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Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment

Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment is a research topic within Small Animals. Science Explorer counts 8.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and control of brucellosis, a re-emerging zoonotic disease. It covers topics such as the global burden of human brucellosis, molecular host-pathogen interactions, vaccine development, and the impact of brucellosis on public health.

  • Brucellosis
  • Zoonosis
  • Epidemiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Vaccines
  • Pathogenesis
  • Intracellular Replication
  • Host Immune Response
  • Genomic Analysis
  • Public Health
Research works
8.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
884
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (295 and 129 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 295 works
  2. 2 India 129 works
  3. 3 United States 127 works
  4. 4 Iran 107 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 94 works
  6. 6 Brazil 64 works
  7. 7 Russia 42 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 41 works
  9. 9 Ethiopia 34 works
  10. 10 Egypt 32 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: 30.6%India: 13.4%United States: 13.1%Iran: 11.1%6 others listed: 31.8%31%largest
China295 · 30.6%India129 · 13.4%United States127 · 13.1%Iran107 · 11.1%6 others listed306 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research, followed by Xinjiang Medical University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment include Shizuo Akira, Amirhossein Sahebkar and Didier Raoult.

  1. 1 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  2. 2 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  3. 3 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  4. 4 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  5. 5 Kwok‐Yung Yuen China 168k 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 Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment?

The most cited paper in Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment is "Sequences of proteins of immunological interest" (By Elvin A. Kabat, 1984), with 3,390 citations. Next come "A SIMPLE INDEX OF CROHN'S-DISEASE ACTIVITY" (2,993) and "The new global map of human brucellosis" (2,302).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sequences of proteins of immunological interest By Elvin A. Kabat · Analytical Biochemistry Apr 1984 3,390
2 A SIMPLE INDEX OF CROHN'S-DISEASE ACTIVITY Richard F. Harvey, J.M. Bradshaw · The Lancet Mar 1980 2,993
3 The new global map of human brucellosis Georgios Pappas, Photini Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Akritidis et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases 27 Jan 2006 2,302
4 Brucellosis: an Overview Michael J. Corbel · Emerging infectious diseases Open access Jun 1997 1,305
5 Brucellosis Georgios Pappas, Nikolaos Akritidis, Mile Bosilkovski et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Jun 2005 1,254
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Where is Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research done?

The largest centres of Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Ürümqi (China) and Hohhot (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ürümqi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 44 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 33 works
  3. 3 ÜrümqiChina 25 works
  4. 4 HohhotChina 17 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 15 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 14 works
  7. 7 Addis AbabaEthiopia 14 works
  8. 8 YinchuanChina 14 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 13 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ÜrümqiCN · 24.6 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment?

Among universities, judged by research, Xinjiang Medical 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.

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
1Xinjiang Medical UniversityChina 10.018.9%60.3×15 +48.3%

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 Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment, country by country

Is Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment.

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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 Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment0.0075% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment 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%Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment10.4% 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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