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Burn Injury Management and Outcomes

Burn Injury Management and Outcomes is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 the epidemiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, management, and psychological impact of burn wound infections. It covers topics such as sepsis, resuscitation, antibiotic resistance, rehabilitation, and the long-term effects of burn injuries.

  • Burn Wound Infections
  • Epidemiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Burn Injury
  • Sepsis
  • Pathophysiology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Psychological Impact
  • Resuscitation
  • Antibiotic Resistance
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Burn Injury Management and Outcomes

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

Which countries lead Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 400 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 400 works
  3. 3 India 212 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 158 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 139 works
  6. 6 Australia 126 works
  7. 7 Canada 113 works
  8. 8 Iran 110 works
  9. 9 Germany 106 works
  10. 10 Brazil 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: 48.1%China: 14.1%India: 7.5%United Kingdom: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.7%48%largest
United States1,362 · 48.1%China400 · 14.1%India212 · 7.5%United Kingdom158 · 5.6%6 others listed699 · 24.7%

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

Which institutions lead Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston publishes the most Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research, followed by Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 60 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 38 works
  4. 4 University of WashingtonUnited States 38 works
  5. 5 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 37 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 36 works
  7. 7 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 29 works
  8. 8 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 28 works
  9. 9 Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenUnited States 26 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Burn Injury Management and Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Burn Injury Management and Outcomes include Ali H. Mokdad, Ted R. Miller and Gordon Brent Mills.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  4. 4 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Burn Injury Management and Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Burn Injury Management and Outcomes is "Cutaneous Wound Healing" (Adam J. Singer, Richard A.F. Clark, 1999), with 6,150 citations. Next come "Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913." (1,942) and "Burn Wound Infections" (1,885).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cutaneous Wound Healing Adam J. Singer, Richard A.F. Clark · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Sep 1999 6,150
2 Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913. B. Larsson, Kurt Svärdsudd, Lennart Welin et al. · BMJ Open access 12 May 1984 1,942
3 Burn Wound Infections Deirdre L. Church, Sameer Elsayed, Owen Reid et al. · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access Apr 2006 1,885
4 Inflammation and wound healing: the role of the macrophage Timothy Jon Koh, Luisa Ann DiPietro · Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine Open access Jul 2011 1,672
5 Burn injury Marc G. Jeschke, Margriet E. van Baar, Mashkoor A. Choudhry et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers ReviewOpen access 13 Feb 2020 1,665
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research in 2022-now are Galveston (United States), Beijing (China), Boston (United States) and Los Angeles (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Galveston and San Antonio.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GalvestonUnited States 61 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 54 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 50 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 49 works
  5. 5 BaltimoreUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 SeattleUnited States 44 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 38 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GalvestonUS · 60.9 works76×
  2. San AntonioUS · 33.0 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Burn Injury Management and Outcomes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Burn Injury Management and Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Harvard University and University of Washington 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.

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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
1The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 68.95.6%94.1×60 +11.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.89.2%4.0×46 -0.5%
3University of WashingtonUnited States 62.67.4%9.3×38 +4.7%
4Guilan University of Medical SciencesIran 59.419.4%47.0×12 +295.8%
5University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 55.83.7%12.6×37 +23.8%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 54.24.1%6.7×36 -2.6%
7The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 53.89.6%6.5×28 +5.3%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 53.029.6%1.1×9 +40.8%
9University of TorontoCanada 51.19.1%3.4×25 -28.2%
10Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 49.913.7%16.5×14 +366.4%

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 Burn Injury Management and Outcomes, country by country

Is Burn Injury Management and Outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Burn Injury Management and Outcomes.

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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 Burn Injury Management and Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Burn Injury Management and Outcomes 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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