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Infection Control and Ventilation

Infection Control and Ventilation is a research topic within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, particularly the stability of viruses in aerosols and on surfaces, the effectiveness of personal protective equipment, the role of ventilation in controlling transmission, and the implications for healthcare settings. The cluster also addresses the specific challenges posed by COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 in terms of aerosol and surface distribution, as well as the potential for superemission events.

  • Airborne Transmission
  • Respiratory Viruses
  • Aerosol
  • Surface Stability
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Infectious Aerosols
  • Ventilation
  • Healthcare Settings
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
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
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infection Control and Ventilation

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

Which countries lead Infection Control and Ventilation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 980 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 980 works
  3. 3 India 412 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 364 works
  5. 5 Japan 302 works
  6. 6 Germany 248 works
  7. 7 Italy 225 works
  8. 8 Canada 214 works
  9. 9 South Korea 204 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 196 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: 29.3%China: 22.0%India: 9.3%United Kingdom: 8.2%6 others listed: 31.2%29%largest
United States1,305 · 29.3%China980 · 22.0%India412 · 9.3%United Kingdom364 · 8.2%6 others listed1,388 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Infection Control and Ventilation research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes the most Infection Control and Ventilation research, followed by Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 40 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 34 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 29 works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 28 works
  6. 6 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 26 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  8. 8 University of Hong KongChina 25 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  10. 10 City University of Hong KongChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infection Control and Ventilation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infection Control and Ventilation include Rob Knight, Simon Iain Hay and Stacey L. Gabriel.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  7. 7 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  8. 8 Róbert Langer United States 303k 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 Infection Control and Ventilation?

The most cited paper in Infection Control and Ventilation is "Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1" (Neeltje van Doremalen, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris et al., 2020), with 10,255 citations. Next come "A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" (4,546) and "Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (4,111).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 Neeltje van Doremalen, Trenton Bushmaker, Dylan H. Morris et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Mar 2020 10,255
2 A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Thomas G. Ksiazek et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 14 May 2003 4,546
3 Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis Derek K. Chu et al. · The Lancet ReviewOpen access Jun 2020 4,111
4 Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents Günter Kampf, Daniel Tödt, Stephanie Pfaender et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection Open access 6 Feb 2020 3,919
5 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings Jane D. Siegel, Emily Rhinehart, Marguerite McMillan Jackson et al. · American Journal of Infection Control Open access Dec 2007 3,489
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Infection Control and Ventilation research done?

The largest centres of Infection Control and Ventilation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pok Fu Lam and Hong Kong.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 163 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 98 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 97 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 89 works
  6. 6 Hong KongChina 84 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 54 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 53 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 52 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Pok Fu LamCN · 22.8 works4.0×
  2. Hong KongCN · 84.0 works3.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Infection Control and Ventilation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Infection Control and Ventilation?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Hong Kong 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 25.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Chinese University o…Hong Kong Polytechni…University of Hong K…
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 85.134.1%6.0×20 +42.6%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 80.123.3%5.7×29 +78.7%
3University of Hong KongChina 71.221.5%4.5×25 -16.9%
4Chinese University of Hong KongChina 71.125.3%3.8×16 +19.3%
5Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 63.817.0%14.6×26 +24.3%
6Southeast UniversityChina 62.624.6%1.9×16 +43.0%
7Donghua UniversityChina 59.629.4%5.6×12 +67.3%
8North China Electric Power UniversityChina 59.136.4%2.5×10 +296.7%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.617.1%1.8×34 -44.3%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 57.321.4%2.6×19 +54.3%

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 Infection Control and Ventilation, country by country

Is Infection Control and Ventilation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Infection Control and Ventilation.

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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 Infection Control and Ventilation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Infection Control and Ventilation0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Infection Control and Ventilation 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%Infection Control and Ventilation10.3% 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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