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Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

Advanced Drug Delivery Systems is a research topic within Pharmaceutical Science. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and application of mucosal drug delivery systems, with a particular emphasis on chitosan-based nanoparticles, polymeric microspheres, mucoadhesive formulations, and targeted delivery to ocular and nasal tissues. The research covers various aspects of drug release mechanisms, biodegradability, immune responses, and the potential for delivering peptides and proteins via mucosal routes.

  • Chitosan
  • Nanoparticles
  • Mucosal
  • Drug Delivery
  • Polymeric
  • Microspheres
  • Mucoadhesive
  • Ocular
  • Nasal
  • Protein
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

Which countries lead Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (2.2k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2.2k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 661 works
  4. 4 Iran 289 works
  5. 5 Egypt 243 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 207 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 194 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 194 works
  9. 9 South Korea 184 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 182 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.

India: 38.7%China: 23.5%United States: 11.6%Iran: 5.1%6 others listed: 21.2%39%largest
India2,200 · 38.7%China1,338 · 23.5%United States661 · 11.6%Iran289 · 5.1%6 others listed1,204 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hindu College of Pharmacy publishes the most Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research, followed by Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and King Saud University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hindu College of PharmacyIndia 81 works
  2. 2 Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 44 works
  3. 3 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 44 works
  4. 4 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management StudiesIndia 42 works
  5. 5 Shri Vile Parle Kelavani MandalIndia 41 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 40 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 38 works
  8. 8 University of BaghdadIraq 37 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 36 works
  10. 10 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Drug Delivery Systems include Róbert Langer, Wei Huang and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k 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 Advanced Drug Delivery Systems?

The most cited paper in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems is "Engineering precision nanoparticles for drug delivery" (Michael J. Mitchell, Margaret M. Billingsley, Rebecca M. Haley et al., 2020), with 7,854 citations. Next come "Nano based drug delivery systems: recent developments and future prospects" (6,726) and "Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery" (6,259).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Engineering precision nanoparticles for drug delivery Michael J. Mitchell, Margaret M. Billingsley, Rebecca M. Haley et al. · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ReviewOpen access 4 Dec 2020 7,854
2 Nano based drug delivery systems: recent developments and future prospects Jayanta Kumar Patra, Gitishree Das, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto et al. · Journal of Nanobiotechnology Open access 19 Sep 2018 6,726
3 Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery Simona Mura, Julien Nicolas, Patrick Couvreur · Nature Materials 23 Oct 2013 6,259
4 A review of chitin and chitosan applications Majeti N. V. Ravi Kumar · Reactive and Functional Polymers Nov 2000 6,029
5 Impact of Particle Size and Polydispersity Index on the Clinical Applications of Lipidic Nanocarrier Systems M. Danaei, M. Dehghankhold, Shahla Ataei et al. · Pharmaceutics Open access 18 May 2018 4,847
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Where is Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research in 2022-now are Mumbai (India), Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sonīpat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MumbaiIndia 139 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 139 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 110 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 99 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 98 works
  6. 6 SonīpatIndia 84 works
  7. 7 PuneIndia 84 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 82 works
  9. 9 HyderabadIndia 78 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SonīpatIN · 84.2 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Drug Delivery Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Queen's University Belfast, Sichuan University and Jazan 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityJazan UniversitySichuan UniversityQueen's University B…
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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
1Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 76.723.4%11.2×27 +60.5%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 69.023.5%2.5×40 +54.5%
3Jazan UniversitySaudi Arabia 68.628.2%7.2×10 +667.1%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 67.230.2%1.4×27 +59.3%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 61.28.9%6.3×44 +76.2%
6King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 58.917.5%4.9×13 +222.2%
7Jouf UniversitySaudi Arabia 58.619.8%8.7×8 +17.0%
8Cairo UniversityEgypt 58.320.0%5.7×31 -16.0%
9Narsee Monjee Institute of Management StudiesIndia 57.59.6%49.1×42 +75.3%
10Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 56.111.3%7.6×14 +120.2%

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 Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, country by country

Is Advanced Drug Delivery Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Drug Delivery Systems.

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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 Advanced Drug Delivery Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems 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%Advanced Drug Delivery Systems9.9% 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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