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Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Head and Neck Surgical Oncology is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of endoscopic skull base surgery techniques, including reconstruction using the nasoseptal flap, management of cerebrospinal fluid leaks, and treatment outcomes for sinonasal malignancies such as esthesioneuroblastoma, inverted papilloma, and juvenile angiofibroma.

  • Endoscopic Surgery
  • Skull Base Reconstruction
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
  • Nasoseptal Flap
  • Sinonasal Malignancies
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Dural Repair
  • Inverted Papilloma
  • Juvenile Angiofibroma
  • Olfactory Neuroblastoma
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

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

Which countries lead Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 971 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 971 works
  3. 3 India 859 works
  4. 4 Japan 542 works
  5. 5 Italy 316 works
  6. 6 Germany 284 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 256 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 248 works
  9. 9 South Korea 227 works
  10. 10 Brazil 193 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: 33.8%China: 16.5%India: 14.6%Japan: 9.2%6 others listed: 25.9%34%largest
United States1,993 · 33.8%China971 · 16.5%India859 · 14.6%Japan542 · 9.2%6 others listed1,524 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Neurological Surgery.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 89 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 87 works
  3. 3 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 71 works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 68 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 67 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 58 works
  7. 7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 45 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 Emory UniversityUnited States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Head and Neck Surgical Oncology include Jost Bruno Jonas and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k 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 Head and Neck Surgical Oncology?

The most cited paper in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology is "Human Papillomavirus and Survival of Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer" (K. Kian Ang, Jonathan Harris, Richard H. Wheeler et al., 2010), with 6,617 citations. Next come "Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma" (4,223) and "“Field cancerization” in oral stratified squamous epithelium. Clinical implications of multicentric origin" (3,563).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human Papillomavirus and Survival of Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer K. Kian Ang, Jonathan Harris, Richard H. Wheeler et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 7 Jun 2010 6,617
2 Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Daniel E. Johnson, Barbara Ann Burtness, Charles René Leemans et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers ReviewOpen access 26 Nov 2020 4,223
3 “Field cancerization” in oral stratified squamous epithelium. Clinical implications of multicentric origin Danely P. Slaughter, Harry W. Southwick, Walter Smejkal · Cancer Open access Sep 1953 3,563
4 Postoperative Concurrent Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for High-Risk Squamous-Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Jay Scott Cooper, Thomas F. Pajak, Arlene A. Forastiere et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 5 May 2004 3,297
5 Meta-analysis of chemotherapy in head and neck cancer (MACH-NC): An update on 93 randomised trials and 17,346 patients Jean‐Pierre Pignon, Aurélie Le Maître, E. Maillard et al. · Radiotherapy and Oncology Review 15 May 2009 3,081
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Where is Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research done?

The largest centres of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre, Rochester and Phoenix.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 163 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 129 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 119 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 106 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 90 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 84 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 82 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 75 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 71.0 works62×
  2. RochesterUS · 44.4 works14×
  3. PhoenixUS · 23.3 works9.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Head and Neck Surgical Oncology?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Freiburg and University of Naples Federico II 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 22.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of FreiburgChinese University o…University of Naples…Sun Yat-sen 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
1Chinese University of Hong KongChina 68.832.5%2.1×11 +57.5%
2University of FreiburgGermany 67.333.9%5.1×17 +47.4%
3University of Naples Federico IIItaly 67.122.2%4.2×22 +123.2%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 66.020.2%4.6×68 -10.3%
5University of BernSwitzerland 62.428.4%2.9×11 +30.3%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.315.7%2.5×58 -8.9%
7Heidelberg UniversityGermany 61.023.9%3.4×19 +13.9%
8Capital Medical UniversityChina 58.911.8%8.7×67 +12.4%
9Cornell UniversityUnited States 58.822.1%2.9×28 -9.6%
10Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 57.618.3%4.9×15 +17.5%

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 Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, country by country

Is Head and Neck Surgical Oncology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Head and Neck Surgical Oncology.

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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 Surgical Oncology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Head and Neck Surgical Oncology0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology 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 Surgical Oncology10.0% 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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