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Medical Practices and Rehabilitation

Medical Practices and Rehabilitation is a research topic within Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 the management and quality of rehabilitation medicine, covering topics such as patient care, outcome measurement, psychosocial aspects, medical evaluation, work reintegration, and cost-effectiveness. It emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the impact of rehabilitation on the overall healthcare system.

  • Rehabilitation
  • Quality
  • Patient Care
  • Healthcare
  • Outcome Measurement
  • Psychosocial Aspects
  • Medical Evaluation
  • Work Reintegration
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medical Practices and Rehabilitation

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

Which countries lead Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 96 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 96 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 93 works
  4. 4 Austria 85 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 39 works
  6. 6 China 28 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 25 works
  8. 8 Japan 20 works
  9. 9 Italy 19 works
  10. 10 Estonia 16 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.

Germany: 82.1%United States: 4.1%Switzerland: 4.0%Austria: 3.6%6 others listed: 6.2%82%largest
Germany1,920 · 82.1%United States96 · 4.1%Switzerland93 · 4.0%Austria85 · 3.6%6 others listed146 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover publishes the most Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research, followed by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 81 works
  2. 2 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 68 works
  3. 3 Städtisches Klinikum KarlsruheGermany 57 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 46 works
  5. 5 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 39 works
  6. 6 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 31 works
  7. 7 München KlinikGermany 28 works
  8. 8 Universitätsklinik für Hals-, Nasen- und OhrenheilkundeGermany 26 works
  9. 9 Philipps University of MarburgGermany 24 works
  10. 10 Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medical Practices and Rehabilitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medical Practices and Rehabilitation include Hermann Brenner, Florian Fischer and Wolfgang K. Huber.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  3. 3 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  4. 4 Holger Jens Schünemann Canada 214k citations
  5. 5 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  6. 6 Michael C Böhm Germany 182k 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 Medical Practices and Rehabilitation?

The most cited paper in Medical Practices and Rehabilitation is "Die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit" (Michael Seidel, 2004), with 1,260 citations. Next come "The Neck Disability Index: State-of-the-Art, 1991-2008" (1,035) and "Measurement Properties of the Neck Disability Index: A Systematic Review" (976).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit Michael Seidel · Der Nervenarzt 29 Dec 2004 1,260
2 The Neck Disability Index: State-of-the-Art, 1991-2008 Howard T. Vernon · Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics Sep 2008 1,035
3 Measurement Properties of the Neck Disability Index: A Systematic Review Joy Christine MacDermid, David Mark Walton, Sarah Avery et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy Review May 2009 976
4 The global burden of neck pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study Damian Hoy, LYN M. MARCH, Anthony D. Woolf et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 30 Jan 2014 766
5 Psychometric Properties of the Neck Disability Index and Numeric Pain Rating Scale in Patients With Mechanical Neck Pain Joshua Alan Cleland, John D. Childs, Julie M. Whitman · Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 764
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research done?

The largest centres of Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hanover (Germany) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leverkusen, Nuremberg and Magdeburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 188 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 114 works
  3. 3 HanoverGermany 93 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 72 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 69 works
  6. 6 KarlsruheGermany 63 works
  7. 7 Frankfurt am MainGermany 62 works
  8. 8 DüsseldorfGermany 52 works
  9. 9 HeidelbergGermany 46 works
  10. 10 MagdeburgGermany 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeverkusenDE · 23.6 works121×
  2. NurembergDE · 24.7 works89×
  3. MagdeburgDE · 43.5 works63×
  4. HanoverDE · 93.3 works52×
  5. RegensburgDE · 36.3 works43×
  6. DüsseldorfDE · 52.1 works42×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medical Practices and Rehabilitation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medical Practices and Rehabilitation?

Among universities, judged by research, Bielefeld University, University of Lübeck and Medizinische Hochschule Hannover 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 18.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LübeckBielefeld UniversityUniversität HamburgMedizinische Hochsch…
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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
1Bielefeld UniversityGermany 63.832.3%26.8×13 +9.7%
2University of LübeckGermany 62.832.7%43.1×13 -29.5%
3Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 58.86.5%148.2×80 +7.2%
4Universität HamburgGermany 58.019.6%13.6×21 +5.6%
5Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 55.913.9%41.4×39 +5.1%
6Universität GreifswaldGermany 53.018.6%41.9×12 +101.7%
7Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 51.911.7%31.3×24 +21.0%
8Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 49.822.7%79.4×15 -7.3%
9Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 48.26.6%25.1×46 -20.2%
10University of GöttingenGermany 47.715.8%15.3×12 +23.2%

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 Medical Practices and Rehabilitation, country by country

Is Medical Practices and Rehabilitation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Medical Practices and Rehabilitation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Medical Practices and Rehabilitation0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Medical Practices and Rehabilitation 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%Medical Practices and Rehabilitation9.6% 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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