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Dysphagia Assessment and Management

Dysphagia Assessment and Management is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 17.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on dysphagia, swallowing disorders, and their impact on various populations such as stroke patients, the elderly, and individuals with neurological disorders. It covers topics including aspiration pneumonia, rehabilitation, quality of life, and nutritional support for individuals with dysphagia.

  • Dysphagia
  • Swallowing
  • Aspiration Pneumonia
  • Stroke
  • Elderly
  • Rehabilitation
  • Neurological Disorders
  • Quality of Life
  • Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
  • Nutritional Support
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+39%
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 Dysphagia Assessment and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 759 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 759 works
  3. 3 Japan 681 works
  4. 4 India 318 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 316 works
  6. 6 Brazil 292 works
  7. 7 Italy 226 works
  8. 8 South Korea 225 works
  9. 9 Germany 214 works
  10. 10 Australia 192 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: 30.7%China: 16.3%Japan: 14.6%India: 6.8%6 others listed: 31.5%31%largest
United States1,425 · 30.7%China759 · 16.3%Japan681 · 14.6%India318 · 6.8%6 others listed1,464 · 31.5%

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

Which institutions lead Dysphagia Assessment and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Wisconsin–Madison publishes the most Dysphagia Assessment and Management research, followed by Google (United States) and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 21 works
  2. 2 Google (United States)United States 20 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 20 works
  4. 4 Tokyo Medical and Dental UniversityJapan 18 works
  5. 5 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 18 works
  6. 6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 18 works
  7. 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 18 works
  8. 8 University of FloridaUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 16 works

Where is Dysphagia Assessment and Management research done?

The largest centres of Dysphagia Assessment and Management research in 2022–2025 are Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom), Seoul (South Korea) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Niigata.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Tokyo Japan 176 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 111 works
  3. 3 Seoul South Korea 97 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 91 works
  5. 5 São Paulo Brazil 79 works
  6. 6 Guangzhou China 66 works
  7. 7 Shanghai China 63 works
  8. 8 Boston United States 60 works
  9. 9 New York United States 57 works
  10. 10 Istanbul Türkiye 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NiigataJP · 21.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dysphagia Assessment and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dysphagia Assessment and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Trinity College Dublin and Hacettepe 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 22.48%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Tokyo Medical and Dental University: 18, 24.8%Trinity College Dublin: 13, 27.1%Hacettepe University: 18, 16.4%SHOWA Medical University: 14, 15.1%University of Auckland: 12, 21.4%Niigata University: 14, 14.2%Sichuan University: 20, 19.4%Northwestern University: 15, 31.3%University of Wisconsin–Madison: 21, 19.6%Sun Yat-sen University: 16, 35.5%Trinity College DublinTokyo Medical and De…Hacettepe UniversitySHOWA Medical Univer…
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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 Tokyo Medical and Dental UniversityJapan 72.524.8%22.3×18 +133.4%
2 Trinity College DublinIreland 58.027.1%5.9×13 +105.8%
3 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 57.116.4%5.6×18 +217.1%
4 SHOWA Medical UniversityJapan 55.015.1%33.1×14 +74.8%
5 University of AucklandNew Zealand 52.621.4%3.7×12 +212.6%
6 Niigata UniversityJapan 52.114.2%16.5×14 +39.6%
7 Sichuan UniversityChina 51.119.4%1.8×20 +260.8%
8 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 50.631.3%3.5×15 +29.4%
9 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 48.719.6%3.5×21 +51.2%
10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 48.035.5%1.5×16 +41.5%

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 Dysphagia Assessment and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 39% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dysphagia Assessment and Management.

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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.