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Dermatologic Treatments and Research

Dermatologic Treatments and Research is a research topic within Dermatology. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the pathophysiology, treatment strategies, and management of skin scarring, including hypertrophic scarring, keloids, and melasma. It explores various interventions such as fractional photothermolysis, radiofrequency treatment, and collagen induction therapy for dermal remodeling and scar reduction.

  • Hypertrophic Scarring
  • Keloids
  • Fractional Photothermolysis
  • Scar Management
  • Melasma
  • Radiofrequency Treatment
  • Wound Healing
  • Dermal Remodeling
  • Laser Resurfacing
  • Collagen Induction Therapy
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dermatologic Treatments and Research

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

Which countries lead Dermatologic Treatments and Research research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 444 works
  4. 4 Brazil 365 works
  5. 5 South Korea 271 works
  6. 6 Italy 229 works
  7. 7 Egypt 222 works
  8. 8 Russia 204 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 194 works
  10. 10 Germany 177 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.

United States: 27.2%China: 26.0%India: 9.9%Brazil: 8.1%6 others listed: 28.9%27%largest
United States1,221 · 27.2%China1,167 · 26.0%India444 · 9.9%Brazil365 · 8.1%6 others listed1,297 · 28.9%

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

Which institutions lead Dermatologic Treatments and Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes the most Dermatologic Treatments and Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 68 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 55 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 43 works
  4. 4 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 38 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 37 works
  6. 6 University of MiamiUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 Mahidol UniversityThailand 30 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 30 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 29 works
  10. 10 Cairo UniversityEgypt 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dermatologic Treatments and Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dermatologic Treatments and Research include Jun Wang and Patrick M. Bossuyt.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k 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 Dermatologic Treatments and Research?

The most cited paper in Dermatologic Treatments and Research 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 "Cutaneous Wound Healing" (6,150) and "Normal keratinization in a spontaneously immortalized aneuploid human keratinocyte cell line." (4,196).

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 Cutaneous Wound Healing Adam J. Singer, Richard A.F. Clark · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Sep 1999 6,150
3 Normal keratinization in a spontaneously immortalized aneuploid human keratinocyte cell line. Petra Boukamp, R T Petrussevska, Dirk Breitkreutz et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access Mar 1988 4,196
4 PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: Growth factors and cytokines in wound healing Stephan Barrientos, Olivera Stojadinović, Michael Samuel Golinko et al. · Wound Repair and Regeneration Sep 2008 3,599
5 Selective Photothermolysis: Precise Microsurgery by Selective Absorption of Pulsed Radiation R. Rox Anderson, John Albert Parrish · Science 29 Apr 1983 3,481
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Where is Dermatologic Treatments and Research research done?

The largest centres of Dermatologic Treatments and Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Naples and Zagazig.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 189 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 153 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 137 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 113 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 108 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 85 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 81 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 73 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 69 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NaplesUS · 28.2 works49×
  2. ZagazigEG · 22.0 works9.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dermatologic Treatments and Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dermatologic Treatments and Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mahidol University and Iran University of Medical Sciences 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 19.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Iran University of M…Yonsei UniversityMahidol UniversityShanghai 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
1Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 72.015.1%4.1×68 +40.3%
2Mahidol UniversityThailand 71.916.7%10.9×30 +32.0%
3Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 71.828.3%9.4×16 +68.8%
4Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 71.019.9%7.2×38 +65.2%
5Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 65.911.9%9.0×55 +61.6%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 64.818.7%2.8×37 +39.0%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.110.3%2.3×43 +2.2%
8Southern Medical UniversityChina 61.519.7%6.7×24 +46.4%
9Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.629.3%1.3×13 +64.3%
10University of MichiganUnited States 59.523.1%1.2×11 +47.6%

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 Dermatologic Treatments and Research, country by country

Is Dermatologic Treatments and Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dermatologic Treatments and Research.

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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 Dermatologic Treatments and Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Dermatologic Treatments and Research 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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