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Ocular and Laser Science Research

Ocular and Laser Science Research is a research topic within Ophthalmology. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 the effects of laser radiation on ocular health, including retinal damage, macular injury, thermal damage thresholds, and the hazards associated with laser pointers. It also discusses guidelines for exposure limits, choroidal neovascularization, and the impact of infrared and visible radiation on the eyes.

  • Laser Eye Injuries
  • Retinal Damage
  • Ocular Radiation Exposure
  • ICNIRP Guidelines
  • Macular Injury
  • Thermal Damage Thresholds
  • Laser Pointer Hazards
  • Choroidal Neovascularization
  • Infrared and Visible Radiation
  • Photothermal Damage
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ocular and Laser Science Research

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

Which countries lead Ocular and Laser Science Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (751 and 391 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 751 works
  2. 2 United States 391 works
  3. 3 Germany 159 works
  4. 4 India 132 works
  5. 5 Russia 97 works
  6. 6 Japan 92 works
  7. 7 France 86 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 84 works
  9. 9 Italy 58 works
  10. 10 South Korea 54 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.

China: 39.5%United States: 20.5%Germany: 8.4%India: 6.9%6 others listed: 24.7%39%largest
China751 · 39.5%United States391 · 20.5%Germany159 · 8.4%India132 · 6.9%6 others listed470 · 24.7%

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

Which institutions lead Ocular and Laser Science Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Ocular and Laser Science Research research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 29 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 22 works
  5. 5 Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 18 works
  6. 6 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 16 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 16 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  9. 9 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 13 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ocular and Laser Science Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ocular and Laser Science Research include George Davey Smith, Jost Bruno Jonas and Tien Yin Wong.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  3. 3 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 237k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Ronald Klein United States 214k citations
  6. 6 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k 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 Ocular and Laser Science Research?

The most cited paper in Ocular and Laser Science Research is "Selective Photothermolysis: Precise Microsurgery by Selective Absorption of Pulsed Radiation" (R. Rox Anderson, John Albert Parrish, 1983), with 3,481 citations. Next come "Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials" (3,246) and "Mechanisms of Pulsed Laser Ablation of Biological Tissues" (1,922).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Selective Photothermolysis: Precise Microsurgery by Selective Absorption of Pulsed Radiation R. Rox Anderson, John Albert Parrish · Science 29 Apr 1983 3,481
2 Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials Rafael R. Gattass, Eric Mazur · Nature Photonics 31 Mar 2008 3,246
3 Mechanisms of Pulsed Laser Ablation of Biological Tissues Alfred Vogel, Vasan Venugopalan · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access Feb 2003 1,922
4 The National Cancer Data Base report on cutaneous and noncutaneous melanoma Alfred E. Chang, Lucy Hynds Karnell, Herman R. Menck · Cancer Open access 15 Oct 1998 1,676
5 The Nuts and Bolts of Low-level Laser (Light) Therapy Hoon Chung, Tianhong Dai, Sulbha K. Sharma et al. · Annals of Biomedical Engineering Open access 2 Nov 2011 1,636
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ocular and Laser Science Research research done?

The largest centres of Ocular and Laser Science Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changchun.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 166 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 58 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 56 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 52 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 40 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 37 works
  7. 7 ChangchunChina 33 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 30 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 27 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChangchunCN · 32.6 works5.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ocular and Laser Science Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ocular and Laser Science Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University 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.

0%20%40%mean 18.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Harbin Institute of …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…University of Chines…
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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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 83.423.8%6.2×22 +65.8%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 70.323.7%3.2×12 +41.7%
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.935.0%1.6×10 +52.0%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.717.8%4.1×15 +33.6%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 53.110.4%6.1×16 +10.9%
6National University of Defense TechnologyChina 52.717.6%9.4×16 -5.9%
7University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 47.620.8%3.1×8 +18.7%
8Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 44.617.5%2.6×10 +34.7%
9Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 41.89.7%6.7×12 -6.9%
10Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 40.25.6%37.0×18 -25.4%

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 Ocular and Laser Science Research, country by country

Is Ocular and Laser Science Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010.

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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 Ocular and Laser Science Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Ocular and Laser Science Research0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ocular and Laser Science Research 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%Ocular and Laser Science Research10.3% 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.

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