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Ocular Surface and Contact Lens

Ocular Surface and Contact Lens is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 39k 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 diagnosis, classification, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of dry eye disease. It covers topics such as ocular surface, tear film, meibomian gland dysfunction, corneal nerves, inflammatory cytokines, and the impact of contact lens wear on dry eye. The papers also discuss various diagnostic methodologies and the prevalence of dry eye in different populations.

  • Dry Eye Disease
  • Ocular Surface
  • Tear Film
  • Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
  • Corneal Nerves
  • Diagnostic Methodology
  • Epidemiology
  • Management and Therapy
  • Inflammatory Cytokines
  • Contact Lens
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ocular Surface and Contact Lens

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

Which countries lead Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 809 works
  4. 4 Spain 319 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 305 works
  6. 6 Japan 299 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 298 works
  8. 8 Germany 286 works
  9. 9 South Korea 261 works
  10. 10 Italy 253 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: 27.0%United States: 21.5%India: 14.7%Spain: 5.8%6 others listed: 31.0%27%largest
China1,482 · 27.0%United States1,181 · 21.5%India809 · 14.7%Spain319 · 5.8%6 others listed1,701 · 31.0%

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

Which institutions lead Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research?

By volume in 2022-now, L V Prasad Eye Institute publishes the most Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research, followed by Wenzhou Medical University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 85 works
  2. 2 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 80 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 58 works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 54 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 53 works
  6. 6 Peking UniversityChina 51 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 51 works
  8. 8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 50 works
  9. 9 Fudan UniversityChina 47 works
  10. 10 Tianjin Medical UniversityChina 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ocular Surface and Contact Lens?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ocular Surface and Contact Lens include Jost Bruno Jonas, Shizuo Akira and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Hans C. Clevers Netherlands 260k 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 Surface and Contact Lens?

The most cited paper in Ocular Surface and Contact Lens is "Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels" (Jeong‐Yun Sun, Xuanhe Zhao, Widusha R. K. Illeperuma et al., 2012), with 5,503 citations. Next come "Worldwide time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat multicountry cross-sectional surveys" (4,266) and "The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study" (3,729).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels Jeong‐Yun Sun, Xuanhe Zhao, Widusha R. K. Illeperuma et al. · Nature Open access Sep 2012 5,503
2 Worldwide time trends in the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in childhood: ISAAC Phases One and Three repeat multicountry cross-sectional surveys M. Innes Asher, Stephen Montefort, Bengt Björkstén et al. · The Lancet Open access Aug 2006 4,266
3 The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Michael A. Kass · Archives of Ophthalmology Open access Jun 2002 3,729
4 TFOS DEWS II Definition and Classification Report Jennifer P. Craig, Kelly Kinney Nichols, Esen K. Akpek et al. · The Ocular Surface Jul 2017 3,402
5 Reliability and Validity of the Ocular Surface Disease Index Rhett M. Schiffman · Archives of Ophthalmology May 2000 3,090
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research done?

The largest centres of Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wenzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 205 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 134 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 125 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 118 works
  5. 5 HyderabadIndia 105 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 103 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 101 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 91 works
  10. 10 WenzhouChina 83 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WenzhouCN · 82.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ocular Surface and Contact Lens than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ocular Surface and Contact Lens?

Among universities, judged by research, Wenzhou Medical University, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and Shenyang Pharmaceutical 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%60%mean 24.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Birla Institute of T…Shenyang Pharmaceuti…Queen's University B…Wenzhou Medical Univ…
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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
1Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 66.721.7%22.6×80 +151.4%
2Birla Institute of Technology and Science, PilaniIndia 59.352.5%3.2×9 +89.6%
3Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 58.546.4%12.0×11 +23.5%
4Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 57.045.1%3.9×9 +62.2%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.330.6%1.8×34 +69.3%
6Capital Medical UniversityChina 52.012.1%6.7×50 +75.7%
7Tianjin Medical UniversityChina 51.711.6%17.3×45 +89.6%
8Fudan UniversityChina 51.110.9%4.2×47 +44.2%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 50.810.2%3.7×54 +17.0%
10Peking UniversityChina 49.26.2%3.5×51 +46.6%

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 Surface and Contact Lens, country by country

Is Ocular Surface and Contact Lens research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ocular Surface and Contact Lens.

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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 Surface and Contact Lens as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ocular Surface and Contact Lens 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.

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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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