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Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Traumatic Brain Injury Research is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 19.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, impact, and long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly concussion and mild TBI. It covers a wide range of topics including neurological outcomes, cognitive rehabilitation, sports-related injuries, neuropathological changes, and consciousness assessment in TBI patients.

  • Concussion
  • Encephalopathy
  • Neurological
  • Recovery
  • Cognitive
  • Sports-related
  • Neuropathology
  • Consciousness
  • Mild TBI
  • Epidemiology
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+26%
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 Traumatic Brain Injury Research research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (3.7k and 601 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.7k works
  2. 2 Canada 601 works
  3. 3 China 600 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 555 works
  5. 5 Australia 458 works
  6. 6 Germany 220 works
  7. 7 Italy 210 works
  8. 8 India 182 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 179 works
  10. 10 Japan 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: 54.1%Canada: 8.7%China: 8.7%United Kingdom: 8.0%6 others listed: 20.4%54%largest
United States3,736 · 54.1%Canada601 · 8.7%China600 · 8.7%United Kingdom555 · 8.0%6 others listed1,411 · 20.4%

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

Which institutions lead Traumatic Brain Injury Research research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Traumatic Brain Injury Research research, followed by Harvard University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 64 works
  2. 2 Harvard University United States 50 works
  3. 3 University of Toronto Canada 48 works
  4. 4 University of Pittsburgh United States 44 works
  5. 5 University of British Columbia Canada 36 works
  6. 6 University of Pennsylvania United States 36 works
  7. 7 University of Michigan United States 34 works
  8. 8 The University of Sydney Australia 34 works
  9. 9 Monash University Australia 33 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State University United States 33 works

Where is Traumatic Brain Injury Research research done?

The largest centres of Traumatic Brain Injury Research research in 2022–2025 are Boston (United States), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rockville Centre.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Boston United States 169 works
  2. 2 Toronto Canada 151 works
  3. 3 Melbourne Australia 151 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 145 works
  5. 5 New York United States 142 works
  6. 6 Philadelphia United States 112 works
  7. 7 Beijing China 91 works
  8. 8 Sydney Australia 82 works
  9. 9 Baltimore United States 80 works
  10. 10 Pittsburgh United States 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rockville CentreUS · 31.6 works25×
← less than its size predictsmore →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Traumatic Brain Injury Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Traumatic Brain Injury Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Windsor, Harvard University and Uniformed Services University of the Health 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 20.62%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Windsor: 8, 42.0%Harvard University: 50, 27.5%Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: 21, 22.7%Boston University: 30, 19.4%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: 11, 37.5%Auckland University of Technology: 16, 9.9%Medical College of Wisconsin: 32, 12.8%University of Colorado Denver: 32, 8.6%Indiana University School of Medicine: 14, 11.9%University of Pittsburgh: 44, 13.9%University of WindsorHarvard UniversityUniformed Services U…Boston University
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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
1University of Windsor Canada 64.142.0%6.7×8 +227.7%
2Harvard University United States 62.527.5%4.6×50 +122.0%
3Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences United States 57.422.7%27.8×21 +66.3%
4Boston University United States 56.419.4%7.3×30 +111.8%
5Albert Einstein College of Medicine United States 56.337.5%7.0×11 +85.4%
6Auckland University of Technology New Zealand 55.79.9%10.2×16 +156.0%
7Medical College of Wisconsin United States 54.712.8%14.7×32 +77.4%
8University of Colorado Denver United States 52.78.6%11.6×32 +76.9%
9Indiana University School of Medicine ?? 52.511.9%10.9×14 +148.0%
10University of Pittsburgh United States 52.413.9%6.9×44 +84.8%

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 Traumatic Brain Injury Research research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

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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.