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Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques

Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 development and application of innovative transgastric surgical techniques, including single-incision laparoscopy, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), and laparoendoscopic single-site surgery. It covers a wide range of procedures such as cholecystectomy, nephrectomy, appendectomy, and colectomy, with an emphasis on scarless or minimally invasive approaches. The cluster also discusses complications, safety measures, and advancements in robotic-assisted transgastric surgery.

  • Transgastric Surgery
  • Single-Incision Laparoscopy
  • NOTES
  • Laparoendoscopic Single-Site Surgery
  • Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery
  • Peroral Transgastric Endoscopy
  • Trocar Site Hernia
  • Robotic Surgery
  • Pneumoperitoneum
  • Gallbladder Surgery
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques

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

Which countries lead Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (841 and 674 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 841 works
  2. 2 China 674 works
  3. 3 Japan 385 works
  4. 4 India 247 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 234 works
  6. 6 Italy 219 works
  7. 7 South Korea 169 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 138 works
  9. 9 Germany 135 works
  10. 10 Spain 110 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: 26.7%China: 21.4%Japan: 12.2%India: 7.8%6 others listed: 31.9%27%largest
United States841 · 26.7%China674 · 21.4%Japan385 · 12.2%India247 · 7.8%6 others listed1,005 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research, followed by Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 33 works
  2. 2 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 31 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 Catholic University of KoreaSouth Korea 24 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 21 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 20 works
  8. 8 Fujian Medical UniversityChina 18 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques include Jeremy Grimshaw, Patrick M. Bossuyt and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  2. 2 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k citations
  5. 5 Rinaldo Bellomo Australia 182k citations
  6. 6 Ewout Willem Steyerberg Netherlands 171k citations
  7. 7 Peter Carmeliet Belgium 164k 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 Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques?

The most cited paper in Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques is "Short-term endpoints of conventional versus laparoscopic-assisted surgery in patients with colorectal cancer (MRC CLASICC trial): multicentre, randomised controlled trial" (P J Guillou, Philip Quirke, Helen C. Thorpe et al., 2005), with 3,082 citations. Next come "Two Hundred Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors" (2,559) and "Laparoscopy-assisted colectomy versus open colectomy for treatment of non-metastatic colon cancer: a randomised trial" (2,464).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Short-term endpoints of conventional versus laparoscopic-assisted surgery in patients with colorectal cancer (MRC CLASICC trial): multicentre, randomised controlled trial P J Guillou, Philip Quirke, Helen C. Thorpe et al. · The Lancet May 2005 3,082
2 Two Hundred Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Ronald P. DeMatteo, Jonathan J. Lewis, Denis H. Y. Leung et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access 2000 2,559
3 Laparoscopy-assisted colectomy versus open colectomy for treatment of non-metastatic colon cancer: a randomised trial Antonio M. Lacy, Juan Carlos García‐Valdecasas, Salvadora Delgado et al. · The Lancet Jun 2002 2,464
4 Laparoscopic surgery versus open surgery for colon cancer: short-term outcomes of a randomised trial Ruben Veldkamp · The Lancet Oncology 22 Jun 2005 2,338
5 A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia Roland W. Luijendijk, Wim C.J. Hop, Monique Petrousjka van den Tol et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 10 Aug 2000 1,876
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Where is Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 94 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 86 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 66 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 63 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 57 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 56 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 56 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 39 works
  10. 10 ClevelandUnited States 38 works
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Where is the best place to study Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Copenhagen and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 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 20.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…University of Illino…Fujita Health Univer…Università Cattolica…
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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
1University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States 70.229.3%6.3×12 +23.1%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 69.229.6%3.6×13 +7.7%
3Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 67.719.3%10.2×17 +89.1%
4Fujita Health UniversityJapan 62.628.2%29.6×10 +111.2%
5Korea UniversitySouth Korea 62.428.9%5.1×11 +20.9%
6University of MichiganUnited States 62.024.9%2.6×15 +55.0%
7Sichuan UniversityChina 61.39.8%3.8×33 +35.5%
8Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 54.813.5%8.9×17 +13.5%
9Catholic University of KoreaSouth Korea 54.110.0%18.8×24 +3.8%
10Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.015.7%1.8×22 -12.6%

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 Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques, country by country

Is Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Minimally Invasive Surgical 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 Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Minimally Invasive Surgical 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%Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques10.2% 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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