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Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing is a research topic within Clinical Biochemistry. Science Explorer counts 33k 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 advancements in microbial identification and diagnosis, particularly through the use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and rapid diagnostic testing. It covers topics such as blood culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, bacterial identification, and molecular diagnosis in clinical microbiology, with a specific emphasis on bacteremia.

  • Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
  • Microorganism Identification
  • Clinical Microbiology
  • Blood Culture
  • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
  • Bacterial Identification
  • MALDI-TOF MS
  • Rapid Diagnostic Testing
  • Molecular Diagnosis
  • Bacteremia
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Which countries lead Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 873 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 873 works
  3. 3 India 507 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 280 works
  5. 5 Japan 246 works
  6. 6 France 233 works
  7. 7 Germany 222 works
  8. 8 Spain 221 works
  9. 9 Italy 194 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 163 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: 32.9%China: 19.9%India: 11.6%United Kingdom: 6.4%6 others listed: 29.2%33%largest
United States1,438 · 32.9%China873 · 19.9%India507 · 11.6%United Kingdom280 · 6.4%6 others listed1,279 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 37 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 33 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 29 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 24 works
  9. 9 Instituto de Salud Carlos IIISpain 24 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing include Rob Knight, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k 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 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing?

The most cited paper in Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing is "Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing by a Standardized Single Disk Method" (Alfred W. Bauer, William M. M. Kirby, J. C. Sherris et al., 1966), with 18,626 citations. Next come "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciliation of Approaches to Bacterial Systematics" (7,348) and "Methods for in vitro evaluating antimicrobial activity: A review" (7,292).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing by a Standardized Single Disk Method Alfred W. Bauer, William M. M. Kirby, J. C. Sherris et al. · American Journal of Clinical Pathology Apr 1966 18,626
2 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciliation of Approaches to Bacterial Systematics L G Wayne, William E. Moore, Erko Stackebrandt et al. · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY Oct 1987 7,348
3 Methods for in vitro evaluating antimicrobial activity: A review Mounyr Balouiri, Moulay Sadiki, Saâd Ibnsouda Koraichi · Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis Open access 2 Dec 2015 7,292
4 CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting Teresa C Horan, Mary L. Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck · American Journal of Infection Control Jun 2008 6,712
5 Staphylococcus aureus Infections F D Lowy · New England Journal of Medicine 20 Aug 1998 6,083
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Where is Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research done?

The largest centres of Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), London (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jena and Marseille.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 121 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 85 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 74 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 68 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 65 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 61 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 57 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 52 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JenaDE · 20.6 works7.2×
  2. MarseilleFR · 22.7 works4.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, Harvard University and Fudan 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%10%20%mean 16.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityFudan UniversityZhejiang UniversityHarvard 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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 73.617.4%2.0×33 +82.2%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 72.413.3%1.9×37 -11.5%
3Fudan UniversityChina 71.520.8%2.5×24 +17.8%
4Peking UniversityChina 69.623.6%1.5×18 +30.2%
5University of CopenhagenDenmark 68.817.4%3.0×17 +14.9%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 68.017.4%2.1×18 -7.3%
7University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 65.217.7%3.3×11 +44.9%
8University of ZurichSwitzerland 63.813.7%3.0×13 +23.7%
9The University of QueenslandAustralia 63.117.1%3.2×18 -6.3%
10Emory UniversityUnited States 60.711.2%3.8×18 +16.0%

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 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, country by country

Is Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing.

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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 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing 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%Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing10.1% 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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