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Skin and Cellular Biology Research

Skin and Cellular Biology Research is a research topic within Cell Biology. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 explores the biology, pathology, and molecular mechanisms related to keratins, intermediate filaments, and associated disorders such as epidermolysis bullosa, Netherton syndrome, and ichthyoses. It covers topics including keratin expression in human tissues, mutations in genes encoding serine protease inhibitors, the role of vimentin in cell adhesion and migration, and the structure and functions of keratin proteins in various epithelia.

  • Keratins
  • Intermediate Filaments
  • Epidermolysis Bullosa
  • Vimentin
  • Netherton Syndrome
  • Desmin
  • Skin Disorders
  • Neurofilaments
  • Cornified Envelope
  • Cell Adhesion
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
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
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Skin and Cellular Biology Research

Which countries lead Skin and Cellular Biology Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (642 and 522 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 642 works
  2. 2 China 522 works
  3. 3 India 262 works
  4. 4 Japan 172 works
  5. 5 Germany 160 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 157 works
  7. 7 France 141 works
  8. 8 Italy 124 works
  9. 9 Spain 109 works
  10. 10 South Korea 83 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: 27.1%China: 22.0%India: 11.0%Japan: 7.3%6 others listed: 32.7%27%largest
United States642 · 27.1%China522 · 22.0%India262 · 11.0%Japan172 · 7.3%6 others listed775 · 32.7%

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

Which institutions lead Skin and Cellular Biology Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Skin and Cellular Biology Research research, followed by University of Freiburg and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  2. 2 University of FreiburgGermany 25 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 22 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 21 works
  6. 6 Université Paris CitéFrance 17 works
  7. 7 Yale UniversityUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 17 works
  9. 9 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Skin and Cellular Biology Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Skin and Cellular Biology Research include Shizuo Akira, Jun Wang and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  5. 5 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  6. 6 Charles M. Perou United States 263k 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 Skin and Cellular Biology Research?

The most cited paper in Skin and Cellular Biology Research is "The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells" (Roland Moll, Werner Wilhelm Franke, Dorothea L. Schiller et al., 1982), with 5,315 citations. Next come "Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by insulin mediated by protein kinase B" (5,284) and "The small GTP-binding protein rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in response to growth factors" (4,503).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells Roland Moll, Werner Wilhelm Franke, Dorothea L. Schiller et al. · Cell Nov 1982 5,315
2 Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by insulin mediated by protein kinase B Darren A.E. Cross, Dario R. Alessi, Philip Cohen et al. · Nature Dec 1995 5,284
3 The small GTP-binding protein rho regulates the assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers in response to growth factors Anne J. Ridley, Alan Hall · Cell Aug 1992 4,503
4 Cellular Motility Driven by Assembly and Disassembly of Actin Filaments Thomas Dean Pollard, Gary G. Borisy · Cell Open access Feb 2003 4,257
5 Normal keratinization in a spontaneously immortalized aneuploid human keratinocyte cell line. Petra Boukamp, R T Petrussevska, Dirk Breitkreutz et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access Mar 1988 4,196
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Where is Skin and Cellular Biology Research research done?

The largest centres of Skin and Cellular Biology Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Freiburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 75 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 73 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 69 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 51 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 40 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 39 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 35 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 33 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FreiburgDE · 26.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Skin and Cellular Biology Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Skin and Cellular Biology Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern University, University of Freiburg and Harvard 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%10%20%30%mean 16.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Univers…Harvard UniversityQueen Mary Universit…University of Freiburg
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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
1Northwestern UniversityUnited States 72.921.3%6.0×15 +20.6%
2University of FreiburgGermany 72.413.0%18.5×25 +8.5%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.517.6%2.2×21 +11.1%
4Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 69.116.6%11.3×14 +25.8%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 61.613.1%3.5×16 +19.9%
6University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 58.825.3%3.5×11 +18.0%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.113.1%6.5×17 +4.0%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 52.920.6%2.7×13 -13.0%
9Yale UniversityUnited States 51.711.3%5.3×17 -15.2%
10Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 51.712.6%5.4×17 +47.3%

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 Skin and Cellular Biology Research, country by country

Is Skin and Cellular Biology Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Skin and Cellular Biology Research.

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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 Skin and Cellular Biology Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Skin and Cellular Biology Research0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Skin and Cellular Biology 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%Skin and Cellular Biology Research10.1% 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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