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Malaria Research and Control

Malaria Research and Control is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to malaria, including the genome sequences of malaria parasites, drug resistance, mosquito vectors, vaccine development, epidemiology, and the global burden of the disease. It also explores the impact of environmental changes on malaria transmission and the development of new antimalarial drugs.

  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Artemisinin Resistance
  • Malaria Parasite
  • Mosquito Vectors
  • Antimalarial Drug
  • Genome Sequence
  • Insecticide Resistance
  • Vaccine Development
  • Epidemiology
  • Global Burden
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Malaria Research and Control

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

Which countries lead Malaria Research and Control research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 736 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 736 works
  3. 3 China 463 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 441 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 409 works
  6. 6 Brazil 325 works
  7. 7 France 268 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 230 works
  9. 9 Ethiopia 197 works
  10. 10 Australia 191 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: 26.6%India: 16.6%China: 10.4%Nigeria: 9.9%6 others listed: 36.5%27%largest
United States1,179 · 26.6%India736 · 16.6%China463 · 10.4%Nigeria441 · 9.9%6 others listed1,620 · 36.5%

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

Which institutions lead Malaria Research and Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Medical Research publishes the most Malaria Research and Control research, followed by University of Oxford and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Medical ResearchIndia 100 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 83 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 65 works
  4. 4 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 63 works
  5. 5 University of GhanaGhana 61 works
  6. 6 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 61 works
  7. 7 Institut PasteurFrance 54 works
  8. 8 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 47 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 46 works
  10. 10 Mahidol UniversityThailand 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Malaria Research and Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Malaria Research and Control include Christopher J L Murray, Eric S. Lander and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  7. 7 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  8. 8 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  9. 9 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k 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 Malaria Research and Control?

The most cited paper in Malaria Research and Control is "The global distribution and burden of dengue" (Samir Bhatt, Peter W. Gething, Oliver J. Brady et al., 2013), with 10,418 citations. Next come "Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture" (8,039) and "Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiological and molecular biological study" (5,509).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The global distribution and burden of dengue Samir Bhatt, Peter W. Gething, Oliver J. Brady et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2013 10,418
2 Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture William F. Trager, James B. Jensen · Science 20 Aug 1976 8,039
3 Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiological and molecular biological study Yiyun Liu, Yang Wang, Timothy Rutland Walsh et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases 18 Nov 2015 5,509
4 Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum Malcolm J. Gardner et al. · Nature Open access Oct 2002 4,520
5 The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 Samir Bhatt et al. · Nature Open access 16 Sep 2015 3,642
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Malaria Research and Control research done?

The largest centres of Malaria Research and Control research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New Delhi (India), Paris (France) and Bangkok (Thailand). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ifakara and Bamako.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 167 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 145 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 119 works
  4. 4 BangkokThailand 117 works
  5. 5 KampalaUganda 93 works
  6. 6 NairobiKenya 91 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 81 works
  8. 8 AccraGhana 80 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 74 works
  10. 10 AtlantaUnited States 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IfakaraTZ · 21.3 works231×
  2. BamakoML · 34.5 works50×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Malaria Research and Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Malaria Research and Control?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University of Basel 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%mean 14.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GondarUniversity of BaselUniversity of OxfordLondon School of Hyg…
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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 71.113.8%8.7×84 -21.4%
2London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 70.212.9%58.3×63 -11.7%
3University of BaselSwitzerland 61.718.0%8.8×23 +12.9%
4University of GondarEthiopia 61.221.4%22.0×22 +24.4%
5University of GhanaGhana 61.09.6%35.2×61 +6.3%
6Makerere UniversityUganda 58.113.2%25.7×31 +12.2%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 57.013.5%4.3×32 -11.3%
8Heidelberg UniversityGermany 56.116.5%4.8×25 +2.3%
9University of Health and Allied SciencesGhana 54.715.7%73.2×18 +26.0%
10Mahidol UniversityThailand 54.69.0%14.1×46 -4.9%

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 Malaria Research and Control, country by country

Is Malaria Research and Control research growing?

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

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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 Malaria Research and Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Malaria Research and Control0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Malaria Research and Control 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%Malaria Research and Control10.1% 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.

Questions people ask

Who is researching a cure for malaria?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Medical Research publishes the most Malaria Research and Control research, followed by University of Oxford and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.2k and 736 works in 2022-now).

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