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Peripheral Nerve Disorders

Peripheral Nerve Disorders is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 26k 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 focuses on the diagnosis and management of carpal tunnel syndrome, including electrodiagnostic studies, neurophysiological grading scales, ultrasound and MRI measurements, nerve conduction studies, and imaging of peripheral nerves. It also covers related conditions such as thoracic outlet syndrome, pudendal neuralgia, and ulnar neuropathy.

  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Electrodiagnostic Studies
  • Neurophysiological Grading Scale
  • Ultrasound Measurement
  • Nerve Conduction Studies
  • Peripheral Nerve Imaging
  • Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
  • Pudendal Neuralgia
  • Ulnar Neuropathy
  • MRI Neurography
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peripheral Nerve Disorders

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

Which countries lead Peripheral Nerve Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 389 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 389 works
  3. 3 China 289 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 226 works
  5. 5 Japan 213 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 187 works
  7. 7 France 167 works
  8. 8 Spain 140 works
  9. 9 Italy 140 works
  10. 10 South Korea 139 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: 38.4%India: 12.7%China: 9.4%Türkiye: 7.4%6 others listed: 32.1%38%largest
United States1,177 · 38.4%India389 · 12.7%China289 · 9.4%Türkiye226 · 7.4%6 others listed986 · 32.1%

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

Which institutions lead Peripheral Nerve Disorders research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 54 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 41 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 22 works
  5. 5 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 20 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 18 works
  9. 9 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peripheral Nerve Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peripheral Nerve Disorders include Cyrus Cooper, Graeme J. Hankey and Peter Jüni.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  3. 3 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  4. 4 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  5. 5 Penny F. Whiting United Kingdom 264k citations
  6. 6 Rahman Shiri Finland 238k citations
  7. 7 Matthew James Page Australia 235k citations
  8. 8 Victor Aboyans France 234k 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 Peripheral Nerve Disorders?

The most cited paper in Peripheral Nerve Disorders is "Interrater Reliability of a Modified Ashworth Scale of Muscle Spasticity" (Richard Wallace Bohannon, Melissa B. Smith, 1987), with 5,473 citations. Next come "Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head)" (5,069) and "Prevalence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a General Population" (2,053).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Interrater Reliability of a Modified Ashworth Scale of Muscle Spasticity Richard Wallace Bohannon, Melissa B. Smith · Physical Therapy Feb 1987 5,473
2 Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head) Pamela L. Hudak, Peter C. Amadio, Claire Bombardier et al. · American Journal of Industrial Medicine Jun 1996 5,069
3 Prevalence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a General Population Isam Atroshi · JAMA 14 Jul 1999 2,053
4 A self-administered questionnaire for the assessment of severity of symptoms and functional status in carpal tunnel syndrome. Douglas W. Levine, Bryony Simmons, Mark J. Koris et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Nov 1993 1,927
5 Training induces changes in white-matter architecture Jan Scholz, Miriam C. Klein-Flügge, Timothy E.J. Behrens et al. · Nature Neuroscience Open access 11 Oct 2009 1,557
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Peripheral Nerve Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Peripheral Nerve Disorders research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kansas City and Rochester.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 69 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 65 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 49 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 48 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 45 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 42 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 40 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 39 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kansas CityUS · 28.7 works21×
  2. RochesterUS · 21.4 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peripheral Nerve Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peripheral Nerve Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Washington University in St. Louis, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Harvard University 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 19.37%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Erasmus University R…Emory UniversityWashington Universit…Harvard University
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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
1Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 70.122.9%7.3×22 +23.5%
2Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 69.832.1%5.6×12 +4.2%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.014.7%2.8×37 -20.9%
4Emory UniversityUnited States 59.827.1%4.2×14 +75.5%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 59.514.6%3.0×19 +65.2%
6University of MichiganUnited States 59.116.7%3.0×20 +66.1%
7Heidelberg UniversityGermany 57.330.2%3.6×12 -7.3%
8Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 55.726.0%4.3×11 -1.3%
9All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 55.24.0%8.8×41 +45.6%
10Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 50.85.4%9.6×22 +78.4%

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 Peripheral Nerve Disorders, country by country

Is Peripheral Nerve Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Peripheral Nerve 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 Peripheral Nerve Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Peripheral Nerve Disorders0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Peripheral Nerve 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%Peripheral Nerve Disorders10.4% 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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