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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. 9.9% 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%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hip and Femur Fractures

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 (1.8k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 780 works
  4. 4 India 636 works
  5. 5 Germany 383 works
  6. 6 Japan 379 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 269 works
  8. 8 South Korea 226 works
  9. 9 Italy 223 works
  10. 10 Canada 216 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: 29.0%China: 20.2%United Kingdom: 12.7%India: 10.4%6 others listed: 27.7%29%largest
United States1,778 · 29.0%China1,235 · 20.2%United Kingdom780 · 12.7%India636 · 10.4%6 others listed1,697 · 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-now, Harvard University publishes the most Hip and Femur Fractures research, followed by New York University and Peking University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 67 works
  2. 2 New York UniversityUnited States 52 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 46 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 45 works
  5. 5 Hebei Medical UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 37 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 36 works
  8. 8 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 32 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hip and Femur Fractures?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hip and Femur Fractures include Jennifer Tetzlaff, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Jennifer Tetzlaff Canada 495k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k 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 Hip and Femur Fractures?

The most cited paper in Hip and Femur Fractures is "Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews" (Micah D.J. Peters, Christina M. Godfrey, Hanan Khalil et al., 2015), with 7,742 citations. Next come "An estimate of the worldwide prevalence and disability associated with osteoporotic fractures" (4,765) and "Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis" (4,141).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews Micah D.J. Peters, Christina M. Godfrey, Hanan Khalil et al. · International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare 30 Jun 2015 7,742
2 An estimate of the worldwide prevalence and disability associated with osteoporotic fractures Olof Johnell, John A. Kanis · Osteoporosis International 15 Sep 2006 4,765
3 Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis Felicia Cosman, Suzanne M. Jan de Beur, Meryl Susan LeBoff et al. · Osteoporosis International Open access 14 Aug 2014 4,141
4 Incidence and Economic Burden of Osteoporosis-Related Fractures in the United States, 2005–2025 Russel Thomas Burge, Bess Dawson‐Hughes, Daniel H. Solomon et al. · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 4 Dec 2006 4,070
5 Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient Stephen A. McClave, Beth E. Taylor, Robert G. Martindale et al. · Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Open access 14 Jan 2016 4,024
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Where is Hip and Femur Fractures research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 154 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 150 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 130 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 94 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 90 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 78 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 67 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 64 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 59 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 58 works
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Where is the best place to study Hip and Femur Fractures?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Regensburg and University of Edinburgh 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 19.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Regens…University of Edinbu…Harvard UniversityNew York 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.612.8%2.7×67 -7.6%
2University of RegensburgGermany 64.233.7%5.2×10 +55.3%
3University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 63.015.3%3.9×27 +74.7%
4New York UniversityUnited States 61.67.5%5.8×52 +41.8%
5Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.629.0%3.8×17 -12.2%
6Peking UniversityChina 58.617.5%2.9×46 +5.7%
7Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 58.328.1%3.6×12 +90.6%
8University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 57.718.6%4.1×23 -2.6%
9University of CopenhagenDenmark 57.619.1%2.9×21 +9.1%
10Hebei Medical UniversityChina 56.316.3%14.6×39 +5.4%

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 Hip and Femur Fractures, country by country

Is Hip and Femur Fractures research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hip and Femur Fractures.

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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 Hip and Femur Fractures as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Hip and Femur Fractures 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.

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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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