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Tendon Structure and Treatment

Tendon Structure and Treatment is a research topic within Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the adaptation of tendons and skeletal muscles to mechanical loading, with an emphasis on the role of the extracellular matrix, stem cells, growth factors, and platelet-rich plasma in tendon health, injury, and repair. It covers various aspects of tendinopathy, biomechanics, and regeneration of tendon tissues.

  • Tendon
  • Extracellular Matrix
  • Mechanical Loading
  • Stem Cells
  • Growth Factors
  • Tendinopathy
  • Platelet-Rich Plasma
  • Entheses
  • Biomechanics
  • Regeneration
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Tendon Structure and Treatment

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

Which countries lead Tendon Structure and Treatment research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.8k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 410 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 372 works
  5. 5 Japan 345 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 296 works
  7. 7 Italy 276 works
  8. 8 Germany 256 works
  9. 9 South Korea 254 works
  10. 10 Spain 216 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: 33.5%China: 20.9%India: 7.7%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 30.9%33%largest
United States1,777 · 33.5%China1,110 · 20.9%India410 · 7.7%United Kingdom372 · 7.0%6 others listed1,643 · 30.9%

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

Which institutions lead Tendon Structure and Treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes the most Tendon Structure and Treatment research, followed by Harvard University and Peking University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 54 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 40 works
  4. 4 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 39 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 37 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 35 works
  7. 7 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 30 works
  8. 8 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 29 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 Cairo UniversityEgypt 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Tendon Structure and Treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Tendon Structure and Treatment include Cyrus Cooper, John P. A. Ioannidis and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  7. 7 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  8. 8 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  9. 9 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k 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 Tendon Structure and Treatment?

The most cited paper in Tendon Structure and Treatment is "Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model" (Ana Rakita, Nenad Nikolić, Michael Mildner et al., 2020), with 8,298 citations. Next come "Macrophages in Tissue Repair, Regeneration, and Fibrosis" (4,536) and "Regulation of Wound Healing by Growth Factors and Cytokines" (3,647).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model Ana Rakita, Nenad Nikolić, Michael Mildner et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 8 Jan 2020 8,298
2 Macrophages in Tissue Repair, Regeneration, and Fibrosis Thomas A. Wynn, Kevin M. Vannella · Immunity Open access Mar 2016 4,536
3 Regulation of Wound Healing by Growth Factors and Cytokines Sabine Werner, Richard Philip Grose · Physiological Reviews Review Jul 2003 3,647
4 Effects of extracellular matrix viscoelasticity on cellular behaviour Ovijit Chaudhuri, Justin John Cooper-White, Paul A. Janmey et al. · Nature Open access 26 Aug 2020 2,287
5 Transforming growth factor-beta 1 induces alpha-smooth muscle actin expression in granulation tissue myofibroblasts and in quiescent and growing cultured fibroblasts Alexis Desmoulière, Antoine Geinoz, F Gabbiani et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access Jul 1993 2,257
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Where is Tendon Structure and Treatment research done?

The largest centres of Tendon Structure and Treatment research in 2022-now are Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ShanghaiChina 143 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 127 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 109 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 107 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 93 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 91 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 78 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 76 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 63 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 61 works
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Where is the best place to study Tendon Structure and Treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sichuan University and Zhejiang 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 25.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Sichuan UniversityPeking University
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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
1Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 79.135.3%3.4×66 +53.1%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 65.834.7%2.3×35 +106.1%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 64.836.2%1.3×23 +15.9%
4Peking UniversityChina 60.222.1%2.9×40 +35.0%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.113.2%2.5×54 -0.7%
6Southeast UniversityChina 55.140.3%0.9×9 +29.1%
7Central South UniversityChina 52.332.4%1.4×19 +11.1%
8Duke UniversityUnited States 49.510.1%4.3×24 +57.0%
9Università Campus Bio-MedicoItaly 49.119.5%15.5×11 +36.0%
10New York UniversityUnited States 49.08.6%3.6×28 +44.4%

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 Tendon Structure and Treatment, country by country

Is Tendon Structure and Treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Tendon Structure and Treatment.

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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 Tendon Structure and Treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Tendon Structure and Treatment 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%Tendon Structure and Treatment9.9% 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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