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Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects

Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects is a research topic within Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the pathogenesis, treatment, and impact of alcohol consumption on the development of alcoholic liver disease. It covers topics such as oxidative stress, cancer risk, inflammation, genetic polymorphisms, cardiovascular health, and mortality risk associated with alcohol consumption.

  • Alcohol
  • Liver Disease
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Cancer Risk
  • Inflammation
  • Metabolism
  • Genetic Polymorphisms
  • Cardiovascular Health
  • Mortality Risk
  • Therapeutic Targets
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 300 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 229 works
  5. 5 Japan 218 works
  6. 6 South Korea 194 works
  7. 7 Spain 170 works
  8. 8 Germany 168 works
  9. 9 Italy 144 works
  10. 10 Australia 136 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.

United States: 36.6%China: 26.6%India: 7.1%United Kingdom: 5.4%6 others listed: 24.3%37%largest
United States1,551 · 36.6%China1,128 · 26.6%India300 · 7.1%United Kingdom229 · 5.4%6 others listed1,030 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research, followed by National Institutes of Health and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 48 works
  2. 2 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 43 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 33 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 28 works
  5. 5 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 University of California San DiegoUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 Anhui Medical UniversityChina 27 works
  8. 8 InsermFrance 24 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 Indiana UniversityUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects include Ahmedin Jemal, Christopher J L Murray and Freddie Bray.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  4. 4 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  5. 5 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  6. 6 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  7. 7 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  8. 8 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  9. 9 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  10. 10 Peer Bork Germany 396k 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 Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects?

The most cited paper in Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects is "Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II" (JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Thomas F. Babor et al., 1993), with 13,467 citations. Next come "Global epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease—Meta‐analytic assessment of prevalence, incidence, and outcomes" (11,032) and "The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking" (6,306).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Thomas F. Babor et al. · Addiction Jun 1993 13,467
2 Global epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease—Meta‐analytic assessment of prevalence, incidence, and outcomes Zobair M. Younossi, Aaron B. Koenig, Dinan Abdelatif et al. · Hepatology 28 Dec 2015 11,032
3 The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) An Effective Brief Screening Test for Problem Drinking Kristen Bush · Archives of Internal Medicine 14 Sep 1998 6,306
4 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Paul G. Angulo · New England Journal of Medicine 18 Apr 2002 5,222
5 A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement Mohammed Eslam et al. · Journal of Hepatology Open access 8 Apr 2020 4,540
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Where is Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research done?

The largest centres of Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Louisville, Omaha and New Orleans.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 136 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 99 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 74 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 70 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 59 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 52 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 49 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 45 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LouisvilleUS · 21.3 works11×
  2. OmahaUS · 25.2 works9.0×
  3. New OrleansUS · 23.5 works8.1×
  4. RichmondUS · 23.4 works7.5×
  5. BethesdaUS · 41.7 works6.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California San Diego and Karolinska Institutet 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.

0%20%40%mean 21.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Pontificia Universid…University of Califo…Karolinska InstitutetHarvard University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.216.0%3.0×48 +28.7%
2University of California San DiegoUnited States 75.525.6%5.5×27 +28.1%
3Karolinska InstitutetSweden 63.817.4%7.2×21 +13.5%
4Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 63.333.1%5.4×9 +173.5%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 59.917.4%3.1×23 +26.3%
6University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States 56.912.4%5.1×22 +107.0%
7Nanchang UniversityChina 56.525.1%3.6×14 +69.5%
8University of Southern DenmarkDenmark 55.724.0%6.8×14 -6.8%
9Anhui Medical UniversityChina 55.211.4%11.4×27 +66.9%
10Wuhan UniversityChina 54.630.9%1.5×11 +108.9%

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 Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, country by country

Is Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects.

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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 Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects 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.

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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.

Questions people ask

How much research is there on alcohol, and is it growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects.

Is Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects research growing?
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