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Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery

Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery is a research topic within Pharmaceutical Science. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 focuses on innovations in transdermal drug delivery systems, including the use of solid lipid nanoparticles, microneedles, skin penetration enhancers, nanostructured lipid carriers, and microemulsion-based drug delivery. It explores advancements in overcoming the skin's barrier function and enhancing skin permeation for effective drug delivery.

  • Solid Lipid Nanoparticles
  • Microneedles
  • Skin Penetration Enhancers
  • Nanostructured Lipid Carriers
  • Transdermal Drug Delivery
  • Skin Barrier Function
  • Microemulsion-based Drug Delivery
  • Iontophoretic Drug Delivery
  • Skin Permeation Enhancement
  • Stratum Corneum
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery

Which countries lead Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.5k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 651 works
  4. 4 South Korea 233 works
  5. 5 Iran 221 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 212 works
  7. 7 Japan 197 works
  8. 8 Egypt 196 works
  9. 9 Brazil 178 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 163 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: 31.6%China: 25.7%United States: 13.6%South Korea: 4.9%6 others listed: 24.3%32%largest
India1,514 · 31.6%China1,232 · 25.7%United States651 · 13.6%South Korea233 · 4.9%6 others listed1,167 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hindu College of Pharmacy publishes the most Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenyang Pharmaceutical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hindu College of PharmacyIndia 60 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  3. 3 Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 32 works
  5. 5 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 31 works
  6. 6 Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 31 works
  7. 7 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management StudiesIndia 30 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 30 works
  9. 9 Cairo UniversityEgypt 29 works
  10. 10 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery include Zhong Lin Wang, Róbert Langer and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  5. 5 Peter John Barnes United Kingdom 225k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 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 Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery?

The most cited paper in Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery is "Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops" (Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont et al., 1997), with 6,437 citations. Next come "Mechanisms of solute release from porous hydrophilic polymers" (5,233) and "Mechanism of sustained‐action medication. Theoretical analysis of rate of release of solid drugs dispersed in solid matrices" (4,890).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops Robert D. Deegan, Olgica Bakajin, Todd F. Dupont et al. · Nature 23 Oct 1997 6,437
2 Mechanisms of solute release from porous hydrophilic polymers Richard W. Korsmeyer, Robert Gurny, Éric Doelker et al. · International Journal of Pharmaceutics May 1983 5,233
3 Mechanism of sustained‐action medication. Theoretical analysis of rate of release of solid drugs dispersed in solid matrices Tsunehiko Higuchi · Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Dec 1963 4,890
4 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
5 Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) for controlled drug delivery – a review of the state of the art R Müller · European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 3 Jul 2000 3,758
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Where is Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Mumbai (India). 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 BeijingChina 166 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 111 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 105 works
  4. 4 MumbaiIndia 102 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 95 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 79 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 73 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 71 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 69 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SonīpatIN · 63.0 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery?

Among universities, judged by research, Queen's University Belfast, Sun Yat-sen University and Zhejiang 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%mean 23.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wenzhou Medical Univ…Zhejiang UniversitySun Yat-sen 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.

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
1Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 75.827.6%14.9×31 +52.5%
2Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 63.727.9%2.0×25 +69.9%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.329.8%1.6×26 +104.9%
4Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 60.732.5%4.2×13 +416.6%
5Nanjing UniversityChina 56.937.1%1.6×9 +214.8%
6Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 55.919.4%41.9×33 +17.0%
7Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 55.929.5%3.6×11 +393.6%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 55.119.5%2.1×30 +200.8%
9King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 54.58.1%5.2×31 +134.9%
10Hindu College of PharmacyIndia 53.52.7%95.2×60 +101.4%

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 Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery, country by country

Is Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery.

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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 Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery 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.

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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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