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Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics

Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics is a research topic within Sensory Systems. Science Explorer counts 40k 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 explores the mechanisms and consequences of cochlear neuropathy, hearing loss, and related conditions such as tinnitus. It covers topics such as hair cell function, inner ear development, noise-induced damage, otoacoustic emissions, neural plasticity, connexin mutations, and the overall auditory system.

  • Cochlear Neuropathy
  • Hearing Loss
  • Tinnitus
  • Hair Cell
  • Inner Ear Development
  • Noise-Induced Damage
  • Otoacoustic Emissions
  • Neural Plasticity
  • Connexin Mutations
  • Auditory System
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics

Which countries lead Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Germany 409 works
  4. 4 India 396 works
  5. 5 Japan 271 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 270 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 264 works
  8. 8 South Korea 242 works
  9. 9 Brazil 202 works
  10. 10 Italy 186 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: 33.5%China: 22.9%Germany: 8.0%India: 7.7%6 others listed: 28.0%33%largest
United States1,719 · 33.5%China1,174 · 22.9%Germany409 · 8.0%India396 · 7.7%6 others listed1,435 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research, followed by Fudan University and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 79 works
  2. 2 Fudan UniversityChina 62 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 61 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 61 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50 works
  6. 6 Dr. S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute of Speech and HearingIndia 48 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 37 works
  8. 8 University of ChicagoUnited States 34 works
  9. 9 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 33 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics include David Moher, Jun Wang and John P. A. Ioannidis.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics?

The most cited paper in Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics is "Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults" (Frank R. Lin, Kristine Yaffe, Jin Xia et al., 2013), with 3,851 citations. Next come "The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome" (3,258) and "Beta-band oscillations — signalling the status quo?" (3,114).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults Frank R. Lin, Kristine Yaffe, Jin Xia et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine Open access 21 Jan 2013 3,851
2 The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome Jeremy Dan Schmahmann · Brain Apr 1998 3,258
3 Beta-band oscillations — signalling the status quo? Andreas Karl Engel, Pascal Henry Fries · Current Opinion in Neurobiology Review 31 Mar 2010 3,114
4 The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) Barbara H. Jacobson, Alex Johnson, Cynthia Grywalski et al. · American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Aug 1997 2,568
5 Adding Insult to Injury: Cochlear Nerve Degeneration after “Temporary” Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Sharon G. Kujawa, M. Charles Liberman · Journal of Neuroscience Open access 11 Nov 2009 2,536
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Where is Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research done?

The largest centres of Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oldenburg and Charleston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 210 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 159 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 120 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 78 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 77 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 75 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 70 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OldenburgDE · 31.4 works22×
  2. CharlestonUS · 24.0 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Medical University of South Carolina 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 79.621.8%4.0×79 -22.2%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 76.017.8%6.2×61 +3.7%
3Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 70.123.7%15.5×24 +40.9%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 65.221.5%2.8×37 +26.3%
5Fudan UniversityChina 64.211.6%6.3×62 +34.4%
6Southeast UniversityChina 64.025.6%1.6×15 +30.1%
7University of BernSwitzerland 62.519.9%5.1×18 +55.3%
8University of AntwerpBelgium 61.817.1%9.8×21 -8.3%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 61.314.2%3.5×32 +16.4%
10Indiana UniversityUnited States 59.717.9%3.6×22 +36.8%

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 Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, country by country

Is Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics.

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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 Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics 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%Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics9.8% 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.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for tinnitus?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics research, followed by Fudan University and Capital Medical University. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

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