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Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of biological agents with potential for bioterrorism, including anthrax, tularemia, Bacillus cereus, and Francisella tularensis. The research covers various aspects such as pathogenesis, genomic analysis, inhalational anthrax cases, toxins, and public health assessments related to these biological agents.

  • Anthrax
  • Tularemia
  • Bacillus cereus
  • Francisella tularensis
  • Biological Warfare
  • Toxins
  • Pathogenesis
  • Genomic Analysis
  • Inhalational Anthrax
  • Public Health
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

Which countries lead Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (833 and 523 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 833 works
  2. 2 China 523 works
  3. 3 India 335 works
  4. 4 Russia 184 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 172 works
  6. 6 Germany 153 works
  7. 7 France 136 works
  8. 8 Italy 110 works
  9. 9 Japan 87 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 85 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: 31.8%China: 20.0%India: 12.8%Russia: 7.0%6 others listed: 28.4%32%largest
United States833 · 31.8%China523 · 20.0%India335 · 12.8%Russia184 · 7.0%6 others listed743 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and United States Department of Health and Human Services.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 26 works
  3. 3 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  7. 7 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Institut PasteurFrance 17 works
  10. 10 West Liberty UniversityUnited States 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research include Rob Knight, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Guido Kroemer.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Geoffrey E. Hinton Canada 454k citations
  3. 3 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  4. 4 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Michael Karin United States 276k citations
  7. 7 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k 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 Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research?

The most cited paper in Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research is "Firefly luciferase gene: structure and expression in mammalian cells." (Jeffrey R. de Wet, Keith V. Wood, M. DeLuca et al., 1987), with 3,094 citations. Next come "Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks—United States, 2006" (2,376) and "Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission" (2,342).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Firefly luciferase gene: structure and expression in mammalian cells. Jeffrey R. de Wet, Keith V. Wood, M. DeLuca et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology Open access Feb 1987 3,094
2 Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks—United States, 2006 L Hannah Gould, Kelly A. Walsh, António R. Vieira et al. · Annals of Emergency Medicine Open access 23 Dec 2009 2,376
3 Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission Xintian Xu, Ping Chen, Jingfang Wang et al. · Science China Life Sciences Open access 21 Jan 2020 2,342
4 PCR inhibitors - occurrence, properties and removal Christina Schrader, Anika Schielke, Lüppo Ihno Ellerbroek et al. · Journal of Applied Microbiology 2 Jul 2012 2,194
5 Robust Physical-World Attacks on Deep Learning Visual Classification Kevin Eykholt, Ivan Evtimov, Earlence Fernandes et al. Conference paper Jun 2018 2,168
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Where is Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research done?

The largest centres of Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 123 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 65 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 63 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 52 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 43 works
  6. 6 AtlantaUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 36 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 34 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 33 works
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Where is the best place to study Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Oxford 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%10%20%mean 14.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Johns Hopkins Univer…University of OxfordHarvard UniversityCornell 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 87.916.0%1.8×21 +107.6%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 80.617.9%3.1×17 +11.1%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66.816.7%2.1×10 +15.8%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 58.115.0%2.0×10 +18.5%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.017.9%0.9×9 +34.4%
6Université Paris CitéFrance 53.812.7%3.3×9 +305.6%
7Emory UniversityUnited States 52.512.9%3.2×9 +95.8%
8University of TorontoCanada 46.813.6%1.2×9 +195.8%
9National University of Defense TechnologyChina 44.712.6%3.3×9 +236.1%
10Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 44.310.4%2.3×9 +44.1%

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 Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research, country by country

Is Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research.

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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 Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research 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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