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Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques is a research topic within Nutrition and Dietetics. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores taste perception, focusing on sweet, bitter, and umami tastes, as well as the impact of artificial sweeteners on health, including glucose intolerance and metabolic effects. It also delves into the role of gut microbiota in taste perception and the genetic variations influencing taste sensitivity.

  • Taste Receptors
  • Sweet Taste
  • Bitter Taste
  • Artificial Sweeteners
  • Gut Microbiota
  • Glucose Intolerance
  • Umami Taste
  • Sensory Perception
  • Metabolic Effects
  • Health Implications
Research works
51k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

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

Which countries lead Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 508 works
  4. 4 Japan 403 works
  5. 5 Brazil 254 works
  6. 6 South Korea 251 works
  7. 7 Germany 233 works
  8. 8 Italy 225 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 202 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 199 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: 35.2%United States: 21.3%India: 9.7%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 26.1%35%largest
China1,837 · 35.2%United States1,111 · 21.3%India508 · 9.7%Japan403 · 7.7%6 others listed1,363 · 26.1%

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

Which institutions lead Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research, followed by Beijing Technology and Business University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 82 works
  2. 2 Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 58 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 49 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 47 works
  5. 5 Jiangnan UniversityChina 42 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 40 works
  7. 7 Nanchang UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 34 works
  9. 9 South China University of TechnologyChina 27 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques include Eric S. Lander, George Davey Smith and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  9. 9 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  10. 10 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k 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 Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques?

The most cited paper in Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques is "Phosphorus Assay in Column Chromatography" (Grant R. Bartlett, 1959), with 12,866 citations. Next come "Central nervous system control of food intake" (6,471) and "Serum Immunoreactive-Leptin Concentrations in Normal-Weight and Obese Humans" (6,381).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Phosphorus Assay in Column Chromatography Grant R. Bartlett · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Mar 1959 12,866
2 Central nervous system control of food intake Michael W. Schwartz, Stephen C. Woods, Daniel Porte et al. · Nature Apr 2000 6,471
3 Serum Immunoreactive-Leptin Concentrations in Normal-Weight and Obese Humans Robert V. Considine, Madhur K. Sinha, Mark L. Heiman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Feb 1996 6,381
4 Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease Zeneng Wang, Elizabeth Klipfell, Brian J. Bennett et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2011 5,702
5 A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel · Cell Open access Apr 1991 5,046
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Where is Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dijon, Wuxi and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 298 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 116 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 104 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 98 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 96 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 86 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 70 works
  8. 8 WuxiChina 69 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 60 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DijonFR · 22.0 works11×
  2. WuxiCN · 69.3 works9.3×
  3. WageningenNL · 21.7 works7.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Technology and Business University, Dalian Polytechnic University and Jiangnan 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 25.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Polytechnic U…Beijing Technology a…Nanchang UniversityJiangnan 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
1Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 88.934.1%40.0×58 +122.5%
2Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 74.534.6%16.6×20 +462.9%
3Jiangnan UniversityChina 68.918.2%10.5×42 +70.8%
4Nanchang UniversityChina 67.321.4%6.9×35 +54.3%
5Shanghai Institute of TechnologyChina 62.426.7%14.6×16 +175.1%
6South China University of TechnologyChina 62.223.7%3.7×27 +114.0%
7Chengdu UniversityChina 61.334.9%6.8×10 +424.7%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.316.7%1.2×26 +14.9%
9China Agricultural UniversityChina 58.919.6%6.7×25 +80.1%
10Zhejiang Gongshang UniversityChina 57.925.4%15.6×16 +59.5%

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 Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques, country by country

Is Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques.

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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 Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques 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%Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques10.1% 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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