Excellence Mapping: Bibliometric study of the productivity and the impact of scientific publications of the JRC: Mapping of scientific areas and application areas: Volume 2: Analysis of the JRC collaborations with world academic institutions

The present report is the second volume of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) excellence mapping. While the first volume concentrates on the productivity and the impact of the JRC scientific work, in terms of publications and citations, in general, the present volume analyses a particular subset of publications that have been jointly produced with scientists from other organisations. In particular, it analyses the co-authored publications between the JRC and the world academic institutions, which are highly ranked in different world university rankings. In the context of this analysis, three different rankings have been used (Times higher education ranking, QS world university ranking and Academic ranking of world universities) and the Top-100 academic institutions in each of them have been analysed in order to investigate: 1) the existence of formal agreements with the JRC; 2) number of co-authored publications with the JRC and 3) the scientific areas where the collaborations occur.JRC.A.2-Planning, Evaluation and Knowledge Managemen

Excellence mapping: Bibliometric study of the productivity and the impact of scientific publications of the JRC: Mapping of scientific areas and application areas: Volume 1: General analysis and benchmarking

This report analyses the productivity and the impact of the scientific work of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in specific scientific areas by means of publications and citations analysis in order to identify and map areas of excellence. The excellence mapping is structured as two volumes: the first volume concentrates on benchmarking the scientific publications and the second one on aspects of scientific collaborations. In order to benchmark the JRC impact, five indicators based on citations and size-independent metrics are used. On the basis of these indicators, the JRC performance is compared with the Top-15 organisations in the world having the highest absolute number of citations in a given scientific area, and against the world average.JRC.A.2-Planning, Evaluation and Knowledge Managemen

Immunologic and nonimmunologic sclerodermal skin conditions - review

Scleroderma-like cutaneous lesions have been found in many pathological conditions and they have the clinical appearance of sclerotic or scleroatrophic lesions. Affected skin biopsies described histopathological changes similar to those of scleroderma located strictly on the skin or those of systemic sclerosis. These skin lesions can be found in inflammatory diseases with autoimmune substrate (generalized morphea, chronic graft versus host disease, eosinophilic fasciitis), tissue storage diseases (scleredema, scleromyxedema, nephrogenyc systemic fibrosis, systemic amyloidosis), metabolic diseases (porphyrya cutanea tarda, phenylketonuria, hypothyroidism, scleredema diabeticorum), progeroid syndromes. Given the multiple etiologies of sclerodermal lesions, a correct differential diagnosis is necessary to establish the appropriate treatment