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Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology is a research topic within Infectious Diseases. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 focuses on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and vaccine development for gastrointestinal viral infections, particularly rotavirus and norovirus. It covers topics such as global distribution, strain diversity, molecular detection methods, and the impact of vaccination on disease burden.

  • Rotavirus
  • Norovirus
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Vaccine
  • Infection
  • Epidemiology
  • Diarrhea
  • Genotyping
  • Pathogenesis
  • Molecular Detection
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

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

Which countries lead Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 China 1.9k works
  3. 3 India 591 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 352 works
  5. 5 Japan 331 works
  6. 6 Germany 283 works
  7. 7 Italy 255 works
  8. 8 South Korea 251 works
  9. 9 France 242 works
  10. 10 Russia 241 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: 30.5%China: 29.8%India: 9.2%United Kingdom: 5.5%6 others listed: 25.0%31%largest
United States1,959 · 30.5%China1,915 · 29.8%India591 · 9.2%United Kingdom352 · 5.5%6 others listed1,604 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research, followed by United States Department of Health and Human Services and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 163 works
  2. 2 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 62 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59 works
  4. 4 Yangzhou UniversityChina 59 works
  5. 5 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 56 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 53 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 47 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 42 works
  9. 9 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 38 works
  10. 10 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology include Christopher J L Murray, Eric S. Lander and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  8. 8 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  9. 9 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  10. 10 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k 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 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology?

The most cited paper in Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology is "A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019" (Na Zhu, Dingyu Zhang, Wenling Wang et al., 2020), with 30,499 citations. Next come "A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China" (12,967) and "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation" (9,833).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019 Na Zhu, Dingyu Zhang, Wenling Wang et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 24 Jan 2020 30,499
2 A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China Fan Wu et al. · Nature Open access 3 Feb 2020 12,967
3 Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation Daniel Wrapp, Nianshuang Wang, Kizzmekia S. Corbett et al. · Science Open access 19 Feb 2020 9,833
4 The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains Leonard Hayflick, Paul S. Moorhead · Experimental Cell Research Dec 1961 8,548
5 Global trends in emerging infectious diseases Kate E. Jones, Nikkita Patel, Marc A. Levy et al. · Nature Open access Feb 2008 8,468
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Where is Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research done?

The largest centres of Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 378 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 147 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 106 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 101 works
  5. 5 AtlantaUnited States 100 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 98 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 96 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 94 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 91 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 87 works
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Where is the best place to study Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology?

Among universities, judged by research, Yangzhou University, Harvard University and University of California San Diego score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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
1Yangzhou UniversityChina 71.014.3%12.4×59 +71.4%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.022.7%1.4×38 +0.7%
3University of California San DiegoUnited States 64.921.2%2.1×17 +39.8%
4Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 63.111.1%12.5×36 +119.1%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 62.914.7%1.8×24 +17.4%
6University of Hong KongChina 62.721.7%1.6×13 -1.6%
7Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 61.415.1%3.8×35 +46.4%
8Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 60.718.1%4.9×22 -5.9%
9South China Agricultural UniversityChina 60.410.9%12.0×36 +62.5%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59.425.1%0.9×13 +22.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, country by country

Is Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

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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 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology 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.

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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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