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Hip disorders and treatments

Hip disorders and treatments is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 focuses on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, a condition where abnormal hip morphology leads to damage of the acetabular cartilage and labrum, potentially causing osteoarthritis. The papers cover topics such as radiographic diagnosis, surgical techniques, outcomes following hip arthroscopy, and the influence of hip morphology on joint mechanics.

  • Femoroacetabular Impingement
  • Hip Arthroscopy
  • Acetabular Labrum
  • Hip Morphology
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Cam Deformity
  • Labral Tears
  • Hip Dysplasia
  • Arthroscopic Treatment
  • Hip Joint Mechanics
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hip disorders and treatments

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

Which countries lead Hip disorders and treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 661 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 661 works
  3. 3 India 349 works
  4. 4 Japan 339 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 307 works
  6. 6 Germany 294 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 218 works
  8. 8 Canada 156 works
  9. 9 Italy 148 works
  10. 10 France 145 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: 38.1%China: 15.6%India: 8.3%Japan: 8.0%6 others listed: 30.0%38%largest
United States1,612 · 38.1%China661 · 15.6%India349 · 8.3%Japan339 · 8.0%6 others listed1,268 · 30.0%

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

Which institutions lead Hip disorders and treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Rush University Medical Center publishes the most Hip disorders and treatments research, followed by Harvard University and Peking University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Rush University Medical CenterUnited States 63 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 56 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 54 works
  4. 4 American Hip InstituteUnited States 51 works
  5. 5 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 42 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 35 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 34 works
  10. 10 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hip disorders and treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hip disorders and treatments include George Davey Smith, Hermann Brenner and Cyrus Cooper.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  3. 3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  9. 9 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  10. 10 André Gerardus Uitterlinden Netherlands 246k 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 disorders and treatments?

The most cited paper in Hip disorders and treatments is "Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis" (Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence, 1957), with 12,624 citations. Next come "Traumatic Arthritis of the Hip after Dislocation and Acetabular Fractures" (5,709) and "Traumatic Arthritis of the Hip After Dislocation and Acetabular Fractures: Treatment by Mold Arthroplasty: An End-Result Study Using a New Method of Result Evaluation" (5,082).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access Dec 1957 12,624
2 Traumatic Arthritis of the Hip after Dislocation and Acetabular Fractures William Hamilton Harris · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Jun 1969 5,709
3 Traumatic Arthritis of the Hip After Dislocation and Acetabular Fractures: Treatment by Mold Arthroplasty: An End-Result Study Using a New Method of Result Evaluation Paul A. Banaszkiewicz Book chapter 7 Dec 2013 5,082
4 Osteoarthritis David John Hunter, Sita Bierma‐Zeinstra · The Lancet Apr 2019 4,910
5 Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions. Anthony D. Woolf, Bruce Pfleger · PubMed Open access 2003 3,534
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Hip disorders and treatments research done?

The largest centres of Hip disorders and treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), Chicago (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Westmont, Vail and Rochester.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 128 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 120 works
  3. 3 ChicagoUnited States 83 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 70 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 64 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 63 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 61 works
  9. 9 WestmontUnited States 51 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WestmontUS · 50.9 works972×
  2. VailUS · 28.0 works309×
  3. RochesterUS · 21.1 works8.9×
  4. DallasUS · 36.8 works7.9×
  5. Salt Lake CityUS · 36.2 works7.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hip disorders and treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hip disorders and treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Washington University in St. Louis, New York University and University of Bern 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%10%20%mean 15.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Washington Universit…New York UniversityUniversity of BernErasmus University R…
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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
1Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 80.116.2%8.9×34 +17.5%
2New York UniversityUnited States 77.015.9%7.1×42 +34.5%
3University of BernSwitzerland 75.714.4%8.0×23 -6.1%
4Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 75.114.4%7.2×20 +24.7%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 74.910.4%3.4×56 +6.0%
6University of OttawaCanada 73.818.8%5.6×19 +10.0%
7Peking UniversityChina 73.113.5%5.1×54 +111.7%
8University of UtahUnited States 71.911.1%9.0×32 +23.1%
9University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 71.922.4%5.9×22 -3.9%
10University of TorontoCanada 71.219.3%2.1×22 +43.2%

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 Hip disorders and treatments, country by country

Is Hip disorders and treatments research growing?

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

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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 disorders and treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Hip disorders and treatments0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hip disorders and treatments 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%Hip disorders and treatments10.1% 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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