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Topic · Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Foot and Ankle Surgery

Foot and Ankle Surgery is a research topic within Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 11.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, assessment, treatment, and long-term outcomes of ankle injuries and disorders in sports medicine. It covers topics such as ankle sprains, balance tests for injury prediction, ankle arthroplasty, chronic instability, osteochondral lesions, and rehabilitation methods. The papers provide evidence-based insights into the prevalence, risk factors, clinical course, and management strategies for various ankle-related conditions.

  • Ankle Injuries
  • Sprains
  • Balance Test
  • Arthroplasty
  • Chronic Instability
  • Osteochondral Lesions
  • Epidemiology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Ligament Reconstruction
  • Ponseti Method
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+22%
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 Foot and Ankle Surgery research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 674 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 674 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 388 works
  4. 4 Japan 323 works
  5. 5 India 305 works
  6. 6 South Korea 261 works
  7. 7 Germany 230 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 220 works
  9. 9 France 195 works
  10. 10 Italy 170 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: 34.8%China: 15.9%United Kingdom: 9.2%Japan: 7.6%6 others listed: 32.5%35%largest
United States1,475 · 34.8%China674 · 15.9%United Kingdom388 · 9.2%Japan323 · 7.6%6 others listed1,380 · 32.5%

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

Which institutions lead Foot and Ankle Surgery research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Hospital for Special Surgery publishes the most Foot and Ankle Surgery research, followed by Hiroshima University and Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Center.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States 48 works
  2. 2 Hiroshima UniversityJapan 21 works
  3. 3 Orthopedic Foot & Ankle CenterUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 19 works
  6. 6 Cairo UniversityEgypt 19 works
  7. 7 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 Istituto Ortopedico RizzoliItaly 19 works
  9. 9 Duke UniversityUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 17 works

Where is Foot and Ankle Surgery research done?

The largest centres of Foot and Ankle Surgery research in 2022–2025 are Shanghai (China), New York (United States), 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 Westerville and Hiroshima.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Shanghai China 105 works
  2. 2 New York United States 104 works
  3. 3 Seoul South Korea 98 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 98 works
  5. 5 London United Kingdom 87 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Japan 73 works
  7. 7 Istanbul Türkiye 71 works
  8. 8 Tehran Iran 54 works
  9. 9 São Paulo Brazil 52 works
  10. 10 Philadelphia United States 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WestervilleUS · 20.8 works371×
  2. HiroshimaJP · 28.7 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Foot and Ankle Surgery than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Foot and Ankle Surgery?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai University of Sport, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Hiroshima 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%10%20%30%mean 17.56%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Shanghai University of Sport: 16, 17.7%Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: 12, 28.0%Hiroshima University: 21, 8.5%Shandong Sport University: 11, 18.0%Beijing Sport University: 11, 17.1%Brigham Young University: 12, 12.5%Duke University: 18, 24.6%La Trobe University: 19, 7.9%Peking University: 16, 22.8%University of Utah: 15, 18.5%Ludwig-Maximilians-U…Shandong Sport Unive…Shanghai University …Hiroshima University
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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 Shanghai University of SportChina 61.617.7%45.6×16 +104.1%
2 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 58.928.0%3.2×12 +259.1%
3 Hiroshima UniversityJapan 56.98.5%11.0×21 +112.5%
4 Shandong Sport UniversityChina 54.818.0%127.5×11 —
5 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 54.117.1%27.6×11 +61.9%
6 Brigham Young UniversityUnited States 51.912.5%7.8×12 +1266.8%
7 Duke UniversityUnited States 48.024.6%4.3×18 +0.9%
8 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 47.17.9%10.4×19 -36.5%
9 Peking UniversityChina 45.122.8%1.8×16 +103.5%
10 University of UtahUnited States 44.718.5%3.9×15 +103.5%

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 Foot and Ankle Surgery research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Foot and Ankle Surgery.

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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.