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Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Aquaculture disease management and microbiota is a research topic within Immunology. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the diverse immunological responses, including innate and adaptive immunity, stress modulation, probiotic and prebiotic applications, gut microbiota interactions, and disease control strategies in aquatic organisms, particularly fish. It also addresses the challenges of antibiotic resistance, viral diseases, and the use of medicinal herbs as immunostimulants in aquaculture.

  • Fish Immunology
  • Aquaculture
  • Probiotics
  • Innate Immunity
  • Gut Microbiota
  • Stress Response
  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Viral Diseases
  • Cytokines
  • Pathogen Control
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Which countries lead Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.9k and 824 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 United States 824 works
  3. 3 India 813 works
  4. 4 Brazil 400 works
  5. 5 Egypt 309 works
  6. 6 South Korea 281 works
  7. 7 Japan 242 works
  8. 8 Spain 240 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 235 works
  10. 10 Norway 198 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: 52.5%United States: 11.1%India: 10.9%Brazil: 5.4%6 others listed: 20.2%52%largest
China3,908 · 52.5%United States824 · 11.1%India813 · 10.9%Brazil400 · 5.4%6 others listed1,505 · 20.2%

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

Which institutions lead Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research, followed by Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 216 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Fishery SciencesChina 207 works
  3. 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 192 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 156 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 148 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 138 works
  7. 7 Guangdong Ocean UniversityChina 130 works
  8. 8 Ningbo UniversityChina 105 works
  9. 9 Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyChina 100 works
  10. 10 Ocean University of ChinaChina 98 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aquaculture disease management and microbiota?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aquaculture disease management and microbiota include Christopher J L Murray, Rob Knight and Richard M. Durbin.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  4. 4 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  5. 5 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  9. 9 Jeffrey I. Gordon United States 250k citations
  10. 10 Huanming Yang China 246k 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 Aquaculture disease management and microbiota?

The most cited paper in Aquaculture disease management and microbiota is "A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid" (K. Burton, 1956), with 14,144 citations. Next come "Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms" (8,479) and "The stress response in fish" (4,180).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid K. Burton · Biochemical Journal Open access Feb 1956 14,144
2 Antimicrobial peptides of multicellular organisms MICHAEL A. ZASLOFF · Nature 2002 8,479
3 The stress response in fish Sjoerd E. Wendelaar Bonga · Physiological Reviews Jul 1997 4,180
4 A global perspective on the use, sales, exposure pathways, occurrence, fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics (VAs) in the environment Ajit Kumar Sarmah, Michael T. Meyer, Alistair B. A. Boxall · Chemosphere 9 May 2006 3,337
5 Identifying bacterial genes and endosymbiont DNA with Glimmer Arthur L. Delcher, Kirsten A. Bratke, Edwin C. Powers et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 19 Jan 2007 3,232
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Where is Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research done?

The largest centres of Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Qingdao (China), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bārākpur and Nagapattinam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 631 works
  2. 2 QingdaoChina 290 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 259 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 232 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 172 works
  6. 6 ZhanjiangChina 138 works
  7. 7 NingboChina 123 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 114 works
  9. 9 XiamenChina 109 works
  10. 10 DalianChina 92 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BārākpurIN · 21.1 works82×
  2. NagapattinamIN · 23.2 works61×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Aquaculture disease management and microbiota than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Aquaculture disease management and microbiota?

Among universities, judged by research, Kafrelsheikh University, Ningbo University and Shanghai Ocean 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%mean 16.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kafrelsheikh Univers…Ningbo UniversityShanghai Ocean Unive…Guangdong Ocean Univ…
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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
1Kafrelsheikh UniversityEgypt 66.130.7%18.6×21 -33.1%
2Ningbo UniversityChina 64.713.3%18.1×104 +42.3%
3Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 63.210.4%69.3×148 +34.6%
4Guangdong Ocean UniversityChina 62.79.3%87.8×130 +83.3%
5Ocean University of ChinaChina 61.110.1%20.6×98 +23.5%
6Alexandria UniversityEgypt 61.125.7%4.8×21 +14.1%
7Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 60.512.0%26.7×84 +24.5%
8Henan Normal UniversityChina 60.116.5%26.4×50 +94.5%
9Zagazig UniversityEgypt 59.023.3%7.9×28 -4.4%
10Jimei UniversityChina 56.913.2%39.0×58 +62.4%

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 Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, country by country

Is Aquaculture disease management and microbiota research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Aquaculture disease management and microbiota.

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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 Aquaculture disease management and microbiota as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Aquaculture disease management and microbiota0.044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aquaculture disease management and microbiota 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.

still counting5%10%15%Aquaculture disease management and microbiota10.0% in 2025200020102020

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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