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Genital Health and Disease

Genital Health and Disease is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 role of male circumcision in reducing the risk of HIV infection, preventing penile cancer, and addressing related conditions such as human papillomavirus infection and lichen sclerosus. It also explores the impact of circumcision on sexually transmitted infections and the surgical management of penile health.

  • Male Circumcision
  • HIV Prevention
  • Penile Cancer
  • Human Papillomavirus
  • Lichen Sclerosus
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • Penile Carcinoma
  • Vulvar Disease
  • Autoimmune Disease
  • Surgical Management
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Genital Health and Disease

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

Which countries lead Genital Health and Disease research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.1k and 481 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 481 works
  3. 3 China 421 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 309 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 269 works
  6. 6 Germany 238 works
  7. 7 Italy 225 works
  8. 8 Spain 161 works
  9. 9 Brazil 160 works
  10. 10 Japan 121 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: 32.5%India: 13.6%China: 11.9%Türkiye: 8.7%6 others listed: 33.2%33%largest
United States1,148 · 32.5%India481 · 13.6%China421 · 11.9%Türkiye309 · 8.7%6 others listed1,174 · 33.2%

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

Which institutions lead Genital Health and Disease research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Genital Health and Disease research, followed by University College London and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 45 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 35 works
  4. 4 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 28 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 University of California, IrvineUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 University of MiamiUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 17 works
  10. 10 The University of SydneyAustralia 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Genital Health and Disease?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genital Health and Disease include Freddie Bray, Cyrus Cooper and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k 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 Genital Health and Disease?

The most cited paper in Genital Health and Disease is "Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide" (Jan M.M. Walboomers, Marcel V. Jacobs, M. Michele Manos et al., 1999), with 9,115 citations. Next come "The 2014 International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Consensus Conference on Gleason Grading of Prostatic Carcinoma" (3,267) and "Classification of papillomaviruses" (3,233).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide Jan M.M. Walboomers, Marcel V. Jacobs, M. Michele Manos et al. · The Journal of Pathology Open access Sep 1999 9,115
2 The 2014 International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Consensus Conference on Gleason Grading of Prostatic Carcinoma Jonathan I. Epstein, Lars Egevad, Mahul B. Amin et al. · The American Journal of Surgical Pathology 22 Oct 2015 3,267
3 Classification of papillomaviruses Ethel-Michele de Villiers, Claude Fauquet, Thomas R. Broker et al. · Virology Open access 8 May 2004 3,233
4 Pyroptosis: Gasdermin-Mediated Programmed Necrotic Cell Death Jianjin Shi, Wenqing Gao, Feng Shao · Trends in Biochemical Sciences Review 5 Dec 2016 3,222
5 Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer MARK H. SCHIFFMAN, Philip E. Castle, José Jerónimo et al. · The Lancet Sep 2007 3,039
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Genital Health and Disease research done?

The largest centres of Genital Health and Disease research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), New York (United States) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tampa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 92 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 56 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 54 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 51 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 50 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 47 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 44 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 42 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TampaUS · 24.8 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Genital Health and Disease than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Genital Health and Disease?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, Johns Hopkins University and Sichuan 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.

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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
1University College LondonUnited Kingdom 75.815.9%4.6×36 +9.0%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 72.417.4%3.4×25 +13.6%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 64.124.5%1.6×17 +126.5%
4All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 61.57.3%8.4×45 +54.6%
5University of California, IrvineUnited States 61.214.3%6.2×19 +101.9%
6New York UniversityUnited States 59.815.3%2.7×15 +43.0%
7University of MiamiUnited States 57.913.1%6.2×18 +31.3%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 57.78.3%2.9×17 +54.5%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 57.216.5%1.6×24 -20.8%
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 56.519.7%1.7×18 +16.5%

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 Genital Health and Disease, country by country

Is Genital Health and Disease research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Genital Health and Disease.

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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 Genital Health and Disease as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Genital Health and Disease 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%Genital Health and Disease10.6% 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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