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Bee Products Chemical Analysis

Bee Products Chemical Analysis is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biological and therapeutic properties of bee products, including propolis, honey, royal jelly, and bee pollen. It explores their antioxidant, antimicrobial, and wound healing capabilities, as well as their chemical composition and botanical origin.

  • Propolis
  • Honey
  • Antioxidant
  • Phenolic Compounds
  • Royal Jelly
  • Botanical Origin
  • Wound Healing
  • Antimicrobial Activity
  • Flavonoids
  • Bee Pollen
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bee Products Chemical Analysis

Which countries lead Bee Products Chemical Analysis research?

By volume, China and Brazil publish the most (931 and 838 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 931 works
  2. 2 Brazil 838 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 742 works
  4. 4 India 721 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 414 works
  6. 6 United States 409 works
  7. 7 Iran 323 works
  8. 8 Egypt 314 works
  9. 9 Poland 217 works
  10. 10 Italy 216 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.

China: 18.2%Brazil: 16.3%Türkiye: 14.5%India: 14.1%6 others listed: 36.9%18%largest
China931 · 18.2%Brazil838 · 16.3%Türkiye742 · 14.5%India721 · 14.1%6 others listed1,893 · 36.9%

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

Which institutions lead Bee Products Chemical Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Bee Products Chemical Analysis research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 67 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 51 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 41 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  6. 6 Cairo UniversityEgypt 28 works
  7. 7 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 27 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 27 works
  9. 9 Bingöl UniversityTürkiye 26 works
  10. 10 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bee Products Chemical Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bee Products Chemical Analysis include Róbert Langer, Amirhossein Sahebkar and Didier Raoult.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  3. 3 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  4. 4 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  5. 5 David M. Pereira Portugal 183k citations
  6. 6 Barry B. Halliwell 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 Bee Products Chemical Analysis?

The most cited paper in Bee Products Chemical Analysis is "Transdermal drug delivery" (Mark R. Prausnitz, Róbert Langer, 2008), with 3,525 citations. Next come "Determination of the total phenolic, flavonoid and proline contents in Burkina Fasan honey, as well as their radical scavenging activity" (2,227) and "Essential Oils in Food Preservation: Mode of Action, Synergies, and Interactions with Food Matrix Components" (2,176).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transdermal drug delivery Mark R. Prausnitz, Róbert Langer · Nature Biotechnology Open access Nov 2008 3,525
2 Determination of the total phenolic, flavonoid and proline contents in Burkina Fasan honey, as well as their radical scavenging activity Aline Meda, Charles Euloge Lamien, Marco Romito et al. · Food Chemistry 11 Dec 2004 2,227
3 Essential Oils in Food Preservation: Mode of Action, Synergies, and Interactions with Food Matrix Components Morten Hyldgaard, Tina Mygind, Rikke Louise Meyer · Frontiers in Microbiology Open access 2012 2,176
4 Using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy to analyze biological materials Matthew J. Baker et al. · Nature Protocols Open access 3 Jul 2014 1,974
5 Bee and Wasp Venoms Ernst Habermann · Science 28 Jul 1972 1,571
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Bee Products Chemical Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Bee Products Chemical Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Tehran (Iran) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bingöl.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 155 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 122 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 107 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 87 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 82 works
  6. 6 CairoEgypt 71 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 67 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 56 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 51 works
  10. 10 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BingölTR · 25.9 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bee Products Chemical Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bee Products Chemical Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Al-Azhar University, Northeast Agricultural University and Chiang Mai University 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 25.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Chiang Mai UniversityAl-Azhar UniversityKing Saud 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
1Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 60.125.0%7.3×20 +121.6%
2Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 59.746.7%4.5×9 +96.9%
3Chiang Mai UniversityThailand 58.926.6%7.7×18 +103.1%
4King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 57.115.8%3.3×24 +24.1%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 53.934.6%1.8×10 +78.8%
6University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-NapocaRomania 53.628.1%36.8×14 +28.0%
7Cairo UniversityEgypt 52.811.8%5.0×28 +44.4%
8Alexandria UniversityEgypt 51.516.3%6.1×20 +18.4%
9Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 51.119.6%3.9×22 +6.7%
10Nanchang UniversityChina 49.933.3%2.2×12 +18.1%

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 Bee Products Chemical Analysis, country by country

Is Bee Products Chemical Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Bee Products Chemical Analysis.

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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 Bee Products Chemical Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Bee Products Chemical Analysis0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bee Products Chemical Analysis 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%Bee Products Chemical Analysis10.3% 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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