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Bone fractures and treatments

Bone fractures and treatments is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 53k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers the epidemiology, classification, treatment, and complications of bone fractures, with a focus on fracture healing, internal fixation techniques, nonunion, infection prevention, biomechanics, pediatric fractures, and soft tissue management. It provides insights into the molecular, spatial, and temporal aspects of fracture healing and the impact of factors such as smoking and inflammation. The cluster also explores limb reconstruction techniques and the economic burden associated with nonunions.

  • Fracture Epidemiology
  • Bone Healing
  • Fracture Classification
  • Internal Fixation
  • Nonunion
  • Infection Prevention
  • Biomechanics
  • Pediatric Fractures
  • Soft Tissue Management
  • Limb Reconstruction
Research works
53k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bone fractures and treatments

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

Which countries lead Bone fractures and treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.4k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 652 works
  5. 5 Germany 518 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 362 works
  7. 7 Japan 303 works
  8. 8 South Korea 243 works
  9. 9 Italy 235 works
  10. 10 Brazil 223 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: 33.1%China: 16.6%India: 14.8%United Kingdom: 9.1%6 others listed: 26.4%33%largest
United States2,362 · 33.1%China1,189 · 16.6%India1,055 · 14.8%United Kingdom652 · 9.1%6 others listed1,885 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Bone fractures and treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Bone fractures and treatments research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 72 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 67 works
  3. 3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 44 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 38 works
  8. 8 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 36 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 34 works
  10. 10 University of UtahUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bone fractures and treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bone fractures and treatments include Theo Vos, Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k 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 Bone fractures and treatments?

The most cited paper in Bone fractures and treatments is "ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand" (Ge Wu, Frans C. T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger et al., 2004), with 4,574 citations. Next come "Risk Factors for Hip Fracture in White Women" (3,598) and "Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions." (3,534).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand Ge Wu, Frans C. T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger et al. · Journal of Biomechanics 21 Aug 2004 4,574
2 Risk Factors for Hip Fracture in White Women Steven Ron Cummings, Michael C. Nevitt, Warren S. Browner et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Mar 1995 3,598
3 Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions. Anthony D. Woolf, Bruce Pfleger · PubMed Open access 2003 3,534
4 de la Chapelle, A. Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton Book chapter 1997 3,167
5 Estimating the Prevalence of Limb Loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050 Kathryn Ziegler‐Graham, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Patti L. Ephraim et al. · Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Open access Mar 2008 2,841
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Where is Bone fractures and treatments research done?

The largest centres of Bone fractures and treatments research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kurgan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 152 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 138 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 135 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 116 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 105 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 103 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 81 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 76 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 76 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KurganRU · 21.0 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bone fractures and treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bone fractures and treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Groningen, University of Edinburgh and Duke University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 25.14%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Gronin…University of Edinbu…Duke UniversityHarvard 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.

Citation 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 GroningenNetherlands 66.845.3%2.2×14 +5.4%
2University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 63.725.5%3.1×25 -6.6%
3Duke UniversityUnited States 63.123.7%3.4×26 +76.6%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.911.3%2.4×72 -7.0%
5Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 62.428.6%3.5×17 +50.9%
6University of ZurichSwitzerland 62.322.4%3.8×24 +37.1%
7Sichuan UniversityChina 61.428.6%1.6×34 +28.0%
8University of GothenburgSweden 59.727.2%2.6×11 +26.4%
9Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 59.522.9%4.0×15 +32.3%
10University of UtahUnited States 58.915.9%5.2×33 +59.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Bone fractures and treatments, country by country

Is Bone fractures and treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Bone fractures and treatments.

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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 Bone fractures and treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.044% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bone fractures and treatments 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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