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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. 10.2% 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%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management

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 (832 and 682 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 832 works
  2. 2 China 682 works
  3. 3 Brazil 321 works
  4. 4 India 275 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 260 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 231 works
  7. 7 Australia 138 works
  8. 8 Japan 133 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 121 works
  10. 10 Germany 107 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: 26.8%China: 22.0%Brazil: 10.4%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 31.9%27%largest
United States832 · 26.8%China682 · 22.0%Brazil321 · 10.4%India275 · 8.9%6 others listed989 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research, followed by Harvard University and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 25 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 22 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 22 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 19 works
  5. 5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 18 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 15 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 15 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 14 works
  10. 10 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management include Gordon Henry Guyatt, Jeremy Grimshaw and Patrick M. Bossuyt.

  1. 1 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  4. 4 Roger Chou United States 248k citations
  5. 5 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k 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 Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management?

The most cited paper in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management is "Factors Affecting Wound Healing" (Shuzhen Guo, Luisa Ann DiPietro, 2010), with 5,767 citations. Next come "Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Their Recurrence" (4,367) and "Human skin wounds: A major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy" (3,003).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Factors Affecting Wound Healing Shuzhen Guo, Luisa Ann DiPietro · Journal of Dental Research Open access 5 Feb 2010 5,767
2 Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Their Recurrence David G. Armstrong, Andrew J.M. Boulton, Sicco A. Bus · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 14 Jun 2017 4,367
3 Human skin wounds: A major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy Chandan K. Sen, Gayle M. Gordillo, Sashwati Roy et al. · Wound Repair and Regeneration Open access 29 Oct 2009 3,003
4 Wound healing and its impairment in the diabetic foot Vincent Falanga · The Lancet Nov 2005 2,653
5 The global burden of diabetic foot disease Andrew J.M. Boulton, Loretta Vileikytė, Gunnel Ragnarson-Tennvall et al. · The Lancet Nov 2005 2,580
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Where is Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research done?

The largest centres of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research in 2022-now 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 Izmir.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 71 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 70 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 59 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 43 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 39 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 36 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 36 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IzmirTR · 21.0 works4.1×
← 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, Sichuan University, Wenzhou Medical University 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 20.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wenzhou Medical Univ…Sichuan UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 80.028.8%2.8×26 +369.4%
2Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 72.935.6%6.8×14 +151.1%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.613.0%1.7×22 +37.0%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65.326.8%1.6×19 +46.5%
5Southern Medical UniversityChina 59.526.8%5.2×13 +159.5%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.521.4%1.4×15 +149.9%
7Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 54.922.8%1.8×15 +114.1%
8University of MiamiUnited States 53.519.9%4.3×11 +28.8%
9Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 50.16.2%8.0×18 +105.8%
10Universidade de São PauloBrazil 49.83.1%2.7×22 +40.7%

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 Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management, country by country

Is Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management 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%Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management10.3% 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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