ArticlePLoS biology2016
"One Health" or Three? Publication Silos Among the One Health Disciplines.
Article in PLoS biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Leveraging Long-Term Ecological Research Initiatives Into the One Health Synthesis.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
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- Health & nature: a critical review of historical perspectives to support narratives for change.International journal for equity in health · 2025Review
- High-throughput microfluidic real-time PCR as a promising tool in disease ecology.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- One Health preparedness and response for mosquito-borne viruses: a stakeholder- and social network-analysis in the Netherlands.BMC public health · 2025Article
- How studies on zoonotic risks in wildlife implement the one health approach - A systematic review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
- Reflective practice is a prerequisite for One Health development.One health outlook · 2024Article
- From theory to practice: Analyzing factors that foster the successful implementation of the one health approach for enhancing health security in Cameroon.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Steps towards operationalizing One Health approaches.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Is the commercial determinants conversation confined to the health sciences? Potentially, and that's a problem.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Poxviruses from the Concept of One Health.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- A bibliometric analysis of One Health approach in research on antimicrobial resistance.Science in One Health · 2024Article
- Using one health training for interprofessional team building: implications for research, policy, and practice in Nigeria.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Developing One Health surveillance systems.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- One Health practices across key agencies in Sweden - Uncovering barriers to cooperation, communication and coordination.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2023Article
- One Health Education Nexus: enhancing synergy among science-, school-, and teacher education beyond academic silos.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Floristic Diversity as an Indicator in Low and High Endemic Buruli Ulcer Areas in Côte d'Ivoire.International journal of environmental research · 2023Article
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11 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The One Health initiative is a global effort fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to address challenges in human, animal, and environmental health. While One Health has received considerable press, its benefits remain unclear because its effects have not been quantitatively described. We systematically surveyed the published literature and used social network analysis to measure interdisciplinarity in One Health studies constructing dynamic pathogen transmission models. The number of publications fulfilling our search criteria increased by 14.6% per year, which is faster than growth rates for life sciences as a whole and for most biology subdisciplines. Surveyed publications clustered into three communities: one used by ecologists, one used by veterinarians, and a third diverse-authorship community used by population biologists, mathematicians, epidemiologists, and experts in human health. Overlap between these communities increased through time in terms of author number, diversity of co-author affiliations, and diversity of citations. However, communities continue to differ in the systems studied, questions asked, and methods employed. While the infectious disease research community has made significant progress toward integrating its participating disciplines, some segregation--especially along the veterinary/ecological research interface--remains.
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