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Spinal Cord Injury Research

Spinal Cord Injury Research is a research topic within Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and treatment strategies for spinal cord injury. It covers topics such as neurological classification, recovery priorities, epidemiological trends, inflammation, neuroprotection, physical activity participation, and clinical trial guidelines. The papers also explore neuromodulation, functional recovery, and the role of various therapeutic interventions in improving outcomes for individuals with spinal cord injury.

  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Neurological Classification
  • Epidemiology
  • Recovery
  • Inflammation
  • Neuroprotection
  • Physical Activity
  • Clinical Trials
  • Neuromodulation
  • Functional Recovery
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spinal Cord Injury Research

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

Which countries lead Spinal Cord Injury Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Canada 340 works
  4. 4 Japan 221 works
  5. 5 India 219 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 192 works
  7. 7 South Korea 169 works
  8. 8 Australia 165 works
  9. 9 Brazil 149 works
  10. 10 Italy 142 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: 33.8%China: 27.8%Canada: 8.2%Japan: 5.3%6 others listed: 24.9%34%largest
United States1,407 · 33.8%China1,158 · 27.8%Canada340 · 8.2%Japan221 · 5.3%6 others listed1,036 · 24.9%

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

Which institutions lead Spinal Cord Injury Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Spinal Cord Injury Research research, followed by University of British Columbia and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 68 works
  2. 2 University of British ColumbiaCanada 62 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 47 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 35 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 28 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 26 works
  8. 8 Nantong UniversityChina 25 works
  9. 9 Pusan National UniversitySouth Korea 25 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spinal Cord Injury Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spinal Cord Injury Research include David Moher, Theo Vos and Valery L. Feigin.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k 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 Spinal Cord Injury Research?

The most cited paper in Spinal Cord Injury Research is "A Sensitive and Reliable Locomotor Rating Scale for Open Field Testing in Rats" (D. Michele Basso, Michael S. Beattie, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, 1995), with 4,587 citations. Next come "Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2,945) and "Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation" (2,945).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Sensitive and Reliable Locomotor Rating Scale for Open Field Testing in Rats D. Michele Basso, Michael S. Beattie, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan · Journal of Neurotrauma Feb 1995 4,587
2 Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Alarcos Cieza, Kate Causey, Kaloyan Kamenov et al. · The Lancet Open access Dec 2020 2,945
3 Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation Richard J. Davidson, Jon Kabat‐Zinn, Jessica R. Malmstadt Schumacher et al. · Psychosomatic Medicine Jul 2003 2,945
4 A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone or Naloxone in the Treatment of Acute Spinal-Cord Injury Michael B. Bracken, Mary Jo Shepard, William F. Collins et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 May 1990 2,761
5 Traumatic spinal cord injury Christopher S. Ahuja, Jefferson R. Wilson, Satoshi Nori et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers Review 26 Apr 2017 2,463
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Where is Spinal Cord Injury Research research done?

The largest centres of Spinal Cord Injury Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Toronto (Canada), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nottwil and Rockville Centre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 141 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 98 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 95 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 74 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 73 works
  6. 6 VancouverCanada 71 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 63 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 51 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NottwilCH · 34.1 works448×
  2. Rockville CentreUS · 28.4 works36×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Spinal Cord Injury Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Spinal Cord Injury Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Wenzhou Medical University, University of Toronto and Nantong 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 26.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wenzhou Medical Univ…Sun Yat-sen UniversityNantong UniversityUniversity of Toronto
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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
1Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 72.232.2%7.8×20 +22.6%
2University of TorontoCanada 67.19.3%6.7×68 +8.7%
3Nantong UniversityChina 64.224.0%11.3×26 +85.3%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 63.328.9%2.5×26 +31.7%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 62.528.8%1.7×23 +3.7%
6Shandong UniversityChina 61.436.0%2.1×14 +112.5%
7Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.535.2%2.1×19 +52.7%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 58.528.2%1.6×24 +58.4%
9University of British ColumbiaCanada 57.69.1%10.3×62 -19.6%
10Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 57.229.1%4.3×19 +2.9%

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 Spinal Cord Injury Research, country by country

Is Spinal Cord Injury Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Spinal Cord Injury Research.

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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 Spinal Cord Injury Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Spinal Cord Injury Research0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spinal Cord Injury Research 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%Spinal Cord Injury Research9.8% 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.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for spinal cord injury?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Spinal Cord Injury Research research, followed by University of British Columbia and Capital Medical University. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

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