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Animal Science and Veterinary
China
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
83
Citations
28795
World Ranking
56
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in China Leader Award

Overview

Dirk U. Pfeiffer is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans multiple fields, with a focus on Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work addresses a variety of subfields including Agronomy and Crop Science, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Modeling and Simulation.

The primary topics covered in their research include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Zoonotic diseases and public health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Influenza Virus Research Studies, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Dirk U. Pfeiffer has contributed to numerous scientific publications across several venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, One Health, and Scientific Reports.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Estimating the effective reproduction number of the 2019-nCoV in China, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: Should We Rethink the Animal-Human Interface?, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • The effects of border control and quarantine measures on the spread of COVID-19, 2020, Epidemics
  • The effects of seasonal climate variability on dengue annual incidence in Hong Kong: A modelling study, 2020, Scientific Reports

Dirk U. Pfeiffer frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Guillaume Fournié, Anne Conan, Hsiang-Yu Yuan, Paritosh Kumar Biswas, and Md. Ahasanul Hoque. These collaborations contribute to a significant portion of their research output.

Best Publications

  • Principles and practical application of the receiver-operating characteristic analysis for diagnostic tests.

    M Greiner;D Pfeiffer;R.D Smith

  • Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

    Bryony A. Jones;Delia Grace;Richard Kock;Silvia Alonso

  • Clinical evaluation of postpartum vaginal mucus reflects uterine bacterial infection and the immune response in cattle.

    Erin J. Williams;Deborah P. Fischer;Dirk U. Pfeiffer;Gary C.W. England

  • Influence of uterine bacterial contamination after parturition on ovarian dominant follicle selection and follicle growth and function in cattle.

    IM Sheldon;DE Noakes;AN Rycroft;DU Pfeiffer

  • African swine fever: how can global spread be prevented?

    Solenne Costard;Barbara Wieland;William De Glanville;Ferran Jori

  • The risk of death: the confidential enquiry into perioperative small animal fatalities.

    David C Brodbelt;Karen J Blissitt;Richard A Hammond;Prue J Neath

  • Leg disorders in broiler chickens: Prevalence, risk factors and prevention

    Toby G. Knowles;Steven C. Kestin;Susan M. Haslam;Steven N. Brown

  • Epidemiology of African swine fever virus

    S. Costard;L. Mur;J. Lubroth;J.M. Sanchez-Vizcaino

  • Review of the Community Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic agents and Antimicrobial Resistance in the European Union in 2005

    Bo Algers;Harry Blokhuis;Martin Wierup;A. Osterhaus

  • African Swine Fever Epidemiology and Control

    Linda K. Dixon;Karl Stahl;Ferran Jori;Laurence Vial

  • The epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infections

    R.S. Morris;D.U. Pfeiffer;R. Jackson

  • Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia

    Marius Gilbert;Xiangming Xiao;Dirk U Pfeiffer;Michael Epprecht

  • Transmission routes of African swine fever virus to domestic pigs: current knowledge and future research directions

    Claire Guinat;Andrey Gogin;Sandra Blome;Guenther Keil

  • Survival of cats with naturally occurring chronic renal failure is related to severity of proteinuria.

    Harriet M. Syme;Peter J. Markwell;Dirk Pfeiffer;Jonathan Elliott

  • Towards a conceptual framework to support one-health research for policy on emerging zoonoses

    Richard Coker;Jonathan Rushton;Sandra Mounier-Jack;Esron Karimuribo

  • The animal-human interface and infectious disease in industrial food animal production: rethinking biosecurity and biocontainment.

    Jay P. Graham;Jessica H. Leibler;Lance B. Price;Joachim M. Otte

  • Use of social network analysis to characterize the pattern of animal movements in the initial phases of the 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the UK

    A. Ortiz-Pelaez;D.U. Pfeiffer;R.J. Soares-Magalhães;F.J. Guitian

  • Methods and Processes of Developing the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology - Veterinary (STROBE-Vet) Statement.

    J M Sargeant;J M Sargeant;A M O'Connor;I R Dohoo;H N Erb

  • A "One Health" surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: moving away from improvisation.

    Jacques Godfroid;Sascha Al Dahouk;Sascha Al Dahouk;Georgios Pappas;Felix Roth

  • An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of highly pathogenic avian influenza occurrence in Vietnam using national surveillance data

    Dirk U. Pfeiffer;Phan Q. Minh;Vincent Martin;Michael Epprecht

  • Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission on porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis)

    B. Algers;H.J. Blokhuis;A. Bøtner;D.M. Broom

  • Use of social network analysis to characterize the pattern of animal movements in the initial phases of the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in the UK.

    A. Ortiz-Pelaez;D. U. Pfeiffer;R. J. Soares-Magalhães;F. J. Guitian

Frequent Co-Authors

R.S. Morris
R.S. Morris Massey University
François Roger
François Roger University of Montpellier
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology
Katharina D.C. Stärk
Katharina D.C. Stärk Royal Veterinary College
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool
Javier Guitian
Javier Guitian Royal Veterinary College
Archie C. A. Clements
Archie C. A. Clements Queen's University Belfast
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Beatriz Martínez-López
Beatriz Martínez-López University of California, Davis
Linda K. Dixon
Linda K. Dixon The Pirbright Institute

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