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Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus

Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus is a research topic within Endocrinology. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Corynebacterium infections, including diphtheria, and tetanus. It covers various aspects such as microbiology, pathogenesis, molecular studies, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine development, and toxoid immunization.

  • Corynebacterium
  • Infections
  • Tetanus
  • Diphtheria
  • Pathogenesis
  • Epidemiology
  • Toxoid Immunization
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Vaccine Development
  • Molecular Epidemiology
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
949
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus

Which countries lead Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (261 and 130 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 261 works
  2. 2 China 130 works
  3. 3 India 100 works
  4. 4 Brazil 93 works
  5. 5 Japan 70 works
  6. 6 France 70 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 60 works
  8. 8 Spain 49 works
  9. 9 Germany 47 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 47 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: 28.2%China: 14.0%India: 10.8%Brazil: 10.1%6 others listed: 36.9%28%largest
United States261 · 28.2%China130 · 14.0%India100 · 10.8%Brazil93 · 10.1%6 others listed343 · 36.9%

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

Which institutions lead Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research?

By volume in 2022-now, Airlangga University publishes the most Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research, followed by Institut Pasteur and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 7 works
  2. 2 Institut PasteurFrance 7 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 6 works
  4. 4 Université Paris CitéFrance 6 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 6 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 6 works
  8. 8 InsermFrance 5 works
  9. 9 University of BernSwitzerland 5 works
  10. 10 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Yousef Saleh Khader and Patrizio Lancellotti.

  1. 1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  2. 2 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  3. 3 Patrizio Lancellotti Belgium 245k citations
  4. 4 Didier Raoult France 232k 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 Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus?

The most cited paper in Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus is "Manual of clinical microbiology" (Bo Drasar, 2003), with 2,607 citations. Next come "BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level" (2,494) and "Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon" (1,814).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Manual of clinical microbiology Bo Drasar · Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Jul 2003 2,607
2 BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden · BMC Bioinformatics Open access Dec 2010 2,494
3 Botulinum Toxin as a Biological Weapon S. S. Arnon, Robert Schechter, Thomas V. Inglesby et al. · JAMA 28 Feb 2001 1,814
4 Starch Gel Electrophoresis in a Discontinuous System of Buffers M. D. Poulik · Nature Dec 1957 1,768
5 A METHOD FOR PRODUCING SPECIFIC ANTISERA WITH SMALL DOSES OF IMMUNOGEN J. L. VAITUKAITIS, John B. Robbins, Eberhard Nieschlag et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Dec 1971 1,360
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Where is Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research done?

The largest centres of Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Paris.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 28 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 20 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 18 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 18 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 18 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 16 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 12 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 10 works
  10. 10 DhakaBangladesh 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ParisFR · 28.1 works2.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus than the world average.

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Is Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus.

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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 Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0054% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus0.0076% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus 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%Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus10.7% 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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