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Veterinary Equine Medical Research

Veterinary Equine Medical Research is a research topic within Equine. Science Explorer counts 21k 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 equine health and welfare, including studies on laminitis, horse nutrition, stress assessment, genetics, injuries, obesity, and behaviour. The research aims to improve the understanding and management of health issues in horses and promote their overall well-being.

  • Equine Health
  • Welfare Assessment
  • Laminitis
  • Horse Nutrition
  • Stress in Horses
  • Equine Genetics
  • Heart Rate Variability
  • Equine Injuries
  • Obesity in Horses
  • Equine Behaviour
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Veterinary Equine Medical Research

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

Which countries lead Veterinary Equine Medical Research research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (741 and 274 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 741 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 274 works
  3. 3 Brazil 256 works
  4. 4 Germany 154 works
  5. 5 Italy 140 works
  6. 6 Australia 115 works
  7. 7 France 108 works
  8. 8 China 93 works
  9. 9 Canada 87 works
  10. 10 Poland 79 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: 36.2%United Kingdom: 13.4%Brazil: 12.5%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 30.4%36%largest
United States741 · 36.2%United Kingdom274 · 13.4%Brazil256 · 12.5%Germany154 · 7.5%6 others listed621 · 30.4%

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

Which institutions lead Veterinary Equine Medical Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Colorado State University publishes the most Veterinary Equine Medical Research research, followed by University of California, Davis and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 University of California, DavisUnited States 45 works
  3. 3 Cornell UniversityUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 33 works
  5. 5 University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, FoundationGermany 33 works
  6. 6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 30 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 30 works
  8. 8 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 27 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 25 works
  10. 10 University of GuelphCanada 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Veterinary Equine Medical Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Veterinary Equine Medical Research include David T. Felson.

  1. 1 David T. Felson United States 166k 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 Veterinary Equine Medical Research?

The most cited paper in Veterinary Equine Medical Research is "Relationship between condition score, physical measurements and body fat percentage in mares" (D.R. Henneke, G.D. Potter, Jack L. Kreider et al., 1983), with 1,947 citations. Next come "Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche" (1,523) and "The Beaver Dam Eye Study" (1,344).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Relationship between condition score, physical measurements and body fat percentage in mares D.R. Henneke, G.D. Potter, Jack L. Kreider et al. · Equine Veterinary Journal Oct 1983 1,947
2 Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche Yanming Bi, Driss Ehirchiou, Tina M. Kilts et al. · Nature Medicine 9 Sep 2007 1,523
3 The Beaver Dam Eye Study Ronald Klein, Ronald Klein, Scot E. Moss et al. · Ophthalmology 1992 1,344
4 Veterinary Epidemiologic Research Caroline J Hewson · Applied Animal Behaviour Science 8 May 2004 1,197
5 Estimation of volume of epithelial lining fluid recovered by lavage using urea as marker of dilution Steven I. Rennard, Guy Basset, Denise Lecossier et al. · Journal of Applied Physiology Feb 1986 1,141
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Veterinary Equine Medical Research research done?

The largest centres of Veterinary Equine Medical Research research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Fort Collins (United States) and Davis (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Newmarket.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 68 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  3. 3 Fort CollinsUnited States 46 works
  4. 4 DavisUnited States 46 works
  5. 5 LexingtonUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 HanoverGermany 35 works
  7. 7 UppsalaSweden 33 works
  8. 8 PhiladelphiaUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 29 works
  10. 10 NewmarketUnited Kingdom 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NewmarketGB · 29.2 works1236×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Veterinary Equine Medical Research than the world average.

See Veterinary Equine Medical Research on the map

Where is the best place to study Veterinary Equine Medical Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Cornell University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and University of California, Davis 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 17.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liaocheng UniversitySwedish University o…University of Califo…Cornell 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
1Cornell UniversityUnited States 63.69.9%11.5×41 +22.9%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 62.417.0%65.7×27 -4.6%
3University of California, DavisUnited States 58.011.0%20.8×45 -3.9%
4Liaocheng UniversityChina 57.134.7%18.8×9 -
5Colorado State UniversityUnited States 56.73.9%48.6×46 +7.8%
6University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaAustria 54.512.1%147.3×21 +8.4%
7Ghent UniversityBelgium 53.216.0%11.7×24 -11.4%
8University of MessinaItaly 53.147.4%18.2×12 -17.0%
9Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 53.012.7%283.0×33 -28.5%
10University of ZurichSwitzerland 52.49.7%12.5×24 +7.3%

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 Veterinary Equine Medical Research, country by country

Is Veterinary Equine Medical Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Veterinary Equine Medical Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Veterinary Equine Medical Research0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Veterinary Equine Medical Research 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%Veterinary Equine Medical Research10.0% 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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