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Ureteral procedures and complications

Ureteral procedures and complications is a research topic within Obstetrics and Gynecology. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 obstetric vesicovaginal fistula and ureteral injuries, covering topics such as diagnosis, management, surgical techniques, public health implications, iatrogenic causes, and prevention strategies. The research also addresses the social and economic consequences of obstetric fistula, the use of different tissues for ureteral replacement, and the impact of laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgeries on the incidence of ureteral injuries.

  • Obstetric Fistula
  • Vesicovaginal Fistula
  • Ureteral Injury
  • Diagnosis
  • Management
  • Surgery
  • Reconstruction
  • Public Health
  • Iatrogenic
  • Prevention
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ureteral procedures and complications

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

Which countries lead Ureteral procedures and complications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (774 and 548 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 774 works
  2. 2 China 548 works
  3. 3 India 295 works
  4. 4 Japan 209 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 195 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 169 works
  7. 7 Italy 164 works
  8. 8 France 157 works
  9. 9 Germany 118 works
  10. 10 Brazil 99 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: 28.4%China: 20.1%India: 10.8%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 33.0%28%largest
United States774 · 28.4%China548 · 20.1%India295 · 10.8%Japan209 · 7.7%6 others listed901 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Ureteral procedures and complications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Peking University publishes the most Ureteral procedures and complications research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Peking UniversityChina 34 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 32 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 21 works
  6. 6 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 20 works
  7. 7 Mekelle UniversityEthiopia 20 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 18 works
  9. 9 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 15 works
  10. 10 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de RennesFrance 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ureteral procedures and complications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ureteral procedures and complications include Paul M. Thompson.

  1. 1 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Ureteral procedures and complications?

The most cited paper in Ureteral procedures and complications is "Epidemiology of surgically managed pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence" (Adam S. Olsen, Vincent C. Smith, Jonas P. Bergström et al., 1997), with 3,365 citations. Next come "EAU Guidelines on Interventional Treatment for Urolithiasis" (1,843) and "European Association of Urology Guidelines on Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (Ta, T1, and Carcinoma in Situ)" (1,707).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Epidemiology of surgically managed pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence Adam S. Olsen, Vincent C. Smith, Jonas P. Bergström et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology Apr 1997 3,365
2 EAU Guidelines on Interventional Treatment for Urolithiasis Christian Türk, Aleš Petřík, Kemal Sarıca et al. · European Urology 4 Sep 2015 1,843
3 European Association of Urology Guidelines on Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (Ta, T1, and Carcinoma in Situ) Marko M. Babjuk, Maximilian Burger, Otakar Čapoun et al. · European Urology 9 Sep 2021 1,707
4 Updated 2016 EAU Guidelines on Muscle-invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer Johannes Alfred Witjes, Thierry Lebrét, Éva Compérat et al. · European Urology 2 Jul 2016 1,521
5 Surgical Management of Stones: American Urological Association/Endourological Society Guideline, PART I Dean G. Assimos, Amy Elizabeth Krambeck, Nicole L. Miller et al. · The Journal of Urology 26 May 2016 1,463
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Where is Ureteral procedures and complications research done?

The largest centres of Ureteral procedures and complications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mek'ele and Rennes.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 90 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 50 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 43 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 41 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 38 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 34 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 33 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mek'eleET · 20.1 works90×
  2. RennesFR · 20.4 works7.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ureteral procedures and complications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ureteral procedures and complications?

Among universities, judged by research, Sorbonne Université, Mekelle University and Peking 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%20%40%mean 18.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat Autònoma…Sorbonne UniversitéMekelle UniversityPeking 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
1Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 86.926.6%8.1×21 +35.6%
2Mekelle UniversityEthiopia 86.222.5%106.8×20 +496.9%
3Peking UniversityChina 72.016.3%4.3×34 +30.3%
4Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 70.032.8%4.4×11 +49.7%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 57.218.0%2.1×18 +8.4%
6All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56.13.0%7.6×32 +61.2%
7University of British ColumbiaCanada 52.224.5%1.8×8 -15.1%
8Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 51.57.2%9.6×20 +3.1%
9The University of SydneyAustralia 51.414.2%2.5×12 -0.2%
10University of MichiganUnited States 50.821.8%2.0×12 -7.9%

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 Ureteral procedures and complications, country by country

Is Ureteral procedures and complications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ureteral procedures and complications.

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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 Ureteral procedures and complications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Ureteral procedures and complications0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ureteral procedures and complications 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%Ureteral procedures and complications10.2% 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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