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Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research

Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 21k 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, etiology, treatment, and rehabilitation of facial paralysis, particularly Bell's Palsy. It covers a wide range of topics including the use of steroids and antivirals, surgical techniques for reanimation, assessment of quality of life, and the management of synkinesis.

  • Bell's Palsy
  • Facial Nerve Palsy
  • Rehabilitation
  • Synkinesis
  • Treatment
  • Facial Reanimation
  • Quality of Life
  • Etiology
  • Neuromuscular Retraining
  • Surgical Techniques
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research

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

Which countries lead Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (945 and 625 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 945 works
  2. 2 China 625 works
  3. 3 India 470 works
  4. 4 Japan 246 works
  5. 5 Brazil 241 works
  6. 6 South Korea 219 works
  7. 7 Germany 172 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 160 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 156 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: 27.9%China: 18.4%India: 13.9%Japan: 7.3%6 others listed: 32.6%28%largest
United States945 · 27.9%China625 · 18.4%India470 · 13.9%Japan246 · 7.3%6 others listed1,103 · 32.6%

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

Which institutions lead Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes the most Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research, followed by Harvard University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 35 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 33 works
  4. 4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 28 works
  6. 6 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 23 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 19 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 18 works
  9. 9 Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 17 works
  10. 10 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research include Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k 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 Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research?

The most cited paper in Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research is "The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception" (Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott, Marvin M. Chun, 1997), with 8,016 citations. Next come "Facial Nerve Grading System" (3,895) and "A Vaccine to Prevent Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia in Older Adults" (2,429).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott, Marvin M. Chun · Journal of Neuroscience Open access Jun 1997 8,016
2 Facial Nerve Grading System John W. House, Derald E. Brackmann · Otolaryngology Apr 1985 3,895
3 A Vaccine to Prevent Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia in Older Adults Michael N. Oxman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access Jun 2005 2,429
4 Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Marc Stamminger et al. Conference paper Jun 2016 1,852
5 FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF FACE AND OBJECT PROCESSING Justine Sergent, Shinsuke Ohta, B.A. MacDonald · Brain 1992 1,548
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Where is Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research done?

The largest centres of Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 122 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 121 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 76 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 72 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 63 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 50 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 50 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 40 works
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Where is the best place to study Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Yonsei University, Harvard University and Kyung Hee University 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 19.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yonsei UniversityUniversity College L…Kyung Hee UniversityHarvard 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.

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
1Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 80.124.1%7.3×28 +107.7%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.616.6%2.6×35 -13.8%
3Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 71.018.0%13.4×23 +39.9%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.520.9%2.1×14 +53.3%
5Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 64.118.6%12.9×17 -6.7%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 62.527.9%2.0×10 +41.1%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61.914.3%3.1×38 -1.3%
8Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina 54.523.8%8.0×8 +221.6%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.922.0%1.2×13 +120.8%
10Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 52.111.7%2.3×15 -10.0%

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 Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research, country by country

Is Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and 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 Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and 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%Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research10.3% 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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