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Dermatology and Skin Diseases

Dermatology and Skin Diseases is a research topic within Dermatology. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on atopic dermatitis, exploring topics such as the role of filaggrin mutations, the skin microbiome, immune dysregulation, pruritus, and the use of dupilumab in treatment. It also delves into the impact of Staphylococcus aureus and the role of TSLP in allergic inflammation.

  • Filaggrin
  • Skin Microbiome
  • TSLP
  • Eczema
  • Immune Dysregulation
  • Pruritus
  • Dupilumab
  • Epithelial Barrier
  • Th2 Cytokines
  • Staphylococcus aureus
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dermatology and Skin Diseases

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

Which countries lead Dermatology and Skin Diseases research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.3k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.3k works
  2. 2 China 1.9k works
  3. 3 India 756 works
  4. 4 Germany 607 works
  5. 5 Japan 564 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 469 works
  7. 7 South Korea 467 works
  8. 8 Italy 417 works
  9. 9 France 367 works
  10. 10 Spain 309 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: 28.5%China: 23.3%India: 9.2%Germany: 7.4%6 others listed: 31.6%29%largest
United States2,340 · 28.5%China1,911 · 23.3%India756 · 9.2%Germany607 · 7.4%6 others listed2,593 · 31.6%

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

Which institutions lead Dermatology and Skin Diseases research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Dermatology and Skin Diseases research, followed by Mount Sinai Health System and University of Copenhagen.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 85 works
  2. 2 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 68 works
  3. 3 University of CopenhagenDenmark 67 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 61 works
  5. 5 University of MiamiUnited States 59 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 55 works
  7. 7 Sanofi (France)France 49 works
  8. 8 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 47 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 46 works
  10. 10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dermatology and Skin Diseases?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dermatology and Skin Diseases include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  8. 8 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  9. 9 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  10. 10 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Dermatology and Skin Diseases?

The most cited paper in Dermatology and Skin Diseases is "Neutrophil emigration in the skin, lungs, and peritoneum: different requirements for CD11/CD18 revealed by CD18-deficient mice." (J P Mizgerd, H Kubo, G J Kutkoski et al., 1997), with 7,117 citations. Next come "Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)-a simple practical measure for routine clinical use" (5,635) and "Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation" (5,511).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Neutrophil emigration in the skin, lungs, and peritoneum: different requirements for CD11/CD18 revealed by CD18-deficient mice. J P Mizgerd, H Kubo, G J Kutkoski et al. · PubMed Open access 20 Oct 1997 7,117
2 Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)-a simple practical measure for routine clinical use Andrew Yule Finlay, Ghazala Khan · Clinical and Experimental Dermatology May 1994 5,635
3 Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation Yasmine Belkaid, Timothy Wesley Hand · Cell Open access Mar 2014 5,511
4 Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan et al. · Science Open access 2 Nov 2017 4,849
5 International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods MI Asher, Ulrich Keil, H. ROSS ANDERSON et al. · European Respiratory Journal Mar 1995 3,789
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Dermatology and Skin Diseases research done?

The largest centres of Dermatology and Skin Diseases research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tarrytown, North Chicago and Lübeck.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 285 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 218 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 186 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 183 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 164 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 154 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 148 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 124 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 110 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 97 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TarrytownUS · 25.4 works61×
  2. North ChicagoUS · 20.6 works20×
  3. LübeckDE · 25.7 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dermatology and Skin Diseases than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dermatology and Skin Diseases?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Queen's University Belfast and Humanitas 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%60%mean 20.14%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Queen's University B…Humanitas UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Copenh…
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.512.9%2.6×85 +29.8%
2Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 59.049.1%2.9×10 -3.2%
3Humanitas UniversityItaly 58.926.7%11.6×17 +181.0%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 58.512.1%6.9×67 +3.9%
5University of MiamiUnited States 57.611.4%9.3×59 +23.5%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 57.59.8%3.8×61 +31.0%
7Wroclaw Medical UniversityPoland 57.022.6%19.6×29 +29.2%
8Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 55.114.7%5.1×55 +121.9%
9Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 53.224.0%9.3×26 +149.6%
10Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 52.018.1%11.3×29 +249.8%

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 Dermatology and Skin Diseases, country by country

Is Dermatology and Skin Diseases research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dermatology and Skin Diseases.

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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 Dermatology and Skin Diseases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.049% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dermatology and Skin Diseases0.051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dermatology and Skin Diseases 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%Dermatology and Skin Diseases10.1% 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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