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Breast Implant and Reconstruction

Breast Implant and Reconstruction is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 13.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in breast reconstruction techniques and outcomes, including the development of patient-reported outcome measures, complications such as capsular contracture, the use of acellular dermal matrix in reconstruction, the impact of radiotherapy, and the evaluation of quality of life following different reconstruction methods.

  • Breast Reconstruction
  • Patient-Reported Outcome Measure
  • Complications
  • Acellular Dermal Matrix
  • Immediate Breast Reconstruction
  • Capsular Contracture
  • Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy
  • Radiotherapy
  • Implant-Based Reconstruction
  • Quality of Life
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
13.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+25%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Breast Implant and Reconstruction research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 376 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 376 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 290 works
  4. 4 Italy 223 works
  5. 5 South Korea 157 works
  6. 6 Germany 146 works
  7. 7 Brazil 139 works
  8. 8 India 137 works
  9. 9 Japan 121 works
  10. 10 Canada 97 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: 44.1%China: 12.5%United Kingdom: 9.6%Italy: 7.4%6 others listed: 26.4%44%largest
United States1,329 · 44.1%China376 · 12.5%United Kingdom290 · 9.6%Italy223 · 7.4%6 others listed797 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Breast Implant and Reconstruction research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center publishes the most Breast Implant and Reconstruction research, followed by Creative Commons and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 59 works
  2. 2 Creative CommonsUnited States 47 works
  3. 3 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 35 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 25 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 24 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 NYU Langone HealthUnited States 17 works

Where is Breast Implant and Reconstruction research done?

The largest centres of Breast Implant and Reconstruction research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), London (United Kingdom) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mountain View.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 140 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 95 works
  3. 3 London United Kingdom 73 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 72 works
  5. 5 Boston United States 66 works
  6. 6 Rome Italy 64 works
  7. 7 Houston United States 52 works
  8. 8 São Paulo Brazil 48 works
  9. 9 Mountain View United States 47 works
  10. 10 Tokyo Japan 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mountain ViewUS · 47.1 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Breast Implant and Reconstruction than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Breast Implant and Reconstruction?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Maastricht University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 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%20%40%mean 16.77%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Rome Tor Vergata: 9, 38.2%Maastricht University: 10, 18.2%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 15, 12.9%Harvard University: 19, 21.9%Weill Cornell Medicine: 11, 6.8%Washington University in St. Louis: 16, 18.1%Alexandria University: 14, 7.2%University of California, San Francisco: 19, 10.6%Stanford University: 21, 13.1%Emory University: 17, 20.7%University of Rome T…Harvard UniversityMaastricht UniversityIcahn School of Medi…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of Rome Tor VergataItaly 55.938.2%7.2×9 +34.8%
2 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 53.718.2%7.2×10 +336.7%
3 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 51.612.9%7.7×15 +362.1%
4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 42.321.9%3.7×19 +53.5%
5 Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States 42.26.8%21.1×11 —
6 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 41.018.1%5.5×16 +63.5%
7 Alexandria UniversityEgypt 40.67.2%7.1×14 +119.7%
8 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 40.410.6%7.3×19 +24.7%
9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 40.113.1%4.3×21 +103.5%
10 Emory UniversityUnited States 40.020.7%6.0×17 -19.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Breast Implant and Reconstruction research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Breast Implant and Reconstruction.

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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.

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.