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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. 10.1% 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%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Breast Implant and Reconstruction

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 (1.6k and 451 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 451 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 345 works
  4. 4 Italy 270 works
  5. 5 South Korea 185 works
  6. 6 India 176 works
  7. 7 Germany 175 works
  8. 8 Brazil 164 works
  9. 9 Japan 144 works
  10. 10 Canada 117 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: 44.7%China: 12.3%United Kingdom: 9.4%Italy: 7.4%6 others listed: 26.2%45%largest
United States1,635 · 44.7%China451 · 12.3%United Kingdom345 · 9.4%Italy270 · 7.4%6 others listed960 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Breast Implant and Reconstruction research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Breast Implant and Reconstruction research, followed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Creative Commons.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 85 works
  2. 2 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 69 works
  3. 3 Creative CommonsUnited States 47 works
  4. 4 Cornell UniversityUnited States 46 works
  5. 5 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 41 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 33 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 28 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Breast Implant and Reconstruction?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Breast Implant and Reconstruction include Ahmedin Jemal, Róbert Langer and Graham A. Colditz.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k citations
  4. 4 Ai Koyanagi Spain 231k 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 Breast Implant and Reconstruction?

The most cited paper in Breast Implant and Reconstruction is "Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive Breast Cancer" (Bernard Fisher, Stewart Anderson, John Bryant et al., 2002), with 6,293 citations. Next come "Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials" (5,167) and "Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer" (4,479).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Comparing Total Mastectomy, Lumpectomy, and Lumpectomy plus Irradiation for the Treatment of Invasive Breast Cancer Bernard Fisher, Stewart Anderson, John Bryant et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Oct 2002 6,293
2 Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials Mike J Clarke · The Lancet Dec 2005 5,167
3 Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer Umberto Veronesi, Natale Cascinelli, Luigi Mariani et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Oct 2002 4,479
4 Effect of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery on 10-year recurrence and 15-year breast cancer death: meta-analysis of individual patient data for 10 801 women in 17 randomised trials S Darby, Paul McGale, Candace R. Correa et al. · The Lancet ReviewOpen access 22 Oct 2011 4,007
5 Axillary Dissection vs No Axillary Dissection in Women With Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis Armando E. Giuliano · JAMA Open access 8 Feb 2011 2,968
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Breast Implant and Reconstruction research done?

The largest centres of Breast Implant and Reconstruction research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 168 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 111 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 86 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 81 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 76 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 75 works
  7. 7 HoustonUnited States 62 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 58 works
  9. 9 Mountain ViewUnited States 47 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mountain ViewUS · 47.1 works18×
← 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, Harvard University, New York University and University of Rome Tor Vergata 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 17.07%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Rome T…New York UniversityHumanitas 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.

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 75.114.2%5.9×85 +7.4%
2New York UniversityUnited States 73.224.5%6.3×32 +14.3%
3University of Rome Tor VergataItaly 69.927.0%9.2×13 +401.2%
4Humanitas UniversityItaly 67.223.9%17.4×11 +43.1%
5Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 63.012.8%10.2×18 +4.6%
6Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.318.4%5.3×14 +69.4%
7Cornell UniversityUnited States 57.66.9%7.8×46 +167.7%
8University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.39.0%8.4×27 +63.3%
9Emory UniversityUnited States 57.315.4%6.3×23 +92.6%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 57.018.6%3.3×14 +63.2%

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 Breast Implant and Reconstruction, country by country

Is Breast Implant and Reconstruction research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Breast Implant and Reconstruction as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Breast Implant and Reconstruction0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Breast Implant and Reconstruction 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%Breast Implant and Reconstruction10.1% 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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