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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. 11.5% 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%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+18%
the tick is no change

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 India publish the most (1.4k and 356 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 India 356 works
  3. 3 China 352 works
  4. 4 Japan 186 works
  5. 5 France 181 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 178 works
  7. 7 Germany 161 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 158 works
  9. 9 Brazil 156 works
  10. 10 Italy 149 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: 42.3%India: 11.0%China: 10.8%Japan: 5.7%6 others listed: 30.2%42%largest
United States1,375 · 42.3%India356 · 11.0%China352 · 10.8%Japan186 · 5.7%6 others listed982 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Washington University in St. Louis publishes the most Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research, followed by Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 28 works
  2. 2 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States 24 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 19 works
  5. 5 Cairo UniversityEgypt 19 works
  6. 6 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 University of UtahUnited States 15 works
  9. 9 Emory UniversityUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation include Laura Weeks.

  1. 1 Laura Weeks Canada 4.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research done?

The largest centres of Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), Philadelphia (United States) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rochester and Scottsdale.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 70 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 61 works
  3. 3 Philadelphia United States 52 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 51 works
  5. 5 Istanbul Türkiye 49 works
  6. 6 London United Kingdom 47 works
  7. 7 Shanghai China 45 works
  8. 8 Paris France 44 works
  9. 9 São Paulo Brazil 43 works
  10. 10 Boston United States 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RochesterUS · 22.0 works11×
  2. ScottsdaleUS · 25.0 works11×
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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, Baekseok University, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Utah 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 17.96%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Baekseok University: 9, 36.9%Washington University in St. Louis: 28, 16.8%University of Utah: 15, 25.9%Brown University: 8, 34.4%University of Missouri–Kansas City: 9, 4.3%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 10, 19.2%Cairo University: 19, 4.4%All India Institute of Medical Sciences: 19, 2.0%Emory University: 14, 8.4%Duke University: 10, 27.3%Baekseok UniversityBrown UniversityUniversity of UtahWashington Universit…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Baekseok UniversitySouth Korea 64.336.9%244.1×9
2 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 60.516.8%8.3×28 +23.7%
3 University of UtahUnited States 59.625.9%5.1×15 +202.4%
4 Brown UniversityUnited States 55.234.4%4.4×8 +334.4%
5 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 44.64.3%13.2×9 +172.7%
6 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 43.719.2%4.5×10 +149.2%
7 Cairo UniversityEgypt 41.64.4%5.2×19 +95.8%
8 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 38.92.0%6.7×19 +58.8%
9 Emory UniversityUnited States 34.98.4%4.4×14 +70.1%
10 Duke UniversityUnited States 34.927.3%3.0×10 -24.5%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.