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Facial Trauma and Fracture Management

Facial Trauma and Fracture Management is a research topic within Surgery. 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 epidemiology, surgical management, and treatment outcomes of maxillofacial trauma, including facial fractures, orbital fractures, mandibular fractures, and pediatric injuries. It also explores the use of bioabsorbable fixation devices and provides epidemiological analyses of maxillofacial trauma in various regions.

  • Maxillofacial Trauma
  • Facial Fractures
  • Orbital Fractures
  • Mandibular Fractures
  • Pediatric Injuries
  • Bioabsorbable Fixation Devices
  • Surgical Management
  • Epidemiological Analysis
  • Treatment Outcomes
  • Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery
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
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Facial Trauma and Fracture Management

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

Which countries lead Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (972 and 621 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 972 works
  2. 2 India 621 works
  3. 3 China 534 works
  4. 4 Brazil 251 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 210 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 198 works
  7. 7 Japan 186 works
  8. 8 Germany 168 works
  9. 9 Russia 161 works
  10. 10 South Korea 143 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: 28.2%India: 18.0%China: 15.5%Brazil: 7.3%6 others listed: 31.0%28%largest
United States972 · 28.2%India621 · 18.0%China534 · 15.5%Brazil251 · 7.3%6 others listed1,066 · 31.0%

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

Which institutions lead Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 45 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 27 works
  5. 5 Alexandria UniversityEgypt 26 works
  6. 6 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  7. 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 23 works
  8. 8 Cairo UniversityEgypt 22 works
  9. 9 Stomatology HospitalChina 19 works
  10. 10 Creative CommonsUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Facial Trauma and Fracture Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Facial Trauma and Fracture Management include Jost Bruno Jonas, Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 237k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Trauma and Fracture Management?

The most cited paper in Facial Trauma and Fracture Management is "A review of the biological response to ionic dissolution products from bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics" (Alexander Hoppe, Nusret Sena Güldal, Aldo Roberto Boccaccini, 2011), with 2,613 citations. Next come "The story of Bioglass®" (2,499) and "Review of bioactive glass: From Hench to hybrids" (2,454).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review of the biological response to ionic dissolution products from bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics Alexander Hoppe, Nusret Sena Güldal, Aldo Roberto Boccaccini · Biomaterials 3 Feb 2011 2,613
2 The story of Bioglass® Larry L. Hench · Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine Nov 2006 2,499
3 Review of bioactive glass: From Hench to hybrids Julian R. Jones · Acta Biomaterialia 21 Aug 2012 2,454
4 Fibula Free Flap David A. Hidalgo · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Jul 1989 1,466
5 Fractures of the Odontoid Process of the Axis Lewis D. Anderson, RICHARD T. DʼALONZO · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Dec 1974 1,349
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Where is Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research done?

The largest centres of Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Alexandria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 91 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 87 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 68 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 66 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 63 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 62 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 56 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 48 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AlexandriaEG · 26.3 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Facial Trauma and Fracture Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Facial Trauma and Fracture Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, KU Leuven and Shanghai Jiao Tong 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%20%40%mean 16.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →KU LeuvenUniversity of Gronin…Sichuan UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…
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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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 64.224.4%2.7×27 +37.0%
2KU LeuvenBelgium 63.132.5%2.0×8 +16.8%
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60.815.1%2.9×38 +15.7%
4University of GroningenNetherlands 57.225.5%3.0×9 -3.7%
5Alexandria UniversityEgypt 55.97.5%12.4×26 +71.8%
6All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 54.74.8%9.1×45 +9.7%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.513.7%2.2×31 -26.5%
8Saveetha UniversityIndia 54.015.0%3.5×15 +71.6%
9University of HelsinkiFinland 53.011.4%4.1×13 +37.9%
10University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 47.512.6%8.3×13 +41.4%

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 Trauma and Fracture Management, country by country

Is Facial Trauma and Fracture Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facial Trauma and Fracture 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Facial Trauma and Fracture Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Facial Trauma and Fracture Management0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Facial Trauma and Fracture Management 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 Trauma and Fracture Management10.2% 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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