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Agricultural safety and regulations

Agricultural safety and regulations is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the safety assessment of feed additives, pesticides, and other substances related to food and environmental safety. It includes topics such as toxicological assessment, environmental risk assessment, residue levels, and EFSA guidance for safety evaluation.

  • Feed Additives
  • Pesticide Risk Assessment
  • Microorganisms
  • Toxicological Assessment
  • Environmental Risk Assessment
  • Food Safety
  • Chemical Safety
  • Plant Protection Products
  • EFSA Guidance
  • Residue Levels
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
534
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural safety and regulations

Which countries lead Agricultural safety and regulations research?

By volume, Germany and France publish the most (86 and 74 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 86 works
  2. 2 France 74 works
  3. 3 United States 73 works
  4. 4 Italy 52 works
  5. 5 China 42 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 34 works
  7. 7 Russia 33 works
  8. 8 India 29 works
  9. 9 Belgium 22 works
  10. 10 Spain 22 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 18.3%France: 15.8%United States: 15.7%Italy: 11.1%6 others listed: 39.2%18%largest
Germany86 · 18.3%France74 · 15.8%United States73 · 15.7%Italy52 · 11.1%6 others listed183 · 39.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Agricultural safety and regulations research?

By volume in 2022-now, European Food Safety Authority publishes the most Agricultural safety and regulations research, followed by European University at Saint Petersburg and Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement.

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural safety and regulations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural safety and regulations include Alberto Mantovani and Julie Glanville.

  1. 1 Alberto Mantovani Italy 224k citations
  2. 2 Julie Glanville United Kingdom 179k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Agricultural safety and regulations?

The most cited paper in Agricultural safety and regulations is "Exposure based waiving: The application of the toxicological threshold of concern (TTC) to inhalation exposure for aerosol ingredients in consumer products" (Philip Carthew, Catherine J. Clapp, Steve Gutsell, 2009), with 1,942 citations. Next come "Worldwide contamination of food-crops with mycotoxins: Validity of the widely cited ‘FAO estimate’ of 25%" (1,477) and "Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen" (1,167).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exposure based waiving: The application of the toxicological threshold of concern (TTC) to inhalation exposure for aerosol ingredients in consumer products Philip Carthew, Catherine J. Clapp, Steve Gutsell · Food and Chemical Toxicology 10 Mar 2009 1,942
2 Worldwide contamination of food-crops with mycotoxins: Validity of the widely cited ‘FAO estimate’ of 25% Mari K. Eskola, Gregor Kos, Christopher Trevor Elliott et al. · Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition Open access 3 Sep 2019 1,477
3 Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen Robert Hegnauer · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks Book chapter 1992 1,167
4 Structure-based thresholds of toxicological concern (TTC): guidance for application to substances present at low levels in the diet R. Kroes, Alistair G.C. Renwick, Mitchell A. Cheeseman et al. · Food and Chemical Toxicology 11 Oct 2003 814
5 Applicability of an in vitro digestion model in assessing the bioaccessibility of mycotoxins from food Carolien H. M. Versantvoort, Agnes G. Oomen, Erwin Van de Kamp et al. · Food and Chemical Toxicology 5 Oct 2004 766
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Where is Agricultural safety and regulations research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural safety and regulations research in 2022-now are Parma (Italy), Paris (France), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Parma.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParmaItaly 23 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 18 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 16 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 15 works
  5. 5 BrusselsBelgium 13 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 12 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 11 works
  8. 8 MilanItaly 10 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 9 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ParmaIT · 23.2 works117×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural safety and regulations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural safety and regulations?

Among universities, judged by research, European University at Saint Petersburg score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1European University at Saint PetersburgRussia 10.09.7%1382.1×13 +207.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Agricultural safety and regulations, country by country

Is Agricultural safety and regulations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural safety and regulations.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Agricultural safety and regulations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Agricultural safety and regulations over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Agricultural safety and regulations9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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