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Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting

Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 6.8k research works in it since 1953. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the global impact of counterfeit drugs, particularly in the context of antimalarial and other essential medicines. It addresses the public health risks, pharmaceutical counterfeiting, medicine adulteration, and the development of detection technologies to combat the proliferation of counterfeit drugs. The cluster also discusses the challenges associated with online pharmacies and emphasizes the importance of ensuring drug quality for patient safety.

  • Counterfeit Drugs
  • Substandard Medicines
  • Antimalarial Drugs
  • Drug Quality
  • Public Health Risks
  • Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting
  • Medicine Adulteration
  • Detection Technologies
  • Online Pharmacies
  • Patient Safety
Research works
6.8k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
698
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+42%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting

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

Which countries lead Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (387 and 321 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 387 works
  2. 2 United States 321 works
  3. 3 China 146 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 122 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 96 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 72 works
  7. 7 Ethiopia 70 works
  8. 8 France 51 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 49 works
  10. 10 Brazil 49 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.

India: 28.4%United States: 23.5%China: 10.7%United Kingdom: 9.0%6 others listed: 28.4%28%largest
India387 · 28.4%United States321 · 23.5%China146 · 10.7%United Kingdom122 · 9.0%6 others listed387 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hindu College of Pharmacy publishes the most Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research, followed by University of Gondar and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hindu College of PharmacyIndia 12 works
  2. 2 University of GondarEthiopia 12 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 12 works
  4. 4 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 12 works
  5. 5 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 11 works
  6. 6 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 10 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 9 works
  8. 8 Muhimbili University of Health and Allied SciencesTanzania 8 works
  9. 9 University of GhanaGhana 8 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting include Matthias Egger, Elie A. Akl and Peter Christian Gøtzsche.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  3. 3 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k 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 Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting?

The most cited paper in Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting is "Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria" (Elizabeth A. Ashley et al., 2014), with 2,295 citations. Next come "Oral Sildenafil in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction" (2,158) and "Internet of Things: Applications and Challenges in Technology and Standardization" (1,499).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Elizabeth A. Ashley et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 Jul 2014 2,295
2 Oral Sildenafil in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction Irwin Goldstein, Tom F. Lue, Harin Padma-Nathan et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 14 May 1998 2,158
3 Internet of Things: Applications and Challenges in Technology and Standardization Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Jaydip Sen · Wireless Personal Communications 8 Apr 2011 1,499
4 An analysis of the attrition of drug candidates from four major pharmaceutical companies Michael J. Waring, John E. Arrowsmith, Andrew R. Leach et al. · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Review 19 Jun 2015 1,467
5 The threat of antimicrobial resistance in developing countries: causes and control strategies James Ayukepi Ayukekbong, Michel L. Ntemgwa, Andrew N. Atabe · Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Open access 15 May 2017 1,356
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Where is Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research done?

The largest centres of Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New Delhi (India), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 44 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 30 works
  3. 3 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 26 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 26 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 22 works
  6. 6 Addis AbabaEthiopia 22 works
  7. 7 MumbaiIndia 21 works
  8. 8 KampalaUganda 19 works
  9. 9 PuneIndia 19 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gondar, King Saud University and Hindu College of Pharmacy 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%10%20%mean 10.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GondarKing Saud UniversityUniversity of North …Hindu College of Pha…
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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
1University of GondarEthiopia 72.412.5%38.1×12 +62.3%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.012.4%5.5×12 +218.8%
3Hindu College of PharmacyIndia 50.12.4%54.1×12 +324.1%
4University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 49.36.0%3.1×12 +65.5%
5Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 47.57.9%20.8×10 +25.5%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.319.4%3.1×9 -35.5%

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 Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting, country by country

Is Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting.

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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 Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting 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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