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Muscle and Compartmental Disorders

Muscle and Compartmental Disorders is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on rhabdomyolysis, compartment syndromes, and their associated complications such as acute kidney injury and systemic capillary leak syndrome. It covers various aspects including pathophysiology, diagnostic techniques, treatment strategies, and the impact of these conditions in disaster medicine.

  • Rhabdomyolysis
  • Compartment Syndrome
  • Acute Kidney Injury
  • Renal Failure
  • Muscle Damage
  • Diagnostic Techniques
  • Pathophysiology
  • Treatment
  • Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome
  • Disaster Medicine
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Muscle and Compartmental Disorders

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

Which countries lead Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (819 and 291 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 819 works
  2. 2 China 291 works
  3. 3 India 216 works
  4. 4 Japan 188 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 145 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 119 works
  7. 7 Brazil 118 works
  8. 8 Germany 114 works
  9. 9 France 96 works
  10. 10 Italy 89 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: 37.3%China: 13.2%India: 9.8%Japan: 8.5%6 others listed: 31.1%37%largest
United States819 · 37.3%China291 · 13.2%India216 · 9.8%Japan188 · 8.5%6 others listed682 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 24 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 17 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 13 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 13 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  7. 7 Indiana UniversityUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 11 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Muscle and Compartmental Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Muscle and Compartmental Disorders include Giuseppe Remuzzi, Luigi Ferrucci and Josef Coresh.

  1. 1 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  2. 2 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  3. 3 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  4. 4 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  5. 5 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  6. 6 Victor Aboyans France 234k 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 Muscle and Compartmental Disorders?

The most cited paper in Muscle and Compartmental Disorders is "Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study" (Eric A. J. Hoste et al., 2015), with 3,174 citations. Next come "Acute kidney injury" (2,622) and "A proposed nomenclature and diagnostic criteria for protein–energy wasting in acute and chronic kidney disease" (2,009).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: the multinational AKI-EPI study Eric A. J. Hoste et al. · Intensive Care Medicine 10 Jul 2015 3,174
2 Acute kidney injury Rinaldo Bellomo, John A. Kellum, Claudio Ronco · The Lancet 23 May 2012 2,622
3 A proposed nomenclature and diagnostic criteria for protein–energy wasting in acute and chronic kidney disease Denis P. Fouque, Kamyar Kalantar‐Zadeh, Joel D. Kopple et al. · Kidney International Open access 19 Dec 2007 2,009
4 Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease as Interconnected Syndromes Lakhmir S. Chawla, Paul W. Eggers, Robert A. Star et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 2 Jul 2014 2,000
5 Acute kidney injury Claudio Ronco, Rinaldo Bellomo, John A. Kellum · The Lancet Nov 2019 1,907
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Where is Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 48 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 37 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 36 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 32 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 31 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 30 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 27 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 26 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 24 works
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Where is the best place to study Muscle and Compartmental Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Sichuan University and Indiana University 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%30%mean 14.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityIndiana UniversityMcGill UniversityHarvard 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.

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 70.013.2%2.6×24 -14.3%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 64.827.2%1.9×13 +37.6%
3Indiana UniversityUnited States 63.422.8%4.1×12 +34.3%
4McGill UniversityCanada 60.319.6%3.2×9 +70.1%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.414.9%2.6×12 +15.3%
6University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 48.411.5%10.0×10 +39.9%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 47.813.5%2.5×12 -15.4%
8All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 43.73.9%5.2×17 +75.6%
9Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 43.28.3%7.0×11 +53.1%
10Peking UniversityChina 43.014.9%1.7×10 +73.4%

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 Muscle and Compartmental Disorders, country by country

Is Muscle and Compartmental Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Muscle and Compartmental Disorders.

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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 Muscle and Compartmental Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Muscle and Compartmental Disorders 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%Muscle and Compartmental Disorders10.3% 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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