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Hernia repair and management

Hernia repair and management is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 encompasses a wide range of topics related to advancements in hernia repair techniques and materials. It includes discussions on various surgical guidelines, comparison of mesh techniques, chronic pain management, abdominal wall reconstruction, and the use of biologic and prosthetic meshes. The cluster also covers laparoscopic approaches, complications, and long-term outcomes of hernia repair procedures.

  • Hernia Repair
  • Mesh Techniques
  • Surgical Guidelines
  • Chronic Pain
  • Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
  • Biologic Mesh
  • Laparoscopic Repair
  • Incisional Hernia
  • Complications
  • Prosthetic Mesh
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hernia repair and management

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

Which countries lead Hernia repair and management research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.1k and 641 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 641 works
  3. 3 China 480 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 369 works
  5. 5 Spain 324 works
  6. 6 Japan 283 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 207 works
  8. 8 Italy 183 works
  9. 9 Brazil 158 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 154 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: 28.3%India: 16.4%China: 12.3%United Kingdom: 9.5%6 others listed: 33.5%28%largest
United States1,105 · 28.3%India641 · 16.4%China480 · 12.3%United Kingdom369 · 9.5%6 others listed1,308 · 33.5%

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

Which institutions lead Hernia repair and management research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Hernia repair and management research, followed by University of Copenhagen and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 55 works
  2. 2 University of CopenhagenDenmark 42 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 30 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 25 works
  7. 7 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 21 works
  8. 8 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 20 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hernia repair and management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hernia repair and management include Gordon Henry Guyatt, Ziad Ahmed Memish and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  2. 2 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Hernia repair and management?

The most cited paper in Hernia repair and management is "Etiology and management of fecal incontinence" (Marcio J. N. Jorge, Steven D. Wexner, 1993), with 3,011 citations. Next come "A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia" (1,876) and "‘The Ideal Mesh?'" (1,786).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Etiology and management of fecal incontinence Marcio J. N. Jorge, Steven D. Wexner · Diseases of the Colon & Rectum 1993 3,011
2 A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia Roland W. Luijendijk, Wim C.J. Hop, Monique Petrousjka van den Tol et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 10 Aug 2000 1,876
3 ‘The Ideal Mesh?' U. Klinge, Joon-Keun Park, B. Klosterhalfen · Pathobiology Open access 2013 1,786
4 Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Andrew W. Kirkpatrick et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 14 May 2013 1,648
5 Long-term Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Suture Versus Mesh Repair of Incisional Hernia Jacobus W. A. Burger, Roland W. Luijendijk, Wim C.J. Hop et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access 21 Sep 2004 1,623
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Hernia repair and management research done?

The largest centres of Hernia repair and management research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Charlotte.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 86 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 84 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 71 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 63 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 58 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 53 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 50 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 45 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 45 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CharlotteUS · 24.2 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hernia repair and management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hernia repair and management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen, Karolinska Institutet and All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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.

0%20%40%mean 23.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…University of North …Karolinska InstitutetAll India Institute …
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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
1University of CopenhagenDenmark 92.636.0%8.1×42 +23.8%
2Karolinska InstitutetSweden 60.220.8%4.5×14 +31.3%
3All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 59.97.4%9.0×54 +79.7%
4University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 59.925.1%3.4×33 -11.0%
5Ghent UniversityBelgium 58.626.9%2.4×10 +61.5%
6Southeast UniversityChina 57.630.9%1.7×14 +60.4%
7University of MichiganUnited States 55.922.3%2.3×19 +26.7%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.313.9%1.5×26 +18.1%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 53.230.4%3.1×9 -24.0%
10Cornell UniversityUnited States 51.218.9%2.5×18 +50.5%

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 Hernia repair and management, country by country

Is Hernia repair and management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Hernia repair and management.

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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 Hernia repair and management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Hernia repair and management0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hernia repair and management 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%Hernia repair and management10.3% 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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