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Surgical Simulation and Training

Surgical Simulation and Training is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in surgical simulation and training techniques, particularly in the context of laparoscopic and robotic surgery. It explores the impact of virtual reality training on surgical skills, the assessment of technical skills, the transfer of skills from simulation to the operating room, and the use of telesurgery. The papers also discuss the influence of stress on surgical performance and the evolving landscape of medical education in the field of surgery.

  • Virtual Reality Training
  • Surgical Skills
  • Laparoscopic Surgery
  • Robotic Surgery
  • Simulation-Based Training
  • Technical Skills Assessment
  • Operating Room Performance
  • Telesurgery
  • Skill Transfer
  • Medical Education
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Surgical Simulation and Training

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

Which countries lead Surgical Simulation and Training research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.1k and 896 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.1k works
  2. 2 China 896 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 820 works
  4. 4 Japan 490 works
  5. 5 Germany 469 works
  6. 6 India 394 works
  7. 7 Italy 390 works
  8. 8 Canada 357 works
  9. 9 France 266 works
  10. 10 Spain 220 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: 42.2%China: 12.0%United Kingdom: 11.0%Japan: 6.6%6 others listed: 28.2%42%largest
United States3,141 · 42.2%China896 · 12.0%United Kingdom820 · 11.0%Japan490 · 6.6%6 others listed2,096 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Surgical Simulation and Training research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Surgical Simulation and Training research, followed by Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 114 works
  2. 2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 86 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 86 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 68 works
  6. 6 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 56 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 50 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 48 works
  10. 10 McGill UniversityCanada 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Surgical Simulation and Training?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Surgical Simulation and Training include Peter Jüni, Jeremy Grimshaw and Mark I. McCarthy.

  1. 1 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 267k citations
  4. 4 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k 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 Surgical Simulation and Training?

The most cited paper in Surgical Simulation and Training is "The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines" (Riaz Agha et al., 2020), with 5,605 citations. Next come "The SCARE 2023 guideline: updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines" (3,096) and "Virtual Reality Training Improves Operating Room Performance" (2,879).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines Riaz Agha et al. · International Journal of Surgery Open access 9 Nov 2020 5,605
2 The SCARE 2023 guideline: updating consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) guidelines Catrin Sohrabi, Ginimol Mathew, Maria Nicola et al. · International Journal of Surgery Open access 4 Apr 2023 3,096
3 Virtual Reality Training Improves Operating Room Performance Neal E. Seymour, Anthony G. Gallagher, Sanziana A. Roman et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access Oct 2002 2,879
4 Objective structured assessment of technical skill (OSATS) for surgical residents Jenepher Ann Martin, Glenn Regehr, Richard K. Reznick et al. · British journal of surgery Feb 1997 2,292
5 Does Simulation-Based Medical Education With Deliberate Practice Yield Better Results Than Traditional Clinical Education? A Meta-Analytic Comparative Review of the Evidence William C. McGaghie, Saul Barry Issenberg, Elaine R. Cohen et al. · Academic Medicine Open access 21 Apr 2011 1,863
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Where is Surgical Simulation and Training research done?

The largest centres of Surgical Simulation and Training research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre, Phoenix and Magdeburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 280 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 145 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 144 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 137 works
  5. 5 BaltimoreUnited States 115 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 106 works
  7. 7 PhiladelphiaUnited States 95 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 90 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 83 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 83 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 20.5 works15×
  2. PhoenixUS · 26.4 works8.6×
  3. MagdeburgDE · 24.1 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Surgical Simulation and Training than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Surgical Simulation and Training?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Chinese University of Hong Kong and McGill 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 16.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…University College L…McGill UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…
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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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 76.217.3%5.1×69 +58.4%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 73.519.3%4.6×29 +67.4%
3McGill UniversityCanada 70.114.4%4.7×40 +38.5%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 69.510.9%6.5×86 +18.4%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.110.4%4.2×114 +4.3%
6Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 66.311.6%6.5×56 +4.2%
7University of TurinItaly 64.825.3%2.7×12 +76.2%
8University of ZurichSwitzerland 62.918.1%2.8×17 +58.3%
9Karolinska InstitutetSweden 62.522.4%2.2×11 +15.0%
10University College DublinIreland 62.214.8%6.0×27 +62.9%

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 Surgical Simulation and Training, country by country

Is Surgical Simulation and Training research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Surgical Simulation and Training.

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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 Surgical Simulation and Training as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Surgical Simulation and Training0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Surgical Simulation and Training 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%Surgical Simulation and Training9.9% 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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