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Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries

Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the operative management, epidemiology, and outcomes of pelvic fractures, including acetabular and sacral fractures. It covers topics such as hemorrhage control, surgical treatment modalities, embolization, mortality predictors, and complications associated with pelvic fractures.

  • Pelvic Fractures
  • Acetabular Fractures
  • Hemorrhage
  • Surgical Treatment
  • Embolization
  • Sacral Fractures
  • Internal Fixation
  • Mortality
  • Epidemiology
  • Complications
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% 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 Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 563 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 563 works
  3. 3 India 403 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 281 works
  5. 5 Germany 275 works
  6. 6 Japan 243 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 175 works
  8. 8 Italy 160 works
  9. 9 Russia 159 works
  10. 10 France 137 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: 32.7%China: 15.8%India: 11.3%United Kingdom: 7.9%6 others listed: 32.3%33%largest
United States1,162 · 32.7%China563 · 15.8%India403 · 11.3%United Kingdom281 · 7.9%6 others listed1,149 · 32.3%

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

Which institutions lead Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research, followed by Harvard University and Mayo Clinic.

Who are the leading researchers in Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries include Cyrus Cooper, Jun Wang and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries?

The most cited paper in Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries is "The standardization of terminology of female pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction" (Richard C. Bump, Anders Mattiasson, Kari Bø et al., 1996), with 4,305 citations. Next come "Epidemiology of adult fractures: A review" (3,716) and "Fracture and Dislocation Classification Compendium—2018" (2,748).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The standardization of terminology of female pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction Richard C. Bump, Anders Mattiasson, Kari Bø et al. · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Jul 1996 4,305
2 Epidemiology of adult fractures: A review Charles M. Court-Brown, Ben Caesar · Injury 4 Jul 2006 3,716
3 Fracture and Dislocation Classification Compendium—2018 E.G. Meinberg, Julie A. Agel, CS Roberts et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma 21 Dec 2017 2,748
4 ‘The Ideal Mesh?' U. Klinge, Joon-Keun Park, B. Klosterhalfen · Pathobiology Open access 2013 1,786
5 Injuries Involving the Epiphyseal Plate Robert B. Salter, William R. Harris · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Apr 1963 1,738
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research done?

The largest centres of Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Denver and Cleveland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 78 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 65 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 64 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 54 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 48 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 48 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 41 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DenverUS · 21.2 works6.3×
  2. ClevelandUS · 32.4 works4.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Colorado Denver, Harvard University and University of Copenhagen 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 19.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Colora…University of Copenh…Harvard UniversityUniversity of Zurich
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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 Colorado DenverUnited States 76.825.8%12.4×19 +14.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.719.9%2.2×32 -9.2%
3University of CopenhagenDenmark 65.824.8%2.5×11 +52.3%
4University of ZurichSwitzerland 64.418.2%4.5×15 +36.3%
5Brown UniversityUnited States 59.634.6%3.9×8 +31.1%
6University of BernSwitzerland 58.514.4%4.1×10 +24.5%
7All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58.25.3%7.2×37 +36.0%
8Peking UniversityChina 56.026.0%2.3×22 -30.9%
9University of WashingtonUnited States 56.09.4%3.0×16 +22.2%
10University of MinnesotaUnited States 54.320.8%2.9×10 +24.0%

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 Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries, country by country

Is Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries 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%Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries10.1% 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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