Table 1.
The 10 most researched tropical diseases
| 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 |
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