Who leads Marburg virus research? Gender, geography and funding in authorship, 2008 to early 2023: a bibliometric baseline before the 2023-2025 outbreaks

Introduction. Between 2023 and 2025, Marburg virus disease reached Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ethiopia for the first time. WHO's 2025 Marburg research priorities make leadership of studies by local scientists a continuing goal. This study describes who led Marburg virus research before these outbreaks. Methods. I analysed 684 English-language Web of Science papers on Marburg virus published from 2008 to February 2023 (5,700 authorships). Gender was inferred from first names with Gender-API, papers about African countries were identified from their text, funders were harmonised by

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