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Male Breast Health Studies

Male Breast Health Studies is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 5.7k research works in it since 1951. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on male breast cancer and gynecomastia, covering topics such as diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, risk factors, hormonal therapy, genetics, survival, and molecular subtypes. It explores the differences and similarities between male and female breast cancer, as well as the management of gynecomastia in different age groups.

  • Male Breast Cancer
  • Gynecomastia
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Epidemiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Hormonal Therapy
  • Genetics
  • Survival
  • Molecular Subtypes
Research works
5.7k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
588
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Male Breast Health Studies

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

Which countries lead Male Breast Health Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (329 and 168 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 329 works
  2. 2 China 168 works
  3. 3 India 87 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 72 works
  5. 5 Germany 56 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 53 works
  7. 7 Italy 53 works
  8. 8 Brazil 45 works
  9. 9 Japan 42 works
  10. 10 Spain 29 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: 35.2%China: 18.0%India: 9.3%United Kingdom: 7.7%6 others listed: 29.8%35%largest
United States329 · 35.2%China168 · 18.0%India87 · 9.3%United Kingdom72 · 7.7%6 others listed278 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Male Breast Health Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Male Breast Health Studies research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 11 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 11 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 7 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 5 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 5 works
  10. 10 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Male Breast Health Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Male Breast Health Studies include Ahmedin Jemal, Walter Churchill Willett and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Isabelle Soerjomataram France 327k citations
  5. 5 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k 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 Male Breast Health Studies?

The most cited paper in Male Breast Health Studies is "Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: Principal Results From the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial" (Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators, 2002), with 15,961 citations. Next come "Evaluation of Factors Related to Late Recurrence - Later than 10 Years after the Initial Treatment - in Primary Breast Cancer" (13,212) and "Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer" (2,868).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: Principal Results From the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators · JAMA Open access 17 Jul 2002 15,961
2 Evaluation of Factors Related to Late Recurrence - Later than 10 Years after the Initial Treatment - in Primary Breast Cancer Reiki Nishimura, Tomofumi Osako, Yasuyuki Nishiyama et al. · Oncology Open access 2013 13,212
3 Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer José Baselga et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 7 Dec 2011 2,868
4 Randomized, Controlled Intervention Trial of Male Circumcision for Reduction of HIV Infection Risk: The ANRS 1265 Trial Bertran Auvert, Dirk Taljaard, Emmanuel Lagarde et al. · PLoS Medicine Open access 18 Oct 2005 2,469
5 Sentinel-node biopsy to avoid axillary dissection in breast cancer with clinically negative lymph-nodes Umberto Veronesi, Giovanni Paganelli, Viviana Enrica Galimberti et al. · The Lancet Open access Jun 1997 1,942
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Male Breast Health Studies research done?

The largest centres of Male Breast Health Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Istanbul.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 24 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 23 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 13 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 13 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 13 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 12 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IstanbulTR · 23.5 works3.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Male Breast Health Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Male Breast Health Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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.

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 80.020.3%4.2×16 -34.7%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 20.04.1%8.3×11 +96.6%

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 Male Breast Health Studies, country by country

Is Male Breast Health Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Male Breast Health Studies.

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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 Male Breast Health Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Male Breast Health Studies 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%Male Breast Health Studies10.4% 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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