InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years

Wang, Wei; Chen, Jin; Sheng, Hui-Feng; Wang, Na-Na; Yang, Pin; Zhou, Xiao-Nong; Bergquist, Robert

The number of articles of the 256 publications accessed through Internet reached a total of 1 174 098 accesses up to 20th February, 2017, with a mean of 4 586.32 times per publication. Table 5 summarizes the five most highly accessed publications, which have been accessed more than 12 000 times. They include three research articles, one focusing on the interplay between infectious disease emergence and global climate change [38] , one dealing with the risk factors of malaria among pregnant women in Nigeria [39] and one discussing the reaction of Chinese social media to the outbreaks caused by the MERS coronavirus and avian influenza A (H7N9) [40] . Two reviews, one on tuberculosis [40] and the other on malaria and other vector-borne protozoan diseases [41] were also often downloaded. Interestingly, the most highly accessed publication is a research article exploring the potential correlation between the emergence of infectious diseases and global climate change, perhaps explained by the currently worldwide focus on a large number of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in this context [42, 43] .