Table 3.

Top-10 most cited studies on rabies vaccine

No.	Title	Authors	Journal	Publication year	Total citations	Average citations per Year	Citation in 2020
1	Vaccination with a Plasmid Vector Carrying the Rabies Virus Glycoprotein Gene Induces Protective Immunity against Rabies Virus	Xiang et al.	Virology	1994	352	12.57	3
2	Large-Scale Eradication of Rabies using Recombinant Vaccinia-Rabies Vaccine	Brochier et al.	Nature	1991	210	6.77	5
3	Expression in plants and immunogenicity of plant virus-based experimental rabies vaccine	Yusibov et al.	Vaccine	2002	178	8.9	8
4	Immune-Responses to Nucleic-Acid Vaccines to Rabies Virus	Xiang et al.	Virology	1995	157	5.81	0
5	A dog rabies vaccination campaign in rural Africa: impact on the incidence of dog rabies and human dog-bite injuries	Cleaveland, et al.	Vaccine	2003	148	7.79	11
6	Oral Rabies Vaccination in North America: Opportunities, Complexities, and Challenges	Slate et al.	PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases	2009	146	11.23	11
7	Improved recovery of rabies virus from cloned cDNA using a vaccinia virus-free reverse genetics system	Ito et al.	Microbiology and Immunology	2003	117	6.16	10
8	Brief report: Human infection due to recombinant vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein virus	Rupprecht et al.	New England Journal of Medicine	2001	117	5.57	6
9	Canine rabies vaccination and domestic dog population characteristics in the developing world: A systematic review	Davlin & Vonville	Vaccine	2012	110	11	11
10	Rabies control in rural Africa: Evaluating strategies for effective domestic dog vaccination	Kaare et al.	Vaccine	2009	107	8.23	6