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Table 2 Subject areas of retrieved documents

From: Global research trends of World Health Organization’s top eight emerging pathogens

Subject area

Frequency

% N = 8619 a

Medicine

5406

62.7

Immunology and Microbiology

3075

35.7

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

1681

19.5

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

533

6.2

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

407

4.7

Veterinary

283

3.3

Multidisciplinary

234

2.7

Social Sciences

179

2.1

Chemistry

170

2.0

Environmental Science

133

1.5

Nursing

123

1.4

  1. aDue to overlap among subject areas, the total percentages exceeded 100%