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Biochemical effects in animals

Biochemical effects in animals is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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  • Antioxidant
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  • Aging
  • Oxidative Stress
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Biochemical effects in animals

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

Which countries lead Biochemical effects in animals research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 533 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 533 works
  3. 3 Russia 415 works
  4. 4 India 313 works
  5. 5 Iran 211 works
  6. 6 Japan 207 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 165 works
  8. 8 South Korea 145 works
  9. 9 Brazil 144 works
  10. 10 Egypt 130 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: 37.2%United States: 14.8%Russia: 11.5%India: 8.7%6 others listed: 27.8%37%largest
China1,340 · 37.2%United States533 · 14.8%Russia415 · 11.5%India313 · 8.7%6 others listed1,001 · 27.8%

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

Which institutions lead Biochemical effects in animals research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Biochemical effects in animals research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 117 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 45 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 38 works
  4. 4 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 26 works
  5. 5 Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 24 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  7. 7 China Agricultural UniversityChina 22 works
  8. 8 Nanchang UniversityChina 22 works
  9. 9 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 22 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Biochemical effects in animals?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Biochemical effects in animals include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  6. 6 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  7. 7 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k 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 effects in animals?

The most cited paper in Biochemical effects in animals is "Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal" (Ndiaye, Matar, Lespez, Laurent, Tribolo, Chantal et al., 2024), with 24,104 citations. Next come "Oxidants, antioxidants, and the degenerative diseases of aging." (5,991) and "Resveratrol Improves Mitochondrial Function and Protects against Metabolic Disease by Activating SIRT1 and PGC-1α" (4,041).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal Ndiaye, Matar, Lespez, Laurent, Tribolo, Chantal et al. · Monash University Research Portal (Monash University) Open access 28 Mar 2024 24,104
2 Oxidants, antioxidants, and the degenerative diseases of aging. B N Ames, Mark K. Shigenaga, Tory M. Hagen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Sep 1993 5,991
3 Resveratrol Improves Mitochondrial Function and Protects against Metabolic Disease by Activating SIRT1 and PGC-1α Marie Lagouge, Carmen Argmann, Zachary Gerhart‐Hines et al. · Cell Open access 17 Nov 2006 4,041
4 Oxidative Stress and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review of Upstream and Downstream Antioxidant Therapeutic Options Bayani Uttara, Ajay Singh, Paolo Zamboni et al. · Current Neuropharmacology Open access Mar 2009 3,398
5 Nutrient control of glucose homeostasis through a complex of PGC-1α and SIRT1 Joseph T. Rodgers, Carles Lerín, Wilhelm Haas et al. · Nature Mar 2005 3,149
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Where is Biochemical effects in animals research done?

The largest centres of Biochemical effects in animals research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Guangzhou (China) and Tehran (Iran).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 181 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 156 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 66 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 66 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 60 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 56 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 54 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 49 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 47 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 47 works
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Where is the best place to study Biochemical effects in animals?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeast Agricultural University, Beijing Technology and Business University and China Agricultural 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 28.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Beijing Technology a…China Agricultural U…Dalian Polytechnic U…
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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
1Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 83.238.5%21.5×26 +110.4%
2Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 73.834.1%16.8×16 +40.3%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 68.723.8%8.6×22 +128.6%
4Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 68.021.9%30.1×24 +162.0%
5Nanchang UniversityChina 65.724.4%6.3×22 +57.9%
6Jiangnan UniversityChina 58.823.1%6.2×17 +64.9%
7Ningbo UniversityChina 56.228.4%3.8×10 +109.5%
8South China Agricultural UniversityChina 56.029.6%6.1×10 +89.9%
9Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 54.931.4%13.0×8 +92.7%
10Ocean University of ChinaChina 54.730.2%4.4×10 +238.8%

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 effects in animals, country by country

Is Biochemical effects in animals research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Biochemical effects in animals.

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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 effects in animals as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Biochemical effects in animals 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 effects in animals10.2% 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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