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Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research is a research topic within Infectious Diseases. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 encompasses research on the Ebola virus, including its transmission, pathogenesis, genomic surveillance, vaccine development, and the impact of public health measures. It also covers topics related to outbreaks, reservoirs of the virus, and the immune response to Ebola infection.

  • Ebola Virus
  • Outbreak
  • Vaccine
  • Transmission
  • Reservoirs
  • Pathogenesis
  • Genomic Surveillance
  • Public Health Measures
  • Immune Response
  • Zoonotic Origin
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

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

Which countries lead Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 585 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 585 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 387 works
  4. 4 India 373 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 313 works
  6. 6 France 230 works
  7. 7 Brazil 197 works
  8. 8 Canada 179 works
  9. 9 Germany 175 works
  10. 10 Australia 151 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: 35.7%China: 14.5%United Kingdom: 9.6%India: 9.3%6 others listed: 30.9%36%largest
United States1,437 · 35.7%China585 · 14.5%United Kingdom387 · 9.6%India373 · 9.3%6 others listed1,244 · 30.9%

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

Which institutions lead Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, World Health Organization publishes the most Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research, followed by United States Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 World Health OrganizationSwitzerland 100 works
  2. 2 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 66 works
  3. 3 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 53 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 45 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 43 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 36 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 36 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 36 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research include David Moher, Christopher J L Murray and Eric S. Lander.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  7. 7 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  8. 8 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  9. 9 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  10. 10 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k 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 Infections and Outbreaks Research?

The most cited paper in Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research is "SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor" (Markus Hoffmann, Hannah Kleine‐Weber, Simon Schroeder et al., 2020), with 21,493 citations. Next come "Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein" (9,155) and "The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self" (4,209).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor Markus Hoffmann, Hannah Kleine‐Weber, Simon Schroeder et al. · Cell Open access 8 Mar 2020 21,493
2 Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Alexandra C. Walls, Young‐Jun Park, M. Alejandra Tortorici et al. · Cell Open access 9 Mar 2020 9,155
3 The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self Polly Matzinger · Science 12 Apr 2002 4,209
4 How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic? Roy Malcolm Anderson, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg et al. · The Lancet Open access Mar 2020 3,922
5 Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Jian Shang, Yushun Wan, Chuming Luo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 6 May 2020 3,473
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Where is Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research done?

The largest centres of Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Atlanta (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Abuja.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 147 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 127 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 109 works
  4. 4 AtlantaUnited States 100 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 69 works
  6. 6 KampalaUganda 69 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 62 works
  8. 8 GenevaSwitzerland 61 works
  9. 9 BethesdaUnited States 60 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 56 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrazzavilleCG · 21.9 works47×
  2. KinshasaCD · 33.3 works35×
  3. AbujaNG · 52.1 works27×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and University of Oxford 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
1London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 75.914.2%39.7×36 -2.4%
2The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 75.722.1%28.3×30 -10.9%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 73.311.9%5.5×45 -7.6%
4Heidelberg UniversityGermany 66.022.9%2.6×12 +20.8%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 64.811.3%4.4×39 +3.0%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.313.2%1.9×36 -23.9%
7Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 61.016.3%3.3×14 +5.9%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.511.1%2.4×22 +7.2%
9University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 54.218.9%2.7×10 +89.1%
10University of PittsburghUnited States 54.018.0%2.5×12 +15.1%

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 Infections and Outbreaks Research, country by country

Is Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research.

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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 Infections and Outbreaks Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Viral Infections and Outbreaks 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.

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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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