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Vestibular and auditory disorders

Vestibular and auditory disorders is a research topic within Neurology. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the role of the cerebellum in neurological disorders and functions, including its involvement in motor control, cognition, vestibular processing, and conditions such as dizziness, vertigo, and sudden hearing loss. The papers cover topics such as cerebellar neuroimaging, functional connectivity, and the impact of cerebellar damage on cognitive and affective development.

  • Cerebellum
  • Neuroimaging
  • Vestibular
  • Cognition
  • Motor Control
  • Functional Connectivity
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Sudden Hearing Loss
  • Neurological Disorders
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vestibular and auditory disorders

Which countries lead Vestibular and auditory disorders research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Japan 457 works
  4. 4 India 438 works
  5. 5 Germany 437 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 345 works
  7. 7 South Korea 310 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 294 works
  9. 9 Italy 286 works
  10. 10 France 222 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: 27.5%China: 22.4%Japan: 8.2%India: 7.9%6 others listed: 34.1%27%largest
United States1,528 · 27.5%China1,244 · 22.4%Japan457 · 8.2%India438 · 7.9%6 others listed1,894 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Vestibular and auditory disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Vestibular and auditory disorders research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and Capital Medical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 84 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 74 works
  3. 3 Capital Medical UniversityChina 68 works
  4. 4 Fudan UniversityChina 62 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 55 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  7. 7 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 49 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 47 works
  9. 9 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 46 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 44 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vestibular and auditory disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vestibular and auditory disorders include David Moher, Jost Bruno Jonas and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Graeme J. Hankey Australia 316k citations
  5. 5 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  6. 6 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Josef Coresh United States 272k 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 Vestibular and auditory disorders?

The most cited paper in Vestibular and auditory disorders is "Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research" (Símone Rossi, Mark Hallett, Paolo Maria Rossini et al., 2009), with 5,541 citations. Next come "The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome" (3,258) and "Corticocortical inhibition in human motor cortex." (3,169).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research Símone Rossi, Mark Hallett, Paolo Maria Rossini et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology Open access 15 Oct 2009 5,541
2 The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome Jeremy Dan Schmahmann · Brain Apr 1998 3,258
3 Corticocortical inhibition in human motor cortex. Takashi Kujirai, M.D. Caramia, John C. Rothwell et al. · The Journal of Physiology Open access Nov 1993 3,169
4 Transcranial direct current stimulation: State of the art 2008 Michael Andreas Nitsche, Leonardo G. Cohen, Eric M. Wassermann et al. · Brain stimulation Open access Jul 2008 3,123
5 Internal models for motor control and trajectory planning Mitsuo Kawato · Current Opinion in Neurobiology Review Dec 1999 2,754
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Vestibular and auditory disorders research done?

The largest centres of Vestibular and auditory disorders research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Antwerp.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 211 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 152 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 146 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 125 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 119 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 99 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 94 works
  8. 8 BaltimoreUnited States 87 works
  9. 9 AnkaraTürkiye 77 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AntwerpBE · 21.3 works6.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vestibular and auditory disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vestibular and auditory disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University College London 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.

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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 82.518.0%3.9×84 -0.0%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 81.520.0%4.5×49 +19.3%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 78.913.2%7.0×74 +7.0%
4Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 68.319.8%6.3×17 +54.0%
5University of AntwerpBelgium 63.519.2%8.3×20 +4.3%
6King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.527.2%2.2×13 +16.9%
7University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 63.124.2%3.2×16 +9.4%
8Capital Medical UniversityChina 61.410.1%9.3×68 +31.4%
9University of BernSwitzerland 60.816.7%4.9×18 +18.4%
10Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 59.420.2%3.9×24 +102.4%

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 Vestibular and auditory disorders, country by country

Is Vestibular and auditory disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vestibular and auditory disorders.

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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 Vestibular and auditory disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Vestibular and auditory disorders 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%Vestibular and auditory disorders9.9% 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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