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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. 13.0% 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%
8.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
13.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+29%
the tick is no change

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 (3.7k and 1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.7k works
  2. 2 China 1k works
  3. 3 India 891 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 588 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 586 works
  6. 6 Japan 562 works
  7. 7 Germany 522 works
  8. 8 South Korea 464 works
  9. 9 Italy 404 works
  10. 10 France 396 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: 40.6%China: 11.3%India: 9.7%United Kingdom: 6.4%6 others listed: 31.9%41%largest
United States3,733 · 40.6%China1,042 · 11.3%India891 · 9.7%United Kingdom588 · 6.4%6 others listed2,934 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Shoulder Injury and Treatment research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Rush University Medical Center publishes the most Shoulder Injury and Treatment research, followed by Hospital for Special Surgery and University of Missouri–Kansas City.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Rush University Medical CenterUnited States 73 works
  2. 2 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States 62 works
  3. 3 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 55 works
  4. 4 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States 45 works
  5. 5 University of UtahUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 Rothman OrthopaedicsUnited States 43 works
  7. 7 Cairo UniversityEgypt 43 works
  8. 8 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 41 works
  9. 9 University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterUnited States 36 works
  10. 10 Schulthess-KlinikSwitzerland 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Shoulder Injury and Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Shoulder Injury and Treatment include Tommi Vasankari, Jasvinder A. Singh and Rachelle Buchbinder.

  1. 1 Tommi Vasankari Finland 6.9k citations
  2. 2 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 4.7k citations
  3. 3 Rachelle Buchbinder Australia 3.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Shoulder Injury and Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Shoulder Injury and Treatment research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 225 works
  2. 2 Seoul South Korea 201 works
  3. 3 Istanbul Türkiye 182 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 154 works
  5. 5 Philadelphia United States 145 works
  6. 6 Chicago United States 133 works
  7. 7 London United Kingdom 132 works
  8. 8 Tokyo Japan 122 works
  9. 9 Shanghai China 116 works
  10. 10 Ankara Türkiye 113 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VailUS · 44.4 works224×
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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, Baekseok University, Università Campus Bio-Medico and Western University of Health Sciences 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 23.23%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Baekseok University: 16, 30.3%Università Campus Bio-Medico: 12, 38.7%Western University of Health Sciences: 8, 39.9%Brown University: 28, 20.7%Rush University: 13, 16.4%Medical University of South Carolina: 23, 12.3%University of Missouri–Kansas City: 55, 1.2%University of Utah: 44, 18.3%University of California, San Francisco: 31, 28.5%Duke University: 31, 26.0%Western University o…Università Campus Bi…Baekseok UniversityBrown University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Baekseok UniversitySouth Korea 64.730.3%156.9×16 +109.6%
2 Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 61.838.7%12.9×12 -25.3%
3 Western University of Health SciencesUnited States 58.339.9%12.6×8 -22.8%
4 Brown UniversityUnited States 56.320.7%5.4×28 +255.6%
5 Rush UniversityUnited States 54.216.4%22.0×13 +135.7%
6 Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 53.412.3%7.6×23 +491.3%
7 University of Missouri–Kansas CityUnited States 52.31.2%29.7×55 +75.8%
8 University of UtahUnited States 50.618.3%5.4×44 +68.8%
9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 48.428.5%3.8×31 +18.2%
10 Duke UniversityUnited States 47.226.0%3.4×31 +51.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Shoulder Injury and Treatment research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 29% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.