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Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 global burden, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and pathogenicity of foodborne pathogens, particularly Salmonella and Campylobacter. It covers topics such as genome sequencing, public health implications, zoonotic transmission, and the challenges posed by these pathogens to human health.

  • Salmonella
  • Campylobacter
  • Foodborne Illness
  • Epidemiology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Pathogenicity
  • Genome Sequencing
  • Public Health
  • Infection
  • Zoonotic Pathogens
Research works
30k
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
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

Which countries lead Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (792 and 649 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 792 works
  2. 2 China 649 works
  3. 3 India 316 works
  4. 4 Brazil 212 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 188 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 149 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 130 works
  8. 8 Germany 120 works
  9. 9 Italy 119 works
  10. 10 Egypt 115 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: 28.4%China: 23.3%India: 11.3%Brazil: 7.6%6 others listed: 29.5%28%largest
United States792 · 28.4%China649 · 23.3%India316 · 11.3%Brazil212 · 7.6%6 others listed822 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and United States Food and Drug Administration.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 72 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 38 works
  3. 3 United States Food and Drug AdministrationUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Yangzhou UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 University of GeorgiaUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 26 works
  7. 7 Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und HeimatGermany 20 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 19 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 19 works
  10. 10 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  8. 8 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  9. 9 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  10. 10 Cornelia M. van Duijn Netherlands 250k 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 Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology?

The most cited paper in Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology is "Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens" (Elaine Scallan, Robert Michael Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo et al., 2010), with 7,709 citations. Next come "Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States" (7,276) and "Pathogenic Escherichia coli" (5,562).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens Elaine Scallan, Robert Michael Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo et al. · Emerging infectious diseases Open access 27 Dec 2010 7,709
2 Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States Paul S. Mead, Laurence Slutsker, VANCE J. DIETZ et al. · Emerging infectious diseases Open access Oct 1999 7,276
3 Pathogenic Escherichia coli James B. Kaper, James P. Nataro, Harry L. T. Mobley · Nature Reviews Microbiology Review Feb 2004 5,562
4 UNIDENTIFIED CURVED BACILLI IN THE STOMACH OF PATIENTS WITH GASTRITIS AND PEPTIC ULCERATION Barry James Marshall, J.Robin Warren · The Lancet Jun 1984 5,534
5 In Silico Detection and Typing of Plasmids using PlasmidFinder and Plasmid Multilocus Sequence Typing Alessandra Carattoli, Ea Zankari, Aurora García-Fernández et al. · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Open access 29 Apr 2014 5,088
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Where is Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research done?

The largest centres of Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Athens.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 100 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 50 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 50 works
  4. 4 DhakaBangladesh 47 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 47 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 44 works
  7. 7 AthensUnited States 41 works
  8. 8 BerlinGermany 39 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 39 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AthensUS · 40.5 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, University of Georgia and University of Liverpool 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%20%40%mean 21.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of Liverp…Yangzhou 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.

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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 72.425.9%1.6×19 +39.4%
2University of GeorgiaUnited States 71.925.3%14.5×28 -30.4%
3University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 66.320.2%5.7×14 +30.8%
4Yangzhou UniversityChina 62.112.4%13.4×32 -0.6%
5London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 59.512.5%16.1×11 +16.7%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 59.225.6%1.4×13 +46.4%
7University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 57.218.5%4.9×12 +48.2%
8University of GhanaGhana 57.220.6%8.2×9 +142.5%
9Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 52.621.2%6.0×10 +33.4%
10China Agricultural UniversityChina 52.228.8%4.0×10 -10.7%

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 Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, country by country

Is Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology.

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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 Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology 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%Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology10.1% 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.

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