Rehabilitation papers
Pofolia’s corpus holds 115 papers from Rehabilitation (2003–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.
At a glance
- Most cited: Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model (2020, 8,289 citations).
- The 20 papers listed have 45,419 citations between them.
- 15 of the 20 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
- 10 have a free full text (open access).
- Most frequent journals: Advances in Wound Care, Stroke, ACS Nano.
- Published between 2012 and 2021.
Most cited
Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals
Re-epithelialization and immune cell behaviour in an ex vivo human skin model
Scientific Reports · 2020 · Q1 · FWCI 742.50 · 8,289 citations · Open access
Researchers developed a novel ex vivo human skin wound model using negative pressure, which successfully recapitulates epidermal regeneration and immune cell dynamics observed in natural wound healing.
Wound repair and regeneration: Mechanisms, signaling, and translation
Science Translational Medicine · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 7.00 · FWCI 71.30 · 3,449 citations
Current therapies for poor wound healing are limited due to a poor understanding of the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms. This review highlights emerging concepts in tissue repair and regeneration to guide clinical translation.
Guidelines for Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
Stroke · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 153.73 · 3,135 citations · Open access
This guideline synthesizes best clinical practices for adult stroke rehabilitation, emphasizing the critical role of sustained, coordinated, multidisciplinary team efforts for maximizing patient recovery and functional independence.
Functional Hydrogels as Wound Dressing to Enhance Wound Healing
ACS Nano · 2021 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 194.30 · 2,972 citations
This review comprehensively summarizes the advanced functions and strategies of hydrogel-based wound dressings, highlighting their potential to enhance wound healing.
Wound Healing: A Cellular Perspective
Physiological Reviews · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 11.00 · FWCI 63.48 · 2,924 citations · Open access
Recent advances in single-cell technologies are revealing unprecedented detail about the diverse cell types and their dynamic interactions crucial for wound healing.
Challenges in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds
Advances in Wound Care · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 62.26 · 2,580 citations · Open access
Chronic wounds like diabetic foot ulcers present significant challenges due to complex pathophysiology, often failing to heal with standard care within 4 weeks. A systematic reassessment and consideration of advanced therapies are crucial when healing is delayed.
Chronic Wound Healing: A Review of Current Management and Treatments
Advances in Therapy · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 92.45 · 2,080 citations · Open access
This review synthesizes current knowledge on the complex process of wound healing and the challenges posed by chronic, non-healing wounds.
Transition from inflammation to proliferation: a critical step during wound healing
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · 2016 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 55.56 · 1,906 citations · Open access
The transition from the inflammatory to the proliferative phase is a critical, yet poorly understood, step in normal wound healing, and its compromise is linked to chronic wound disorders.
Wound Repair and Regeneration
European Surgical Research · 2012 · Q2 · FWCI 47.56 · 1,879 citations · Open access
This review distinguishes between skin repair, which results in scar formation via fibrosis, and regeneration, which involves the precise substitution of tissue like the epidermis. It outlines the classical phases of acute wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and maturation.
Wound healing: cellular mechanisms and pathological outcomes
Open Biology · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 60.94 · 1,731 citations · Open access
This review synthesizes the cellular events crucial for efficient tissue repair and explores how their derangement, particularly in conditions like diabetes and aging, leads to chronic, non-healing wounds.
Wound healing - A literature review
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia · 2016 · Q2 · FWCI 45.48 · 1,579 citations · Open access
This review synthesizes the sequential molecular and cellular events involved in skin wound healing, detailing the exudative, proliferative, and remodeling phases.
Epithelialization in Wound Healing: A Comprehensive Review
Advances in Wound Care · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 39.89 · 1,533 citations
This review synthesizes current knowledge on epithelialization, the critical process of skin regeneration in wound healing, aiming to inform the development of new therapies.
The Role of Macrophages in Acute and Chronic Wound Healing and Interventions to Promote Pro-wound Healing Phenotypes
Frontiers in Physiology · 2018 · Q2 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 74.08 · 1,515 citations · Open access
Macrophages are central to wound healing, shifting from pro-inflammatory to anti-inflammatory roles as wounds resolve. In chronic wounds, macrophages remain stuck in a pro-inflammatory state, hindering healing.
Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Stroke Survivors
Stroke · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 65.02 · 1,511 citations
This scientific statement provides updated evidence-based recommendations for physical activity and exercise for stroke survivors, emphasizing its crucial role in management and recovery.
Wound dressings – a review
Biomedicine · 2015 · Q2 · FWCI 27.94 · 1,505 citations
This review traces the historical development of wound dressings from their origins to the present day, highlighting over 3000 products designed to target various aspects of the complex wound healing process.
Extracellular Matrix Reorganization During Wound Healing and Its Impact on Abnormal Scarring
Advances in Wound Care · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 7.02 · 1,429 citations
Understanding how extracellular matrix (ECM) components reorganize during wound healing is key to developing therapies for preventing hypertrophic and keloid scars.
Post-Stroke Fatigue: Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics and Treatment
European Neurology · 2014 · Q2 · FWCI 92.34 · 1,419 citations
Fatigue is a common, disabling, and persistent symptom in stroke survivors, significantly worsening outcomes and predicting mortality.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and wound healing: the functional role of ROS and emerging ROS‐modulating technologies for augmentation of the healing process
International Wound Journal · 2015 · Q1 · FWCI 21.03 · 1,339 citations
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are crucial signaling molecules and defense mechanisms in normal wound healing, coordinating immune cell activity, blood vessel formation, and pathogen destruction.
Inflammation and metabolism in tissue repair and regeneration
Science · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 59.71 · 1,327 citations
This review synthesizes current understanding of how inflammation and cell metabolism orchestrate tissue repair, highlighting how dysregulation leads to fibrosis and impaired function.
The compelling link between physical activity and the body's defense system
Journal of sport and health science/Journal of Sport and Health Science · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 85.31 · 1,317 citations
Exercise immunology research has evolved from tracking basic immune cell counts to employing systems biology approaches (metabolomics, proteomics, etc.) to understand exercise's impact on immunity, chronic disease risk, and personalized health.
Recently added
Systematic benchmarking of evaluation paradigms, safety boundaries, and clinical reasoning gaps for multimodal large language models in rehabilitation
Scientific Reports · 2026 · Q1
A new benchmark, ActionEval-MedBench, reveals leading multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with fine-grained clinical reasoning in rehabilitation videos, scoring high (91.1% F1) on action recognition but poorly (below 50% F1) on identifying pathological compensation and clinical decision-making.
Horizontal mitochondrial transfer and mitochondrial transplantation in skin: protection against UVR-induced ROS damage and enhancement of cell proliferation and wound healing
Journal of Translational Medicine · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 2.00
Skin cells, particularly melanocytes and keratinocytes, naturally transfer mitochondria (HMT) via direct contact, a process significantly enhanced by UV radiation (UVR). This transfer, along with artificial mitochondrial transplantation (AMT) using stem cell-derived mitochondria, protects against UVR-induced oxidative stress, promotes cell proliferation, and accelerates wound healing in animal models.
Physical activity and oxidative stress biomarkers in humans: a systematic review and quantitative meta-analysis
BMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2026 · Q1
Physical activity significantly reduced malondialdehyde (MDA) by 1.02 SMD and increased total antioxidant status (TAS) by 0.76 SMD across 98 studies (n=4,742), but showed no significant pooled effects on catalase, superoxide dismutase, or total antioxidant capacity.
Development and evaluation of insulin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles incorporated into HPMC/PVA topical film for diabetic wound management
Next Nanotechnology · 2026 · Q2
A novel topical film incorporating insulin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles (129 nm, 80-95% encapsulation) demonstrates sustained insulin release (66.15% over 48h) and improved mechanical properties, offering a promising platform for diabetic wound management.
Endurance exercise and central fatigue
Medicine · 2026 · Q2
A bibliometric analysis of 2005-2024 literature reveals a growing research focus on endurance exercise's impact on central fatigue, particularly its effects on performance, psychological well-being, and neurotransmitter regulation.
Psychometric properties of the System Usability Scale for digital rehabilitation technologies: a COSMIN systematic review
Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
The System Usability Scale (SUS) shows strong construct validity for digital rehabilitation technologies, correlating with satisfaction (rs = 0.38-0.49) and performance (r = 0.91), but its structural validity and content validity are questionable, limiting trust in its unidimensionality and relevance for all patient groups.
Biomechanical relevance, validation design, and reported performance of wearable sensor-based stroke classification in racket sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2026 · Q1
Wearable sensors achieve a pooled chance-corrected accuracy of ~95.5% for racket sport stroke classification, but this figure is inflated by varied validation methods and potential data leakage.
Advancing human sensorimotor research through modular robotics: the case of the HRX-1
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00
The HRX-1, a modular, direct-drive robotic device, enables novel investigations into human sensorimotor control, diagnostics, and neuromechanics through its reconfigurable architecture and integration with multimodal sensing.
Journals in this field
The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?
| Journal | Quartile | SJR | h-index | In this field | Summaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advances in Wound Care | Q1 | 1.00 | 56 | 6 | 6 |
| ACS Nano | Q1 | 4.00 | 531 | 3 | 23 |
| Stroke | Q1 | 2.00 | 382 | 3 | 15 |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences | Q1 | 1.00 | 365 | 3 | 45 |
| Scientific Reports | Q1 | — | 382 | 3 | 170 |
| Science | Q1 | 10.00 | 1433 | 2 | 268 |
| Advanced Functional Materials | Q1 | 5.00 | 459 | 2 | 21 |
| International Journal of Stroke | Q1 | 2.00 | 112 | 2 | 3 |
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