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Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments

Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 focuses on the genetics, development, and management of craniofacial abnormalities such as craniosynostosis, Treacher Collins syndrome, and positional plagiocephaly. It explores topics such as neural crest cell formation, FGF signaling, skull vault growth, genetic mutations associated with craniofacial disorders, suture development, and the use of distraction osteogenesis for treatment.

  • Craniosynostosis
  • Neural Crest
  • FGF Signaling
  • Skull Vault Growth
  • Genetic Mutations
  • Osteogenesis
  • Positional Plagiocephaly
  • Treacher Collins Syndrome
  • Suture Development
  • Distraction Osteogenesis
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
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
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments

Which countries lead Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 409 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 China 409 works
  3. 3 India 369 works
  4. 4 Brazil 249 works
  5. 5 Japan 167 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 145 works
  7. 7 Germany 131 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 119 works
  9. 9 Italy 115 works
  10. 10 France 101 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: 36.4%China: 14.4%India: 13.0%Brazil: 8.8%6 others listed: 27.4%36%largest
United States1,034 · 36.4%China409 · 14.4%India369 · 13.0%Brazil249 · 8.8%6 others listed778 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Southern California publishes the most Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research, followed by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 40 works
  2. 2 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States 38 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 31 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 30 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 30 works
  8. 8 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 25 works
  9. 9 Services Institute of Medical SciencesPakistan 22 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments include George Davey Smith, Gregory Y.H. Lip and Kaj Blennow.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  3. 3 Kaj Blennow Sweden 247k citations
  4. 4 André Gerardus Uitterlinden Netherlands 246k 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 Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments is "Nusinersen versus Sham Control in Infantile-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy" (Richard S. Finkel et al., 2017), with 2,357 citations. Next come "Cleft lip and palate: understanding genetic and environmental influences" (2,022) and "Cleft lip and palate" (1,792).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nusinersen versus Sham Control in Infantile-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy Richard S. Finkel et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access Nov 2017 2,357
2 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
3 Cleft lip and palate Peter Anthony Mossey, Julian Little, Ron Munger et al. · The Lancet 10 Sep 2009 1,792
4 Lengthening the Human Mandible by Gradual Distraction Joseph G. McCarthy, Jonathan S. Schreiber, Nolan S. Karp et al. · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 1992 1,556
5 Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue Victor A. McKusick · Postgraduate Medical Journal May 1960 1,534
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Where is Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Philadelphia (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 Mountain View and Rotterdam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 95 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 66 works
  3. 3 PhiladelphiaUnited States 59 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 55 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 49 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 45 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 45 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mountain ViewUS · 21.8 works10×
  2. RotterdamNL · 26.7 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Harvard University and University of Southern California 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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 84.517.8%13.4×25 +19.2%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 82.916.0%3.2×37 +11.4%
3University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 82.110.8%13.3×40 +120.0%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 67.418.0%3.8×22 -40.8%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 65.411.9%4.0×32 +29.6%
6University of GothenburgSweden 65.019.7%5.6×10 +19.2%
7Yale UniversityUnited States 63.819.5%5.2×20 -26.4%
8New York UniversityUnited States 62.021.1%3.6×15 -15.5%
9Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 61.214.1%5.2×13 +25.2%
10University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 60.512.6%3.4×13 +40.2%

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 Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments, country by country

Is Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Craniofacial Disorders 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 Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Craniofacial Disorders 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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