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Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations

Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 management, outcomes, and research related to spina bifida, including topics such as Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, fetal surgery, neural tube defects, hydrocephalus, tethered cord syndrome, neurosurgical management, prenatal diagnosis, and quality of life in individuals with spina bifida.

  • Spina Bifida
  • Chiari Malformation
  • Syringomyelia
  • Fetal Surgery
  • Neural Tube Defects
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Tethered Cord Syndrome
  • Neurosurgical Management
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Quality of Life
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations

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

Which countries lead Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (840 and 439 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 840 works
  2. 2 China 439 works
  3. 3 India 262 works
  4. 4 Japan 196 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 137 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 134 works
  7. 7 Brazil 108 works
  8. 8 Italy 105 works
  9. 9 Germany 103 works
  10. 10 South Korea 92 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: 34.8%China: 18.2%India: 10.8%Japan: 8.1%6 others listed: 28.1%35%largest
United States840 · 34.8%China439 · 18.2%India262 · 10.8%Japan196 · 8.1%6 others listed678 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Capital Medical University publishes the most Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Neurological Surgery.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Capital Medical UniversityChina 35 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 33 works
  3. 3 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 28 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 20 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 15 works
  10. 10 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations include Jun Wang, Karl John Friston and Jean‐Louis Vincent.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  3. 3 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  4. 4 Kaj Blennow Sweden 247k citations
  5. 5 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Clifford R. Jack United States 218k citations
  8. 8 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k citations
  9. 9 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Dysraphism and Malformations?

The most cited paper in Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations is "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., 1990), with 2,761 citations. Next come "Comparative aspects of the brain growth spurt" (2,542) and "Traumatic spinal cord injury" (2,463).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Comparative aspects of the brain growth spurt John Dobbing, Jean Sands · Early Human Development Mar 1979 2,542
3 Traumatic spinal cord injury Christopher S. Ahuja, Jefferson R. Wilson, Satoshi Nori et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers Review 26 Apr 2017 2,463
4 A Randomized Trial of Prenatal versus Postnatal Repair of Myelomeningocele N. Scott Adzick, Elizabeth A Thom, Catherine Y. Spong et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 9 Feb 2011 2,262
5 A dural lymphatic vascular system that drains brain interstitial fluid and macromolecules Aleksanteri Aspelund, Salli Antila, Steven T. Proulx et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine Open access 15 Jun 2015 2,233
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Where is Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research done?

The largest centres of Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 79 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 42 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 42 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 42 works
  6. 6 HoustonUnited States 36 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 35 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 34 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 29 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 28.4 works59×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, Capital Medical University and Inje 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 24.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityInje UniversityUniversity of TorontoCapital Medical Univ…
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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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 65.243.0%1.7×14 +144.1%
2Capital Medical UniversityChina 64.912.4%10.9×35 +96.7%
3Inje UniversitySouth Korea 61.340.0%25.2×9 +203.2%
4University of TorontoCanada 60.719.9%3.2×20 +10.1%
5Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 55.430.9%4.4×12 +258.1%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.112.7%2.8×27 -13.5%
7Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 50.925.9%5.0×11 +134.5%
8Fudan UniversityChina 50.538.5%1.7×8 +108.8%
9Karolinska InstitutetSweden 50.120.5%5.3×9 +102.5%
10All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 49.80.7%9.8×33 +48.8%

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 Dysraphism and Malformations, country by country

Is Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations.

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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 Dysraphism and Malformations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations 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 Dysraphism and Malformations10.2% 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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