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Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology

Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology is a research topic within Small Animals. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 orthopedic studies in canine veterinary medicine, covering topics such as osteoarthritis, surgical complications, joint diseases, gait analysis, spinal cord injuries, pain assessment, limb function, and treatment outcomes.

  • Orthopedic
  • Canine
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Surgical Complications
  • Joint Diseases
  • Gait Analysis
  • Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Pain Assessment
  • Limb Function
  • Treatment Outcomes
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology

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

Which countries lead Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (656 and 265 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 656 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 265 works
  3. 3 Brazil 149 works
  4. 4 Germany 114 works
  5. 5 Japan 87 works
  6. 6 Italy 82 works
  7. 7 France 78 works
  8. 8 South Korea 78 works
  9. 9 India 76 works
  10. 10 Australia 68 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: 39.7%United Kingdom: 16.0%Brazil: 9.0%Germany: 6.9%6 others listed: 28.4%40%largest
United States656 · 39.7%United Kingdom265 · 16.0%Brazil149 · 9.0%Germany114 · 6.9%6 others listed469 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Royal Veterinary College publishes the most Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research, followed by Colorado State University and University of California, Davis.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 37 works
  2. 2 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 University of California, DavisUnited States 35 works
  4. 4 Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral ServiceUnited Kingdom 31 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 30 works
  6. 6 University of FloridaUnited States 28 works
  7. 7 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 21 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology include Maarten Jacobus Postma and Shane Douglas Morrison.

  1. 1 Maarten Jacobus Postma Netherlands 156k citations
  2. 2 Shane Douglas Morrison United States 148k 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 Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology?

The most cited paper in Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology is "A Sensitive and Reliable Locomotor Rating Scale for Open Field Testing in Rats" (D. Michele Basso, Michael S. Beattie, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, 1995), with 4,587 citations. Next come "The OARSI histopathology initiative – recommendations for histological assessments of osteoarthritis in the guinea pig" (1,802) and "A cytoarchitectonic atlas of the spinal coed in the cat" (1,254).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Sensitive and Reliable Locomotor Rating Scale for Open Field Testing in Rats D. Michele Basso, Michael S. Beattie, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan · Journal of Neurotrauma Feb 1995 4,587
2 The OARSI histopathology initiative – recommendations for histological assessments of osteoarthritis in the guinea pig Virginia B. Kraus, Janet L. Huebner, Jeroen DeGroot et al. · Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open access 22 Sep 2010 1,802
3 A cytoarchitectonic atlas of the spinal coed in the cat Bror Rexed · The Journal of Comparative Neurology Apr 1954 1,254
4 Mechanics and biology in intervertebral disc degeneration: a vicious circle Pieter‐Paul A. Vergroesen, Idsart Kingma, Kaj S. Emanuel et al. · Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open access 13 Apr 2015 929
5 Recovery of locomotion after chronic spinalization in the adult cat Hughes Barbeau, Serge Rossignol · Brain Research May 1987 842
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Where is Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research done?

The largest centres of Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), Fort Collins (United States) and Davis (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Solihull, Fort Collins and Davis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 44 works
  3. 3 Fort CollinsUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 DavisUnited States 37 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 33 works
  6. 6 SolihullUnited Kingdom 31 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 30 works
  8. 8 GainesvilleUnited States 29 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 26 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SolihullGB · 30.6 works686×
  2. Fort CollinsUS · 36.8 works41×
  3. DavisUS · 36.6 works21×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology?

Among universities, judged by research, Colorado State University, University of Liverpool and University of California, Davis score highest, combining citation 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 18.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Liverp…Royal Veterinary Col…Colorado State Unive…University of Califo…
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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.

Citation 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
1Colorado State UniversityUnited States 71.217.6%50.0×36 +16.9%
2University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 69.621.8%18.1×21 +36.7%
3University of California, DavisUnited States 67.714.4%21.1×35 +26.3%
4Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 65.219.2%410.3×37 -21.0%
5University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaAustria 63.621.5%153.6×17 +46.6%
6North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 60.817.3%19.1×22 +4.8%
7Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 60.519.6%33.2×11 +26.3%
8Cornell UniversityUnited States 59.67.1%11.1×30 +38.8%
9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 57.816.4%8.5×19 +21.9%
10Université de MontréalCanada 54.429.9%7.0×8 -12.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology, country by country

Is Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology.

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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 Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0082% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology 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%Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology10.2% 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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