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Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

Vector-Borne Animal Diseases is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, and control strategies of Bluetongue virus, a vector-borne disease primarily transmitted by Culicoides biting midges. The research also explores the impact of climate change on the distribution of Culicoides vectors and the emergence of Bluetongue virus in Europe.

  • Bluetongue Virus
  • Culicoides Biting Midges
  • Arbovirus Vectors
  • Europe
  • Epidemiology
  • Pathogenesis
  • Climate Change
  • Vector Distribution
  • Vaccines
  • Genetic Characterization
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

Which countries lead Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (687 and 486 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 687 works
  2. 2 China 486 works
  3. 3 Brazil 288 works
  4. 4 India 253 works
  5. 5 Japan 209 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 169 works
  7. 7 France 160 works
  8. 8 Russia 111 works
  9. 9 Spain 110 works
  10. 10 Italy 105 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%China: 18.8%Brazil: 11.2%India: 9.8%6 others listed: 33.5%27%largest
United States687 · 26.6%China486 · 18.8%Brazil288 · 11.2%India253 · 9.8%6 others listed864 · 33.5%

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

Which institutions lead Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 81 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 53 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 45 works
  4. 4 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 37 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 29 works
  6. 6 Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und HeimatGermany 28 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 23 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  9. 9 The Pirbright InstituteUnited Kingdom 21 works
  10. 10 University of PretoriaSouth Africa 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vector-Borne Animal Diseases?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vector-Borne Animal Diseases include Simon Iain Hay, Daniel Levy and John C. Morris.

  1. 1 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  2. 2 Daniel Levy United States 245k citations
  3. 3 John C. Morris United States 241k citations
  4. 4 Richard Anthony Flavell United States 237k 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 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases?

The most cited paper in Vector-Borne Animal Diseases is "Isolation of a T-Lymphotropic Retrovirus from a Patient at Risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)" (Françoise Barré‐Sinoussi, Jean‐Claude Chermann, FA Rey et al., 1983), with 6,979 citations. Next come "Detection, Isolation, and Continuous Production of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and Pre-AIDS" (3,556) and "The CD4 (T4) antigen is an essential component of the receptor for the AIDS retrovirus" (3,548).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Isolation of a T-Lymphotropic Retrovirus from a Patient at Risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Françoise Barré‐Sinoussi, Jean‐Claude Chermann, FA Rey et al. · Science 20 May 1983 6,979
2 Detection, Isolation, and Continuous Production of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and Pre-AIDS Mikuláš Popovič, M. G. Sarngadharan, Elizabeth J. Read et al. · Science 4 May 1984 3,556
3 The CD4 (T4) antigen is an essential component of the receptor for the AIDS retrovirus Angus George Dalgleish, Peter C. L. Beverley, Paul R. Clapham et al. · Nature 20 Dec 1984 3,548
4 The global health burden of infection‐associated cancers in the year 2002 Donald Maxwell Parkin · International Journal of Cancer Open access 10 Jan 2006 2,957
5 ANTIBODIES TO HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE-I IN PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS Antoine Gessain, J C Vernant, L. Maurs et al. · The Lancet Aug 1985 2,866
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Where is Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research done?

The largest centres of Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), São Paulo (Brazil) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Woking.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 109 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 55 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 53 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 42 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 41 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 39 works
  7. 7 PretoriaSouth Africa 38 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 38 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 37 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WokingGB · 20.8 works409×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vector-Borne Animal Diseases than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vector-Borne Animal Diseases?

Among universities, judged by research, Henan Agricultural University, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation and University of Pretoria 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 17.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Henan Agricultural U…University of Veteri…University of PretoriaKansas State Univers…
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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
1Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 69.930.7%16.7×10 +230.2%
2University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, FoundationGermany 66.220.6%59.3×11 +49.8%
3University of PretoriaSouth Africa 65.713.5%12.6×21 -30.0%
4Kansas State UniversityUnited States 59.411.6%23.3×20 -30.1%
5Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand 57.724.3%5.3×9 +180.2%
6University of Veterinary and Animal SciencesPakistan 57.35.5%60.0×15 +24.6%
7Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 53.321.2%6.9×9 +35.9%
8Oklahoma State UniversityUnited States 53.114.0%14.8×10 +37.3%
9Yangzhou UniversityChina 51.213.3%5.7×12 +39.5%
10University of MinnesotaUnited States 50.216.4%4.2×12 +0.6%

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 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, country by country

Is Vector-Borne Animal Diseases research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Vector-Borne Animal Diseases.

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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 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Vector-Borne Animal Diseases0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vector-Borne Animal Diseases 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%Vector-Borne Animal Diseases10.1% 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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