Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive decline, with a focus on the impact of cochlear implants, speech perception, and age-related hearing loss. It also delves into the effects on quality of life, language development, and social isolation among older adults.

Hearing Loss
Cognitive Decline
Cochlear Implants
Speech Perception
Age-related Hearing Loss
Auditory Processing
Quality of Life
Language Development
Social Isolation
Health-related Quality of Life

Research works: 50k
In the world top 10%: 5k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +5%
Largest producer: United States

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Which countries lead Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.2k and 918 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2.2k works
2 China 918 works
3 Germany 784 works
4 United Kingdom 475 works
5 India 439 works
6 Japan 383 works
7 Brazil 277 works
8 Australia 271 works
9 Canada 239 works
10 Italy 234 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 States2,153 · 34.9%China918 · 14.9%Germany784 · 12.7%United Kingdom475 · 7.7%6 others listed1,843 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover publishes the most Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research, followed by Dr. S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute of Speech and Hearing and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 81 works
2 Dr. S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute of Speech and HearingIndia 68 works
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 60 works
5 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 59 works
6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 55 works
7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
8 Hearing4allGermany 44 works
9 Capital Medical UniversityChina 44 works
10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation include Theo Vos, Ali H. Mokdad and Jost Bruno Jonas.

1 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
3 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
4 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
5 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
6 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
8 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
9 Cynthia D. Mulrow United States 278k 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 Loss and Rehabilitation?

The most cited paper in Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation is "Hearing lips and seeing voices" (Harry McGurk, John B. Macdonald, 1976), with 6,220 citations. Next come "Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults" (3,851) and "Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics" (3,777).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Hearing lips and seeing voices Harry McGurk, John B. Macdonald · Nature	Dec 1976	6,220
2	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
3	Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics Jont B. Allen, David A. Berkley · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Apr 1979	3,777
4	The N1 Wave of the Human Electric and Magnetic Response to Sound: A Review and an Analysis of the Component Structure Risto Näätänen, Terence W. Picton · Psychophysiology	Jul 1987	3,372
5	Speech Recognition with Primarily Temporal Cues Robert V. Shannon, Fan‐Gang Zeng, Vivek Kamath et al. · Science	13 Oct 1995	3,139

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 203 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 134 works
3 TokyoJapan 127 works
4 SeoulSouth Korea 107 works
5 SydneyAustralia 100 works
6 ShanghaiChina 100 works
7 OldenburgGermany 97 works
8 HanoverGermany 95 works
9 ParisFrance 91 works
10 BengaluruIndia 85 works

Where it is the local speciality

OldenburgDE · 97.1 works55×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University College London and Johns Hopkins 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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	75.7	22.4%	2.3×	55	-15.1%
2	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	73.0	20.5%	4.5×	55	-5.5%
3	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	71.5	16.3%	5.1×	60	+3.4%
4	Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States	70.9	20.2%	16.3×	30	+43.2%
5	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	65.7	15.7%	12.6×	35	+13.2%
6	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States	65.5	15.3%	10.8×	59	-0.1%
7	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States	63.3	26.5%	3.7×	13	+25.6%
8	University of IowaUnited States	59.3	17.4%	9.5×	36	-6.7%
9	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	59.3	24.4%	1.9×	12	+40.0%
10	National University of SingaporeSingapore	58.7	28.5%	1.4×	12	-6.4%
11	University of AntwerpBelgium	58.2	17.4%	7.7×	20	-6.5%
12	University of RochesterUnited States	57.8	16.9%	7.4×	25	+10.9%
13	KU LeuvenBelgium	57.1	12.1%	4.8×	35	-9.0%
14	University of TorontoCanada	56.6	16.7%	2.4×	36	-18.4%
15	University of PretoriaSouth Africa	55.6	16.0%	5.7×	19	+21.8%
16	Linköping UniversitySweden	55.5	19.5%	7.3×	15	-2.3%
17	Southeast UniversityChina	55.5	25.6%	1.0×	12	+37.7%
18	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	55.3	14.9%	3.5×	32	-22.1%
19	University of MinnesotaUnited States	53.8	12.6%	7.0×	39	-10.5%
20	Duke UniversityUnited States	53.7	19.9%	3.0×	19	+8.4%
21	Indiana UniversityUnited States	53.1	20.3%	3.9×	29	-19.8%
22	New York UniversityUnited States	53.0	10.0%	3.2×	28	+9.5%
23	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	52.9	14.4%	3.1×	17	+31.0%
24	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	52.3	15.6%	3.9×	25	-5.4%
25	Tianjin UniversityChina	52.2	20.0%	1.5×	14	+134.9%
26	The University of Western AustraliaAustralia	52.2	11.0%	4.3×	14	+21.5%
27	Capital Medical UniversityChina	52.1	10.9%	5.4×	44	+15.5%
28	University of BernSwitzerland	52.1	13.7%	4.4×	18	+31.1%
29	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	51.8	14.6%	4.5×	29	+0.3%
30	Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany	51.5	6.8%	41.4×	82	-29.3%
31	University of OsloNorway	51.3	20.3%	2.1×	10	+28.0%
32	University of ZurichSwitzerland	51.2	18.2%	3.6×	19	-10.1%
33	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	51.2	20.3%	1.7×	10	+53.4%
34	University of South FloridaUnited States	51.1	10.1%	7.6×	26	+44.7%
35	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States	50.6	9.7%	6.8×	30	-8.3%
36	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina	50.4	23.7%	0.9×	11	+72.7%
37	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany	50.1	10.4%	7.3×	32	+6.9%
38	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	50.0	16.0%	1.5×	32	+4.5%
39	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States	50.0	11.9%	4.1×	26	+12.5%
40	University of California San DiegoUnited States	50.0	8.9%	1.8×	13	+21.9%
41	University of Hong KongChina	48.1	15.5%	1.8×	13	+20.4%
42	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	46.9	12.9%	3.1×	43	-40.9%
43	Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgGermany	46.8	4.7%	29.4×	34	-5.0%
44	Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye	45.5	2.0%	9.5×	36	+93.1%
45	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	45.2	6.7%	2.9×	21	+17.5%
46	London South Bank UniversityUnited Kingdom	44.7	10.7%	20.0×	9	+361.3%
47	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	42.3	18.5%	2.9×	9	-9.9%
48	The University of Texas at DallasUnited States	42.1	11.7%	11.2×	17	-52.5%
49	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	41.1	11.4%	1.8×	14	+7.1%
50	University of MemphisUnited States	40.3	8.3%	10.0×	9	+18.3%
51	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	39.6	9.5%	3.4×	14	-9.4%
52	Towson UniversityUnited States	36.5	3.1%	26.4×	13	+85.2%
53	University of RostockGermany	35.4	1.6%	10.7×	16	+37.3%
54	King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	28.0	3.7%	2.0×	8	+149.7%

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 Loss and Rehabilitation, country by country

Is Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation.

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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 Loss and Rehabilitation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

Fractional works of Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation 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.

Questions people ask

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Which countries lead Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation?

What are the most cited papers in Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation?

Where is Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation?

Is Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for hearing loss?

Discussion