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Stoma care and complications

Stoma care and complications is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the complications and management of stoma-related issues, particularly parastomal hernias, quality of life among ostomy patients, stoma education, peristomal skin complications, psychological adjustment, and laparoscopic repair techniques. The research also delves into the use of prophylactic mesh and the experiences of colorectal cancer survivors with stomas.

  • Stoma Complications
  • Parastomal Hernia
  • Quality of Life
  • Ostomy Patients
  • Stoma Education
  • Peristomal Skin Complications
  • Psychological Adjustment
  • Laparoscopic Repair
  • Prophylactic Mesh
  • Colorectal Cancer Survivors
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Stoma care and complications

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

Which countries lead Stoma care and complications research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (452 and 439 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 452 works
  2. 2 United States 439 works
  3. 3 China 381 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 231 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 133 works
  6. 6 Japan 124 works
  7. 7 Spain 106 works
  8. 8 India 101 works
  9. 9 Italy 98 works
  10. 10 Australia 81 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.

Brazil: 21.1%United States: 20.5%China: 17.8%United Kingdom: 10.8%6 others listed: 29.9%21%largest
Brazil452 · 21.1%United States439 · 20.5%China381 · 17.8%United Kingdom231 · 10.8%6 others listed643 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Stoma care and complications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Cleveland Clinic publishes the most Stoma care and complications research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Imperial College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 30 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27 works
  3. 3 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 16 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 16 works
  6. 6 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 13 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 Mayo ClinicUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 11 works
  10. 10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Stoma care and complications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Stoma care and complications include Hermann Brenner, Cyrus Cooper and Edward L. Giovannucci.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k citations
  4. 4 Ewout Willem Steyerberg Netherlands 171k citations
  5. 5 William J. Sandborn United States 168k 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 Stoma care and complications?

The most cited paper in Stoma care and complications is "Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Stage 0 Distal Rectal Cancer Following Chemoradiation Therapy" (Angelita Habr‐Gama, Rodrigo Oliva Perez, Wladimir Nadalin et al., 2004), with 1,923 citations. Next come "Laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer (COLOR II): short-term outcomes of a randomised, phase 3 trial" (1,730) and "Preoperative radiotherapy versus selective postoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer (MRC CR07 and NCIC-CTG C016): a multicentre, randomised trial" (1,518).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Stage 0 Distal Rectal Cancer Following Chemoradiation Therapy Angelita Habr‐Gama, Rodrigo Oliva Perez, Wladimir Nadalin et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access 21 Sep 2004 1,923
2 Laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer (COLOR II): short-term outcomes of a randomised, phase 3 trial Martijn HGM van der Pas, Eva Haglind, Miguel Angel Cuesta et al. · The Lancet Oncology 5 Feb 2013 1,730
3 Preoperative radiotherapy versus selective postoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer (MRC CR07 and NCIC-CTG C016): a multicentre, randomised trial David Sebag‐Montefiore, Richard J. Stephens, Robert JC Steele et al. · The Lancet Open access Mar 2009 1,518
4 Incidence and recognition of malnutrition in hospital Janet P McWhirter, Christopher R. Pennington · BMJ Open access 9 Apr 1994 1,513
5 Effect of Robotic-Assisted vs Conventional Laparoscopic Surgery on Risk of Conversion to Open Laparotomy Among Patients Undergoing Resection for Rectal Cancer David George Jayne, Alessio Pigazzi, Helen C. Marshall et al. · JAMA Open access 24 Oct 2017 1,434
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Where is Stoma care and complications research done?

The largest centres of Stoma care and complications research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cleveland and Belo Horizonte.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 86 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 61 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 43 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 37 works
  5. 5 ClevelandUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 34 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 27 works
  9. 9 Belo HorizonteBrazil 27 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ClevelandUS · 34.6 works8.0×
  2. Belo HorizonteBR · 26.9 works6.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Stoma care and complications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Stoma care and complications?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Sydney, University of Copenhagen and Sichuan 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%10%20%30%mean 17.29%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fujian Medical Unive…Sichuan UniversityUniversity of Copenh…The University of Sy…
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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
1The University of SydneyAustralia 71.515.9%4.8×16 +74.6%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 69.519.3%4.5×11 +12.5%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 64.422.3%2.6×16 +211.7%
4Fujian Medical UniversityChina 60.927.4%6.4×9 +252.8%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 59.317.4%1.5×13 +42.8%
6Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.18.0%6.3×17 -3.0%
7Universidade de São PauloBrazil 54.31.3%4.9×27 +21.9%
8Peking UniversityChina 54.223.7%1.9×10 +47.7%
9Chongqing Medical UniversityChina 48.115.3%6.4×10 +639.6%
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 42.722.3%2.0×11 -27.2%

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 Stoma care and complications, country by country

Is Stoma care and complications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Stoma care and complications.

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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 Stoma care and complications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Stoma care and complications0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Stoma care and complications 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%Stoma care and complications10.3% 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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