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Influenza Virus Research Studies

Influenza Virus Research Studies is a research topic within Epidemiology. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the research and epidemiology of influenza viruses, including topics such as H1N1, pandemic potential, vaccine efficacy, viral pathogenesis, and the development of antibodies. It covers a wide range of aspects related to influenza virus, from molecular structure to global burden and transmission patterns.

  • Influenza
  • Virus
  • Epidemiology
  • H1N1
  • Pandemic
  • Vaccines
  • Respiratory
  • Genomics
  • Pathogenesis
  • Antibodies
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Influenza Virus Research Studies

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

Which countries lead Influenza Virus Research Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.9k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 353 works
  4. 4 India 286 works
  5. 5 Japan 241 works
  6. 6 Australia 235 works
  7. 7 Italy 233 works
  8. 8 France 231 works
  9. 9 Canada 224 works
  10. 10 Russia 200 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: 36.4%China: 24.2%United Kingdom: 6.9%India: 5.6%6 others listed: 26.8%36%largest
United States1,854 · 36.4%China1,233 · 24.2%United Kingdom353 · 6.9%India286 · 5.6%6 others listed1,363 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Influenza Virus Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes the most Influenza Virus Research Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 76 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 49 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 47 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 45 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 44 works
  6. 6 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 42 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 42 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works
  9. 9 University of GeorgiaUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 Sanofi (France)France 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Influenza Virus Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Influenza Virus Research Studies include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  6. 6 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  9. 9 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  10. 10 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Influenza Virus Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Influenza Virus Research Studies is "Innate Immune Recognition" (Charles A. Janeway, Ruslan M. Medzhitov, 2002), with 8,439 citations. Next come "Toll-like receptor signalling" (8,340) and "Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data" (4,439).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Innate Immune Recognition Charles A. Janeway, Ruslan M. Medzhitov · Annual Review of Immunology Review Apr 2002 8,439
2 Toll-like receptor signalling Shizuo Akira, Kiyoshi Takeda · Nature reviews. Immunology Review 30 Jun 2004 8,340
3 Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data Jeremy Ginsberg, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Rajan S. Patel et al. · Nature Open access 19 Nov 2008 4,439
4 Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses Robert G. Webster, William J. Bean, Owen T. Gorman et al. · Microbiological Reviews Open access Mar 1992 4,271
5 Mortality Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the United States W. Thompson, David K. Shay, Eric Weintraub et al. · JAMA Open access 8 Jan 2003 3,718
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Where is Influenza Virus Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Influenza Virus Research Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Atlanta (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 275 works
  2. 2 AtlantaUnited States 124 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 118 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 99 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 97 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 86 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 85 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 84 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 80 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 77 works
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Where is the best place to study Influenza Virus Research Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Copenhagen 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 16.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Harvard UniversityUniversity of Hong K…University of Georgia
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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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 61.414.9%1.9×40 -11.3%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 60.115.2%4.3×26 +216.4%
3University of Hong KongChina 59.513.8%5.2×31 -31.3%
4University of GeorgiaUnited States 57.613.0%13.4×37 -10.2%
5Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 56.935.9%3.4×12 -20.4%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 56.510.2%5.8×42 -15.8%
7Emory UniversityUnited States 55.117.9%5.0×26 -23.0%
8Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 54.013.0%4.8×32 +51.6%
9Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 53.613.7%3.8×18 +22.4%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 53.314.2%3.1×28 -23.9%

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 Influenza Virus Research Studies, country by country

Is Influenza Virus Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Influenza Virus Research 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 Influenza Virus Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Influenza Virus Research Studies0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Influenza Virus Research 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%Influenza Virus Research Studies9.9% 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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Who leads influenza research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes the most Influenza Virus Research Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.9k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

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