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Med."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Skin diseases contribute to a massive and often overlooked component of the global disease burden, highlighting the need for a better understanding of the dermatologic research landscape and its key drivers of excellence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To explore the national, institutional, and individual-level determinants that shape dermatologic research excellence worldwide.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We analyzed the publicly available Stanford\u2013Elsevier Lists of the top 2% most-cited scientists (2017\u20132023), extracting scholars classified in\n                      <jats:italic>Dermatology &amp;amp; Venereal Diseases<\/jats:italic>\n                      to identify excellent dermatologic scholars (EDS). EDS records were then linked, based on affiliation data, to country-level indicators (Universal Health Coverage [UHC], Human Development Index [HDI], Gender Inequality Index [GII], national budgets, and disease burden), institutional rankings (Quacquarelli Symonds [QS], Times Higher Education [THE], and Academic Ranking of World Universities [ARWU]), and individual attributes (gender and academic age). Outcomes were EDS counts by country\/institution and scholar-level bibliometrics (citations excluding self-citations, modified\n                      <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic>\n                      -index, and composite score).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      EDS were overwhelmingly based in high-income countries (97.9%\n                      <jats:italic>career-long<\/jats:italic>\n                      ; 94.5%\n                      <jats:italic>single-year<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) with the EURO region contributing ~48% of EDS and exhibiting highest densities (0.585 and 0.482 per 100,000), while low-income settings had ~0.002. The top 20 institutions hosted ~21% of all EDS. Women comprised 22.9% (\n                      <jats:italic>career-long<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) and 28.6% (\n                      <jats:italic>single-year<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) of EDS; men had higher median citations and modified\n                      <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic>\n                      -indices. Academic age correlated positively with modified\n                      <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic>\n                      -index (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03c1<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.312\n                      <jats:italic>career-long<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) and C-score (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03c1<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.145\n                      <jats:italic>single-year<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), and each additional year predicted higher citations (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f84.1\n                      <jats:italic>career-long<\/jats:italic>\n                      ;\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f2.6\n                      <jats:italic>single-year<\/jats:italic>\n                      ). In adjusted models, higher HDI and UHC aligned with higher citation counts.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Dermatologic research excellence remains concentrated in high-income, predominantly European and Anglophone ecosystems, within a small cadre of elite institutions and among older, male scholars. Policymakers should focus on targeted funding for under-represented regions and institutional reforms to ensure equitable career advancement for women in academic dermatology.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmed.2026.1728400","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,13]],"date-time":"2026-04-13T13:06:16Z","timestamp":1776085576000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["National-, institutional-, and individual-level determinants of dermatologic research excellence: an analysis of Stanford\u2013Elsevier Lists of the top 2% scholars worldwide (2017\u20132023)"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Abanoub","family":"Riad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Masaryk Centre for Global Health (MCGH), Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University","place":["Brno, Czechia"]},{"name":"Department of Public Health, Faculty of 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