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Trauma and Emergency Care Studies

Trauma and Emergency Care Studies is a research topic within Emergency Medicine. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of trauma care systems, including trauma centers, prehospital care, and emergency surgery, on mortality and health outcomes. It also explores topics such as injury severity, geriatric trauma, transportation of critically ill patients, and triage criteria for trauma patients. The research aims to improve the quality of trauma care and reduce mortality rates.

  • Trauma Center
  • Injury Severity
  • Prehospital Care
  • Mortality
  • Emergency Surgery
  • Geriatric Trauma
  • Health Outcomes
  • Transportation
  • Triage Criteria
  • Quality Improvement
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Trauma and Emergency Care Studies

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

Which countries lead Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (3.2k and 768 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 768 works
  3. 3 Germany 441 works
  4. 4 China 402 works
  5. 5 India 389 works
  6. 6 Australia 367 works
  7. 7 Canada 318 works
  8. 8 Japan 211 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 195 works
  10. 10 South Korea 185 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: 49.4%United Kingdom: 11.9%Germany: 6.8%China: 6.2%6 others listed: 25.7%49%largest
United States3,191 · 49.4%United Kingdom768 · 11.9%Germany441 · 6.8%China402 · 6.2%6 others listed1,664 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research, followed by United States Department of Defense and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 121 works
  2. 2 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 59 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 55 works
  5. 5 University of WashingtonUnited States 54 works
  6. 6 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 50 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 50 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 49 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 46 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 44 works

Who are the leading researchers in Trauma and Emergency Care Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Trauma and Emergency Care Studies include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  7. 7 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  8. 8 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  9. 9 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  10. 10 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k 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 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies?

The most cited paper in Trauma and Emergency Care Studies is "A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation" (Mary E. Charlson, Peter Pompei, Kathy L. Aleš et al., 1987), with 50,676 citations. Next come "The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care." (8,021) and "Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition" (4,421).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation Mary E. Charlson, Peter Pompei, Kathy L. Aleš et al. · Journal of Chronic Diseases 1987 50,676
2 The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care. Susan P. Baker, Brian O’Neill, William F. Haddon et al. · PubMed Mar 1974 8,021
3 Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition Nancy Carney, Annette M Totten, Cindy O’Reilly et al. · Neurosurgery 20 Sep 2016 4,421
4 Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury Michael Christopher Dewan, Abbas Rattani, Saksham Gupta et al. · Journal of neurosurgery 27 Apr 2018 3,356
5 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010 Section 4. Adult advanced life support Charles D. Deakin, Jerry P. Nolan, Jasmeet Soar et al. · Resuscitation Oct 2010 2,717
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Where is Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research done?

The largest centres of Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 200 works
  2. 2 BostonUnited States 124 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 108 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 107 works
  5. 5 BaltimoreUnited States 102 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 92 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 82 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 76 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 76 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London39.0 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Trauma and Emergency Care Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Trauma and Emergency Care Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Karolinska Institutet and University of Washington 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.

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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 73.215.3%4.4×120 -3.6%
2Karolinska InstitutetSweden 72.820.7%6.8×33 -0.3%
3University of WashingtonUnited States 66.911.9%5.5×54 +9.1%
4University of PittsburghUnited States 66.323.1%4.5×31 +10.7%
5University of CopenhagenDenmark 66.326.0%2.1×17 +8.1%
6University of OsloNorway 65.720.7%3.5×19 +10.3%
7Medical College of WisconsinUnited States 65.119.7%13.7×33 +128.3%
8University of TorontoCanada 62.716.7%3.2×55 -24.5%
9University of BernSwitzerland 62.217.3%3.7×17 +61.5%
10Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 62.015.7%5.2×19 +53.2%

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 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, country by country

Is Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Trauma and Emergency Care Studies.

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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 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Trauma and Emergency Care Studies0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Trauma and Emergency Care Studies 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%Trauma and Emergency Care Studies10.2% 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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