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Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications is a research topic within Cell Biology. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 encompasses a wide range of research using zebrafish as a model organism, including studies on developmental biology, behavioral analysis, drug discovery, hematopoiesis, neuroscience, toxicology, and vascular development. Zebrafish have emerged as a valuable tool for multidisciplinary research due to their genetic tractability, transparent embryos, and relevance to human biology.

  • Zebrafish
  • Model Organism
  • Developmental Biology
  • Behavioral Studies
  • Drug Discovery
  • Hematopoiesis
  • Neuroscience
  • Toxicology
  • Vascular Development
  • Genetic Screens
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Which countries lead Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (837 and 692 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 837 works
  2. 2 China 692 works
  3. 3 India 187 works
  4. 4 Japan 149 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 147 works
  6. 6 Germany 147 works
  7. 7 Brazil 129 works
  8. 8 Canada 127 works
  9. 9 France 92 works
  10. 10 Italy 85 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: 32.3%China: 26.7%India: 7.2%Japan: 5.8%6 others listed: 28.0%32%largest
United States837 · 32.3%China692 · 26.7%India187 · 7.2%Japan149 · 5.8%6 others listed727 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research, followed by Harvard University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 35 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 25 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 22 works
  6. 6 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 InsermFrance 17 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 17 works
  9. 9 Indo Soviet Friendship College of PharmacyIndia 17 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications include Rob Knight, Gregory Y.H. Lip and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Todd R. Golub United States 283k 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 Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications?

The most cited paper in Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications is "Stages of embryonic development of the zebrafish" (Charles B. Kimmel, William Whitney Ballard, Seth R. Kimmel et al., 1995), with 12,479 citations. Next come "Isolation of Putative Progenitor Endothelial Cells for Angiogenesis" (8,789) and "DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning" (5,835).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stages of embryonic development of the zebrafish Charles B. Kimmel, William Whitney Ballard, Seth R. Kimmel et al. · Developmental Dynamics Jul 1995 12,479
2 Isolation of Putative Progenitor Endothelial Cells for Angiogenesis Takayuki Asahara, Toyoaki Murohara, Alison B. Sullivan et al. · Science 14 Feb 1997 8,789
3 DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning Alexander Mathis, Pranav Mamidanna, Kevin M. Cury et al. · Nature Neuroscience Open access 10 Aug 2018 5,835
4 Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory Charles V. Vorhees, Michael T. Williams · Nature Protocols Open access 27 Jul 2006 4,727
5 Memory--a Century of Consolidation James Lafayette McGaugh · Science 14 Jan 2000 4,275
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Where is Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research done?

The largest centres of Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Paris (France) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 113 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 60 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 56 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 51 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 42 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 40 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 37 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 35 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 29 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 29 works
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Where is the best place to study Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Karolinska Institutet and Columbia University 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%10%20%mean 18.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Columbia UniversityKarolinska InstitutetZhejiang UniversityHarvard 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 71.118.9%3.8×35 -23.3%
2Karolinska InstitutetSweden 61.020.1%7.3×12 -5.8%
3Columbia UniversityUnited States 59.722.4%2.8×9 +23.0%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.519.5%2.1×17 +98.3%
5Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 50.616.1%2.8×13 +34.4%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 50.017.7%3.1×14 -23.5%
7SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 47.119.5%3.0×9 +432.5%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 46.521.6%1.9×8 +15.1%
9University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 42.913.7%2.8×10 +17.1%
10Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 42.512.5%5.8×12 +2.6%

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 Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, country by country

Is Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications.

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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 Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications 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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