

The Spine Institute on Science Explorer

A card with The Spine Institute's standing and the fields it leads in, for a post or a slide. A link to this page previews as the same card.

Download the card

1200 × 630 PNG, sized for social posts, drawn from the latest snapshot.

Badges for a website1Each links back here and updates with every snapshot

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about The Spine Institute. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.