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Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Human-Animal Interaction Studies is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 genetic and behavioral studies related to the domestication of dogs, including genomic analysis, animal-assisted therapy, social cognition, human-animal bond, genetic structure, oxytocin, behavioral traits, canine genetics, and an evolutionary view of domestication. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as the origin of domestic dogs, genetic evidence for dog domestication, the impact of pets on human health and psychological well-being, and the cognitive evolution in captive foxes as a correlated by-product of experimental domestication.

  • Dog Domestication
  • Genomic Analysis
  • Animal-Assisted Therapy
  • Social Cognition
  • Human-Animal Bond
  • Genetic Structure
  • Oxytocin
  • Behavioral Traits
  • Canine Genetics
  • Evolutionary View
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Which countries lead Human-Animal Interaction Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.4k and 661 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 661 works
  3. 3 Australia 325 works
  4. 4 Canada 268 works
  5. 5 Germany 230 works
  6. 6 China 220 works
  7. 7 Brazil 216 works
  8. 8 France 189 works
  9. 9 Italy 175 works
  10. 10 Japan 145 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: 36.7%United Kingdom: 17.3%Australia: 8.5%Canada: 7.0%6 others listed: 30.6%37%largest
United States1,405 · 36.7%United Kingdom661 · 17.3%Australia325 · 8.5%Canada268 · 7.0%6 others listed1,173 · 30.6%

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

Which institutions lead Human-Animal Interaction Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Human-Animal Interaction Studies research, followed by University of Guelph and University of Edinburgh.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  2. 2 University of GuelphCanada 41 works
  3. 3 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 37 works
  4. 4 University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaAustria 36 works
  5. 5 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 University of California, DavisUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 31 works
  8. 8 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 31 works
  9. 9 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 31 works
  10. 10 The University of AdelaideAustralia 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Human-Animal Interaction Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Human-Animal Interaction Studies include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  5. 5 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Human-Animal Interaction Studies?

The most cited paper in Human-Animal Interaction Studies is "The Effect of Riding as an Alternative Treatment for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (Guoqin Wang, Ruiqin Ma, Guangwei Qiao et al., 2015), with 18,689 citations. Next come "DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning" (5,835) and "Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases" (4,155).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Effect of Riding as an Alternative Treatment for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Guoqin Wang, Ruiqin Ma, Guangwei Qiao et al. · Integrative Medicine International ReviewOpen access 2 Apr 2015 18,689
2 DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning Alexander Mathis, Pranav Mamidanna, Kevin M. Cury et al. · Nature Neuroscience Open access 10 Aug 2018 5,835
3 Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases Stephanie Delphine Preston, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Feb 2002 4,155
4 2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education: Robert S. Sikes · Journal of Mammalogy Open access 28 May 2016 3,254
5 Biological basis of the behavior of sick animals Benjamin L. Hart · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Jun 1988 2,258
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Human-Animal Interaction Studies research done?

The largest centres of Human-Animal Interaction Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Vienna (Austria) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lincoln and Guelph.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 112 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 70 works
  3. 3 ViennaAustria 60 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 BudapestHungary 59 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 52 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 50 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 47 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 47 works
  10. 10 AdelaideAustralia 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LincolnGB · 24.0 works34×
  2. GuelphCA · 40.2 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Human-Animal Interaction Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Human-Animal Interaction Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Eötvös Loránd University, The University of Melbourne and University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna 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%30%mean 17.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Queen's University B…Eötvös Loránd Univer…The University of Me…University of Veteri…
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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
1Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 86.123.3%20.5×31 +36.3%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 84.021.6%5.7×31 +24.6%
3University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaAustria 80.214.1%133.4×36 +14.3%
4Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 77.526.8%8.7×14 +59.8%
5University of GuelphCanada 75.213.4%28.7×40 +9.7%
6The University of AdelaideAustralia 73.613.0%13.8×29 +63.5%
7University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 73.511.3%8.6×37 +13.4%
8University of LincolnUnited Kingdom 73.518.3%47.6×24 +3.6%
9Colorado State UniversityUnited States 71.815.6%20.1×35 +8.1%
10Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 71.514.6%30.5×23 +10.0%

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 Human-Animal Interaction Studies, country by country

Is Human-Animal Interaction Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Human-Animal Interaction 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 Human-Animal Interaction Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Human-Animal Interaction Studies0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Human-Animal Interaction 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%Human-Animal Interaction 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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