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Veterinary Medicine and Surgery

Veterinary Medicine and Surgery is a research topic within Small Animals. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 encompasses a wide range of research related to the health, nutrition, and medical conditions of dogs and cats. It covers topics such as obesity, chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, nutritional assessment, urinary tract infections, prostate cancer, surgical procedures like ovariohysterectomy and laparoscopic surgery, as well as adrenal gland tumors. The research aims to improve the understanding and management of various health issues in canine and feline companions.

  • Obesity
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Hypertension
  • Nutritional Assessment
  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Ovariohysterectomy
  • Laparoscopic Surgery
  • Adrenal Gland Tumors
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery

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

Which countries lead Veterinary Medicine and Surgery research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (514 and 269 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 514 works
  2. 2 Brazil 269 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 163 works
  4. 4 Italy 107 works
  5. 5 India 107 works
  6. 6 Germany 88 works
  7. 7 Japan 87 works
  8. 8 France 77 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 71 works
  10. 10 South Korea 68 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: 33.2%Brazil: 17.3%United Kingdom: 10.5%Italy: 6.9%6 others listed: 32.1%33%largest
United States514 · 33.2%Brazil269 · 17.3%United Kingdom163 · 10.5%Italy107 · 6.9%6 others listed497 · 32.1%

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

Which institutions lead Veterinary Medicine and Surgery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Royal Veterinary College publishes the most Veterinary Medicine and Surgery research, followed by University of California, Davis and Colorado State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 33 works
  2. 2 University of California, DavisUnited States 29 works
  3. 3 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 23 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 University of GuelphCanada 22 works
  7. 7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 Ghent UniversityBelgium 19 works
  9. 9 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 18 works
  10. 10 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Veterinary Medicine and Surgery include Ronald Klein.

  1. 1 Ronald Klein United States 214k 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 Medicine and Surgery?

The most cited paper in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery is "Mouse Estrous Cycle Identification Tool and Images" (Shannon L. Byers, Michael V. Wiles, Sadie L. Dunn et al., 2012), with 1,268 citations. Next come "The Growing Problem of Obesity in Dogs and Cats" (865) and "Clinical and Microbiological Aspects of Trichomonas vaginalis" (727).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mouse Estrous Cycle Identification Tool and Images Shannon L. Byers, Michael V. Wiles, Sadie L. Dunn et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 13 Apr 2012 1,268
2 The Growing Problem of Obesity in Dogs and Cats Alexander J. German · Journal of Nutrition Open access Jul 2006 865
3 Clinical and Microbiological Aspects of Trichomonas vaginalis Dino Petrin, Kiera L. Delgaty, Renuka Bhatt et al. · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access Apr 1998 727
4 Guidelines for the Identification, Evaluation, and Management of Systemic Hypertension in Dogs and Cats Scott Anthony Brown, Clarke E. Atkins, R. Bagley et al. · Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine Open access May 2007 651
5 Effects of diet restriction on life span and age-related changes in dogs Richard D. Kealy, Dennis F. Lawler, J.M. Ballam et al. · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association Open access May 2002 620
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Veterinary Medicine and Surgery research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 63 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 33 works
  4. 4 DavisUnited States 32 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 Fort CollinsUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 GuelphCanada 22 works
  8. 8 ColumbusUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 BangkokThailand 21 works
  10. 10 ZurichSwitzerland 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuelphCA · 22.2 works32×
  2. Fort CollinsUS · 24.8 works28×
  3. DavisUS · 31.6 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Veterinary Medicine and Surgery?

Among universities, judged by research, Royal Veterinary College, 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 18.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Swedish University o…Royal Veterinary Col…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
1Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 85.124.3%372.1×33 -4.3%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 74.330.8%31.8×10 +23.6%
3University of California, DavisUnited States 72.415.3%18.2×30 -0.8%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 71.111.0%8.5×23 +63.4%
5Ghent UniversityBelgium 67.716.1%11.8×18 +101.6%
6Colorado State UniversityUnited States 67.510.1%34.8×25 +42.8%
7University of BolognaItaly 66.522.4%8.9×15 +42.7%
8University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 66.421.9%11.8×14 +7.5%
9Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 66.021.5%8.9×15 +58.5%
10North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 64.115.0%15.3×17 +22.8%

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 Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, country by country

Is Veterinary Medicine and Surgery research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Veterinary Medicine and Surgery.

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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 Medicine and Surgery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Veterinary Medicine and Surgery0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery 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 Medicine and Surgery10.7% 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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