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Hip and Femur Fractures

Hip and Femur Fractures is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 14.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the incidence, management, and outcomes of hip fractures, particularly in elderly patients. It covers topics such as mortality rates, surgical interventions, rehabilitation, orthogeriatric care, functional recovery, operative delays, and geriatric interventions.

  • Hip Fracture
  • Mortality
  • Surgery
  • Elderly Patients
  • Rehabilitation
  • Complications
  • Orthogeriatric Care
  • Functional Recovery
  • Operative Delay
  • Geriatric Intervention
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
14.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+44%
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This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Hip and Femur Fractures research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 1k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 708 works
  4. 4 India 556 works
  5. 5 Japan 334 works
  6. 6 Germany 330 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 232 works
  8. 8 South Korea 206 works
  9. 9 Italy 201 works
  10. 10 Canada 192 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: 29.6%China: 19.3%United Kingdom: 13.1%India: 10.3%6 others listed: 27.7%30%largest
United States1,594 · 29.6%China1,039 · 19.3%United Kingdom708 · 13.1%India556 · 10.3%6 others listed1,494 · 27.7%

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

Which institutions lead Hip and Femur Fractures research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Ain Shams University publishes the most Hip and Femur Fractures research, followed by Hospital for Special Surgery and NYU Langone Health.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 29 works
  2. 2 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 NYU Langone HealthUnited States 24 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 22 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 20 works
  6. 6 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 19 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Hebei Medical UniversityChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hip and Femur Fractures?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hip and Femur Fractures include Cyrus Cooper and Jasvinder A. Singh.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 7.2k citations
  2. 2 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 4.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Hip and Femur Fractures research done?

The largest centres of Hip and Femur Fractures research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 137 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 132 works
  3. 3 New York United States 115 works
  4. 4 Seoul South Korea 87 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 79 works
  6. 6 Istanbul Türkiye 69 works
  7. 7 Tokyo Japan 60 works
  8. 8 Boston United States 57 works
  9. 9 Philadelphia United States 53 works
  10. 10 Baltimore United States 52 works
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Where is the best place to study Hip and Femur Fractures?

Among universities, judged by research, Hebei Medical University, Brown University and Queen Mary University of London 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 24.92%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Hebei Medical University: 17, 29.7%Brown University: 13, 33.1%Queen Mary University of London: 8, 39.4%Ain Shams University: 29, 3.4%Institute of Medical Sciences: 18, 5.6%University of Maryland, Baltimore: 16, 21.7%University of Bristol: 10, 32.1%University of Oxford: 12, 27.2%Harvard University: 18, 22.8%Karolinska Institutet: 10, 34.2%Queen Mary Universit…Brown UniversityHebei Medical Univer…Ain Shams University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Hebei Medical UniversityChina 64.829.7%10.8×17 +39.1%
2 Brown UniversityUnited States 60.533.1%4.4×13 +302.6%
3 Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 53.939.4%2.7×8 +159.4%
4 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 52.23.4%5.3×29 +313.7%
5 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 52.25.6%7.6×18 +710.4%
6 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 51.921.7%6.4×16 +81.6%
7 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 49.832.1%2.4×10 +173.4%
8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 48.827.2%1.2×12 +220.1%
9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46.922.8%1.9×18 +99.3%
10 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 46.534.2%3.0×10 +15.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Hip and Femur Fractures research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 44% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hip and Femur Fractures.

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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.