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Cleft Lip and Palate Research

Cleft Lip and Palate Research is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the genetic and environmental influences on the development of cleft lip and palate, including factors such as mutations in specific genes, maternal smoking, and alcohol consumption. It also delves into the epidemiology, morphogenesis, speech outcomes, and treatment outcomes related to cleft lip and palate. The research covers a wide range of topics related to the causes, effects, and management of this congenital condition.

  • Genetics
  • Cleft Lip
  • Cleft Palate
  • Environmental Influences
  • Morphogenesis
  • Epidemiology
  • Speech Outcomes
  • Fetal Development
  • Craniofacial Anomalies
  • Treatment Outcomes
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cleft Lip and Palate Research

Which countries lead Cleft Lip and Palate Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 627 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 627 works
  3. 3 India 626 works
  4. 4 Brazil 513 works
  5. 5 Japan 240 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 239 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 214 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 179 works
  9. 9 Italy 158 works
  10. 10 Egypt 155 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: 32.9%China: 14.3%India: 14.2%Brazil: 11.7%6 others listed: 27.0%33%largest
United States1,444 · 32.9%China627 · 14.3%India626 · 14.2%Brazil513 · 11.7%6 others listed1,186 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Cleft Lip and Palate Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Southern California publishes the most Cleft Lip and Palate Research research, followed by Sichuan University and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 62 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 54 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 42 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 40 works
  6. 6 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 37 works
  8. 8 Creative CommonsUnited States 34 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 29 works
  10. 10 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cleft Lip and Palate Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cleft Lip and Palate Research include Freddie Bray, George Davey Smith and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k 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 Cleft Lip and Palate Research?

The most cited paper in Cleft Lip and Palate Research is "Human Papillomavirus and Rising Oropharyngeal Cancer Incidence in the United States" (Anil K. Chaturvedi, Eric A. Engels, Ruth M. Pfeiffer et al., 2011), with 3,651 citations. Next come "Evidence for a Causal Association Between Human Papillomavirus and a Subset of Head and Neck Cancers" (3,121) and "Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to HPV by site, country and HPV type" (2,393).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human Papillomavirus and Rising Oropharyngeal Cancer Incidence in the United States Anil K. Chaturvedi, Eric A. Engels, Ruth M. Pfeiffer et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology Open access 4 Oct 2011 3,651
2 Evidence for a Causal Association Between Human Papillomavirus and a Subset of Head and Neck Cancers Maura L. Gillison · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 3 May 2000 3,121
3 Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to HPV by site, country and HPV type Catherine de Martel, Martyn Plummer, Jérôme Vignat et al. · International Journal of Cancer Open access 4 Apr 2017 2,393
4 Cleft lip and palate: understanding genetic and environmental influences Michael James Dixon, Mary L. Marazita, Terri H. Beaty et al. · Nature Reviews Genetics ReviewOpen access 18 Feb 2011 2,022
5 A Novel Reconstructive Technique After Endoscopic Expanded Endonasal Approaches: Vascular Pedicle Nasoseptal Flap Gustavo Hadad, Luis Bassagasteguy, Ricardo Luis Carrau et al. · The Laryngoscope 26 Sep 2006 1,931
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Where is Cleft Lip and Palate Research research done?

The largest centres of Cleft Lip and Palate Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Los Angeles (United States) and Seoul (South Korea). 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 BeijingChina 131 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 118 works
  3. 3 Los AngelesUnited States 95 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 76 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 76 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 73 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 67 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 67 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 65 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mountain ViewUS · 37.2 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cleft Lip and Palate Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cleft Lip and Palate Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University and Harvard University 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 17.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vanderbilt UniversityNew York UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Southe…
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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
1University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 75.211.4%13.8×66 +154.3%
2Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 62.627.1%3.5×14 +49.9%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.514.4%2.3×42 -14.2%
4New York UniversityUnited States 62.419.2%3.8×24 +4.8%
5Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 60.512.8%7.5×22 +13.8%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 59.57.6%4.8×62 +46.7%
7Karolinska InstitutetSweden 57.130.8%2.8×9 -24.5%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 57.017.3%2.9×17 +64.1%
9University of MichiganUnited States 56.117.8%2.6×23 +2.6%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.115.4%2.3×20 +18.2%

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 Cleft Lip and Palate Research, country by country

Is Cleft Lip and Palate Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cleft Lip and Palate Research.

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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 Cleft Lip and Palate Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cleft Lip and Palate Research 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%Cleft Lip and Palate Research10.2% 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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