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Urticaria and Related Conditions

Urticaria and Related Conditions is a research topic within Rheumatology. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 focuses on the diagnosis, classification, and management of urticaria, particularly chronic spontaneous urticaria. It explores the role of autoimmune factors, the effectiveness of treatments like omalizumab, and the impact on quality of life. Additionally, it delves into the association with thyroid autoimmunity and the use of autoantibodies as markers for diagnosis.

  • Urticaria
  • Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
  • Diagnosis
  • Management
  • Autoimmune
  • Omalizumab
  • Cholinergic Urticaria
  • Quality of Life
  • Autoantibodies
  • Thyroid Autoimmunity
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urticaria and Related Conditions

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

Which countries lead Urticaria and Related Conditions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 455 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 455 works
  3. 3 Germany 319 works
  4. 4 India 307 works
  5. 5 Japan 272 works
  6. 6 France 215 works
  7. 7 Italy 194 works
  8. 8 Spain 180 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 163 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 158 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: 32.0%China: 13.7%Germany: 9.6%India: 9.2%6 others listed: 35.5%32%largest
United States1,066 · 32.0%China455 · 13.7%Germany319 · 9.6%India307 · 9.2%6 others listed1,182 · 35.5%

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

Which institutions lead Urticaria and Related Conditions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Urticaria and Related Conditions research, followed by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 38 works
  2. 2 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 35 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 23 works
  5. 5 Novartis (Switzerland)Switzerland 22 works
  6. 6 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 22 works
  7. 7 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 University of MiamiUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urticaria and Related Conditions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urticaria and Related Conditions include Guido Kroemer, Shizuo Akira and Cyrus Cooper.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  3. 3 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  4. 4 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  8. 8 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  9. 9 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Urticaria and Related Conditions?

The most cited paper in Urticaria and Related Conditions is "Mast cells" (D D Metcalfe, Dana Baram, Yoseph A. Mekori, 1997), with 1,723 citations. Next come "Mutation of a new gene encoding a putative pyrin-like protein causes familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome and Muckle–Wells syndrome" (1,691) and "IgE, mast cells, basophils, and eosinophils" (1,684).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mast cells D D Metcalfe, Dana Baram, Yoseph A. Mekori · Physiological Reviews Oct 1997 1,723
2 Mutation of a new gene encoding a putative pyrin-like protein causes familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome and Muckle–Wells syndrome Hal M. Hoffman, James L. Mueller, David H. Broide et al. · Nature Genetics Open access 22 Oct 2001 1,691
3 IgE, mast cells, basophils, and eosinophils Kelly D. Stone, Calman Prussin, Dean D. Metcalfe · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Open access Feb 2010 1,684
4 2012 American College of Rheumatology guidelines for management of gout. Part 1: Systematic nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapeutic approaches to hyperuricemia Dinesh Khanna et al. · Arthritis Care & Research Open access 28 Sep 2012 1,542
5 The EAACI/GA²LEN/EDF/WAO guideline for the definition, classification, diagnosis and management of urticaria Torsten Zuberbier et al. · Allergy Open access 16 Jan 2018 1,456
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Where is Urticaria and Related Conditions research done?

The largest centres of Urticaria and Related Conditions research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Berlin (Germany).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 74 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 73 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 73 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 72 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 72 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 57 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 47 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 42 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 39 works
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Where is the best place to study Urticaria and Related Conditions?

Among universities, judged by research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Miami and Harvard University score highest, combining citation 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 25.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Freie Universität Be…Humboldt-Universität…University of MiamiHarvard 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.

Citation 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
1Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 78.631.5%10.3×16 +388.3%
2University of MiamiUnited States 69.724.2%7.8×20 +48.0%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.114.4%2.8×38 -6.5%
4Freie Universität BerlinGermany 68.241.1%5.7×10 +131.0%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.019.9%3.8×25 -9.4%
6University of LübeckGermany 61.721.8%27.4×17 -33.6%
7McGill UniversityCanada 60.322.6%3.0×13 +41.4%
8University of TorontoCanada 59.418.6%2.0×17 +25.6%
9University of CincinnatiUnited States 58.328.9%4.9×12 -1.3%
10University of BernSwitzerland 57.227.3%4.0×9 +3.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Urticaria and Related Conditions, country by country

Is Urticaria and Related Conditions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Urticaria and Related Conditions.

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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 Urticaria and Related Conditions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Urticaria and Related Conditions 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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