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Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research

Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research is a research topic within Endocrinology. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the outbreak, epidemiology, taxonomy, virulence factors, and genomic analysis of Cronobacter sakazakii infections associated with infant formula. It also covers biofilm formation, food safety, and molecular characterization of this emerging bacterial pathogen.

  • Cronobacter sakazakii
  • Enterobacteriaceae
  • infant formula
  • neonatal infections
  • biofilm formation
  • genomic analysis
  • food safety
  • bacterial pathogen
  • virulence factors
  • molecular characterization
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research

Which countries lead Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (259 and 247 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 259 works
  2. 2 United States 247 works
  3. 3 Brazil 106 works
  4. 4 India 92 works
  5. 5 Japan 54 works
  6. 6 France 46 works
  7. 7 Iraq 42 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 41 works
  9. 9 South Korea 40 works
  10. 10 Spain 39 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: 26.8%United States: 25.6%Brazil: 11.0%India: 9.5%6 others listed: 27.1%27%largest
China259 · 26.8%United States247 · 25.6%Brazil106 · 11.0%India92 · 9.5%6 others listed261 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research, followed by Zhejiang University and Universidade de São Paulo.

Who are the leading researchers in Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research include Rob Knight, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  5. 5 George M. Weinstock United States 173k 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 Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research?

The most cited paper in Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research is "A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA" (H. Chaim Birnboim, Janine Doly, 1979), with 14,900 citations. Next come "Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing" (8,250) and "Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids" (5,326).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA H. Chaim Birnboim, Janine Doly · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 24 Nov 1979 14,900
2 Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing Fred C. Tenover, R D Arbeit, Richard Vernon Goering et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology Open access Sep 1995 8,250
3 Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids René Boom, C. J. A. Sol, Marcel M. M. Salimans et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology Open access Mar 1990 5,326
4 Distribution of repetitive DNA sequences in eubacteria and application to finerpriting of bacterial enomes James A. Versalovic, Thearith Koeuth, R.L. Lupski · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 1991 3,286
5 The Quantitative Measurement of DNA Hybridization from Renaturation Rates J. De Ley, H. Cattoir, A. Reynaerts · European Journal of Biochemistry 1970 2,597
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Where is Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research done?

The largest centres of Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Guangzhou (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in São Paulo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 35 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 21 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 18 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 17 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 15 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 15 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 15 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. São PauloBR · 24.9 works2.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University and Universidade de São Paulo 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.

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 80.020.9%2.4×9 +37.3%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 30.07.6%3.1×9 +51.8%

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 Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research, country by country

Is Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter 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 Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0071% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter 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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