Furthermore, an analysis of author counts across different types of research literature ( Figure 3C ) shows a highly significant difference in the number of authors between research articles and review articles ( P < 0.001).
Its evolutionary pathway exhibits clear phases: the early period (early 2000s) was dominated by empirical studies describing the effects of Climate change on traditional diseases such as Malaria; the middle period (2010s) saw the growing prominence of Zoonosis and Epidemiology methods, with research networks becoming increasingly cohesive; the recent period (2020s) reveals a strong trend toward integration into systemic frameworks such as One Health, Biodiversity, and Surveillance.