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Skin Protection and Aging

Skin Protection and Aging is a research topic within Dermatology. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the mechanisms of skin aging and photodamage, focusing on the effects of UV radiation, oxidative stress, skin cancer, photoaging, antioxidants, collagen production, sunscreen use, matrix metalloproteinases, DNA damage, and topical protection.

  • UV Radiation
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Skin Cancer
  • Photoaging
  • Antioxidants
  • Collagen Production
  • Sunscreen Use
  • Matrix Metalloproteinases
  • DNA Damage
  • Topical Protection
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Skin Protection and Aging

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

Which countries lead Skin Protection and Aging research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 495 works
  4. 4 South Korea 404 works
  5. 5 Brazil 343 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 267 works
  7. 7 Japan 246 works
  8. 8 France 242 works
  9. 9 Germany 240 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 210 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: 26.8%China: 23.9%India: 10.0%South Korea: 8.1%6 others listed: 31.2%27%largest
United States1,328 · 26.8%China1,184 · 23.9%India495 · 10.0%South Korea404 · 8.1%6 others listed1,548 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Skin Protection and Aging research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Skin Protection and Aging research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 41 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 34 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 33 works
  5. 5 L'Oréal (France)France 33 works
  6. 6 InsermFrance 27 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 27 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 26 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Skin Protection and Aging?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Skin Protection and Aging include Ahmedin Jemal, Freddie Bray and Rob Knight.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  4. 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  8. 8 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  9. 9 Isabelle Soerjomataram France 327k citations
  10. 10 Róbert Langer United States 303k 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 Protection and Aging?

The most cited paper in Skin Protection and Aging is "A biomarker that identifies senescent human cells in culture and in aging skin in vivo." (Goberdhan P. Dimri, X Lee, George Basile et al., 1995), with 7,565 citations. Next come "Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-Responsive Changes in Collagen and Elastin Networks in Skin" (7,308) and "Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress" (3,020).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A biomarker that identifies senescent human cells in culture and in aging skin in vivo. Goberdhan P. Dimri, X Lee, George Basile et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 26 Sep 1995 7,565
2 Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-Responsive Changes in Collagen and Elastin Networks in Skin Jazli Aziz, Hafiz Shezali, Zamri Radzi et al. · Skin Pharmacology and Physiology 2016 7,308
3 Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress Elissa S. Epel, Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, Jue Lin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Dec 2004 3,020
4 Photodynamic therapy and anti-tumour immunity Ana P. Castaño, Paweł Mróz, Michael R. Hamblin · Nature reviews. Cancer ReviewOpen access 23 Jun 2006 2,694
5 The role of senescent cells in ageing Jan M. van Deursen · Nature Open access 20 May 2014 2,685
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Skin Protection and Aging research done?

The largest centres of Skin Protection and Aging research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Clichy and Coral Gables.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 182 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 163 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 130 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 102 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 91 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 88 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 85 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 73 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 63 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ClichyFR · 25.9 works145×
  2. Coral GablesUS · 20.7 works5.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Skin Protection and Aging than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Skin Protection and Aging?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Gachon University and Medical University of Białystok 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 22.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Medical University o…Gachon UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Harvard University
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.46.4%2.4×49 +22.6%
2Gachon UniversitySouth Korea 63.123.7%9.0×14 +170.3%
3Medical University of BiałystokPoland 62.531.7%18.4×10 +7.6%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 62.420.4%1.4×27 +92.3%
5Universidade do PortoPortugal 61.528.7%2.1×9 +15.2%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 60.122.3%1.5×22 +91.2%
7Fudan UniversityChina 56.817.6%2.5×26 +156.9%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.220.1%1.2×22 +129.8%
9South China University of TechnologyChina 54.929.1%1.1×8 +83.3%
10Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.826.1%0.9×10 +71.2%

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 Protection and Aging, country by country

Is Skin Protection and Aging research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Skin Protection and Aging.

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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 Protection and Aging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Skin Protection and Aging0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Skin Protection and Aging 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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