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Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery is a research topic within Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 63k 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 principles and interventions in stroke rehabilitation, including topics such as neural plasticity, motor recovery, constraint-induced therapy, robot-assisted therapy, post-stroke depression, virtual reality rehabilitation, gait performance, functional recovery, upper limb function, and various rehabilitation techniques.

  • Neural Plasticity
  • Motor Recovery
  • Constraint-Induced Therapy
  • Robot-Assisted Therapy
  • Post-Stroke Depression
  • Virtual Reality Rehabilitation
  • Gait Performance
  • Functional Recovery
  • Upper Limb Function
  • Rehabilitation Techniques
Research works
63k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

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

Which countries lead Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.7k and 2.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.7k works
  2. 2 China 2.9k works
  3. 3 Japan 888 works
  4. 4 India 840 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 810 works
  6. 6 Italy 691 works
  7. 7 Canada 650 works
  8. 8 South Korea 616 works
  9. 9 Brazil 573 works
  10. 10 Australia 547 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: 30.6%China: 23.5%Japan: 7.2%India: 6.9%6 others listed: 31.7%31%largest
United States3,748 · 30.6%China2,883 · 23.5%Japan888 · 7.2%India840 · 6.9%6 others listed3,887 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research, followed by University of Toronto and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 98 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 91 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 75 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 57 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 54 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 54 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 54 works
  10. 10 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  9. 9 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  10. 10 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k 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 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery?

The most cited paper in Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery is "The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons" (Diane Podsiadlo, Sandra K. Richardson, 1991), with 14,583 citations. Next come "Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (8,093) and "Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials" (7,859).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons Diane Podsiadlo, Sandra K. Richardson · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Feb 1991 14,583
2 Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Valery L. Feigin et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access417 authors 3 Sep 2021 8,093
3 Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials Mayank Goyal et al. · The Lancet Review 20 Feb 2016 7,859
4 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Edward C. Jauch, Jeffrey L. Saver, Harold P. Adams et al. · Stroke Open access Feb 2013 7,675
5 Thrombolysis with Alteplase 3 to 4.5 Hours after Acute Ischemic Stroke Werner Hacke, Markku Kaste, Erich Bluhmki et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 24 Sep 2008 6,735
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Where is Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research done?

The largest centres of Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 377 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 265 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 247 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 218 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 192 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 179 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 154 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 146 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 137 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 137 works
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Where is the best place to study Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Harvard University and Chinese University of Hong Kong 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 17.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Chinese University o…Harvard 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 72.220.0%4.4×62 +20.4%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.113.8%1.9×98 +9.6%
3Chinese University of Hong KongChina 68.717.7%3.6×43 +19.8%
4University of TorontoCanada 64.212.3%2.8×92 +4.9%
5National University of SingaporeSingapore 63.221.1%1.7×34 +27.6%
6Capital Medical UniversityChina 61.314.1%4.3×75 +61.4%
7University of British ColumbiaCanada 60.38.1%2.8×54 +33.4%
8ETH ZurichSwitzerland 58.817.8%2.0×22 +48.9%
9Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 58.627.5%7.5×13 +53.0%
10University of Rome Tor VergataItaly 58.420.2%4.6×24 +89.1%

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 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, country by country

Is Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

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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 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.084% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery 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%Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery10.0% 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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