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Animal Diversity and Health Studies

Animal Diversity and Health Studies is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the compositional, technological, and nutritional aspects of camel milk, including its potential therapeutic properties in managing diabetes, its genomic characteristics, and its impact on human health. The research covers topics such as the proteins and peptides in camel milk, the effects of camel milk on glycemic control and insulin requirement, the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of camel milk, and the sustainability and production challenges of non-cattle milk.

  • Camel Milk
  • Nutritional
  • Therapeutic
  • Proteins
  • Genomic
  • Antioxidant
  • Diabetes
  • Lactoferrin
  • Milk Production
  • Health Benefits
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Animal Diversity and Health Studies

Which countries lead Animal Diversity and Health Studies research?

By volume, India and Egypt publish the most (303 and 226 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 303 works
  2. 2 Egypt 226 works
  3. 3 China 196 works
  4. 4 Iraq 174 works
  5. 5 United States 156 works
  6. 6 Russia 154 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 143 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 125 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 112 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 101 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.

India: 17.9%Egypt: 13.4%China: 11.6%Iraq: 10.3%6 others listed: 46.8%18%largest
India303 · 17.9%Egypt226 · 13.4%China196 · 11.6%Iraq174 · 10.3%6 others listed791 · 46.8%

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

Which institutions lead Animal Diversity and Health Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Animal Diversity and Health Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Baghdad.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 49 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 40 works
  3. 3 University of BaghdadIraq 30 works
  4. 4 King Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 24 works
  5. 5 Cairo UniversityEgypt 22 works
  6. 6 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 21 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works
  8. 8 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 20 works
  9. 9 United Arab Emirates UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 19 works
  10. 10 University of MosulIraq 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Animal Diversity and Health Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal Diversity and Health Studies include Jun Wang, Azeem Majeed and Ziad Ahmed Memish.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  3. 3 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  4. 4 Kwok‐Yung Yuen China 168k citations
  5. 5 Saeid Safiri Iran 159k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Animal Diversity and Health Studies?

The most cited paper in Animal Diversity and Health Studies is "Normal table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin)" (John Bertrand Gurdon, 1995), with 2,889 citations. Next come "Methylmercury Poisoning in Iraq" (1,610) and "Brucellosis" (1,254).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Normal table of Xenopus laevis (Daudin) John Bertrand Gurdon · Trends in Genetics Oct 1995 2,889
2 Methylmercury Poisoning in Iraq Fatih Bakır, Salem F. Damluji, Laman Amin‐Zaki et al. · Science 20 Jul 1973 1,610
3 Brucellosis Georgios Pappas, Nikolaos Akritidis, Mile Bosilkovski et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Jun 2005 1,254
4 Nomenclature of the Proteins of Cows’ Milk—Sixth Revision Harold M. Farrell, Rafael Jiménez‐Flores, G. T. Bleck et al. · Journal of Dairy Science Open access Jun 2004 1,219
5 The physicochemical basis of cholesterol gallstone formation in man William H. Admirand, DONALD M. SMALL · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access May 1968 1,069
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Animal Diversity and Health Studies research done?

The largest centres of Animal Diversity and Health Studies research in 2022-now are Giza (Egypt), Cairo (Egypt), Baghdad (Iraq) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bikaner.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GizaEgypt 56 works
  2. 2 CairoEgypt 51 works
  3. 3 BaghdadIraq 47 works
  4. 4 AlmatyKazakhstan 44 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 42 works
  6. 6 Addis AbabaEthiopia 40 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 34 works
  8. 8 KhartoumSudan 31 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 30 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BikanerIN · 22.3 works85×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal Diversity and Health Studies than the world average.

See Animal Diversity and Health Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Animal Diversity and Health Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, United Arab Emirates University, King Faisal University and Qassim University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 15.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →United Arab Emirates…Inner Mongolia Agric…Qassim UniversityKing Faisal University
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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.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1United Arab Emirates UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 89.251.4%28.6×19 +36.7%
2King Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 65.013.0%33.4×24 +73.6%
3Qassim UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.721.4%25.3×19 +156.2%
4Inner Mongolia Agricultural UniversityChina 61.428.2%47.1×18 +81.7%
5Cairo UniversityEgypt 56.513.5%10.1×22 +84.9%
6King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 53.313.6%6.0×17 +8.0%
7University of BaghdadIraq 52.11.5%14.8×30 +54.5%
8Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 50.58.5%63.6×21 +21.7%
9University of KhartoumSudan 44.61.9%76.9×14 +17.7%
10University of MosulIraq 41.80.2%18.5×19 +82.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Animal Diversity and Health Studies, country by country

Is Animal Diversity and Health Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Animal Diversity and Health Studies.

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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 Animal Diversity and Health Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Animal Diversity and Health Studies 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.

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