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Body Contouring and Surgery

Body Contouring and Surgery is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of advancements in body contouring techniques and procedures, including abdominoplasty, liposuction, cryolipolysis, and non-invasive fat reduction methods. It also explores the impact of these procedures on body image, patient satisfaction, and quality of life, as well as the complications associated with body contouring surgeries.

  • Abdominoplasty
  • Liposuction
  • Cryolipolysis
  • Body Image
  • Complications
  • Cellulite
  • Fat Reduction
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Non-invasive Techniques
  • Quality of Life
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Body Contouring and Surgery

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

Which countries lead Body Contouring and Surgery research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 358 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 358 works
  3. 3 Brazil 313 works
  4. 4 Italy 209 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 178 works
  6. 6 India 173 works
  7. 7 Egypt 126 works
  8. 8 Germany 124 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 123 works
  10. 10 Spain 105 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: 38.8%China: 12.8%Brazil: 11.2%Italy: 7.5%6 others listed: 29.7%39%largest
United States1,085 · 38.8%China358 · 12.8%Brazil313 · 11.2%Italy209 · 7.5%6 others listed829 · 29.7%

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

Which institutions lead Body Contouring and Surgery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Body Contouring and Surgery research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 30 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 23 works
  4. 4 Aesthetic Surgery CenterUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 Cairo UniversityEgypt 19 works
  6. 6 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 19 works
  7. 7 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 19 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 18 works
  10. 10 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Body Contouring and Surgery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Body Contouring and Surgery include Luigi Ferrucci, Frank B. Hu and Paulo A. Lotufo.

  1. 1 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  2. 2 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  3. 3 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k 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 Body Contouring and Surgery?

The most cited paper in Body Contouring and Surgery is "Bariatric Surgery" (Hēnry Buchwald, Yoav Avidor, Eugene Braunwald et al., 2004), with 6,822 citations. Next come "The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update" (3,325) and "Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women" (2,099).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bariatric Surgery Hēnry Buchwald, Yoav Avidor, Eugene Braunwald et al. · JAMA 12 Oct 2004 6,822
2 The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update Rebecca M. Puhl, Chelsea A. Heuer · Obesity 22 Jan 2009 3,325
3 Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women Marie‐Christine Pouliot, Jean‐Pierre Després, Simone Lemieux et al. · The American Journal of Cardiology Mar 1994 2,099
4 Evidence that fibroblasts derive from epithelium during tissue fibrosis Masayuki Iwano, David Plieth, Theodore M. Danoff et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access Aug 2002 1,822
5 Induction of tumor lymphangiogenesis by VEGF-C promotes breast cancer metastasis Mihaela Skobe, Thomas Hawighorst, David G. Jackson et al. · Nature Medicine Feb 2001 1,760
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Body Contouring and Surgery research done?

The largest centres of Body Contouring and Surgery research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Naples and Dallas.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 95 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 85 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 57 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 53 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 49 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 48 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 CairoEgypt 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NaplesUS · 20.3 works54×
  2. DallasUS · 20.4 works6.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Body Contouring and Surgery than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Body Contouring and Surgery?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Sichuan University and University of Padua 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityUniversity of PaduaHarvard UniversityTel Aviv University
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 76.316.3%3.8×46 +14.3%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 60.028.4%1.5×13 +68.1%
3University of PaduaItaly 55.917.7%4.2×13 +18.7%
4Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 53.612.7%6.4×19 +20.9%
5Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 53.418.5%3.8×13 +195.5%
6Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 52.514.9%8.6×14 +23.3%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 51.315.7%1.7×19 +51.6%
8Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 49.918.9%4.3×12 +35.6%
9Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 49.818.6%9.7×10 +48.8%
10Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 47.89.6%5.7×23 +40.7%

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 Body Contouring and Surgery, country by country

Is Body Contouring and Surgery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Body Contouring and Surgery.

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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 Body Contouring and Surgery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Body Contouring and Surgery 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.

still counting5%10%15%Body Contouring and Surgery10.4% in 2025200020102020

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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