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Animal Virus Infections Studies

Animal Virus Infections Studies is a research topic within Animal Science and Zoology. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the discovery, characterization, pathogenesis, epidemiology, and immune response to viral diseases in livestock and poultry, including coronaviruses, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), and circoviruses. It also covers topics related to vaccine development, genomic sequencing, and metagenomics for understanding and controlling these viral diseases.

  • Coronavirus
  • Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus
  • Circovirus
  • Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus
  • Vaccine
  • Pathogenesis
  • Epidemiology
  • Genomic Sequencing
  • Immune Response
  • Metagenomics
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Animal Virus Infections Studies

Which countries lead Animal Virus Infections Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 388 works
  4. 4 Japan 248 works
  5. 5 South Korea 220 works
  6. 6 Germany 200 works
  7. 7 Italy 188 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 181 works
  9. 9 France 159 works
  10. 10 Spain 151 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.

China: 41.5%United States: 23.7%India: 7.8%Japan: 5.0%6 others listed: 22.0%42%largest
China2,072 · 41.5%United States1,180 · 23.7%India388 · 7.8%Japan248 · 5.0%6 others listed1,099 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Animal Virus Infections Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Animal Virus Infections Studies research, followed by Yangzhou University and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 241 works
  2. 2 Yangzhou UniversityChina 84 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 61 works
  4. 4 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 56 works
  5. 5 South China Agricultural UniversityChina 53 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 52 works
  7. 7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 51 works
  8. 8 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 42 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 41 works
  10. 10 Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Animal Virus Infections Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal Virus Infections Studies include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Stacey L. Gabriel.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  4. 4 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  5. 5 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  9. 9 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k 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 Virus Infections Studies?

The most cited paper in Animal Virus Infections Studies is "A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin" (Peng Zhou et al., 2020), with 23,429 citations. Next come "Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study" (22,766) and "A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China" (12,967).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin Peng Zhou et al. · Nature Open access 3 Feb 2020 23,429
2 Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study Nanshan Chen, Min Zhou, Xuan Dong et al. · The Lancet Open access 30 Jan 2020 22,766
3 A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China Fan Wu et al. · Nature Open access 3 Feb 2020 12,967
4 Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding Roujian Lu et al. · The Lancet Open access 30 Jan 2020 12,621
5 Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Alexandra C. Walls, Young‐Jun Park, M. Alejandra Tortorici et al. · Cell Open access 9 Mar 2020 9,155
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Where is Animal Virus Infections Studies research done?

The largest centres of Animal Virus Infections Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Wuhan (China) and Yangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bareilly.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 350 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 148 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 124 works
  4. 4 YangzhouChina 92 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 71 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 71 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 67 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 66 works
  10. 10 ZhengzhouChina 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BareillyIN · 22.4 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal Virus Infections Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Animal Virus Infections Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Yangzhou University and Huazhong Agricultural University score highest, combining 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%mean 17.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityMedical University o…Huazhong Agricultura…Yangzhou 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.

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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.328.6%1.4×28 +94.9%
2Yangzhou UniversityChina 66.812.1%24.1×84 +93.5%
3Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 66.113.6%26.5×56 +87.5%
4Medical University of ViennaAustria 63.225.4%5.1×10 +44.5%
5China Agricultural UniversityChina 62.017.7%11.2×40 +6.9%
6South China Agricultural UniversityChina 61.512.4%24.0×53 +55.9%
7Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural UniversityChina 57.024.9%33.6×12 +70.4%
8Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 56.010.9%37.0×38 +35.1%
9University of Hong KongChina 55.314.5%1.8×11 -13.7%
10Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 54.012.1%23.1×41 +57.6%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Virus Infections Studies, country by country

Is Animal Virus Infections Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Animal Virus Infections 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 Virus Infections Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Animal Virus Infections 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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