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Musicians’ Health and Performance

Musicians’ Health and Performance is a research topic within Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular health of musicians and music students, particularly orchestral musicians. It covers a wide range of topics including prevalence, risk factors, and management of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders, injury prevention, occupational health, and health promotion strategies specific to the needs of musicians.

  • Musculoskeletal Problems
  • Playing-Related Disorders
  • Music Students
  • Orchestral Musicians
  • Injury Prevention
  • Occupational Health
  • Pain Management
  • Performance-related Health Issues
  • Health Promotion
  • Neuromuscular Rehabilitation
Research works
7.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
745
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Musicians’ Health and Performance

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

Which countries lead Musicians’ Health and Performance research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (356 and 105 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 356 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 105 works
  3. 3 China 99 works
  4. 4 Brazil 80 works
  5. 5 Germany 79 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 76 works
  7. 7 Spain 70 works
  8. 8 Japan 61 works
  9. 9 India 57 works
  10. 10 Canada 46 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: 34.6%United Kingdom: 10.2%China: 9.6%Brazil: 7.8%6 others listed: 37.8%35%largest
United States356 · 34.6%United Kingdom105 · 10.2%China99 · 9.6%Brazil80 · 7.8%6 others listed389 · 37.8%

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

Which institutions lead Musicians’ Health and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Musicians’ Health and Performance research, followed by University of the Arts Helsinki and University of Montana.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  2. 2 University of the Arts HelsinkiFinland 9 works
  3. 3 University of MontanaUnited States 8 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 7 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 6 works
  6. 6 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 6 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Hanover University of Music Drama and MediaGermany 5 works
  9. 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 5 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Musicians’ Health and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Musicians’ Health and Performance include Tim Driscoll and Jaakko A. Kaprio.

  1. 1 Tim Driscoll Australia 204k citations
  2. 2 Jaakko A. Kaprio Finland 183k 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 Musicians’ Health and Performance?

The most cited paper in Musicians’ Health and Performance is "Goodness-of-Fit Techniques" (Terry A. King, 1987), with 764 citations. Next come "LIDOCAINE INJECTION VERSUS DRY NEEDLING TO MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINT" (730) and "Repetitive Bilateral Arm Training With Rhythmic Auditory Cueing Improves Motor Function in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke" (629).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Goodness-of-Fit Techniques Terry A. King · Technometrics Nov 1987 764
2 LIDOCAINE INJECTION VERSUS DRY NEEDLING TO MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINT Chang‐Zern Hong · American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Jul 1994 730
3 Repetitive Bilateral Arm Training With Rhythmic Auditory Cueing Improves Motor Function in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke Jill Whitall, Sandy McCombe Waller, Kenneth H. C. Silver et al. · Stroke Open access Oct 2000 629
4 Creativity and Psychopathology a Study of 291 World-Famous Men Felix Post · The British Journal of Psychiatry Jul 1994 529
5 The Elbow and Its Disorders Ethan R. Wiesler · Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery Oct 2000 526
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Where is Musicians’ Health and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Musicians’ Health and Performance research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan), New York (United States) and Helsinki (Finland).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 22 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 HelsinkiFinland 19 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 17 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 16 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 16 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 15 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 13 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 12 works
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Where is the best place to study Musicians’ Health and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Arts Helsinki and University of Montana 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.

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 the Arts HelsinkiFinland 80.02.7%494.2×9 +168.4%
2University of MontanaUnited States 15.00.0%62.9×8 -

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 Musicians’ Health and Performance, country by country

Is Musicians’ Health and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Musicians’ Health and Performance.

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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 Musicians’ Health and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0068% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Musicians’ Health and Performance 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.

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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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