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Occupational and environmental lung diseases

Occupational and environmental lung diseases is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 focuses on the research related to malignant pleural mesothelioma, with a particular emphasis on topics such as BAP1 mutations, asbestos exposure, immunotherapy, occupational carcinogens, genetic predisposition, radiation therapy, tumor suppressor genes, pleurectomy/decortication, and diagnostic markers.

  • Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
  • BAP1 mutations
  • Asbestos exposure
  • Immunotherapy
  • Occupational carcinogens
  • Genetic predisposition
  • Radiation therapy
  • Tumor suppressor genes
  • Pleurectomy/decortication
  • Diagnostic markers
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Occupational and environmental lung diseases

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

Which countries lead Occupational and environmental lung diseases research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (835 and 637 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 835 works
  2. 2 China 637 works
  3. 3 Italy 255 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 241 works
  5. 5 Japan 222 works
  6. 6 India 165 works
  7. 7 France 153 works
  8. 8 Spain 133 works
  9. 9 Germany 131 works
  10. 10 Australia 130 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: 28.8%China: 21.9%Italy: 8.8%United Kingdom: 8.3%6 others listed: 32.2%29%largest
United States835 · 28.8%China637 · 21.9%Italy255 · 8.8%United Kingdom241 · 8.3%6 others listed935 · 32.2%

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

Which institutions lead Occupational and environmental lung diseases research?

By volume in 2022-now, Capital Medical University publishes the most Occupational and environmental lung diseases research, followed by Harvard University and Inserm.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Capital Medical UniversityChina 38 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  3. 3 InsermFrance 26 works
  4. 4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 Mayo ClinicUnited States 19 works
  7. 7 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 17 works
  8. 8 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  10. 10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational and environmental lung diseases?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Occupational and environmental lung diseases include Freddie Bray, Simon Iain Hay and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Isabelle Soerjomataram France 327k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  8. 8 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k 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 Occupational and environmental lung diseases?

The most cited paper in Occupational and environmental lung diseases is "Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution" (C. Arden Pope, 2002), with 8,639 citations. Next come "Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015" (7,829) and "Cellular and molecular mechanisms of fibrosis" (4,557).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution C. Arden Pope · JAMA Open access 6 Mar 2002 8,639
2 Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar et al. · The Lancet Open access654 authors Oct 2016 7,829
3 Cellular and molecular mechanisms of fibrosis Thomas A. Wynn · The Journal of Pathology Open access 27 Dec 2007 4,557
4 Mechanisms of fibrosis: therapeutic translation for fibrotic disease Thomas A. Wynn, Thirumalai R. Ramalingam · Nature Medicine Open access Jul 2012 3,589
5 Phase III Study of Pemetrexed in Combination With Cisplatin Versus Cisplatin Alone in Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Nicholas J. Vogelzang, James J. Rusthoven, James Thomas Symanowski et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology 14 Jul 2003 3,089
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Where is Occupational and environmental lung diseases research done?

The largest centres of Occupational and environmental lung diseases research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 115 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 47 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 47 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 45 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 44 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 36 works
  9. 9 BarcelonaSpain 35 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Occupational and environmental lung diseases?

Among universities, judged by research, Capital Medical University, Harvard University and Imperial College London 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.

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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
1Capital Medical UniversityChina 78.717.1%10.0×38 +67.1%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.918.5%2.8×32 +3.4%
3Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 65.017.9%4.7×17 +48.6%
4University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 62.821.9%4.2×11 +18.4%
5University of Colorado DenverUnited States 61.525.7%7.0×8 +21.9%
6University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom 60.021.4%10.6×10 +21.3%
7Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.821.2%13.6×12 +895.6%
8North China University of Science and TechnologyChina 56.422.0%22.7×13 +20.7%
9Monash UniversityAustralia 55.714.7%4.3×15 +43.3%
10Zhengzhou UniversityChina 54.623.3%3.0×13 +201.9%

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 Occupational and environmental lung diseases, country by country

Is Occupational and environmental lung diseases research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Occupational and environmental lung 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 Occupational and environmental lung diseases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Occupational and environmental lung 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%Occupational and environmental lung diseases10.4% 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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