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Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques

Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 26k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to craniofacial reconstruction, including nasal reconstruction, microtia repair, fabrication of prostheses, epidemiology, and psychosocial outcomes. The papers discuss advancements in surgical techniques, materials used for reconstruction, and the impact on patients' quality of life.

  • Craniofacial
  • Reconstruction
  • Nasal
  • Microtia
  • Prostheses
  • Auricular
  • Maxillofacial
  • Epidemiology
  • Anatomy
  • Psychosocial
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques

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

Which countries lead Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 647 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 647 works
  3. 3 India 552 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 221 works
  5. 5 Italy 215 works
  6. 6 South Korea 207 works
  7. 7 Japan 203 works
  8. 8 Brazil 196 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 187 works
  10. 10 Germany 178 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: 32.1%China: 16.8%India: 14.4%United Kingdom: 5.8%6 others listed: 30.9%32%largest
United States1,235 · 32.1%China647 · 16.8%India552 · 14.4%United Kingdom221 · 5.8%6 others listed1,186 · 30.9%

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

Which institutions lead Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes the most Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 52 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 50 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 48 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 30 works
  5. 5 University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 Creative CommonsUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 Aesthetic Surgery CenterUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 24 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques include Patrick M. Bossuyt, James Thomas and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  2. 2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques?

The most cited paper in Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques is "Facial Nerve Grading System" (John W. House, Derald E. Brackmann, 1985), with 3,895 citations. Next come "A Novel Reconstructive Technique After Endoscopic Expanded Endonasal Approaches: Vascular Pedicle Nasoseptal Flap" (1,931) and "The vascular territories (angiosomes) of the body: experimental study and clinical applications" (1,799).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Facial Nerve Grading System John W. House, Derald E. Brackmann · Otolaryngology Apr 1985 3,895
2 A Novel Reconstructive Technique After Endoscopic Expanded Endonasal Approaches: Vascular Pedicle Nasoseptal Flap Gustavo Hadad, Luis Bassagasteguy, Ricardo Luis Carrau et al. · The Laryngoscope 26 Sep 2006 1,931
3 The vascular territories (angiosomes) of the body: experimental study and clinical applications G. Ian Taylor, John H. C. Palmer · British Journal of Plastic Surgery Mar 1987 1,799
4 Fibula Free Flap David A. Hidalgo · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Jul 1989 1,466
5 Inferior epigastric artery skin flaps without rectus abdominis muscle Isao Koshima, Shugo Soeda · British Journal of Plastic Surgery Nov 1989 1,241
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Where is Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Naples, Little Rock and Mountain View.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 160 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 110 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 83 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 70 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 68 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 57 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 56 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 54 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NaplesUS · 23.9 works50×
  2. Little RockUS · 30.7 works21×
  3. Mountain ViewUS · 28.7 works10×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Yonsei University, Harvard University and Shanghai Jiao Tong 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.

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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
1Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 75.524.5%5.1×23 +13.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.018.4%2.0×30 -18.6%
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.913.4%3.7×52 +1.9%
4Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 62.47.9%9.8×50 +20.8%
5Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 59.712.7%7.2×18 +46.7%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 58.815.2%2.1×23 +83.4%
7University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 57.716.3%4.0×16 +31.7%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.811.9%2.1×16 +22.1%
9University of Naples Federico IIItaly 55.620.4%2.7×9 +50.4%
10Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 55.417.9%3.4×12 +49.4%

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 Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques, country by country

Is Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques.

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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 Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques 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%Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques10.1% 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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