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Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment

Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment is a research topic within Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of various elbow injuries, particularly in athletes and adults. It covers a wide range of topics including ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, radial head fractures, distal humerus fractures, elbow arthroscopy, Tommy John surgery, medial collateral ligament tears, supracondylar fractures, total elbow arthroplasty, and distal biceps tendon ruptures.

  • Elbow Injuries
  • Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction
  • Radial Head Fractures
  • Distal Humerus Fractures
  • Elbow Arthroscopy
  • Tommy John Surgery
  • Medial Collateral Ligament Tears
  • Supracondylar Fractures
  • Total Elbow Arthroplasty
  • Distal Biceps Tendon Ruptures
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment

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

Which countries lead Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 451 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 451 works
  3. 3 India 408 works
  4. 4 Germany 240 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 230 works
  6. 6 Japan 228 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 223 works
  8. 8 South Korea 187 works
  9. 9 France 164 works
  10. 10 Italy 154 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: 36.2%China: 12.6%India: 11.4%Germany: 6.7%6 others listed: 33.1%36%largest
United States1,298 · 36.2%China451 · 12.6%India408 · 11.4%Germany240 · 6.7%6 others listed1,186 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research, followed by Harvard University and Inner Mongolia Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 65 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 Inner Mongolia Medical UniversityChina 34 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 28 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 22 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 22 works
  7. 7 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 Schulthess-KlinikSwitzerland 22 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 21 works
  10. 10 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment include Cyrus Cooper, Jun Wang and Jasvinder A. Singh.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  4. 4 Rachelle Buchbinder Australia 173k 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 Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment?

The most cited paper in Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment is "The Outcome and Repair Integrity of Completely Arthroscopically Repaired Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears" (Leesa M. Galatz, Craig M. Ball, Sharlene A. Teefey et al., 2004), with 2,169 citations. Next come "Kinetics of Baseball Pitching with Implications About Injury Mechanisms" (1,516) and "Triangular fibrocartilage complex lesions: A classification" (1,197).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Outcome and Repair Integrity of Completely Arthroscopically Repaired Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears Leesa M. Galatz, Craig M. Ball, Sharlene A. Teefey et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Feb 2004 2,169
2 Kinetics of Baseball Pitching with Implications About Injury Mechanisms Glenn S. Fleisig, James Robertson Andrews, Charles J. Dillman et al. · The American Journal of Sports Medicine Mar 1995 1,516
3 Triangular fibrocartilage complex lesions: A classification Andrew K. Palmer · The Journal Of Hand Surgery Jul 1989 1,197
4 The SLAC wrist: Scapholunate advanced collapse pattern of degenerative arthritis H. Kirk Watson, Frederick L. Ballet · The Journal Of Hand Surgery May 1984 1,150
5 Posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow. Shawn W. O’Driscoll, Deborah F. Bell, Bernard F. Morrey · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Mar 1991 1,011
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Where is Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Modena, Scottsdale and Rochester.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 80 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 77 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 68 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 55 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 50 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 42 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 40 works
  9. 9 HohhotChina 39 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ModenaIT · 22.8 works16×
  2. ScottsdaleUS · 29.3 works12×
  3. RochesterUS · 22.4 works11×
  4. HohhotCN · 39.2 works9.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Harvard University and Duke 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 17.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Baekseok UniversityDuke UniversityErasmus University R…Harvard 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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 67.827.9%7.0×16 +104.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 59.011.7%2.9×41 -25.7%
3Duke UniversityUnited States 58.328.7%3.9×14 +142.4%
4Baekseok UniversitySouth Korea 57.734.2%254.3×8 -
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 52.718.4%2.9×19 +14.8%
6New York UniversityUnited States 49.216.4%4.5×22 -14.5%
7Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 46.84.5%8.6×21 +106.7%
8Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 44.419.0%3.5×9 +289.4%
9All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 44.12.9%5.8×28 +38.5%
10Technical University of MunichGermany 43.47.5%4.9×19 -3.9%

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 Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment, country by country

Is Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment.

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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 Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment 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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