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D-Index
52
Citations
11907
World Ranking
532
National Ranking
60

Jonathan Rushton publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan Rushton sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 288 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Jonathan Rushton D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jonathan Rushton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jonathan Rushton is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, contributing extensively to subfields including Agronomy and Crop Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Animal Science and Zoology, Infectious Diseases, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work concentrates on a range of topics, notably Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, and Livestock and Poultry Management.

Jonathan Rushton has published in several journals and venues, with frequent publications in Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, SSRN Electronic Journal, Revue Scientifique et Technique de l'OIE, and PLoS ONE.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens (2020) in Veterinary Research
  • COVID-19-Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease? (2020) in Frontiers in Public Health
  • Review: Mitigating the risks posed by intensification in livestock production: the examples of antimicrobial resistance and zoonoses (2020) in animal
  • How antibiotics are used in pig farming: a mixed-methods study of pig farmers, feed mills and veterinarians in Thailand (2020) in BMJ Global Health
  • Population genomics of Escherichia coli in livestock-keeping households across a rapidly developing urban landscape (2022) in Nature Microbiology

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Jonathan Rushton include W. Gilbert, Ben Huntington, Wudu T. Jemberu, Gemma Chaters, and Mieghan Bruce.

In addition to articles, they have book publications with Frontiers Media, including the book titled Ensuring Animal Health and Other Services for Efficient and Inclusive Livestock Value Chains in LMICs published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

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

  • The economic impacts of foot and mouth disease – What are they, how big are they and where do they occur?

    T.J.D. Knight-Jones;J J Rushton

  • Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens.

    Damer P. Blake;Jolene Knox;Ben Dehaeck;Ben Huntington

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

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

  • The economics of foot and mouth disease.

    A D James;J Rushton

  • The economics of animal health and production

    Jonathan Rushton;Peter R Ellis

  • Cost of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus at individual farm level – An economic disease model

    Heiko Nathues;P Alarcon;J Rushton;R Jolie

  • Impact of avian influenza outbreaks in the poultry sectors of five South East Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam) outbreak costs, responses and potential long term control

    J. Rushton;R. Viscarra;E. Guerne Bleich;A. Mcleod

  • Cost of post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome and porcine circovirus type-2 subclinical infection in England – An economic disease model

    Pablo Alarcon;Jonathan Rushton;Barbara Wieland

  • Feeding the world healthily: the challenge of measuring the effects of agriculture on health

    Sophie Hawkesworth;Alan D. Dangour;Alan D. Dangour;Deborah Johnston;Deborah Johnston;Karen Lock;Karen Lock

  • Industrial Food Animal Production and Global Health Risks: Exploring the Ecosystems and Economics of Avian Influenza

    Jessica H. Leibler;Joachim Otte;David Roland-Holst;Dirk U. Pfeiffer

  • An empirical analysis of the cost of rearing dairy heifers from birth to first calving and the time taken to repay these costs

    AC Boulton;J Rushton;DC Wathes

  • COVID-19-Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

    Najmul Haider;Peregrine Rothman-Ostrow;Abdinasir Yusuf Osman;Liã Bárbara Arruda

  • Characterizing Antimicrobial Use in the Livestock Sector in Three South East Asian Countries (Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam).

    Lucy Coyne;Riana Arief;Carolyn Benigno;Vo Ngan Giang

  • Economic impact of Bluetongue: a review of the effects on production.

    Jonathan Rushton;Nick Lyons

  • A Blueprint to Evaluate One Health.

    Simon R. Rüegg;Barry J. McMahon;Barbara Häsler;Roberto Esposito

  • Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease Impact on Smallholders ‐ What Do We Know, What Don't We Know and How Can We Find Out More?

    T.J.D. Knight-Jones;M. McLaws;Jonathan Rushton

  • The economics of animal health and production.

    J. Rushton

  • Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks

    J. Otte;D. Roland-Holst;D. Pfeiffer;R. Soares-Magalhaes

  • Impacts of avian influenza virus on animal production in developing countries

    J. Otte;J. Hinrichs;J. Rushton;D. Roland-Holst

  • Constraints to cattle production in a semiarid pastoral system in Kenya

    Joshua Orungo Onono;Joshua Orungo Onono;Barbara Wieland;Jonathan Rushton

  • Mapping of beef, sheep and goat food systems in Nairobi - A framework for policy making and the identification of structural vulnerabilities and deficiencies.

    Pablo Alarcon;Eric M. Fèvre;Maurice K. Murungi;Patrick Muinde

  • Experiences with vaccination in countries endemically infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza: the Food and Agriculture Organization perspective.

    J Domenech;G Dauphin;J Rushton;J McGrane

  • A one health framework for the evaluation of rabies control programmes: a case study from Colombo City, Sri Lanka.

    Barbara Häsler;Elly Hiby;Will Gilbert;Nalinika Obeyesekere

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric M. Fèvre
Eric M. Fèvre University of Liverpool
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Katharina D.C. Stärk
Katharina D.C. Stärk Royal Veterinary College
Richard Coker
Richard Coker London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lian F. Thomas
Lian F. Thomas University of Liverpool
Delia Grace
Delia Grace International Livestock Research Institute
Juan Carrique-Mas
Juan Carrique-Mas University of Oxford
Henk Hogeveen
Henk Hogeveen Wageningen University & Research
Barbara Wieland
Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology
Esron D. Karimuribo
Esron D. Karimuribo Sokoine University of Agriculture

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