2026 Jonathan Rushton: Animal Science and Veterinary Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Animal Science and Veterinary	52	532	488	60	54	288	11907

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

1252
Citations
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

988
Citations
Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens.

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

584
Citations
Towards a conceptual framework to support one-health research for policy on emerging zoonoses

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

335
Citations
The economics of foot and mouth disease.

A D James;J Rushton

297
Citations
The economics of animal health and production

Jonathan Rushton;Peter R Ellis

276
Citations
Cost of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus at individual farm level – An economic disease model

Heiko Nathues;P Alarcon;J Rushton;R Jolie

243
Citations
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

204
Citations
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

194
Citations
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

180
Citations
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

176
Citations
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

169
Citations
COVID-19-Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

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

168
Citations
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

146
Citations
Economic impact of Bluetongue: a review of the effects on production.

Jonathan Rushton;Nick Lyons

145
Citations
A Blueprint to Evaluate One Health.

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

137
Citations
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

121
Citations
The economics of animal health and production.

J. Rushton

120
Citations
Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks

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

115
Citations
Impacts of avian influenza virus on animal production in developing countries

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

112
Citations
Constraints to cattle production in a semiarid pastoral system in Kenya

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

101
Citations
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

100
Citations
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

97
Citations
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

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric M. Fèvre University of Liverpool

Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong

Katharina D.C. Stärk Royal Veterinary College

Richard Coker London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Lian F. Thomas University of Liverpool

Delia Grace International Livestock Research Institute

Juan Carrique-Mas University of Oxford

Henk Hogeveen Wageningen University & Research

Barbara Wieland Institute of Virology and Immunology

Esron D. Karimuribo Sokoine University of Agriculture

External Links

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