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Corneal Surgery and Treatments

Corneal Surgery and Treatments is a research topic within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Science Explorer counts 33k 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 advances in corneal tissue engineering and regeneration, with a particular emphasis on the use of limbal stem cells, amniotic membrane, and stem cell therapy for corneal reconstruction. The research covers topics such as corneal neovascularization, epithelial cell transplantation, wound healing, and the use of Boston Keratoprosthesis. These studies contribute to the development of innovative approaches for treating ocular surface disorders and promoting corneal regeneration.

  • Corneal Regeneration
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Limbal Stem Cells
  • Amniotic Membrane
  • Corneal Neovascularization
  • Stem Cell Therapy
  • Epithelial Cell Transplantation
  • Wound Healing
  • Keratocyte Phenotype
  • Boston Keratoprosthesis
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Corneal Surgery and Treatments

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

Which countries lead Corneal Surgery and Treatments research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 650 works
  4. 4 Germany 272 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 258 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 235 works
  7. 7 Italy 234 works
  8. 8 Spain 225 works
  9. 9 Brazil 181 works
  10. 10 Japan 176 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: 26.0%United States: 23.4%India: 14.7%Germany: 6.2%6 others listed: 29.7%26%largest
China1,147 · 26.0%United States1,031 · 23.4%India650 · 14.7%Germany272 · 6.2%6 others listed1,308 · 29.7%

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

Which institutions lead Corneal Surgery and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, L V Prasad Eye Institute publishes the most Corneal Surgery and Treatments research, followed by Wenzhou Medical University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 76 works
  2. 2 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 59 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 58 works
  5. 5 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 47 works
  6. 6 Saarland UniversityGermany 43 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 38 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  10. 10 Capital Medical UniversityChina 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Corneal Surgery and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corneal Surgery and Treatments include Steven L. Salzberg, Jost Bruno Jonas and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  2. 2 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Rakhi Dandona United States 280k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Hans C. Clevers Netherlands 260k citations
  8. 8 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  9. 9 Cornelia M. van Duijn Netherlands 250k 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 Corneal Surgery and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Corneal Surgery and Treatments is "National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. The 2014 Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report" (Madan Jagasia et al., 2014), with 5,493 citations. Next come "Wound Healing--Aiming for Perfect Skin Regeneration" (4,845) and "National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report" (3,572).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. The 2014 Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report Madan Jagasia et al. · Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Open access 19 Dec 2014 5,493
2 Wound Healing--Aiming for Perfect Skin Regeneration Paul B. Martin · Science 4 Apr 1997 4,845
3 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report Alexandra Hult Filipovich et al. · Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Open access Dec 2005 3,572
4 Reliability and Validity of the Ocular Surface Disease Index Rhett M. Schiffman · Archives of Ophthalmology May 2000 3,090
5 Riboflavin/ultraviolet-a–induced collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus Gregor Wollensak, Eberhard Spoerl, Theo G. Seiler · American Journal of Ophthalmology 30 Apr 2003 2,982
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Where is Corneal Surgery and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Corneal Surgery and Treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madurai, Saarbrücken and Wenzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 138 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 118 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 107 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 93 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 87 works
  6. 6 HyderabadIndia 86 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 85 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 83 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 77 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MaduraiIN · 30.4 works17×
  2. SaarbrückenDE · 37.6 works17×
  3. WenzhouCN · 60.7 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corneal Surgery and Treatments than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corneal Surgery and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Wenzhou Medical University, Sichuan University and Zhejiang 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 19.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityZhejiang 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.

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
1Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 80.224.4%20.3×59 +68.9%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 72.334.2%2.0×27 +100.9%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 66.230.0%1.6×25 +26.7%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65.124.1%2.3×38 +29.7%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.014.0%3.2×58 -34.6%
6Shandong First Medical UniversityChina 57.616.7%13.4×22 +68.5%
7All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 56.84.1%9.2×58 +27.9%
8Tianjin Medical UniversityChina 56.713.7%14.7×31 +25.8%
9National University of SingaporeSingapore 55.129.8%1.8×12 -28.8%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.38.6%3.9×36 -11.0%

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 Corneal Surgery and Treatments, country by country

Is Corneal Surgery and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Corneal Surgery 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 Corneal Surgery and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Corneal Surgery and Treatments0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Corneal Surgery 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%Corneal Surgery and Treatments10.0% 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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