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.