"One Health" or Three? Publication Silos Among the One Health Disciplines.
The One Health initiative is a global effort fostering interdisciplinary collaborations to address challenges in human, animal, and environmental health. While One Health has received considerable press, its benefits remain unclear because its effects have not been quantitatively described. We systematically surveyed the published literature and used social network analysis to measure interdisciplinarity in One Health studies constructing dynamic pathogen transmission models. The number of publications fulfilling our search criteria increased by 14.6% per year, which is faster than growth rates for life sciences as a whole and for most biology subdisciplines. Surveyed publications clustered into three communities: one used by ecologists, one used by veterinarians, and a third diverse-authorship community used by population biologists, mathematicians, epidemiologists, and experts in human health. Overlap between these communities increased through time in terms of author number, diversity of co-author affiliations, and diversity of citations. However, communities continue to differ in the systems studied, questions asked, and methods employed. While the infectious disease research community has made significant progress toward integrating its participating disciplines, some segregation--especially along the veterinary/ecological research interface--remains.
Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Kezia R
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-5236
KR
Manlove
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Josephine G
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9732-5738
JG
Walker
Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America.
Meggan E
ME
Craft
Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Kathryn P
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3302-030X
KP
Huyvaert
University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Maxwell B
MB
Joseph
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Science Technology and Analysis Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Ryan S
RS
Miller
United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Pauline
P
Nol
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Science Technology and Analysis Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Kelly A
KA
Patyk
Wildlife Disease Laboratory, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Lansing, Michigan, United States of America.
Daniel
D
O'Brien
U.S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Daniel P
DP
Walsh
U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America.
Paul C
PC
Cross
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D011643:Publishing