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Abdominal Trauma and Injuries

Abdominal Trauma and Injuries is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management of spleen trauma in polytrauma patients, including the use of CT imaging for diagnosis, nonoperative management strategies, risk of infection post-splenectomy, angiography for splenic injuries, and the interaction between spleen trauma and hepatic or renal injuries. It also discusses evidence-based guidelines and long-term outcomes after splenectomy.

  • Spleen
  • Trauma
  • CT Imaging
  • Nonoperative Management
  • Splenectomy
  • Infection Risk
  • Angiography
  • Hepatic Trauma
  • Renal Injury
  • Guidelines
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Abdominal Trauma and Injuries

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (894 and 293 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 894 works
  2. 2 China 293 works
  3. 3 India 279 works
  4. 4 Japan 178 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 177 works
  6. 6 Germany 124 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 113 works
  8. 8 Italy 110 works
  9. 9 Russia 87 works
  10. 10 South Korea 81 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 38.3%China: 12.5%India: 11.9%Japan: 7.6%6 others listed: 29.7%38%largest
United States894 · 38.3%China293 · 12.5%India279 · 11.9%Japan178 · 7.6%6 others listed693 · 29.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research, followed by Harvard University and University of Southern California.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 34 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 21 works
  3. 3 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  5. 5 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 14 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 University of ArizonaUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 Cornell UniversityUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 12 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Abdominal Trauma and Injuries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Abdominal Trauma and Injuries include Patrick M. Bossuyt, Jean‐Louis Vincent and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  2. 2 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k citations
  5. 5 Benn K. D. Sartorius South Africa 208k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Abdominal Trauma and Injuries?

The most cited paper in Abdominal Trauma and Injuries is "Estimated Risks of Radiation-Induced Fatal Cancer from Pediatric CT" (David J. Brenner, Carl D. Elliston, Eric J. Hall et al., 2001), with 3,246 citations. Next come "Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study" (3,174) and "CONSORT 2010 statement: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials" (2,218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Estimated Risks of Radiation-Induced Fatal Cancer from Pediatric CT David J. Brenner, Carl D. Elliston, Eric J. Hall et al. · American Journal of Roentgenology Feb 2001 3,246
2 Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study Eric A. J. Hoste et al. · Intensive Care Medicine 10 Jul 2015 3,174
3 CONSORT 2010 statement: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials Kenneth F. Schulz, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher · Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics Open access 10 Nov 2010 2,218
4 A Revision of the Trauma Score Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, Wayne S. Copes et al. · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care May 1989 1,954
5 Evaluating Trauma Care Carl R. Boyd, Mary Ann Tolson, Wayne S. Copes · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care Apr 1987 1,836
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Where is Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research done?

The largest centres of Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New Delhi (India), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 39 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 37 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 31 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 29 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 29 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 26 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Abdominal Trauma and Injuries?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, University of Southern California and University of Maryland, Baltimore score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of TorontoCanada 64.320.3%2.2×14 +31.5%
2University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 62.015.5%7.0×19 -11.8%
3University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 60.019.6%12.2×14 -41.4%
4All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 59.48.5%9.7×34 +31.1%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.314.3%2.0×21 -10.5%
6University of Colorado DenverUnited States 56.224.7%9.1×10 -22.4%
7University of ArizonaUnited States 53.916.4%5.7×12 +22.3%
8Monash UniversityAustralia 49.523.5%2.7×9 -47.6%
9University of UtahUnited States 49.024.2%3.8×8 +9.5%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 48.217.3%2.8×12 +0.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Abdominal Trauma and Injuries, country by country

Is Abdominal Trauma and Injuries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Abdominal Trauma and Injuries.

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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 Abdominal Trauma and Injuries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Abdominal Trauma and Injuries 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.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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