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Nail Diseases and Treatments

Nail Diseases and Treatments is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers the epidemiological trends, diagnosis, and management of fungal skin infections, with a focus on onychomycosis, dermatophytes, Malassezia, and associated conditions such as seborrheic dermatitis and tinea capitis. It also discusses antifungal susceptibility patterns, virulence traits, and the global burden of these infections.

  • Onychomycosis
  • Dermatophytes
  • Malassezia
  • Epidemiology
  • Antifungal Therapy
  • Diagnosis
  • Nail Infections
  • Seborrheic Dermatitis
  • Tinea Capitis
  • Virulence Traits
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nail Diseases and Treatments

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

Which countries lead Nail Diseases and Treatments research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.1k and 822 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 822 works
  3. 3 China 443 works
  4. 4 Brazil 338 works
  5. 5 Spain 194 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 190 works
  7. 7 France 185 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 177 works
  9. 9 Germany 169 works
  10. 10 Italy 160 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: 29.3%India: 21.7%China: 11.7%Brazil: 8.9%6 others listed: 28.4%29%largest
United States1,112 · 29.3%India822 · 21.7%China443 · 11.7%Brazil338 · 8.9%6 others listed1,075 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Nail Diseases and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Nail Diseases and Treatments research, followed by Cornell University and University of Delhi.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 47 works
  2. 2 Cornell UniversityUnited States 45 works
  3. 3 University of DelhiIndia 35 works
  4. 4 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 25 works
  5. 5 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 25 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 22 works
  8. 8 University of MiamiUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 21 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nail Diseases and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nail Diseases and Treatments include Gregory Y.H. Lip, Róbert Langer and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  5. 5 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k citations
  6. 6 Didier Raoult France 232k 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 Nail Diseases and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Nail Diseases and Treatments is "The skin microbiome" (Elizabeth A. Grice, Julia A. Segre, 2011), with 3,189 citations. Next come "The human skin microbiome" (2,820) and "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Cryptococcal Disease: 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America" (2,710).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The skin microbiome Elizabeth A. Grice, Julia A. Segre · Nature Reviews Microbiology ReviewOpen access 16 Mar 2011 3,189
2 The human skin microbiome Allyson L. Byrd, Yasmine Belkaid, Julia A. Segre · Nature Reviews Microbiology Review 15 Jan 2018 2,820
3 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Cryptococcal Disease: 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America John R. Perfect, William E. Dismukes, Françoise Dromer et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 4 Jan 2010 2,710
4 Estimation of the current global burden of cryptococcal meningitis among persons living with HIV/AIDS Benjamin J. Park, Kathleen A. Wannemuehler, Barbara J. Marston et al. · AIDS 20 Feb 2009 2,058
5 Global burden of disease of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: an updated analysis Radha Rajasingham, Rachel M. Smith, Benjamin J. Park et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access 5 May 2017 1,994
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nail Diseases and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Nail Diseases and Treatments research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Delhi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 79 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 75 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 66 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 63 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 53 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 52 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 50 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 48 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DelhiIN · 27.9 works8.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Nail Diseases and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Cornell University, University of Toronto and Radboud University Nijmegen 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%mean 19.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Radboud University N…University of TorontoDuke UniversityCornell University
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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
1Cornell UniversityUnited States 71.510.4%6.6×45 +43.4%
2University of TorontoCanada 68.826.4%1.8×19 +5.0%
3Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 65.929.3%4.3×14 -5.9%
4Duke UniversityUnited States 65.723.7%2.9×12 +20.8%
5University of DelhiIndia 63.29.8%9.9×35 +26.7%
6University of ZurichSwitzerland 61.934.6%2.5×9 +0.8%
7Université Libre de BruxellesBelgium 61.516.7%8.1×13 +74.4%
8Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 58.617.0%2.2×18 +46.0%
9University of MiamiUnited States 58.317.8%6.6×21 +2.3%
10All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58.24.4%8.2×48 +40.7%

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 Nail Diseases and Treatments, country by country

Is Nail Diseases and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nail Diseases 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 Nail Diseases and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nail Diseases 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%Nail Diseases and Treatments10.4% 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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