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Nerve injury and regeneration

Nerve injury and regeneration is a research topic within Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the roles of neurotrophins, particularly BDNF and GDNF, in neuronal development, synaptic modulation, nerve regeneration, and their implications for conditions such as depression and spinal cord injury. It covers topics such as neurotrophin signaling pathways, axon regeneration, synaptic plasticity, and the impact of neurotrophins on mood disorders.

  • Neurotrophins
  • BDNF
  • Nerve Regeneration
  • Neuronal Plasticity
  • Axon Growth
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • GDNF
  • Synaptic Plasticity
  • Neural Circuit Development
  • Depression
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nerve injury and regeneration

Which countries lead Nerve injury and regeneration research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 Japan 223 works
  4. 4 India 170 works
  5. 5 Iran 164 works
  6. 6 Italy 149 works
  7. 7 South Korea 146 works
  8. 8 Germany 145 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 144 works
  10. 10 Canada 130 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.

China: 39.0%United States: 28.1%Japan: 5.8%India: 4.4%6 others listed: 22.7%39%largest
China1,505 · 39.0%United States1,086 · 28.1%Japan223 · 5.8%India170 · 4.4%6 others listed879 · 22.7%

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

Which institutions lead Nerve injury and regeneration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nantong University publishes the most Nerve injury and regeneration research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Sun Yat-sen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nantong UniversityChina 58 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 49 works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 42 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 41 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 38 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 37 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 37 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 32 works
  10. 10 Fudan UniversityChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nerve injury and regeneration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nerve injury and regeneration include Shizuo Akira, Jun Wang and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  6. 6 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Nerve injury and regeneration?

The most cited paper in Nerve injury and regeneration is "Generation of Neurons and Astrocytes from Isolated Cells of the Adult Mammalian Central Nervous System" (Brent A. Reynolds, Samuel A. Weiss, 1992), with 5,431 citations. Next come "Mammalian Neural Stem Cells" (4,770) and "Neurotrophins: Roles in Neuronal Development and Function" (4,433).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Generation of Neurons and Astrocytes from Isolated Cells of the Adult Mammalian Central Nervous System Brent A. Reynolds, Samuel A. Weiss · Science 27 Mar 1992 5,431
2 Mammalian Neural Stem Cells Fred H. Gage · Science 25 Feb 2000 4,770
3 Neurotrophins: Roles in Neuronal Development and Function Eric Jinsheng Huang, Louis French Reichardt · Annual Review of Neuroscience ReviewOpen access Mar 2001 4,433
4 Requirement of Hippocampal Neurogenesis for the Behavioral Effects of Antidepressants Luca Santarelli, Michael Saxe, Cornelius Thilo Gross et al. · Science 8 Aug 2003 4,334
5 Translational Findings on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Anxiety: Contributions from Basic Research to Clinical Practice Anna Claudia Domingos da Silveira da Luz, Gisele Pereira Dias, Mário Cesar do Nascimento Bevilaqua et al. · Neuropsychobiology Open access 2013 4,008
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Where is Nerve injury and regeneration research done?

The largest centres of Nerve injury and regeneration research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nantong, Wenzhou and St Louis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 165 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 140 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 106 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 81 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 58 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 58 works
  7. 7 NantongChina 58 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 57 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 52 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NantongCN · 57.5 works24×
  2. WenzhouCN · 30.5 works6.9×
  3. St LouisUS · 32.2 works5.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nerve injury and regeneration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nerve injury and regeneration?

Among universities, judged by research, Nantong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Sichuan 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%20%40%mean 18.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jilin UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Sichuan UniversityNantong 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
1Nantong UniversityChina 75.515.9%29.1×58 +18.9%
2Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 73.822.7%3.8×49 +9.8%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 70.621.1%3.8×38 +59.4%
4Jilin UniversityChina 66.229.2%3.7×18 +8.9%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 61.911.6%2.9×41 -18.3%
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 61.817.8%4.6×42 -2.2%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.314.7%2.7×32 +14.5%
8Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.824.9%2.7×21 +4.4%
9Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 57.54.3%9.0×29 +9.1%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.425.2%1.3×13 +34.0%

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 Nerve injury and regeneration, country by country

Is Nerve injury and regeneration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Nerve injury and regeneration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nerve injury and regeneration0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nerve injury and regeneration 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%Nerve injury and regeneration9.9% 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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