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Pelvic floor disorders treatments

Pelvic floor disorders treatments is a research topic within Rheumatology. Science Explorer counts 55k 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 diagnosis, prevalence, treatment, and impact of pelvic floor disorders in women, including urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and fecal incontinence. It covers epidemiological surveys, surgical techniques, quality-of-life assessments, and the relationship between obstetric factors and pelvic floor dysfunction.

  • Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
  • Urinary Incontinence
  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse
  • Fecal Incontinence
  • Urogynecology
  • Epidemiology
  • Surgical Treatment
  • Quality of Life
  • Obstetric Trauma
  • Rehabilitation
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pelvic floor disorders treatments

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

Which countries lead Pelvic floor disorders treatments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.2k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.2k works
  2. 2 China 1.4k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 563 works
  4. 4 India 516 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 508 works
  6. 6 Italy 460 works
  7. 7 Brazil 400 works
  8. 8 Japan 360 works
  9. 9 Germany 348 works
  10. 10 France 344 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: 31.1%China: 19.6%United Kingdom: 7.9%India: 7.3%6 others listed: 34.1%31%largest
United States2,212 · 31.1%China1,391 · 19.6%United Kingdom563 · 7.9%India516 · 7.3%6 others listed2,421 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Pelvic floor disorders treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Cleveland Clinic publishes the most Pelvic floor disorders treatments research, followed by Sichuan University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 61 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 53 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 52 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 47 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 43 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 43 works
  8. 8 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 40 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pelvic floor disorders treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pelvic floor disorders treatments include David Moher, Rob Knight and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  6. 6 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  7. 7 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k 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 floor disorders treatments?

The most cited paper in Pelvic floor disorders treatments is "The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society" (Paul Abrams, Linda Cardozo, Magnus Fall et al., 2002), with 8,330 citations. Next come "The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function" (6,627) and "The standardization of terminology of female pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction" (4,305).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society Paul Abrams, Linda Cardozo, Magnus Fall et al. · Neurourology and Urodynamics 8 Feb 2002 8,330
2 The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function R. Rosen · Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy Open access Apr 2000 6,627
3 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
4 The American Urological Association Symptom Index for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Michael J. Barry, Floyd Jackson Fowler, Michael P. O’Leary et al. · The Journal of Urology Nov 1992 3,476
5 Epidemiology of surgically managed pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence Adam S. Olsen, Vincent C. Smith, Jonas P. Bergström et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology Apr 1997 3,365
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pelvic floor disorders treatments research done?

The largest centres of Pelvic floor disorders treatments research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Allentown and Hualien City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 195 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 182 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 163 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 120 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 112 works
  6. 6 ClevelandUnited States 106 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 105 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 104 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 96 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AllentownUS · 32.8 works76×
  2. Hualien CityTW · 35.0 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pelvic floor disorders treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pelvic floor disorders treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Michigan, Tzu Chi University and University of Oslo 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%10%20%30%mean 19.86%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OsloKarolinska InstitutetTzu Chi UniversityUniversity of Michigan
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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 MichiganUnited States 75.015.5%3.5×52 +15.7%
2Tzu Chi UniversityTaiwan 73.224.8%52.1×23 +41.8%
3University of OsloNorway 72.225.9%3.0×19 +24.9%
4Karolinska InstitutetSweden 71.725.0%3.5×19 +19.4%
5Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 70.218.7%6.1×23 +13.4%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 69.215.0%2.4×53 +51.7%
7University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 67.815.6%4.1×28 +58.4%
8Umeå UniversitySweden 64.927.6%3.9×9 +64.8%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.416.6%2.4×37 -2.8%
10Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 64.313.9%5.2×40 +38.9%

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 floor disorders treatments, country by country

Is Pelvic floor disorders treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pelvic floor disorders treatments.

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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 floor disorders treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Pelvic floor disorders treatments0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pelvic floor disorders treatments 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 floor disorders treatments10.2% 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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