Leading experts and related directions
The five authors with the most publications in this study were Bachert Claus, Schleimer Robert P, Schlosser Rodney J, Zhang Luo, and Kern Robert C, with over 80 publications. We searched that Prof. Bachert Claus also focused on biological studies in 2022, and the latest article in which he participated showed that Omalizumab’s effectiveness is independent of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin sensitization[28]. Moreover, he also published as the first author of the study of the therapeutic effect of Dupilumab and Mepolizumab in CRS patients [27,29]. In addition, he constructed a decision tree model through the combination of nasal secretion biomarkers and clinical characteristics of CRS patients to accurately define type 2 CRSwNP patients in a non-invasive way to give more rational treatment to patients in the clinic[30]. Prof. Bachert Claus’ group has focused on various directions, including endotypes clustering of CRS patients based on different molecules, surgery, biological therapies, pathophysiological mechanisms, and so on [28-35]. Recently, Prof. Schleimer Robert P has focused on frontier molecules and treatments such as Retinoic acid, Nasal secretion tissue plasminogen activator, and oral CRTH2 antagonist [36-38]. On the other hand, Prof. Schlosser Rodney J focused more on olfaction and the surgical treatment of CRS [39-41].
Prof. Bachert Claus was the author with the highest number of co-citations, followed by Prof. Fokkens WJ. and Prof. Gevaert P. A high number of co-citations often means that the author has a large amount of seminal research in the field that has been cited several times by subsequent researchers. They were all involved in compiling the most co-cited publication in research of CRS and NPs: European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2012. Interestingly, all three authors had recently published research on biologics as first authors[27,29, 42-43]. As mentioned in the previous article, this fact reaffirmed the importance of biologics research in CRS and NPs research.