Oral and Craniofacial Lesions
Oral and Craniofacial Lesions is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 8.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores ankyloglossia (tongue-tie) and its effects on breastfeeding, speech articulation, and other oral functions in infants and children. It covers topics such as frenulotomy, neonatal implications, breastfeeding difficulties, and the impact of lingual frenulum abnormalities. Additionally, it discusses the association with conditions like melanotic neuroectodermal tumor and explores treatment options such as laser frenectomy.
- Ankyloglossia
- Frenulotomy
- Breastfeeding
- Infants
- Tongue-Tie
- Lingual Frenulum
- Neonatal
- Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumor
- Speech Articulation
- Laser Frenectomy
- Research works
- 8.3k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 836 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +17% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Brazil
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research?
By volume, Brazil and India publish the most (330 and 269 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Brazil
330 works
- 2
India
269 works
- 3
United States
209 works
- 4
China
100 works
- 5
Türkiye
68 works
- 6
United Kingdom
64 works
- 7
Japan
56 works
- 8
Indonesia
47 works
- 9
Spain
46 works
- 10
Italy
45 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research?
By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Universidade de São PauloBrazil
20 works
- 2
All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia
15 works
- 3
Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil
13 works
- 4
Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes
Ecuador
11 works
- 5
Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and ResearchIndia
10 works
- 6
Government Dental College and HospitalIndia
10 works
- 7
Airlangga UniversityIndonesia
9 works
- 8
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil
8 works
- 9
Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia
8 works
- 10
Saveetha UniversityIndia
7 works
Who are the leading researchers in Oral and Craniofacial Lesions?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Oral and Craniofacial Lesions include Ratilal Lalloo.
- 1
Ratilal Lalloo
Australia
182k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research done?
The largest centres of Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), New Delhi (India), Chennai (India) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil).
Where is the best place to study Oral and Craniofacial Lesions?
Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidade de São PauloBrazil |
82.2 | 8.6% | 5.8× | 20 | +42.7% |
| 2 | Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil |
76.9 | 6.9% | 10.4× | 13 | +18.1% |
| 3 | All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia |
66.4 | 8.4% | 8.1× | 15 | +79.3% |
| 4 | Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and ResearchIndia |
63.5 | 11.2% | 26.7× | 10 | - |
| 5 | Government Dental College and HospitalIndia |
46.0 | 5.8% | 106.0× | 10 | +29.0% |
| 6 | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil |
29.7 | 3.2% | 5.9× | 8 | +3.3% |
| 7 | Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador |
23.4 | 0.0% | 31.0× | 10 | - |
| 8 | Airlangga UniversityIndonesia |
23.1 | 1.8% | 6.0× | 9 | +166.7% |
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 Oral and Craniofacial Lesions, country by countryIs Oral and Craniofacial Lesions research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Oral and Craniofacial Lesions.
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Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Oral and Craniofacial Lesions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0077% in 2024.
Fractional works of Oral and Craniofacial Lesions 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.
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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