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Veterinary Practice and Education Studies

Veterinary Practice and Education Studies is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mental health and well-being of veterinary professionals, addressing topics such as suicide risk, work-related stress, veterinarian-client communication, occupational hazards, burnout, professional competencies, and resilience. The papers explore the challenges faced by veterinarians and veterinary students, aiming to understand and improve the mental health outcomes within the veterinary profession.

  • veterinary surgeons
  • suicide risk
  • work-related stress
  • veterinarian-client communication
  • occupational hazards
  • mental health
  • burnout
  • professional competencies
  • communication skills
  • resilience
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+50%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Veterinary Practice and Education Studies

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

Which countries lead Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (653 and 288 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 653 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 288 works
  3. 3 Canada 111 works
  4. 4 Australia 99 works
  5. 5 Germany 68 works
  6. 6 Brazil 65 works
  7. 7 India 50 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 44 works
  9. 9 France 41 works
  10. 10 China 38 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: 44.8%United Kingdom: 19.7%Canada: 7.6%Australia: 6.8%6 others listed: 21.0%45%largest
United States653 · 44.8%United Kingdom288 · 19.7%Canada111 · 7.6%Australia99 · 6.8%6 others listed305 · 21.0%

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

Which institutions lead Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Guelph publishes the most Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research, followed by Colorado State University and Royal Veterinary College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of GuelphCanada 28 works
  2. 2 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  3. 3 Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 19 works
  4. 4 University of California, DavisUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 17 works
  6. 6 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 16 works
  7. 7 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 16 works
  9. 9 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 Massey UniversityNew Zealand 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Veterinary Practice and Education Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Veterinary Practice and Education Studies include Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k 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 Practice and Education Studies?

The most cited paper in Veterinary Practice and Education Studies is "American Veterinary Medical Association 1863–1963" (S Stewart, 1963), with 915 citations. Next come "Development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring behavior and temperament traits in pet dogs" (721) and "The Veterinary Clinics of North America" (623).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 American Veterinary Medical Association 1863–1963 S Stewart · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 May 1963 915
2 Development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring behavior and temperament traits in pet dogs Yuying Hsu, James A. Serpell · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association Nov 2003 721
3 The Veterinary Clinics of North America Bonnie V. Beaver · Applied Animal Behaviour Science Mar 1984 623
4 The risk of death: the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Small Animal Fatalities Dave C. Brodbelt, KAREN J. BLISSITT, R. A. Hammond et al. · Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia Open access 5 May 2008 582
5 Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: Data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza Melanie R. Taylor, Kingsley Agho, Garry John Stevens et al. · BMC Public Health Open access 3 Oct 2008 570
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research done?

The largest centres of Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Guelph (Canada), Fort Collins (United States) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guelph and Fort Collins.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 68 works
  2. 2 GuelphCanada 28 works
  3. 3 Fort CollinsUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 23 works
  5. 5 DavisUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 20 works
  7. 7 NottinghamUnited Kingdom 20 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 19 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 18 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuelphCA · 28.1 works48×
  2. Fort CollinsUS · 25.2 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Veterinary Practice and Education Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Veterinary Practice and Education Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Colorado State University, University of Guelph and University of Liverpool 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 16.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Ad…Colorado State Unive…University of Liverp…University of Guelph
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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
1Colorado State UniversityUnited States 78.523.7%40.1×25 +14.4%
2University of GuelphCanada 74.013.4%56.7×28 +35.5%
3University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 68.918.1%16.4×16 +24.4%
4The University of AdelaideAustralia 66.730.5%11.0×8 +61.5%
5Royal Veterinary CollegeUnited Kingdom 56.113.3%242.3×19 +16.6%
6Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 55.818.3%35.4×10 +96.5%
7University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 54.911.8%11.1×17 +25.5%
8University of California, DavisUnited States 52.512.0%12.4×18 +77.5%
9Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 49.911.8%9.8×14 +59.4%
10Massey UniversityNew Zealand 49.411.4%48.5×15 +13.4%

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 Practice and Education Studies, country by country

Is Veterinary Practice and Education Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Veterinary Practice and Education Studies.

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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 Practice and Education Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0069% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Veterinary Practice and Education Studies0.0093% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Veterinary Practice and Education Studies 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 Practice and Education Studies10.3% 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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