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Infection Control in Healthcare

Infection Control in Healthcare is a research topic within Infectious Diseases. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on infection control in healthcare settings, with a specific emphasis on hand hygiene, healthcare-associated infections, environmental contamination, and prevention strategies. It explores the role of hospital surfaces and the transmission of nosocomial pathogens, while also addressing the importance of adherence to guidelines for healthcare workers and the impact on patient safety.

  • Infection Control
  • Hand Hygiene
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • Environmental Contamination
  • Hospital Surfaces
  • Nosocomial Pathogens
  • Prevention Strategies
  • Healthcare Workers
  • Guidelines
  • Patient Safety
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infection Control in Healthcare

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

Which countries lead Infection Control in Healthcare research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (743 and 260 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 743 works
  2. 2 India 260 works
  3. 3 China 251 works
  4. 4 Brazil 211 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 189 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 143 works
  7. 7 Australia 132 works
  8. 8 Germany 120 works
  9. 9 Japan 101 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 101 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%India: 11.5%China: 11.2%Brazil: 9.4%6 others listed: 34.9%33%largest
United States743 · 33.0%India260 · 11.5%China251 · 11.2%Brazil211 · 9.4%6 others listed785 · 34.9%

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

Which institutions lead Infection Control in Healthcare research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes the most Infection Control in Healthcare research, followed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 20 works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 20 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 16 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 15 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 14 works
  8. 8 Emory UniversityUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infection Control in Healthcare?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infection Control in Healthcare include Matthias Egger, Mika Kivimäki and Elie A. Akl.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  3. 3 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  4. 4 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  9. 9 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  10. 10 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 Infection Control in Healthcare?

The most cited paper in Infection Control in Healthcare is "Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections" (Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Wendy Bamberg et al., 2014), with 4,028 citations. Next come "International Study of the Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection in Intensive Care Units" (3,682) and "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017" (3,599).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Wendy Bamberg et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 Mar 2014 4,028
2 International Study of the Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection in Intensive Care Units Jean‐Louis Vincent · JAMA Open access Dec 2009 3,682
3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 Sandra I. Berríos-Torres, Craig A. Umscheid, Dale W. Bratzler et al. · JAMA Surgery Open access 3 May 2017 3,599
4 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
5 Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States Fernanda C. Lessa, Yi Mu, Wendy Bamberg et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 25 Feb 2015 2,649
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Where is Infection Control in Healthcare research done?

The largest centres of Infection Control in Healthcare research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 44 works
  3. 3 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 41 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 38 works
  5. 5 AtlantaUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 32 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 32 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 31 works
  9. 9 LahorePakistan 28 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Infection Control in Healthcare?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Emory University score highest, combining citation 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 14.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Erasmus University R…Emory UniversityUniversity of North …All India Institute …
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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.

Citation 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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 67.227.0%5.1×9 +21.0%
2University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60.914.5%3.1×19 -51.2%
3Emory UniversityUnited States 57.917.3%4.8×13 +72.8%
4All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 48.77.7%5.3×20 +0.5%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 48.314.7%2.7×14 -26.5%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 44.514.0%1.9×15 +452.4%
7Duke UniversityUnited States 38.618.6%3.2×9 -5.1%
8King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 34.79.2%2.9×10 +44.5%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 33.39.8%1.1×12 -14.7%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 33.312.7%2.3×10 +2.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 in Healthcare, country by country

Is Infection Control in Healthcare research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infection Control in Healthcare.

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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 in Healthcare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Infection Control in Healthcare 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 in Healthcare10.4% 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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