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Head and Neck Anomalies

Head and Neck Anomalies is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the anatomical, clinical, and surgical aspects of branchial anomalies, including thyroglossal duct cysts, ectopic thyroid tissue, and congenital neck masses. It also discusses the management and genetic implications of conditions such as Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome and thyroid carcinoma in the pediatric population.

  • Branchial Anomalies
  • Thyroglossal Duct Cysts
  • Ectopic Thyroid Tissue
  • Congenital Neck Masses
  • Sistrunk Procedure
  • Pyriform Sinus Fistula
  • Lingual Thyroid
  • Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome
  • Thyroid Carcinoma
  • Pediatric Neck Masses
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Head and Neck Anomalies

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

Which countries lead Head and Neck Anomalies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (426 and 342 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 426 works
  2. 2 China 342 works
  3. 3 India 314 works
  4. 4 Japan 128 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 105 works
  6. 6 Italy 86 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 82 works
  8. 8 South Korea 66 works
  9. 9 France 65 works
  10. 10 Brazil 65 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: 25.4%China: 20.3%India: 18.7%Japan: 7.6%6 others listed: 28.0%25%largest
United States426 · 25.4%China342 · 20.3%India314 · 18.7%Japan128 · 7.6%6 others listed469 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Head and Neck Anomalies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Head and Neck Anomalies research, followed by University of Toronto and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 32 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 19 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  4. 4 Imagerie Médicale et Radiothérapie Drôme ArdècheFrance 14 works
  5. 5 Princess Margaret Cancer CentreCanada 14 works
  6. 6 The Edgbaston HospitalUnited Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 13 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 11 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Head and Neck Anomalies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Head and Neck Anomalies include Gregory Y.H. Lip, Marco A. Marra and John C. Morris.

  1. 1 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  2. 2 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k citations
  3. 3 John C. Morris United States 241k citations
  4. 4 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k 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 Head and Neck Anomalies?

The most cited paper in Head and Neck Anomalies is "The Colorado Thyroid Disease Prevalence Study" (Gay J. Canaris, Neil Manowitz, Gilbert H. Mayor et al., 2000), with 2,848 citations. Next come "ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee" (2,564) and "The incidence of thyroid disorders in the community: a twenty‐year follow‐up of the Whickham Survey" (2,465).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Colorado Thyroid Disease Prevalence Study Gay J. Canaris, Neil Manowitz, Gilbert H. Mayor et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine 28 Feb 2000 2,848
2 ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee Franklin Neil Tessler, William Dana Middleton, Edward G. Grant et al. · Journal of the American College of Radiology Open access 2 Apr 2017 2,564
3 The incidence of thyroid disorders in the community: a twenty‐year follow‐up of the Whickham Survey Mark P. J. Vanderpump, W. M. G. Tunbrldge, J.M. French et al. · Clinical Endocrinology Jul 1995 2,465
4 The 2017 Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology Edmund S. Cibas, Syed Zulfiqar Ali · Thyroid Open access Nov 2017 1,873
5 Risk of Malignancy in Nonpalpable Thyroid Nodules: Predictive Value of Ultrasound and Color-Doppler Features Enrico Papini, Rinaldo Guglielmi, Antonio Bianchini et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism May 2002 1,344
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Where is Head and Neck Anomalies research done?

The largest centres of Head and Neck Anomalies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Toronto (Canada) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 50 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 34 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 34 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 32 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 28 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 27 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 24 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 21 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 19 works
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Where is the best place to study Head and Neck Anomalies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Seoul National 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.

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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.525.4%2.1×16 -44.0%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 57.34.4%12.9×32 +23.2%
3Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 51.534.1%3.3×8 -30.9%
4University of TorontoCanada 49.46.1%4.1×19 -23.4%
5Catholic University of KoreaSouth Korea 48.221.7%10.8×8 +9.0%
6Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 37.414.1%3.9×9 +35.6%
7Alexandria UniversityEgypt 35.00.8%10.0×10 +76.5%
8Capital Medical UniversityChina 34.713.3%5.2×13 -9.1%
9Sichuan UniversityChina 34.313.9%2.1×11 +0.6%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 34.219.7%1.9×12 -26.8%

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 Head and Neck Anomalies, country by country

Is Head and Neck Anomalies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Head and Neck Anomalies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Head and Neck Anomalies 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%Head and Neck Anomalies10.5% 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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