Foreign Body Medical Cases
Foreign Body Medical Cases is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the management, diagnosis, and complications of ingested foreign bodies and food impactions, particularly in children. It covers topics such as endoscopic management, esophageal foreign bodies, airway aspiration, button battery ingestion, and gastrointestinal tract complications.
- Foreign Bodies
- Ingestion
- Children
- Endoscopic Management
- Complications
- Esophageal Foreign Bodies
- Airway Aspiration
- Pediatric Patients
- Button Battery Ingestion
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Research works
- 13k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 1.3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +2% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Foreign Body Medical Cases research?
By volume, the United States and India publish the most (467 and 314 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
United States
467 works
- 2
India
314 works
- 3
China
244 works
- 4
Japan
140 works
- 5
United Kingdom
99 works
- 6
Türkiye
92 works
- 7
Italy
60 works
- 8
Brazil
56 works
- 9
Germany
53 works
- 10
Spain
47 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Foreign Body Medical Cases research?
By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Foreign Body Medical Cases research, followed by Sichuan University and Harvard University.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia
36 works
- 2
Sichuan UniversityChina
12 works
- 3
Harvard UniversityUnited States
11 works
- 4
Zhejiang UniversityChina
11 works
- 5
Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye
10 works
- 6
Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia
10 works
- 7
University of DelhiIndia
8 works
- 8
Tribhuvan University
Nepal
8 works
- 9
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Malaysia
8 works
- 10
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia
8 works
Who are the leading researchers in Foreign Body Medical Cases?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Foreign Body Medical Cases include Carlo La Vecchia and Ewout Willem Steyerberg.
- 1
Carlo La Vecchia
Italy
258k citations
- 2
Ewout Willem Steyerberg
Netherlands
171k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Foreign Body Medical Cases research done?
The largest centres of Foreign Body Medical Cases research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom) and Istanbul (Türkiye).
Where is the best place to study Foreign Body Medical Cases?
Among universities, judged by research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Harvard University and Zhejiang 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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia |
56.7 | 4.1% | 15.4× | 36 | +50.7% |
| 2 | Harvard UniversityUnited States |
56.1 | 28.9% | 1.6× | 11 | -22.7% |
| 3 | Zhejiang UniversityChina |
48.9 | 19.6% | 1.9× | 11 | +18.2% |
| 4 | Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye |
42.6 | 9.2% | 8.8× | 10 | +17.5% |
| 5 | Tribhuvan UniversityNepal |
31.4 | 4.7% | 5.1× | 8 | +43.4% |
| 6 | Sichuan UniversityChina |
26.5 | 5.5% | 2.4× | 12 | +6.9% |
| 7 | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia |
20.0 | 1.2% | 11.7× | 8 | -20.0% |
| 8 | Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia |
19.9 | 2.1% | 5.8× | 10 | -4.0% |
| 9 | Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia |
17.2 | 0.5% | 5.7× | 8 | -39.2% |
| 10 | University of DelhiIndia |
16.1 | 3.5% | 5.7× | 8 | -13.6% |
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 Foreign Body Medical Cases, country by countryIs Foreign Body Medical Cases research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Foreign Body Medical Cases.
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 Foreign Body Medical Cases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.
Fractional works of Foreign Body Medical Cases 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.
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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