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Retinal and Macular Surgery

Retinal and Macular Surgery is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores advancements in vitreoretinal surgery techniques, including the use of sutureless vitrectomy systems, internal limiting membrane peeling, and indocyanine green-assisted procedures for conditions such as macular holes, epiretinal membranes, and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. It also delves into the management of retinal detachment, myopia-related macular pathologies, and the role of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in evaluating surgical outcomes.

  • Vitreoretinal Surgery
  • Macular Hole
  • Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling
  • Epiretinal Membrane
  • Sutureless Vitrectomy
  • OCT Imaging
  • Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Indocyanine Green
  • Myopia
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Retinal and Macular Surgery

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

Which countries lead Retinal and Macular Surgery research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 876 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 876 works
  3. 3 India 466 works
  4. 4 Japan 323 works
  5. 5 Germany 265 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 265 works
  7. 7 Italy 226 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 221 works
  9. 9 South Korea 197 works
  10. 10 Spain 169 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: 27.7%China: 21.1%India: 11.2%Japan: 7.8%6 others listed: 32.3%28%largest
United States1,150 · 27.7%China876 · 21.1%India466 · 11.2%Japan323 · 7.8%6 others listed1,343 · 32.3%

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

Which institutions lead Retinal and Macular Surgery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Aravind Eye Hospital publishes the most Retinal and Macular Surgery research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Sun Yat-sen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Aravind Eye HospitalIndia 65 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 59 works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 54 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 54 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 50 works
  6. 6 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 48 works
  7. 7 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 44 works
  8. 8 Thomas Jefferson UniversityUnited States 43 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Retinal and Macular Surgery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Retinal and Macular Surgery include Walter Churchill Willett, Guido Kroemer and Jost Bruno Jonas.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  3. 3 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  4. 4 Lesley A. Stewart United Kingdom 308k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 237k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Retinal and Macular Surgery?

The most cited paper in Retinal and Macular Surgery is "The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2010 and 2020" (Harry A. Quigley, 2006), with 7,489 citations. Next come "The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Glaucoma" (4,238) and "Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Ocular Fluid of Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Retinal Disorders" (3,806).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The number of people with glaucoma worldwide in 2010 and 2020 Harry A. Quigley · British Journal of Ophthalmology Open access 17 Feb 2006 7,489
2 The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Glaucoma Robert Neal Weinreb, Tin Aung, Felipe Andrade Medeiros · JAMA Open access 13 May 2014 4,238
3 Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Ocular Fluid of Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Retinal Disorders Lloyd Paul Aiello, Robert L. Avery, Paul G. Arrigg et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access Dec 1994 3,806
4 Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital Amaurosis Albert M. Maguire et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 27 Apr 2008 2,156
5 Factors for Glaucoma Progression and the Effect of Treatment M. Cristina Leske · Archives of Ophthalmology 2003 2,054
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Where is Retinal and Macular Surgery research done?

The largest centres of Retinal and Macular Surgery research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madurai and Coral Gables.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 141 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 96 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 93 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 92 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 90 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 84 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 78 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 72 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 69 works
  10. 10 MaduraiIndia 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaduraiIN · 65.0 works43×
  2. Coral GablesUS · 31.5 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Retinal and Macular Surgery than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Retinal and Macular Surgery?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard University and Thomas Jefferson 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 17.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chieti…Chinese University o…Harvard UniversityThomas Jefferson Uni…
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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
1Chinese University of Hong KongChina 67.118.0%5.2×19 +17.8%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 66.911.2%3.4×54 +12.0%
3Thomas Jefferson UniversityUnited States 65.211.2%40.2×44 +22.3%
4University of Chieti-PescaraItaly 62.331.3%12.2×9 +20.3%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.416.5%4.7×37 -28.8%
6Heidelberg UniversityGermany 60.018.7%4.9×18 +5.4%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 58.916.8%4.1×31 -21.4%
8Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 57.910.0%19.2×48 +36.0%
9University of TorontoCanada 57.318.2%3.1×32 -15.3%
10Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 57.124.2%7.7×13 -27.5%

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 Retinal and Macular Surgery, country by country

Is Retinal and Macular Surgery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Retinal and Macular Surgery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Retinal and Macular Surgery0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Retinal and Macular Surgery 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%Retinal and Macular Surgery10.0% 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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