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Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries

Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries is a research topic within Ophthalmology. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 epidemiology, classification, management, and outcomes of ocular trauma injuries, including open globe injuries, intraocular foreign bodies, endophthalmitis, and penetrating brain injuries. It also covers the use of scoring systems like the Ocular Trauma Score and explores factors affecting visual outcomes and the epidemiological characteristics of ocular trauma.

  • Ocular Trauma Score
  • Endophthalmitis
  • Intraocular Foreign Bodies
  • Open Globe Injuries
  • Eye Injury Registry
  • Ballistic Trauma
  • Penetrating Brain Injury
  • Visual Outcomes
  • Epidemiology
  • Management
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries

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

Which countries lead Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 598 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 598 works
  3. 3 China 311 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 192 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 174 works
  6. 6 Japan 138 works
  7. 7 Germany 134 works
  8. 8 Brazil 98 works
  9. 9 Italy 95 works
  10. 10 Russia 89 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: 39.0%India: 19.9%China: 10.4%United Kingdom: 6.4%6 others listed: 24.3%39%largest
United States1,170 · 39.0%India598 · 19.9%China311 · 10.4%United Kingdom192 · 6.4%6 others listed728 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research, followed by Harvard University and Aravind Eye Hospital.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 62 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 34 works
  3. 3 Aravind Eye HospitalIndia 28 works
  4. 4 Creative CommonsUnited States 23 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 University of MiamiUnited States 18 works
  7. 7 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 16 works
  8. 8 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 16 works
  9. 9 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 15 works
  10. 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries include Jost Bruno Jonas, Ted R. Miller and Yousef Saleh Khader.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  3. 3 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k 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 Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries?

The most cited paper in Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries is "Corneal blindness: a global perspective." (John P. Whitcher, Muthiah Srinivasan, Madan Prasad Upadhyay, 2001), with 1,542 citations. Next come "EXTRACORPOREALLY INDUCED DESTRUCTION OF KIDNEY STONES BY SHOCK WAVES" (1,222) and "A controlled cortical impact model of traumatic brain injury in the rat" (1,146).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Corneal blindness: a global perspective. John P. Whitcher, Muthiah Srinivasan, Madan Prasad Upadhyay · PubMed Open access 2001 1,542
2 EXTRACORPOREALLY INDUCED DESTRUCTION OF KIDNEY STONES BY SHOCK WAVES Ch. Chaussy, WALTER BRENDEL, EGBERT SCHMIEDT · The Lancet Dec 1980 1,222
3 A controlled cortical impact model of traumatic brain injury in the rat C. Edward Dixon, Guy L. Clifton, James W. Lighthall et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods Oct 1991 1,146
4 Combat Wounds in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Brett D. Owens, John Frederick Kragh, Joseph C. Wenke et al. · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care Feb 2008 1,110
5 Prevalence of Glaucoma Ronald Klein, Ronald Klein, William Eric Sponsel et al. · Ophthalmology Oct 1992 977
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Where is Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research done?

The largest centres of Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madurai and Mountain View.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 72 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 46 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 46 works
  5. 5 PhiladelphiaUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 41 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 40 works
  9. 9 BaltimoreUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaduraiIN · 28.4 works24×
  2. Mountain ViewUS · 23.3 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland, Baltimore 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 19.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MichiganUniversity of Maryla…Johns Hopkins Univer…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 64.920.7%2.7×34 -36.2%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.721.8%3.5×21 -32.6%
3University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 60.824.6%9.3×13 +1.4%
4University of MichiganUnited States 59.428.8%1.9×12 +11.2%
5Emory UniversityUnited States 58.823.3%3.7×12 +22.5%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.819.3%2.1×12 +10.3%
7University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 56.019.3%3.3×14 +40.7%
8All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 54.43.6%14.2×62 +11.8%
9University of MiamiUnited States 54.111.8%7.4×18 +5.0%
10University of Colorado DenverUnited States 53.824.8%7.2×9 -4.4%

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 Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries, country by country

Is Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries.

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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 Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries 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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