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Viral Infections and Vectors

Viral Infections and Vectors is a research topic within Infectious Diseases. Science Explorer counts 52k 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 genetic diversity of viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Hantavirus and Rift Valley Fever, as well as zoonotic infections like Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. It explores the impact on public health and the global distribution of these diseases.

  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  • Zoonotic Infections
  • Bunyavirus
  • Hantavirus
  • Rift Valley Fever
  • Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Epidemiology
  • Pathogenesis
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Public Health
Research works
52k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
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
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Viral Infections and Vectors

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

Which countries lead Viral Infections and Vectors research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.8k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 1.5k works
  3. 3 India 820 works
  4. 4 Brazil 436 works
  5. 5 France 338 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 288 works
  7. 7 Russia 273 works
  8. 8 Germany 261 works
  9. 9 Japan 239 works
  10. 10 Spain 194 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: 29.3%China: 24.3%India: 13.3%Brazil: 7.1%6 others listed: 25.9%29%largest
United States1,803 · 29.3%China1,493 · 24.3%India820 · 13.3%Brazil436 · 7.1%6 others listed1,592 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Viral Infections and Vectors research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 93 works
  2. 2 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 68 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 65 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 63 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  6. 6 Institut PasteurFrance 53 works
  7. 7 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 52 works
  8. 8 Indian Council of Medical ResearchIndia 50 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 42 works
  10. 10 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Viral Infections and Vectors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Viral Infections and Vectors include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  5. 5 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  9. 9 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Vectors?

The most cited paper in Viral Infections and Vectors is "Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines" (Clotilde Théry et al., 2018), with 11,535 citations. Next come "Extracellular vesicles: Exosomes, microvesicles, and friends" (8,242) and "Biological properties of extracellular vesicles and their physiological functions" (6,130).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines Clotilde Théry et al. · Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Open access382 authors 23 Nov 2018 11,535
2 Extracellular vesicles: Exosomes, microvesicles, and friends Graça Raposo, Willem Stoorvogel · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access 18 Feb 2013 8,242
3 Biological properties of extracellular vesicles and their physiological functions María Yáñez‐Mó et al. · Journal of Extracellular Vesicles Open access 2015 6,130
4 Gout-associated uric acid crystals activate the NALP3 inflammasome Fabio Martinon, Virginie Pétrilli, Annick Mayor et al. · Nature 11 Jan 2006 5,341
5 Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase Is a Cytosolic DNA Sensor That Activates the Type I Interferon Pathway Lijun Sun, Jiaxi Wu, Fenghe Du et al. · Science Open access 21 Dec 2012 5,027
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Where is Viral Infections and Vectors research done?

The largest centres of Viral Infections and Vectors research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), São Paulo (Brazil) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Maisons-Alfort.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 294 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 138 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 103 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 93 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 91 works
  6. 6 AtlantaUnited States 89 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 85 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 80 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 69 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Maisons-AlfortFR · 21.3 works49×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Viral Infections and Vectors than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Viral Infections and Vectors?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang University, University of Oxford and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 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 20.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityUniversity of Chines…University of OxfordThe University of Te…
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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
1Zhejiang UniversityChina 72.831.0%1.0×23 +109.2%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 67.916.5%2.5×30 -21.3%
3The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUnited States 67.015.6%23.0×35 -34.7%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 65.921.2%1.4×19 +19.7%
5Wuhan UniversityChina 65.524.1%1.4×16 +20.2%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.120.4%1.0×28 -12.8%
7Peking UniversityChina 64.023.8%0.8×15 +89.2%
8Anhui Medical UniversityChina 63.617.7%5.7×22 +146.7%
9Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 61.215.0%5.1×16 +8.2%
10Shandong UniversityChina 60.421.4%1.8×20 +132.5%

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 Viral Infections and Vectors, country by country

Is Viral Infections and Vectors research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Viral Infections and Vectors.

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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 Vectors as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Viral Infections and Vectors0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Viral Infections and Vectors 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%Viral Infections and Vectors9.9% 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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