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Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques

Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 40k 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 biomechanical measures, neuromuscular control, and risk factors related to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in athletes. It covers topics such as knee biomechanics, injury mechanisms, rehabilitation strategies, graft selection, and long-term consequences including knee osteoarthritis. The cluster also explores the effectiveness of neuromuscular training programs and the psychological impact of returning to sport after ACL reconstruction surgery.

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament
  • Injury Risk
  • Knee Biomechanics
  • Athletic Rehabilitation
  • Meniscus Injuries
  • Neuromuscular Control
  • Return to Sport
  • Graft Selection
  • Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Biomechanical Analysis
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques

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

Which countries lead Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.5k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Japan 585 works
  4. 4 India 570 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 482 works
  6. 6 Germany 415 works
  7. 7 France 320 works
  8. 8 Italy 298 works
  9. 9 Australia 265 works
  10. 10 South Korea 258 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: 36.4%China: 17.0%Japan: 8.5%India: 8.3%6 others listed: 29.7%36%largest
United States2,497 · 36.4%China1,162 · 17.0%Japan585 · 8.5%India570 · 8.3%6 others listed2,037 · 29.7%

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

Which institutions lead Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research, followed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 93 works
  2. 2 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 78 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 67 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 67 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 57 works
  6. 6 New York UniversityUnited States 54 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 53 works
  8. 8 Rush University Medical CenterUnited States 46 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 38 works
  10. 10 Twin Cities OrthopedicsUnited States 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques include George Davey Smith, Cyrus Cooper and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Isabelle Boutron France 271k citations
  7. 7 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  8. 8 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  9. 9 Tommi Juhani Vasankari Finland 248k citations
  10. 10 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k 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 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques?

The most cited paper in Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques is "Treatment of Deep Cartilage Defects in the Knee with Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation" (Mats Brittberg, Anders H. Lindahl, Anders Nilsson et al., 1994), with 5,558 citations. Next come "Rating Systems in the Evaluation of Knee Ligament Injuries" (4,635) and "Rationale, of The Knee Society Clinical Rating System" (4,578).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Treatment of Deep Cartilage Defects in the Knee with Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation Mats Brittberg, Anders H. Lindahl, Anders Nilsson et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 6 Oct 1994 5,558
2 Rating Systems in the Evaluation of Knee Ligament Injuries Yelverton Tegner, Jack Lysholm · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Sep 1985 4,635
3 Rationale, of The Knee Society Clinical Rating System John N. Insall, Lawrence D. Dorr, Richard D. Scott et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Nov 1989 4,578
4 Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)—Development of a Self-Administered Outcome Measure Ewa Maria Roos, Harald P. Roos, Stefan L. Lohmander et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy Aug 1998 3,945
5 OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee, hip, and polyarticular osteoarthritis Raveendhara R. Bannuru et al. · Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open access 3 Jul 2019 3,686
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Where is Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research done?

The largest centres of Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vail and Edina.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 179 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 173 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 136 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 133 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 128 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 105 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 94 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 89 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 82 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VailUS · 23.7 works158×
  2. EdinaUS · 39.0 works51×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gothenburg, Harvard University and Norwegian School of Sport Sciences 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%10%20%30%mean 19.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Linköping UniversityNorwegian School of …University of Gothen…Harvard 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
1University of GothenburgSweden 71.317.1%8.0×33 +73.5%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 70.010.8%3.4×93 +16.7%
3Norwegian School of Sport SciencesNorway 68.822.6%65.0×11 +6.8%
4Linköping UniversitySweden 68.426.5%5.8×14 +38.7%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 68.118.7%2.7×67 +98.5%
6Peking UniversityChina 66.415.3%3.8×67 +32.9%
7Keele UniversityUnited Kingdom 63.526.6%8.8×8 +24.6%
8Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 61.926.0%11.6×10 +104.5%
9New York UniversityUnited States 58.78.9%5.5×54 +50.4%
10University of BaselSwitzerland 58.318.1%5.7×19 +55.6%

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 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, country by country

Is Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques.

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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 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques 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%Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques9.9% 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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