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Trauma Management and Diagnosis

Trauma Management and Diagnosis is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 33k 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 management and treatment of rib fractures and traumatic chest injuries, including topics such as emergency thoracotomy, pulmonary contusion, flail chest, CT imaging, surgical stabilization, penetrating trauma, and pain management. The papers cover various aspects of diagnosis, treatment techniques, outcomes, and clinical guidelines for managing rib fractures in trauma patients.

  • Rib Fractures
  • Traumatic Chest Injuries
  • Emergency Thoracotomy
  • Pulmonary Contusion
  • Flail Chest
  • CT Imaging
  • Surgical Stabilization
  • Penetrating Trauma
  • Pain Management
  • Clinical Guidelines
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Trauma Management and Diagnosis

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

Which countries lead Trauma Management and Diagnosis research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.5k and 452 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 452 works
  3. 3 China 405 works
  4. 4 Japan 311 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 278 works
  6. 6 Germany 263 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 207 works
  8. 8 Italy 164 works
  9. 9 South Korea 127 works
  10. 10 Spain 113 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: 39.9%India: 11.7%China: 10.5%Japan: 8.1%6 others listed: 29.8%40%largest
United States1,539 · 39.9%India452 · 11.7%China405 · 10.5%Japan311 · 8.1%6 others listed1,152 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Trauma Management and Diagnosis research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Trauma Management and Diagnosis research, followed by Harvard University and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 20 works
  5. 5 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 18 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 18 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 16 works
  10. 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Trauma Management and Diagnosis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Trauma Management and Diagnosis include Gregory Y.H. Lip, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Marco A. Marra.

  1. 1 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  2. 2 Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Denmark 252k citations
  3. 3 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k 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 Management and Diagnosis?

The most cited paper in Trauma Management and Diagnosis is "Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway" (Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, Carin A. Hagberg, Robert A. Caplan et al., 2013), with 2,593 citations. Next come "The Three Column Spine and Its Significance in the Classification of Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Injuries" (2,589) and "Incidence and Size of Patent Foramen Ovale During the First 10 Decades of Life: An Autopsy Study of 965 Normal Hearts" (2,526).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, Carin A. Hagberg, Robert A. Caplan et al. · Anesthesiology 9 Jan 2013 2,593
2 The Three Column Spine and Its Significance in the Classification of Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Injuries Francis Denis · Spine Nov 1983 2,589
3 Incidence and Size of Patent Foramen Ovale During the First 10 Decades of Life: An Autopsy Study of 965 Normal Hearts Philip T. Hagen, David G. Scholz, William D. Edwards · Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1984 2,526
4 Part 3: Adult Basic and Advanced Life Support: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Ashish R. Panchal et al. · Circulation 20 Oct 2020 2,153
5 An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Features and Measurements of Experimental Acute Lung Injury in Animals Gustavo Matute‐Bello, Gregory Paul Downey, Bethany B. Moore et al. · American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology Open access 29 Apr 2011 2,087
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Where is Trauma Management and Diagnosis research done?

The largest centres of Trauma Management and Diagnosis research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Tokyo (Japan) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 61 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 58 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 54 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 46 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 45 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 45 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 40 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 37 works
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Where is the best place to study Trauma Management and Diagnosis?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Harvard University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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 18.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Erasmus University R…Medical College of W…Harvard UniversityAll India Institute …
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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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 66.535.9%3.9×10 +20.4%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.617.1%2.4×39 -24.1%
3All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 53.14.3%10.2×56 +21.1%
4Medical College of WisconsinUnited States 49.521.1%9.8×14 +55.0%
5University of TorontoCanada 48.520.0%1.8×18 -5.8%
6University of Colorado DenverUnited States 47.720.2%9.0×15 -7.0%
7University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 47.018.5%4.8×20 -25.8%
8Emory UniversityUnited States 46.917.0%3.7×15 +12.3%
9University of Tennessee Health Science CenterUnited States 44.313.0%14.8×10 +5.4%
10Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 43.517.7%5.6×9 +53.0%

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 Management and Diagnosis, country by country

Is Trauma Management and Diagnosis research growing?

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

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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 Management and Diagnosis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Trauma Management and Diagnosis0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Trauma Management and Diagnosis 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 Management and Diagnosis10.1% 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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