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Equine research

Equine is a subfield of Veterinary. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: domesticated four-footed mammal from the equine family.

Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
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Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Equine

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Equine research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil rank highest in Equine. By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (741 and 274 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States #1 all time 0.81× excellence · 1.55× journals · 100% breadth 8.3% top 10% · 657 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom #2 all time 1.30× excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth 11.8% top 10% · 244 works
  3. 3 Brazil #11 all time 0.54× excellence · 0.32× journals · 100% breadth 3.9% top 10% · 225 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 3 countries ranked in Equine. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Equine

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 741 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 274 works
  3. 3 Brazil 256 works
  4. 4 Germany 154 works
  5. 5 Italy 140 works
  6. 6 Australia 115 works
  7. 7 France 108 works
  8. 8 China 93 works
  9. 9 Canada 87 works
  10. 10 Poland 79 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 36.2%United Kingdom: 13.4%Brazil: 12.5%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 30.4%36%largest
United States741 · 36.2%United Kingdom274 · 13.4%Brazil256 · 12.5%Germany154 · 7.5%6 others listed621 · 30.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Equine research?

By volume in 2022-now, Colorado State University publishes the most Equine research, followed by University of California, Davis and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 University of California, DavisUnited States 45 works
  3. 3 Cornell UniversityUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 33 works
  5. 5 University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, FoundationGermany 33 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 30 works
  8. 8 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 27 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 25 works
  10. 10 University of GuelphCanada 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Equine?

Counting only their work in Equine, C. Wayne McIlwraith, Patricia A. Harris and Sue Dyson have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 C. Wayne McIlwraith United States · #408,165 worldwide overall 22.8 of 98 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Patricia A. Harris #1,541,506 worldwide overall 27.8 of 121 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Sue Dyson United Kingdom · #1,796,802 worldwide overall 26.5 of 113 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 P. René van Weeren Netherlands · #929,984 worldwide overall 21.0 of 100 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Catherine M. McGowan United Kingdom · #567,715 worldwide overall 15.7 of 57 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 David D. Frisbie United States · #323,272 worldwide overall 12.4 of 37 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Gina L. Pinchbeck United Kingdom · #406,079 worldwide overall 12.4 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Marie Rhodin Sweden · #397,899 worldwide overall 12.2 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 C. J. PROUDMAN United Kingdom · #870,581 worldwide overall 11.3 of 27 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Thilo Pfau United Kingdom · #809,050 worldwide overall 14.7 of 52 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Equine alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 66,150 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Equine researchers

What are the most cited papers in Equine?

The most cited paper in Equine is "Relationship between condition score, physical measurements and body fat percentage in mares" (D.R. Henneke, G.D. Potter, Jack L. Kreider et al., 1983), with 1,947 citations. Next come "Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche" (1,523) and "The Beaver Dam Eye Study" (1,344).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Relationship between condition score, physical measurements and body fat percentage in mares D.R. Henneke, G.D. Potter, Jack L. Kreider et al. · Equine Veterinary Journal Oct 1983 1,947
2 Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche Yanming Bi, Driss Ehirchiou, Tina M. Kilts et al. · Nature Medicine 9 Sep 2007 1,523
3 The Beaver Dam Eye Study Ronald Klein, Ronald Klein, Scot E. Moss et al. · Ophthalmology 1992 1,344
4 Veterinary Epidemiologic Research Caroline J Hewson · Applied Animal Behaviour Science 8 May 2004 1,197
5 Estimation of volume of epithelial lining fluid recovered by lavage using urea as marker of dilution Steven I. Rennard, Guy Basset, Denise Lecossier et al. · Journal of Applied Physiology Feb 1986 1,141
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Equine research done?

The largest centres of Equine research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Fort Collins (United States) and Davis (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Newmarket.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 68 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  3. 3 Fort CollinsUnited States 46 works
  4. 4 DavisUnited States 46 works
  5. 5 LexingtonUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 HanoverGermany 35 works
  7. 7 UppsalaSweden 33 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 29 works
  10. 10 NewmarketUnited Kingdom 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NewmarketGB · 29.2 works1236×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Equine than the world average.

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Equine research by country

The best places for Equine research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Equine?

Among universities, judged by research, Cornell University, University of California, Davis and University of Pennsylvania score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Cornell UniversityUnited States 81.8- (#1)9.9%11.5×41 +22.9%
2University of California, DavisUnited States 68.8- (#2)11.0%20.8×45 -3.9%
3University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 55.6- (#4)12.2%10.5×30 +1.4%
4Colorado State UniversityUnited States 54.7- (#5)3.9%48.6×46 +7.8%
5University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 54.1- (#3)9.7%8.2×19 -19.5%
6Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 48.9- (#9)17.0%65.7×27 -4.6%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 46.6- (#6)16.4%9.0×18 -35.5%
8Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 42.6- (#10)12.7%283.0×33 -28.5%
9University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 40.7- (#11)15.0%14.4×22 -17.5%
10University of ZurichSwitzerland 39.6- (#12)9.7%12.5×24 +7.3%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Equine, country by country

Is Equine research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Equine as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Equine0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Equine over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

What does Equine include?

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