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Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques

Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 47k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses advancements in spine surgery techniques and technologies, including vertebroplasty, pedicle screw fixation, kyphoplasty, and robotic-assisted surgery. It explores topics such as spinal fractures, cervical spine injury, osteoporotic compression fractures, and the biomechanics of spine surgery. The use of navigation techniques and percutaneous vertebroplasty are also prominent themes in this cluster.

  • Vertebroplasty
  • Pedicle Screw Fixation
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Spinal Fractures
  • Cervical Spine Injury
  • Osteoporotic Compression Fractures
  • Robotic-assisted Surgery
  • Biomechanics
  • Navigation Techniques
  • Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
Research works
47k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques

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

Which countries lead Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.3k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.3k works
  2. 2 China 1.6k works
  3. 3 Japan 599 works
  4. 4 India 574 works
  5. 5 Germany 416 works
  6. 6 South Korea 366 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 261 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 248 works
  9. 9 Italy 245 works
  10. 10 France 199 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: 33.3%China: 23.8%Japan: 8.8%India: 8.5%6 others listed: 25.6%33%largest
United States2,258 · 33.3%China1,614 · 23.8%Japan599 · 8.8%India574 · 8.5%6 others listed1,734 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Capital Medical University publishes the most Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research, followed by Neurological Surgery and Peking University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Capital Medical UniversityChina 78 works
  2. 2 Neurological SurgeryUnited States 76 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 69 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 66 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 65 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 59 works
  7. 7 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 53 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 48 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 47 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques 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 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  7. 7 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  8. 8 Roger Chou United States 248k citations
  9. 9 André Gerardus Uitterlinden Netherlands 246k 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 Fractures and Fixation Techniques?

The most cited paper in Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques is "The Three Column Spine and Its Significance in the Classification of Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Injuries" (Francis Denis, 1983), with 2,589 citations. Next come "Abnormal magnetic-resonance scans of the cervical spine in asymptomatic subjects. A prospective investigation." (2,487) and "THE RECURRENCE OF INTRACRANIAL MENINGIOMAS AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT" (2,443).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Three Column Spine and Its Significance in the Classification of Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Injuries Francis Denis · Spine Nov 1983 2,589
2 Abnormal magnetic-resonance scans of the cervical spine in asymptomatic subjects. A prospective investigation. Scott D. Boden, P R McCowin, D O Davis et al. · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Sep 1990 2,487
3 THE RECURRENCE OF INTRACRANIAL MENINGIOMAS AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT D. A. Simpson · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Open access Feb 1957 2,443
4 Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial Roy A. Patchell, Phillip A. Tibbs, William F. Regine et al. · The Lancet 22 Jul 2005 2,396
5 International standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury (Revised 2011) Steven Kirshblum, Stephen P. Burns, Fin Biering‐Sørensen et al. · Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine Open access Nov 2011 2,350
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Where is Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), New York (United States) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre and Phoenix.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 263 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 180 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 175 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 124 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 114 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 89 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 89 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 83 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 81 works
  10. 10 Rockville CentreUnited States 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 75.9 works61×
  2. PhoenixUS · 30.0 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, University of Zurich and Capital Medical 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 21.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…University of ZurichUniversity 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
1University of Hong KongChina 69.827.8%2.3×17 +17.6%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 68.824.7%3.9×22 +28.9%
3Capital Medical UniversityChina 66.914.5%9.2×78 +38.0%
4University of TorontoCanada 65.922.9%2.0×32 +7.1%
5Karolinska InstitutetSweden 63.832.1%2.6×12 +1.7%
6Cornell UniversityUnited States 63.321.6%3.3×34 +2.1%
7Peking UniversityChina 61.614.6%4.3×69 -3.6%
8Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 59.717.5%2.7×16 +22.6%
9University of BernSwitzerland 59.515.3%4.3×19 +59.5%
10Brown UniversityUnited States 59.123.1%6.3×23 -7.2%

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 Fractures and Fixation Techniques, country by country

Is Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques.

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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 Fractures and Fixation Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques 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.

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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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