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Fungal Infections and Studies

Fungal Infections and Studies is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 34k 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, management, and molecular aspects of various fungal infections such as Cryptococcal Disease, Histoplasmosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Sporotrichosis. It also explores antifungal therapy, the impact of these infections on immunocompromised hosts, and the role of virulence factors such as melanin production.

  • Cryptococcal Disease
  • Histoplasmosis
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • Sporotrichosis
  • Fungal Pathogens
  • Antifungal Therapy
  • Meningitis
  • Immunocompromised Hosts
  • Melanin Production
  • Virulence Factors
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fungal Infections and Studies

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

Which countries lead Fungal Infections and Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 806 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 806 works
  3. 3 India 654 works
  4. 4 Brazil 603 works
  5. 5 Japan 209 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 183 works
  7. 7 France 181 works
  8. 8 Spain 154 works
  9. 9 Italy 141 works
  10. 10 Germany 138 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: 33.0%China: 17.6%India: 14.3%Brazil: 13.2%6 others listed: 22.0%33%largest
United States1,511 · 33.0%China806 · 17.6%India654 · 14.3%Brazil603 · 13.2%6 others listed1,006 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Fungal Infections and Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Fungal Infections and Studies research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Mayo Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 58 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 51 works
  3. 3 Mayo ClinicUnited States 40 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 40 works
  5. 5 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia 36 works
  6. 6 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 32 works
  7. 7 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 30 works
  8. 8 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 29 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fungal Infections and Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fungal Infections and Studies include Rob Knight, Shizuo Akira and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  5. 5 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  6. 6 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Fungal Infections and Studies?

The most cited paper in Fungal Infections and Studies is "Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species" (Rytas J. Vilgalys, Micah Hester, 1990), with 6,033 citations. Next come "Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group" (4,957) and "Hidden Killers: Human Fungal Infections" (4,407).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species Rytas J. Vilgalys, Micah Hester · Journal of Bacteriology Open access Aug 1990 6,033
2 Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group Ben de Pauw et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 7 May 2008 4,957
3 Hidden Killers: Human Fungal Infections Gordon D. Brown, David W. Denning, Neil A. R. Gow et al. · Science Translational Medicine Open access 19 Dec 2012 4,407
4 Epidemiology of Invasive Candidiasis: a Persistent Public Health Problem Michael A. Pfaller, Daniel J. Diekema · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access 2007 4,219
5 Voriconazole versus Amphotericin B for Primary Therapy of Invasive Aspergillosis Raoul Herbrecht et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 8 Aug 2002 3,326
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fungal Infections and Studies research done?

The largest centres of Fungal Infections and Studies research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nijmegen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 144 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 104 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 86 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 85 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 83 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 71 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 69 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 58 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 57 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NijmegenNL · 31.1 works7.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fungal Infections and Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fungal Infections and Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Exeter, Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Lausanne 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%20%40%mean 23.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ExeterRadboud University N…University of LausanneDuke University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 75.428.2%7.2×17 +70.6%
2Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 73.725.2%7.6×26 -17.1%
3University of LausanneSwitzerland 67.324.6%4.6×12 +19.8%
4Duke UniversityUnited States 66.417.6%5.6×26 +7.3%
5University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 64.614.6%4.9×32 +15.3%
6University of GeorgiaUnited States 64.624.3%7.0×17 +64.4%
7Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.416.7%3.4×29 +26.5%
8Universidad de GuanajuatoMexico 63.033.6%11.9×10 +56.1%
9Tongji UniversityChina 62.027.8%2.1×18 +127.0%
10University of TorontoCanada 60.226.1%1.9×22 -7.1%

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 Fungal Infections and Studies, country by country

Is Fungal Infections and Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Fungal Infections and Studies.

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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 Fungal Infections and Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Fungal Infections and Studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fungal Infections and Studies 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%Fungal Infections and Studies10.0% 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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