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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. 15.1% 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%
6.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+37%
the tick is no change

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 (2.8k and 692 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 692 works
  3. 3 Germany 368 works
  4. 4 India 336 works
  5. 5 China 331 works
  6. 6 Australia 325 works
  7. 7 Canada 282 works
  8. 8 Japan 187 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 168 works
  10. 10 South Korea 162 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: 49.9%United Kingdom: 12.2%Germany: 6.5%India: 5.9%6 others listed: 25.5%50%largest
United States2,843 · 49.9%United Kingdom692 · 12.2%Germany368 · 6.5%India336 · 5.9%6 others listed1,454 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research, followed by BMJ Group (United Kingdom) and University of Washington.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 39 works
  2. 2 BMJ Group (United Kingdom)?? 38 works
  3. 3 University of WashingtonUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  5. 5 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 Monash UniversityAustralia 30 works
  8. 8 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 29 works
  9. 9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 Medical College of WisconsinUnited States 27 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Trauma and Emergency Care Studies include Theo Vos, Naohiro Yonemoto and Ted R. Miller.

  1. 1 Theo Vos United States 12k citations
  2. 2 Naohiro Yonemoto United States 9.4k citations
  3. 3 Ted R. Miller United States 8.1k citations
  4. 4 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 7.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research done?

The largest centres of Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), New York (United States) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 179 works
  2. 2 Boston United States 112 works
  3. 3 New York United States 97 works
  4. 4 Melbourne Australia 93 works
  5. 5 Baltimore United States 89 works
  6. 6 Philadelphia United States 84 works
  7. 7 Los Angeles United States 73 works
  8. 8 Seoul South Korea 67 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 65 works
  10. 10 Chicago United States 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. London38.6 works28×
← 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, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Karolinska Institutet 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 21.9%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Maryland, Baltimore: 30, 17.4%Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: 25, 22.0%Karolinska Institutet: 18, 30.8%Medical College of Wisconsin: 27, 24.2%Witten/Herdecke University: 12, 30.3%Harvard University: 32, 26.4%University of Colorado Denver: 22, 21.1%University of Cape Town: 20, 16.4%University of California, San Francisco: 28, 18.2%King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences: 8, 12.2%Karolinska InstitutetMedical College of W…Uniformed Services U…University of Maryla…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 65.117.4%11.5×30 +66.7%
2 Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesUnited States 65.022.0%33.7×25 +51.9%
3 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 63.630.8%4.9×18 +96.0%
4 Medical College of WisconsinUnited States 62.124.2%12.5×27 -24.3%
5 Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 60.730.3%15.8×12 +11.2%
6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.826.4%3.1×32 +73.3%
7 University of Colorado DenverUnited States 55.621.1%8.1×22 +23.5%
8 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 53.516.4%7.2×20 +43.2%
9 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 51.618.2%5.4×28 +35.8%
10 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesSaudi Arabia 51.512.2%9.7×8 +150.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Trauma and Emergency Care Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.