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Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics is a research topic within Parasitology. Science Explorer counts 31k 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 epidemiology, molecular characterization, and public health implications of parasitic diseases caused by Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Microsporidia. It covers topics such as zoonotic transmission, waterborne transmission, genomic characterization, and the burden of disease associated with these parasitic infections.

  • Cryptosporidium
  • Giardia
  • Microsporidia
  • Zoonotic Transmission
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Protozoan Parasites
  • Waterborne Transmission
  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Genomic Characterization
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Which countries lead Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (543 and 491 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 543 works
  2. 2 United States 491 works
  3. 3 Brazil 316 works
  4. 4 India 223 works
  5. 5 Iran 185 works
  6. 6 Iraq 171 works
  7. 7 Egypt 151 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 149 works
  9. 9 France 134 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 122 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.

China: 21.8%United States: 19.8%Brazil: 12.7%India: 9.0%6 others listed: 36.7%22%largest
China543 · 21.8%United States491 · 19.8%Brazil316 · 12.7%India223 · 9.0%6 others listed913 · 36.7%

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

Which institutions lead Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research, followed by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 34 works
  2. 2 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 27 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  4. 4 South China Agricultural UniversityChina 25 works
  5. 5 University of Al-QadisiyahIraq 24 works
  6. 6 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 22 works
  8. 8 Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 20 works
  9. 9 University of MosulIraq 20 works
  10. 10 Cairo UniversityEgypt 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics include Rob Knight, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Huanming Yang.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Huanming Yang China 246k 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 Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics?

The most cited paper in Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics is "A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity" (Andrew P. Feinberg, Bert Vogelstein, 1983), with 25,160 citations. Next come "New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings" (2,591) and "Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in the 21st Century" (2,390).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity Andrew P. Feinberg, Bert Vogelstein · Analytical Biochemistry Jul 1983 25,160
2 New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings David T. Durack, Andrea S. Lukes, David K. Bright et al. · The American Journal of Medicine Mar 1994 2,591
3 Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in the 21st Century David Murdoch · Archives of Internal Medicine Open access 9 Mar 2009 2,390
4 Surveillance for waterborne-disease outbreaks--United States, 1993-1994. Michael H. Kramer, Barbara L. Herwaldt, Gunther F. Craun et al. · PubMed 12 Apr 1996 2,055
5 The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists Sina M. Adl et al. · Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology Oct 2005 1,745
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Where is Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research done?

The largest centres of Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Tehran (Iran) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ad Dīwānīyah.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 66 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 53 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 50 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 45 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 42 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 41 works
  7. 7 GizaEgypt 39 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 35 works
  9. 9 BaghdadIraq 35 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ad DīwānīyahIQ · 23.8 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics?

Among universities, judged by research, South China Agricultural University, University of Bern and Henan Agricultural University 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%10%20%mean 13.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BernHenan Agricultural U…South China Agricult…Cairo University
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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
1South China Agricultural UniversityChina 80.116.0%19.0×25 +52.6%
2University of BernSwitzerland 79.021.6%7.5×16 -7.5%
3Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 76.919.4%32.9×20 -4.0%
4Cairo UniversityEgypt 63.410.4%6.8×20 +55.1%
5Shanxi Agricultural UniversityChina 61.416.2%26.8×13 +288.6%
6Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 61.318.7%3.9×13 +21.7%
7Tarbiat Modares UniversityIran 57.77.9%13.1×14 +72.2%
8Jilin UniversityChina 54.013.8%3.5×15 +53.0%
9University of Al-QadisiyahIraq 52.20.3%41.8×24 +198.9%
10China Agricultural UniversityChina 50.614.1%4.9×10 +71.2%

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 Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics, country by country

Is Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics 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%Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics10.3% 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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