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Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders

Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 postural deformities, particularly in neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, and progressive supranuclear palsy. The key topics include camptocormia, dropped head syndrome, myopathy, spinal surgery, Pisa syndrome, deep brain stimulation, muscle atrophy, and skeletal deformities.

  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Camptocormia
  • Dropped Head Syndrome
  • Myopathy
  • Spinal Surgery
  • Pisa Syndrome
  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Muscle Atrophy
  • Skeletal Deformities
  • Neurological Disorders
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders

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

Which countries lead Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (543 and 276 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 543 works
  2. 2 China 276 works
  3. 3 Japan 168 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 150 works
  5. 5 India 130 works
  6. 6 Italy 121 works
  7. 7 Germany 115 works
  8. 8 Brazil 98 works
  9. 9 France 93 works
  10. 10 Spain 81 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: 30.6%China: 15.6%Japan: 9.5%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 35.9%31%largest
United States543 · 30.6%China276 · 15.6%Japan168 · 9.5%United Kingdom150 · 8.4%6 others listed638 · 35.9%

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

Which institutions lead Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research, followed by University College London and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 15 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 14 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 13 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 12 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 12 works
  9. 9 Capital Medical UniversityChina 12 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders include Cyrus Cooper, John Q. Trojanowski and Yousef Saleh Khader.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  3. 3 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  4. 4 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  5. 5 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  6. 6 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  7. 7 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k 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 Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders?

The most cited paper in Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders is "Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis" (Joseph J. Jankovic, 2008), with 5,789 citations. Next come "Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson Disease" (2,949) and "A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11" (2,856).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis Joseph J. Jankovic · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Open access 14 Mar 2008 5,789
2 Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson Disease Melissa J. Armstrong, Michael S. Okun · JAMA 11 Feb 2020 2,949
3 A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 Rolf‐Detlef Treede et al. · Pain Open access 6 Apr 2015 2,856
4 Five-Year Follow-up of Bilateral Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Advanced Parkinson's Disease Paul Krack, Alina Batir, Nadège Van Blercom et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Nov 2003 2,255
5 El escorial World Federation of Neurology criteria for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Benjamin Rix Brooks · Journal of the Neurological Sciences Jul 1994 2,149
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Where is Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research in 2022-now are Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TokyoJapan 53 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 51 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 35 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 32 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 30 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 27 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 23 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, University of Toronto and Radboud University Nijmegen 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 14.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Radboud University N…University College L…University of TorontoJohns Hopkins Univer…
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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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 75.217.3%4.3×15 +7.3%
2University of TorontoCanada 69.615.3%3.3×15 +8.2%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 63.030.8%6.5×9 -7.8%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62.913.3%3.9×13 +32.7%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 47.413.8%1.8×12 -8.5%
6Capital Medical UniversityChina 45.212.5%4.9×12 +70.3%
7Universidade de São PauloBrazil 44.75.8%3.1×14 +19.4%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39.212.6%1.8×12 +14.0%
9Sichuan UniversityChina 38.611.6%2.3×12 +13.9%
10Central South UniversityChina 31.713.1%2.2×10 +592.6%

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 Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders, country by country

Is Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders.

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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 Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders 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%Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders9.9% 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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