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Infections and bacterial resistance

Infections and bacterial resistance is a research topic within Endocrinology. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on nosocomial pathogens, particularly Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and related bacteria such as Elizabethkingia and Achromobacter. The papers cover topics such as antibiotic resistance, opportunistic infections, bacteremia, biofilm formation, multidrug resistance, and their association with conditions like cystic fibrosis.

  • Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
  • nosocomial infections
  • antibiotic resistance
  • opportunistic pathogens
  • bacteremia
  • biofilm formation
  • multidrug resistance
  • cystic fibrosis
  • Elizabethkingia
  • Achromobacter
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
948
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Infections and bacterial resistance

Which countries lead Infections and bacterial resistance research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (370 and 348 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 370 works
  2. 2 China 348 works
  3. 3 India 212 works
  4. 4 Japan 92 works
  5. 5 Brazil 74 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 72 works
  7. 7 Spain 71 works
  8. 8 France 62 works
  9. 9 Italy 55 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 50 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: 26.3%China: 24.8%India: 15.0%Japan: 6.5%6 others listed: 27.3%26%largest
United States370 · 26.3%China348 · 24.8%India212 · 15.0%Japan92 · 6.5%6 others listed385 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Infections and bacterial resistance research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Infections and bacterial resistance research, followed by Zhejiang University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 25 works
  2. 2 Zhejiang UniversityChina 18 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 10 works
  4. 4 JMI LaboratoriesUnited States 8 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 8 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 8 works
  8. 8 Fudan UniversityChina 7 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 7 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Infections and bacterial resistance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Infections and bacterial resistance include Jean‐Louis Vincent, Didier Raoult and Ziad Ahmed Memish.

  1. 1 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  2. 2 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  3. 3 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  4. 4 Alberto Arduan Ortiz Spain 219k citations
  5. 5 George M. Weinstock United States 173k citations
  6. 6 Kwok‐Yung Yuen China 168k citations
  7. 7 Stefan Schreiber Germany 163k 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 Infections and bacterial resistance?

The most cited paper in Infections and bacterial resistance is "Bacterial Biofilms in Nature and Disease" (J. W. Costerton, K.-J. Cheng, Gill G. Geesey et al., 1987), with 3,114 citations. Next come "Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study" (2,938) and "Manual of clinical microbiology" (2,607).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bacterial Biofilms in Nature and Disease J. W. Costerton, K.-J. Cheng, Gill G. Geesey et al. · Annual Review of Microbiology Oct 1987 3,114
2 Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study Kanimozhi Kumarasamy et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access 11 Aug 2010 2,938
3 Manual of clinical microbiology Bo Drasar · Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Jul 2003 2,607
4 Global Spread of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae Patrice Nordmann, Thierry Naas, Laurent Poirel · Emerging infectious diseases Open access 21 Sep 2011 2,390
5 AmpC β-Lactamases George A. Jacoby · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access 2009 2,192
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Where is Infections and bacterial resistance research done?

The largest centres of Infections and bacterial resistance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Hangzhou (China) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 47 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 29 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 29 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 23 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 22 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 22 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 22 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 22 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 19 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 19 works
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Where is the best place to study Infections and bacterial resistance?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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 60.016.1%3.6×18 +78.6%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 50.02.2%12.0×25 +139.6%

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 Infections and bacterial resistance, country by country

Is Infections and bacterial resistance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Infections and bacterial resistance.

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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 Infections and bacterial resistance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Infections and bacterial resistance0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Infections and bacterial resistance 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%Infections and bacterial resistance10.4% 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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