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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. 8.2% 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%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
8.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+22%
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 Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1k and 506 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 India 506 works
  3. 3 China 256 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 161 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 152 works
  6. 6 Germany 119 works
  7. 7 Japan 118 works
  8. 8 Brazil 87 works
  9. 9 Italy 79 works
  10. 10 Russia 75 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: 40.1%India: 19.5%China: 9.9%United Kingdom: 6.2%6 others listed: 24.3%40%largest
United States1,039 · 40.1%India506 · 19.5%China256 · 9.9%United Kingdom161 · 6.2%6 others listed630 · 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 2022–2025, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research, followed by Creative Commons and Aravind Eye Hospital.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 31 works
  2. 2 Creative CommonsUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 Aravind Eye HospitalIndia 23 works
  4. 4 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 14 works
  5. 5 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 13 works
  6. 6 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 12 works
  7. 7 University of MiamiUnited States 12 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 University of WashingtonUnited States 11 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 Tien Yin Wong.

  1. 1 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 4.3k citations

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

Where is Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research done?

The largest centres of Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research in 2022–2025 are New Delhi (India), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Philadelphia (United States). 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New Delhi India 59 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 52 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 40 works
  4. 4 Philadelphia United States 39 works
  5. 5 Istanbul Türkiye 39 works
  6. 6 New York United States 37 works
  7. 7 Moscow Russia 36 works
  8. 8 Chennai India 35 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 32 works
  10. 10 Baltimore United States 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaduraiIN · 23.3 works23×
  2. Mountain ViewUS · 23.3 works11×
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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, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University 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%10%20%30%mean 11.56%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →All India Institute of Medical Sciences: 31, 1.9%Harvard University: 12, 17.1%Johns Hopkins University: 11, 24.9%University of Miami: 12, 11.1%Institute of Medical Sciences: 12, 0.0%Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi: 13, 4.8%Stanford University: 8, 19.1%Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: 8, 17.1%University of Pennsylvania: 9, 15.8%University of Maryland, Baltimore: 9, 3.8%Johns Hopkins Univer…Harvard UniversityUniversity of MiamiAll India Institute …
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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 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56.21.9%13.8×31 +127.7%
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 41.217.1%2.5×12 +120.2%
3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 40.424.9%2.6×11 +31.6%
4 University of MiamiUnited States 39.311.1%6.7×12 +59.8%
5 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 36.20.0%10.4×12 +73.8%
6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 34.44.8%6.0×13
7 Stanford UniversityUnited States 30.219.1%1.9×8 +65.1%
8 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 29.517.1%3.5×8 +21.2%
9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 28.715.8%2.5×9 +72.2%
10 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States 28.23.8%7.5×9 +58.0%

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 Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.