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Vector-borne infectious diseases

Vector-borne infectious diseases is a research topic within Parasitology. Science Explorer counts 33k 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, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and various rickettsioses. It also explores the role of tick vectors, pathogen transmission, host-pathogen interactions, and the impact on public health.

  • Tick-Borne Diseases
  • Lyme Disease
  • Babesiosis
  • Anaplasmosis
  • Rickettsioses
  • Tick Vectors
  • Pathogen Transmission
  • Epidemiology
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Public Health
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Vector-borne infectious diseases

Which countries lead Vector-borne infectious diseases research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 549 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 549 works
  3. 3 India 439 works
  4. 4 Brazil 390 works
  5. 5 France 217 works
  6. 6 Germany 180 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 146 works
  8. 8 Japan 138 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 135 works
  10. 10 Spain 130 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: 35.2%China: 15.3%India: 12.2%Brazil: 10.9%6 others listed: 26.4%35%largest
United States1,264 · 35.2%China549 · 15.3%India439 · 12.2%Brazil390 · 10.9%6 others listed946 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Vector-borne infectious diseases research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Vector-borne infectious diseases research, followed by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 38 works
  2. 2 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 32 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 31 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 29 works
  7. 7 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 Indian Council of Medical ResearchIndia 27 works
  9. 9 Institut PasteurFrance 27 works
  10. 10 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Vector-borne infectious diseases?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Vector-borne infectious diseases include Rob Knight, Simon Iain Hay and Steven L. Salzberg.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  4. 4 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k 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 infectious diseases?

The most cited paper in Vector-borne infectious diseases is "Lounging in a lysosome: the intracellular lifestyle of Coxiella burnetii" (Daniel E. Voth, Robert A. Heinzen, 2007), with 11,768 citations. Next come "Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture" (8,039) and "The global importance of ticks" (2,151).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lounging in a lysosome: the intracellular lifestyle of Coxiella burnetii Daniel E. Voth, Robert A. Heinzen · Cellular Microbiology Open access 16 Feb 2007 11,768
2 Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture William F. Trager, James B. Jensen · Science 20 Aug 1976 8,039
3 The global importance of ticks Frans Jongejan, Gerrit Uilenberg · Parasitology Oct 2004 2,151
4 Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi Claire M. Fraser et al. · Nature Open access Dec 1997 2,146
5 The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America Gary P. Wormser, Raymond J. Dattwyler, Eugene D. Shapiro et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 6 Oct 2006 2,115
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Where is Vector-borne infectious diseases research done?

The largest centres of Vector-borne infectious diseases research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Bangkok (Thailand). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in České Budějovice.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 90 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 88 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 69 works
  4. 4 BangkokThailand 53 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 46 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 44 works
  7. 7 AtlantaUnited States 42 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 41 works
  9. 9 PretoriaSouth Africa 39 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. České BudějoviceCZ · 24.7 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Vector-borne infectious diseases than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Vector-borne infectious diseases?

Among universities, judged by research, Yale University, University of Oxford and Washington State 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%20%40%mean 17.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordYale UniversityHarvard UniversityWashington State Uni…
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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
1Yale UniversityUnited States 79.314.9%4.4×24 +9.5%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 70.720.0%2.4×17 -26.0%
3Washington State UniversityUnited States 69.513.6%11.8×21 +21.7%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.313.9%1.4×24 +19.7%
5Mahidol UniversityThailand 68.215.4%7.9×19 +9.7%
6University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, FoundationGermany 67.822.7%57.8×15 +88.6%
7The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 64.312.2%21.7×20 +7.2%
8Université Paris-Est CréteilFrance 62.917.0%14.3×12 +24.6%
9North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 60.814.7%5.2×15 +53.1%
10Cairo UniversityEgypt 60.030.3%2.7×11 +46.8%

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 infectious diseases, country by country

Is Vector-borne infectious diseases research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vector-borne infectious 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 infectious diseases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Vector-borne infectious diseases0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vector-borne infectious 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 infectious diseases12.0% 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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