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Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 the complications, techniques, and outcomes related to thyroid and parathyroid surgery. It covers topics such as recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring, hypoparathyroidism, endoscopic and robotic thyroidectomy, postoperative complications, and voice outcomes. The papers also discuss the use of parathyroid hormone assays, neuromonitoring, and the management of vocal cord paralysis.

  • Thyroid Surgery
  • Hypoparathyroidism
  • Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring
  • Endoscopic Thyroidectomy
  • Parathyroid Hormone
  • Neuromonitoring
  • Voice Outcomes
  • Robotic Surgery
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Vocal Cord Paralysis
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

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

Which countries lead Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 332 works
  4. 4 Italy 281 works
  5. 5 Japan 240 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 235 works
  7. 7 South Korea 230 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 162 works
  9. 9 France 139 works
  10. 10 Germany 137 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.

China: 29.1%United States: 25.8%India: 8.5%Italy: 7.2%6 others listed: 29.4%29%largest
China1,133 · 29.1%United States1,003 · 25.8%India332 · 8.5%Italy281 · 7.2%6 others listed1,143 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research, followed by Sichuan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 43 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 42 works
  4. 4 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 42 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 36 works
  6. 6 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 36 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 32 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery include Jun Wang, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Delgado Netherlands 269k citations
  5. 5 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
  6. 6 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  7. 7 Roger Chou United States 248k 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 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery?

The most cited paper in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery is "2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer" (Bryan R. Haugen, Erik Karl Alexander, Keith Christopher Bible et al., 2015), with 16,719 citations. Next come "Revised American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer" (6,774) and "Tafamidis Treatment for Patients with Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy" (2,841).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Bryan R. Haugen, Erik Karl Alexander, Keith Christopher Bible et al. · Thyroid Open access 14 Oct 2015 16,719
2 Revised American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer David S. Cooper, Gerard M. Doherty, Bryan R. Haugen et al. · Thyroid Open access 27 Oct 2009 6,774
3 Tafamidis Treatment for Patients with Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Matthew J. Maurer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 27 Aug 2018 2,841
4 High cumulative incidence of uterine leiomyoma in black and white women: Ultrasound evidence Donna D. Baird, David B. Dunson, Michael C. Hill et al. · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2003 2,469
5 Revised American Thyroid Association Guidelines for the Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Samuel A. Wells, Sylvia L. Asa, Henning Dralle et al. · Thyroid Open access 27 Mar 2015 2,457
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Where is Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research done?

The largest centres of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pisa and Birmingham.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 176 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 121 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 90 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 67 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 67 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 66 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 62 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 58 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 54 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PisaIT · 32.5 works7.2×
  2. BirminghamUS · 21.9 works7.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Catholic University of Korea 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%mean 17.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Alabam…Catholic University …Chinese Academy of M…Harvard 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.013.6%3.0×46 -8.8%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 69.416.1%7.1×36 +83.7%
3Catholic University of KoreaSouth Korea 69.116.8%14.9×24 +34.7%
4University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 69.122.8%9.0×22 +25.6%
5China Medical UniversityChina 68.121.9%8.3×17 +35.3%
6University of PisaItaly 67.921.3%9.0×21 -9.8%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65.414.6%3.0×42 +14.0%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 65.012.3%3.9×43 +22.3%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 64.114.1%3.5×36 +83.5%
10Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 62.716.6%5.2×29 -13.4%

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 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, country by country

Is Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.

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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 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 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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