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Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation

Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 28k 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 surgical management, nerve transfers, muscle strength assessment, and outcomes of brachial plexus injuries, particularly related to obstetric and neonatal palsy. It covers topics such as shoulder function restoration, peripheral nerve surgery, and the impact on quality of life.

  • Brachial Plexus
  • Nerve Transfer
  • Muscle Strength
  • Obstetric Palsy
  • Shoulder Function
  • Nerve Injury
  • Reconstruction
  • Neonatal Palsy
  • Peripheral Nerve Surgery
  • Quality of Life
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation

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

Which countries lead Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 416 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 416 works
  3. 3 India 407 works
  4. 4 Japan 210 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 207 works
  6. 6 France 201 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 185 works
  8. 8 Germany 184 works
  9. 9 Italy 171 works
  10. 10 Brazil 166 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: 42.6%China: 11.1%India: 10.9%Japan: 5.6%6 others listed: 29.8%43%largest
United States1,592 · 42.6%China416 · 11.1%India407 · 10.9%Japan210 · 5.6%6 others listed1,113 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 69 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 52 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 45 works
  4. 4 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 35 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 29 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 29 works
  8. 8 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation include Cyrus Cooper, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  5. 5 Matthew James Page Australia 235k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Rehabilitation?

The most cited paper in Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation is "Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head)" (Pamela L. Hudak, Peter C. Amadio, Claire Bombardier et al., 1996), with 5,069 citations. Next come "Traumatic spinal cord injury" (2,463) and "Fatty Muscle Degeneration in Cuff Ruptures" (2,142).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head) Pamela L. Hudak, Peter C. Amadio, Claire Bombardier et al. · American Journal of Industrial Medicine Jun 1996 5,069
2 Traumatic spinal cord injury Christopher S. Ahuja, Jefferson R. Wilson, Satoshi Nori et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers Review 26 Apr 2017 2,463
3 Fatty Muscle Degeneration in Cuff Ruptures DANIEL GOUTALLIER, J.-M. Postel, JACQUES BERNAGEAU et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Jul 1994 2,142
4 Targeting Recovery: Priorities of the Spinal Cord-Injured Population Kim D. Anderson · Journal of Neurotrauma Oct 2004 2,141
5 Anterior Acromioplasty for the Chronic Impingement Syndrome in the Shoulder CHARLES SUMNER NEER · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1972 2,092
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Where is Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research done?

The largest centres of Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rochester and Scottsdale.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 67 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 59 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 56 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 51 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 49 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 46 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RochesterUS · 24.8 works11×
  2. ScottsdaleUS · 27.4 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis and University of British Columbia 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%10%20%30%mean 20.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Britis…Washington Universit…University of TorontoHarvard 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.

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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.215.7%3.3×52 +17.1%
2Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 73.116.9%9.9×35 +8.0%
3University of British ColumbiaCanada 66.525.8%2.6×15 +11.6%
4University of TorontoCanada 66.415.8%2.9×28 -4.7%
5Baekseok UniversitySouth Korea 65.225.6%340.0×12 -
6Duke UniversityUnited States 64.321.3%5.0×20 +275.9%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.511.8%4.3×32 +37.2%
8Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 62.727.0%3.2×8 +43.8%
9The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 62.321.5%3.6×21 +27.5%
10Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States 61.627.8%7.3×12 +264.0%

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 Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation, country by country

Is Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation.

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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 Rehabilitation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nerve Injury 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%Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation10.2% 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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