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Shoulder Injury and Treatment

Shoulder Injury and Treatment is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 focuses on various aspects of shoulder pathology, including rotator cuff tears, arthroscopic repair techniques, glenohumeral instability, shoulder arthroplasty, scapular dyskinesis, rehabilitation methods, shoulder function assessment, and proximal humerus fractures. The papers cover topics such as treatment outcomes, risk factors, biomechanics, and diagnostic methods related to shoulder pathologies.

  • Shoulder Pathology
  • Rotator Cuff Tears
  • Arthroscopic Repair
  • Glenohumeral Instability
  • Shoulder Arthroplasty
  • Scapular Dyskinesis
  • Rehabilitation
  • Shoulder Function
  • Physical Examination Tests
  • Proximal Humerus Fractures
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Shoulder Injury and Treatment

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

Which countries lead Shoulder Injury and Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.1k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.1k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 998 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 662 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 649 works
  6. 6 Japan 635 works
  7. 7 Germany 583 works
  8. 8 South Korea 524 works
  9. 9 Italy 448 works
  10. 10 France 440 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: 40.1%China: 12.1%India: 9.7%Türkiye: 6.4%6 others listed: 31.7%40%largest
United States4,145 · 40.1%China1,252 · 12.1%India998 · 9.7%Türkiye662 · 6.4%6 others listed3,279 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Shoulder Injury and Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Shoulder Injury and Treatment research, followed by Harvard University and Rush University Medical Center.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 131 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 109 works
  3. 3 Rush University Medical CenterUnited States 80 works
  4. 4 New York UniversityUnited States 74 works
  5. 5 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 70 works
  6. 6 Peking UniversityChina 69 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 62 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60 works
  9. 9 Duke UniversityUnited States 59 works
  10. 10 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Shoulder Injury and Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Shoulder Injury and Treatment include George Davey Smith, Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  8. 8 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  9. 9 Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Denmark 252k 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 Injury and Treatment?

The most cited paper in Shoulder Injury and Treatment is "Rationale, of The Knee Society Clinical Rating System" (John N. Insall, Lawrence D. Dorr, Richard D. Scott et al., 1989), with 4,578 citations. Next come "ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand" (4,574) and "A Joint Coordinate System for the Clinical Description of Three-Dimensional Motions: Application to the Knee" (3,845).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rationale, of The Knee Society Clinical Rating System John N. Insall, Lawrence D. Dorr, Richard D. Scott et al. · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Nov 1989 4,578
2 ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand Ge Wu, Frans C. T. van der Helm, H.E.J. Veeger et al. · Journal of Biomechanics 21 Aug 2004 4,574
3 A Joint Coordinate System for the Clinical Description of Three-Dimensional Motions: Application to the Knee Edward S. Grood, Wilfredo J. Suntay · Journal of Biomechanical Engineering May 1983 3,845
4 ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate system of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—part I: ankle, hip, and spine Ge Wu, Sorin Siegler, Paul Allard et al. · Journal of Biomechanics Apr 2002 3,266
5 American College of Rheumatology 2012 recommendations for the use of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies in osteoarthritis of the hand, hip, and knee Marc C. Hochberg, Roy Davis Altman, Karine Toupin‐April et al. · Arthritis Care & Research Open access 9 Jan 2012 3,104
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Where is Shoulder Injury and Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Shoulder Injury and Treatment research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Beijing (China). 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 245 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 227 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 208 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 178 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 166 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 145 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 145 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 137 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 132 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 124 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VailUS · 51.3 works225×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Shoulder Injury and Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Duke University and Harvard University score highest, combining citation 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 22.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Università Campus Bi…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Duke UniversityHarvard 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.

Citation 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
1Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 70.629.6%19.1×26 +49.6%
2Duke UniversityUnited States 65.820.3%5.5×59 +193.9%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.914.1%2.6×109 +4.7%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.827.8%1.6×60 +17.6%
5New York UniversityUnited States 63.215.7%5.0×74 +15.0%
6Magna Graecia UniversityItaly 63.036.4%7.0×9 +150.8%
7Chinese University of Hong KongChina 62.130.5%1.8×17 +28.7%
8University of UtahUnited States 58.414.3%6.1×55 +12.2%
9Baekseok UniversitySouth Korea 57.520.2%228.2×22 +730.7%
10Peking UniversityChina 55.613.0%2.6×69 +86.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Injury and Treatment, country by country

Is Shoulder Injury and Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Shoulder Injury and Treatment.

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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 Injury and Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.066% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Shoulder Injury and Treatment0.064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Shoulder Injury and Treatment 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 Injury and Treatment10.0% 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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