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Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries

Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 focuses on the epidemiology, nonoperative and surgical treatment, as well as complications associated with clavicle fractures and acromioclavicular joint injuries. It covers topics such as nonunion risk, biomechanical evaluations, anatomical reconstructions, and the epidemiological aspects of these injuries.

  • Clavicle Fractures
  • Acromioclavicular Joint
  • Nonoperative Treatment
  • Surgical Management
  • Epidemiology
  • Coracoclavicular Ligament Reconstruction
  • Midshaft Fractures
  • Anatomical Reconstruction
  • Biomechanical Evaluation
  • Complications
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries

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

Which countries lead Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.5k and 442 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 442 works
  3. 3 China 409 works
  4. 4 Germany 273 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 236 works
  6. 6 Japan 211 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 209 works
  8. 8 France 199 works
  9. 9 South Korea 194 works
  10. 10 Italy 156 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: 39.9%India: 11.4%China: 10.5%Germany: 7.0%6 others listed: 31.1%40%largest
United States1,549 · 39.9%India442 · 11.4%China409 · 10.5%Germany273 · 7.0%6 others listed1,205 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research, followed by Harvard University and Schulthess-Klinik.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 49 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 43 works
  3. 3 Schulthess-KlinikSwitzerland 29 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 27 works
  5. 5 Duke UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Technical University of MunichGermany 26 works
  7. 7 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 25 works
  9. 9 Rothman OrthopaedicsUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries include Cyrus Cooper, Jun Wang and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Denmark 252k citations
  5. 5 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  6. 6 Matthew James Page Australia 235k 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 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries?

The most cited paper in Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries is "Fatty muscle degeneration in cuff ruptures. Pre- and postoperative evaluation by CT scan." (DANIEL GOUTALLIER, J M Postel, JACQUES BERNAGEAU et al., 1994), with 2,558 citations. Next come "Fracture and Dislocation Classification Compendium - 2007" (2,374) and "The Outcome and Repair Integrity of Completely Arthroscopically Repaired Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears" (2,169).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fatty muscle degeneration in cuff ruptures. Pre- and postoperative evaluation by CT scan. DANIEL GOUTALLIER, J M Postel, JACQUES BERNAGEAU et al. · PubMed Jul 1994 2,558
2 Fracture and Dislocation Classification Compendium - 2007 John Lawrence Marsh, Theddy F. Slongo, Julie A. Agel et al. · Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma Nov 2007 2,374
3 The Outcome and Repair Integrity of Completely Arthroscopically Repaired Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears Leesa M. Galatz, Craig M. Ball, Sharlene A. Teefey et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Feb 2004 2,169
4 Fatty Muscle Degeneration in Cuff Ruptures DANIEL GOUTALLIER, J.-M. Postel, JACQUES BERNAGEAU et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Jul 1994 2,142
5 Anterior Acromioplasty for the Chronic Impingement Syndrome in the Shoulder CHARLES SUMNER NEER · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1972 2,092
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research done?

The largest centres of Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Philadelphia (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vail.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 87 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 80 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  4. 4 PhiladelphiaUnited States 61 works
  5. 5 ZurichSwitzerland 59 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 56 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 49 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 46 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VailUS · 31.0 works363×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Duke University and Università Campus Bio-Medico 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 21.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Università Campus Bi…Duke UniversityUniversity of UtahHarvard 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.816.0%2.7×43 +19.8%
2Duke UniversityUnited States 73.326.3%6.6×26 +338.0%
3Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 70.633.9%20.8×11 +56.0%
4University of UtahUnited States 64.521.4%6.2×21 +15.7%
5New York UniversityUnited States 61.820.9%4.4×25 -0.4%
6University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 61.825.6%4.4×16 +11.5%
7Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 56.921.6%5.2×14 +107.9%
8University of ZurichSwitzerland 56.122.0%3.8×13 -15.5%
9Emory UniversityUnited States 55.019.3%3.8×15 +52.9%
10Technical University of MunichGermany 53.811.7%6.1×26 -8.5%

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 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries, country by country

Is Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries.

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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 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries 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%Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries10.3% 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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