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Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management

Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management is a research topic within Occupational Therapy. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 21.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prevention, assessment, treatment, and impact of pressure ulcers, including risk assessment scales, nutritional support, incidence studies, cost analysis, and the effects on quality of life. It also explores the etiology of pressure ulcers and their impact on healthcare providers.

  • Pressure Ulcers
  • Risk Assessment
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Quality of Life
  • Nutritional Support
  • Incidence
  • Etiology
  • Cost Analysis
  • Healthcare Providers
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
21.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+32%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (706 and 550 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 706 works
  2. 2 China 550 works
  3. 3 Brazil 282 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 229 works
  5. 5 India 219 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 199 works
  7. 7 Australia 122 works
  8. 8 Japan 113 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 102 works
  10. 10 Germany 94 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: 27.0%China: 21.0%Brazil: 10.8%United Kingdom: 8.8%6 others listed: 32.4%27%largest
United States706 · 27.0%China550 · 21.0%Brazil282 · 10.8%United Kingdom229 · 8.8%6 others listed849 · 32.4%

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

Which institutions lead Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research, followed by Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 18 works
  2. 2 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 16 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 13 works
  4. 4 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 9 works
  5. 5 University of MiamiUnited States 8 works
  6. 6 Koç UniversityTürkiye 8 works
  7. 7 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 8 works
  8. 8 Cairo UniversityEgypt 8 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 8 works
  10. 10 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 8 works

Where is Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research done?

The largest centres of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research in 2022–2025 are Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brisbane.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Istanbul Türkiye 60 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 59 works
  3. 3 London United Kingdom 53 works
  4. 4 São Paulo Brazil 52 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 49 works
  6. 6 Guangzhou China 36 works
  7. 7 Chengdu China 34 works
  8. 8 Seoul South Korea 33 works
  9. 9 Brisbane Australia 32 works
  10. 10 New York United States 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrisbaneAU · 32.2 works4.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Queensland University of Technology, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi and Sichuan 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%60%mean 31.78%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Queensland University of Technology: 9, 40.2%Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi: 16, 21.0%Sichuan University: 13, 49.6%University of Miami: 8, 30.2%Universidade de São Paulo: 18, 17.9%Sichuan UniversityQueensland Universit…University of MiamiSağlık Bilimleri Üni…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 69.440.2%6.6×9 +103.2%
2 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 56.621.0%7.3×16 —
3 Sichuan UniversityChina 41.249.6%1.9×13 -9.4%
4 University of MiamiUnited States 31.330.2%4.4×8 +26.4%
5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 30.117.9%2.6×18 +9.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management.

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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.

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.