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Animal Nutrition and Health

Animal Nutrition and Health is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1950. 4.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to agricultural biotechnology, nutrition, and environmental sustainability. It includes studies on heavy metal pollution in soils, safety of food crops, nutritional programming, livestock health, fermented milk products, animal husbandry, meat quality, genetic markers in breeding, and sustainable agriculture practices.

  • Heavy Metal Pollution
  • Food Safety
  • Nutritional Programming
  • Soil Quality
  • Livestock Health
  • Fermented Milk Products
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Meat Quality
  • Genetic Markers
  • Sustainable Agriculture
Research works
5.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
263
per year above
Top-10% rate
4.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+440%
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Which countries lead Animal Nutrition and Health research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (946 and 154 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 946 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 154 works
  3. 3 United States 146 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 81 works
  5. 5 Hungary 49 works
  6. 6 Belarus 47 works
  7. 7 India 44 works
  8. 8 China 35 works
  9. 9 Iraq 27 works
  10. 10 Brazil 26 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.

Russia: 60.9%Ukraine: 9.9%United States: 9.4%Kazakhstan: 5.2%6 others listed: 14.7%61%largest
Russia946 · 60.9%Ukraine154 · 9.9%United States146 · 9.4%Kazakhstan81 · 5.2%6 others listed228 · 14.7%

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

Which institutions lead Animal Nutrition and Health research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Veterinary Medicine publishes the most Animal Nutrition and Health research, followed by Ural State Agrarian University and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Veterinary MedicineHungary 45 works
  2. 2 Ural State Agrarian UniversityRussia 43 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Federal Scientific Center for Biological Systems and Agricultural Technologies of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 31 works
  5. 5 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 27 works
  6. 6 Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on Animal HusbandryBelarus 21 works
  7. 7 Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. GoryachkinRussia 21 works
  8. 8 Kuban State Agrarian UniversityRussia 20 works
  9. 9 Novosibirsk State Agricultural UniversityRussia 20 works
  10. 10 Bashkir State Agrarian UniversityRussia 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Animal Nutrition and Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal Nutrition and Health include Knud Erik Bach Knudsen.

  1. 1 Knud Erik Bach Knudsen Denmark 613 citations

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

Where is Animal Nutrition and Health research done?

The largest centres of Animal Nutrition and Health research in 2022–2025 are Moscow (Russia), Yekaterinburg (Russia), Orenburg (Russia) and Budapest (Hungary). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhodzina and Orenburg.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 168 works
  2. 2 Yekaterinburg Russia 63 works
  3. 3 Orenburg Russia 48 works
  4. 4 Budapest Hungary 46 works
  5. 5 Kyiv Ukraine 37 works
  6. 6 Volgograd Russia 35 works
  7. 7 Lviv Ukraine 33 works
  8. 8 Almaty Kazakhstan 32 works
  9. 9 Weatherford United States 32 works
  10. 10 Novosibirsk Russia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhodzinaBY · 21.2 works3265×
  2. OrenburgRU · 47.9 works287×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal Nutrition and Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Animal Nutrition and Health?

Among universities, judged by research, Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies Lviv, Ural State Agrarian University and Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. Goryachkin 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%10%20%mean 4.97%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies Lviv: 19, 16.2%Ural State Agrarian University: 43, 5.3%Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. Goryachkin: 21, 4.3%Weatherford College: 32, 0.8%University of Veterinary Medicine: 45, 1.3%National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine: 14, 4.8%Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy: 17, 7.5%Saint Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine: 8, 6.2%Omsk State Agrarian University: 27, 2.5%Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I .Vavilov: 14, 0.8%Stepan Gzhytskyi Nat…Ural State Agrarian …Moscow State Agroeng…Weatherford College
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 71.416.2%318.8×19 —
2 Ural State Agrarian UniversityRussia 61.25.3%675.7×43 —
3 Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. GoryachkinRussia 60.14.3%223.6×21 +204.2%
4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 59.50.8%13.1×32 +391.3%
5 University of Veterinary MedicineHungary 59.31.3%424.8×45 —
6 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 57.64.8%69.3×14 +334.0%
7 Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural AcademyRussia 55.07.5%334.3×17 —
8 Saint Petersburg State University of Veterinary MedicineRussia 52.56.2%703.1×8 —
9 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 50.52.5%452.0×27 —
10 Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I .VavilovRussia 48.40.8%547.3×14 +766.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Animal Nutrition and Health research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 440% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Animal Nutrition and Health.

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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.

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.