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Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies

Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies is a research topic within Rheumatology. Science Explorer counts 7.7k 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 the clinical and anatomical aspects of Eagle's syndrome, also known as elongated styloid process syndrome. It covers topics such as the incidence and calcification patterns of elongated styloid process, association with carotid artery dissection, glossopharyngeal nerve entrapment, ZBTB20 protein, panoramic radiography, and related symptoms like cervical pain and tonsillolith formation.

  • Elongated Styloid Process
  • Eagle's Syndrome
  • Styloid Process Calcification
  • Carotid Artery Dissection
  • Torus Palatinus
  • Glossopharyngeal Nerve Entrapment
  • ZBTB20 Protein
  • Panoramic Radiography
  • Cervical Pain
  • Tonsillolith
Research works
7.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
786
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies

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

Which countries lead Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (255 and 151 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 255 works
  2. 2 India 151 works
  3. 3 China 134 works
  4. 4 Japan 114 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 92 works
  6. 6 Brazil 71 works
  7. 7 Italy 66 works
  8. 8 France 45 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 45 works
  10. 10 Germany 38 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: 25.2%India: 14.9%China: 13.2%Japan: 11.3%6 others listed: 35.4%25%largest
United States255 · 25.2%India151 · 14.9%China134 · 13.2%Japan114 · 11.3%6 others listed357 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Jagiellonian University.

Who are the leading researchers in Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies include Graeme J. Hankey, Gregory Y.H. Lip and Marco A. Marra.

  1. 1 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  2. 2 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  3. 3 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k citations
  4. 4 Victor Aboyans France 234k citations
  5. 5 Deepak L. Bhatt United States 227k 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 Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies?

The most cited paper in Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies is "Research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders: review, criteria, examinations and specifications, critique." (Samuel F. Dworkin, Linda LeResche, 1992), with 3,828 citations. Next come "Benefit of Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with Symptomatic Moderate or Severe Stenosis" (3,625) and "Stenting versus Endarterectomy for Treatment of Carotid-Artery Stenosis" (3,008).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders: review, criteria, examinations and specifications, critique. Samuel F. Dworkin, Linda LeResche · PubMed 1992 3,828
2 Benefit of Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with Symptomatic Moderate or Severe Stenosis Henry J.M. Barnett, D. Wayne Taylor, Michael Eliasziw et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Nov 1998 3,625
3 Stenting versus Endarterectomy for Treatment of Carotid-Artery Stenosis Thomas G. Brott et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 May 2010 3,008
4 Analysis of pooled data from the randomised controlled trials of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis P M Rothwell, Michael Eliasziw, SA Gutnikov et al. · The Lancet 2003 1,694
5 High Bone Density Due to a Mutation in LDL-Receptor–Related Protein 5 Lynn M. Boyden, Junhao Mao, Joseph L. Belsky et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 May 2002 1,605
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Where is Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research done?

The largest centres of Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Istanbul.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 27 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 22 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 19 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 19 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 19 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 18 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 18 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 14 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 13 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IstanbulTR · 21.9 works3.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Jagiellonian University, University of Ferrara 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.

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
1Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 62.414.4%9.1×8 +128.5%
2University of FerraraItaly 49.68.0%34.3×8 +213.3%
3All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 38.76.1%5.7×9 +14.7%

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 Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies, country by country

Is Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies.

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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 Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies0.0067% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies 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%Oropharyngeal Anatomy and Pathologies10.6% 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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