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Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Winter Sports Injuries and Performance is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. 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 the analysis of injuries, risk factors, and safety measures in alpine skiing and snowboarding. It covers topics such as head injuries, helmet use, biomechanics, and risk factors associated with skiing and snowboarding. The research aims to understand the mechanisms of injuries and to develop effective preventive measures to enhance safety in winter sports.

  • Skiing
  • Snowboarding
  • Injuries
  • Head Injuries
  • Helmet Use
  • Alpine Skiing
  • Risk Factors
  • Biomechanics
  • Trauma
  • Safety Measures
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
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

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

Which countries lead Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (827 and 467 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 827 works
  2. 2 United States 467 works
  3. 3 Japan 222 works
  4. 4 Germany 146 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 139 works
  6. 6 France 115 works
  7. 7 Russia 115 works
  8. 8 Canada 98 works
  9. 9 India 76 works
  10. 10 Italy 71 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.

China: 36.3%United States: 20.5%Japan: 9.8%Germany: 6.4%6 others listed: 27.0%36%largest
China827 · 36.3%United States467 · 20.5%Japan222 · 9.8%Germany146 · 6.4%6 others listed614 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 37 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  4. 4 Universität InnsbruckAustria 24 works
  5. 5 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 14 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 13 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 13 works
  8. 8 Tongji UniversityChina 13 works
  9. 9 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 12 works
  10. 10 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Winter Sports Injuries and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Winter Sports Injuries and Performance include George Davey Smith and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k 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 Winter Sports Injuries and Performance?

The most cited paper in Winter Sports Injuries and Performance is "Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis" (Gunnar Johansson, 1973), with 4,540 citations. Next come "Consensus statement on Concussion in Sport – The 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2012" (2,143) and "Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017" (1,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis Gunnar Johansson · Perception & Psychophysics Open access Jun 1973 4,540
2 Consensus statement on Concussion in Sport – The 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2012 Paul Robert McCrory et al. · Physical Therapy in Sport May 2013 2,143
3 Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017 Eric J. Rignot, J. Mouginot, B. Scheuchl et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 14 Jan 2019 1,776
4 Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica Eric J. Rignot, Stanley S. Jacobs, J. Mouginot et al. · Science 14 Jun 2013 1,751
5 Position and orientation in space of bones during movement: anatomical frame definition and determination Aurelio Cappozzo, Fabio Catani, Ugo Della Croce et al. · Clinical Biomechanics Open access Jun 1995 1,691
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Innsbruck.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 170 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 74 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 47 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 42 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 39 works
  7. 7 InnsbruckAustria 31 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 30 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 27 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. InnsbruckAT · 31.2 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Winter Sports Injuries and Performance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Winter Sports Injuries and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, Universität Innsbruck, Northumbria University and University of Lausanne 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 17.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northumbria UniversityUniversity of Colora…University of LausanneUniversität Innsbruck
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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
1Universität InnsbruckAustria 65.56.5%31.5×24 -3.4%
2Northumbria UniversityUnited Kingdom 60.630.2%13.4×8 -14.6%
3University of LausanneSwitzerland 56.920.2%6.8×8 +21.2%
4University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 50.921.8%8.1×10 -39.8%
5University of ZurichSwitzerland 48.924.3%4.7×9 -37.4%
6Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 48.715.5%8.0×10 -38.8%
7Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 46.68.2%7.9×12 -0.6%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 44.020.8%2.8×8 -50.3%
9Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 41.815.5%4.0×13 +199.0%
10Tongji UniversityChina 41.714.8%3.1×13 +27.0%

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 Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, country by country

Is Winter Sports Injuries and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Winter Sports Injuries and Performance.

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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 Winter Sports Injuries and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Winter Sports Injuries and Performance 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%Winter Sports Injuries and Performance10.1% 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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