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ArticleThe Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology2025

The Colorimetric Scale for Skin of Color Should Replace the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale for Classifying Individuals with Darker Skin.

Philip R Cohen

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Article in The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Philip R CohenDr. Cohen is with the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, California; the Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, California; and the Maples Center for Forensic Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida.

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6 · The paper itself

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ColorcolorimetricethnicFitzpatrickracialscaleskin

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PMID40575605
PMCPMC12189204

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