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Biological Research and Disease Studies

Biological Research and Disease Studies is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the research related to synthetic phosphoethanolamine, its anti-cancer effects, apoptosis induction, and potential applications in biofertilizers and biopesticides. Additionally, it explores its impact on metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. The research also delves into the use of nanoparticles for drug delivery in anticancer therapy.

  • Phosphoethanolamine
  • Synthetic
  • Apoptosis
  • Cancer
  • Biofertilizers
  • Anticancer
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Biopesticides
  • Nanoparticles
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Biological Research and Disease Studies

Which countries lead Biological Research and Disease Studies research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (495 and 483 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 495 works
  2. 2 United States 483 works
  3. 3 China 338 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 137 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 133 works
  6. 6 Brazil 106 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 97 works
  8. 8 Iran 92 works
  9. 9 Iraq 74 works
  10. 10 Italy 72 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.

India: 24.4%United States: 23.8%China: 16.7%Nigeria: 6.7%6 others listed: 28.3%24%largest
India495 · 24.4%United States483 · 23.8%China338 · 16.7%Nigeria137 · 6.7%6 others listed575 · 28.3%

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

Which institutions lead Biological Research and Disease Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, All India Institute of Medical Sciences publishes the most Biological Research and Disease Studies research, followed by Harvard University and University of Baghdad.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 18 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 University of BaghdadIraq 13 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 10 works
  6. 6 University of IbadanNigeria 10 works
  7. 7 Saveetha UniversityIndia 10 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 10 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  10. 10 Capital Medical UniversityChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Biological Research and Disease Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Biological Research and Disease Studies include David Moher, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Matthias Egger.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  4. 4 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k 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 Biological Research and Disease Studies?

The most cited paper in Biological Research and Disease Studies is "The global prevalence of dementia: A systematic review and metaanalysis" (Martin James Prince, Renata Bryce, Emiliano Albanese et al., 2013), with 4,986 citations. Next come "Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement" (4,836) and "NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data" (3,475).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The global prevalence of dementia: A systematic review and metaanalysis Martin James Prince, Renata Bryce, Emiliano Albanese et al. · Alzheimer s & Dementia ReviewOpen access 2013 4,986
2 Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement David Moher, Deborah J Cook, Susan Eastwood et al. · The Lancet Nov 1999 4,836
3 NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data Wouter De Coster, Svenn D’Hert, Darrin T. Schultz et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 12 Mar 2018 3,475
4 Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease John Randall Sims et al. · JAMA Open access309 authors 17 Jul 2023 2,880
5 Alzheimer disease in the United States (2010–2050) estimated using the 2010 census Liesi E. Hebert, Jennifer Weuve, Paul A. Scherr et al. · Neurology Open access 7 Feb 2013 2,721
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Where is Biological Research and Disease Studies research done?

The largest centres of Biological Research and Disease Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Tehran (Iran) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baghdad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 47 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 39 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 39 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 38 works
  5. 5 BaghdadIraq 30 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  7. 7 DhakaBangladesh 27 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 23 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaghdadIQ · 30.2 works4.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Biological Research and Disease Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Biological Research and Disease Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Johns Hopkins 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%10%20%mean 11.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversitySaveetha UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…All India Institute …
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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 83.820.9%1.8×16 +4.8%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 65.39.6%5.6×18 +114.4%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.613.0%2.2×10 +91.7%
4Saveetha UniversityIndia 57.014.8%3.8×10 +325.3%
5University of IbadanNigeria 48.45.1%13.2×10 +37.8%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 38.617.0%1.3×8 +50.3%
7Capital Medical UniversityChina 37.811.1%3.0×9 +42.7%
8Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 36.19.5%5.4×9 -11.1%
9University of BaghdadIraq 35.01.4%6.2×12 +77.6%
10University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34.48.7%2.1×11 -15.8%

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 Biological Research and Disease Studies, country by country

Is Biological Research and Disease Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Biological Research and Disease Studies.

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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 Biological Research and Disease Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Biological Research and Disease Studies 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%Biological Research and Disease Studies10.9% 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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