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Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications

Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications is a research topic within Neurology. 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 cerebrospinal fluid disorders, including spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks, intracranial hypotension, and chronic subdural hematoma. It explores the pathophysiology, surgical management, risk factors, recurrence predictors, and potential pharmacotherapies for these conditions. Connective tissue disorders and angiogenesis are also highlighted as relevant factors. The cluster encompasses a wide range of research on diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes related to cerebrospinal fluid disorders and hematomas.

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
  • Intracranial Hypotension
  • Chronic Subdural Hematoma
  • Spontaneous CSF Leaks
  • Connective Tissue Disorders
  • Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization
  • Epidural Blood Patch
  • Anticoagulant Therapy
  • Angiogenesis
  • Surgical Management
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
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications

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

Which countries lead Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (991 and 397 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 991 works
  2. 2 China 397 works
  3. 3 Japan 258 works
  4. 4 India 238 works
  5. 5 Germany 168 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 137 works
  7. 7 South Korea 93 works
  8. 8 Italy 91 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 88 works
  10. 10 France 79 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: 39.0%China: 15.6%Japan: 10.2%India: 9.4%6 others listed: 25.8%39%largest
United States991 · 39.0%China397 · 15.6%Japan258 · 10.2%India238 · 9.4%6 others listed657 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research, followed by Neurological Surgery and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 Capital Medical UniversityChina 31 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 24 works
  6. 6 University of FreiburgGermany 23 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 20 works
  8. 8 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 Cornell UniversityUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications include Jost Bruno Jonas, Emelia J. Benjamin and Valery L. Feigin.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  3. 3 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
  8. 8 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications?

The most cited paper in Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications is "Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis" (Gustavo Saposnik, Fernando Barinagarrementería, Robert D. Brown et al., 2011), with 1,979 citations. Next come "Cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas: clinical and angiographic correlation with a revised classification of venous drainage." (1,704) and "Subarachnoid haemorrhage" (1,694).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Gustavo Saposnik, Fernando Barinagarrementería, Robert D. Brown et al. · Stroke Open access 3 Feb 2011 1,979
2 Cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas: clinical and angiographic correlation with a revised classification of venous drainage. Christophe Cognard, Yves Pierre Gobin, Laurent Pierot et al. · Radiology Mar 1995 1,704
3 Subarachnoid haemorrhage Jan van Gijn, Richard S. C. Kerr, Gabriël J.E. Rinkel · The Lancet 2007 1,694
4 Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage Adnan Iqbal Qureshi, Stanley Tuhrim, Joseph P. Broderick et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 10 May 2001 1,677
5 2022 Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Guideline From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Steven Mark Greenberg, Wendy Ziai, Charlotte Cordonnier et al. · Stroke 17 May 2022 1,655
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Where is Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research done?

The largest centres of Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre and Freiburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 58 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 48 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 43 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 39 works
  6. 6 Rockville CentreUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 35 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 35 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 33 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 38.7 works79×
  2. FreiburgDE · 23.7 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Freiburg, Harvard University and West Virginia 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 23.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →West Virginia Univer…University of FreiburgJohns Hopkins Univer…Harvard 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
1University of FreiburgGermany 80.931.3%16.2×23 +172.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.817.4%3.7×37 +11.9%
3West Virginia UniversityUnited States 66.242.2%9.8×10 +163.3%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.519.9%4.2×20 +41.9%
5Capital Medical UniversityChina 63.112.1%9.3×31 +35.9%
6Duke UniversityUnited States 58.026.5%4.3×11 +65.7%
7University of RochesterUnited States 57.919.9%6.3×9 +337.7%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.414.5%3.0×15 +34.7%
9University of BernSwitzerland 56.128.9%4.8×8 -11.0%
10University of CopenhagenDenmark 53.224.2%3.0×9 +96.5%

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 Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications, country by country

Is Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications.

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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 Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications 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%Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications10.7% 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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