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Table 1 The 10 most researched tropical diseases

From: Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical disease research combining Europe PMC and affiliation mapping web services

Tropical disease

hitCount

1st authors

Mapped affiliations

Malaria

130,964

95,155

93,115

Cholera

62,697

40,586

39,742

Leprosy

41,979

20,254

19,741

Schistosomiasis

31,459

18,844

18,421

Dengue

30,554

24,446

23,800

Leishmaniasis

30,114

23,164

22,765

Chagas disease

17,185

12,966

12,714

Trypanosomiasis

15,381

9765

9532

Ebola

11,132

8997

8626

Taeniasis/cysticercosis

8263

4961

4821

  1. The 10 tropical diseases (WHO definition) most published on, as indexed by Europe PMC, with the number of hits returned by searchPublications_and_MapAffil, the number of the first authors and the number of the first-author affiliations geoparsed by MapAffil