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Wound Healing and Treatments

Wound Healing and Treatments is a research topic within Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 46k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to wound healing and regeneration, including the role of macrophages and fibroblasts, chronic wounds, growth factors, hydrogel dressings, angiogenesis, diabetes, and inflammation. It explores the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in wound repair and provides insights into potential therapeutic interventions for enhancing the wound healing process.

  • Wound Healing
  • Regeneration
  • Macrophages
  • Fibroblasts
  • Chronic Wounds
  • Growth Factors
  • Hydrogel Dressings
  • Angiogenesis
  • Diabetes
  • Inflammation
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+40%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wound Healing and Treatments

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

Which countries lead Wound Healing and Treatments research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4k and 2.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4k works
  2. 2 United States 2.1k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 Iran 531 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 453 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 407 works
  7. 7 Brazil 357 works
  8. 8 South Korea 319 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 317 works
  10. 10 Germany 292 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: 40.4%United States: 21.4%India: 11.3%Iran: 5.3%6 others listed: 21.6%40%largest
China4,014 · 40.4%United States2,128 · 21.4%India1,125 · 11.3%Iran531 · 5.3%6 others listed2,144 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Wound Healing and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Wound Healing and Treatments research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 141 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 126 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 82 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 78 works
  5. 5 Southern Medical UniversityChina 73 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 73 works
  7. 7 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 72 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 64 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 60 works
  10. 10 Wuhan UniversityChina 54 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wound Healing and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wound Healing and Treatments include Zhong Lin Wang, Shizuo Akira and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k 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 Wound Healing and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Wound Healing and Treatments is "Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model" (Ana Rakita, Nenad Nikolić, Michael Mildner et al., 2020), with 8,298 citations. Next come "Wound repair and regeneration" (6,500) and "Cutaneous Wound Healing" (6,150).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model Ana Rakita, Nenad Nikolić, Michael Mildner et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 8 Jan 2020 8,298
2 Wound repair and regeneration Geoffrey C. Gurtner, Sabine Werner, Yann Barrandon et al. · Nature Open access 14 May 2008 6,500
3 Cutaneous Wound Healing Adam J. Singer, Richard A.F. Clark · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Sep 1999 6,150
4 Factors Affecting Wound Healing Shuzhen Guo, Luisa Ann DiPietro · Journal of Dental Research Open access 5 Feb 2010 5,767
5 Wound Healing--Aiming for Perfect Skin Regeneration Paul B. Martin · Science 4 Apr 1997 4,845
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wound Healing and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Wound Healing and Treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Galveston, Zunyi and Wenzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 403 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 370 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 270 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 222 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 213 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 168 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 166 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 152 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 150 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 147 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GalvestonUS · 35.1 works13×
  2. ZunyiCN · 26.5 works9.2×
  3. WenzhouCN · 84.9 works7.0×
  4. LuzhouCN · 23.8 works6.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wound Healing and Treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wound Healing and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University 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%60%mean 29.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Sichuan UniversityWenzhou Medical Univ…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…
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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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 70.326.0%5.1×141 +149.9%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.842.0%1.6×34 +60.8%
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 62.720.2%3.6×126 +48.0%
4Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 62.623.4%11.7×72 +106.5%
5Qingdao UniversityChina 60.127.2%5.9×49 +175.3%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.123.3%2.4×78 +95.5%
7Southern Medical UniversityChina 59.020.9%9.7×73 +130.5%
8Northwest UniversityChina 58.948.0%2.8×10 +17.9%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.740.1%1.1×22 +213.6%
10Donghua UniversityChina 58.425.8%7.6×34 +82.4%

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 Wound Healing and Treatments, country by country

Is Wound Healing and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wound Healing and Treatments.

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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 Wound Healing and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.054% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Wound Healing and Treatments0.060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wound Healing and Treatments 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%Wound Healing and Treatments9.9% 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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