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Body Composition Measurement Techniques

Body Composition Measurement Techniques is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 assessment and analysis of body composition, including methods such as bioelectrical impedance analysis, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and anthropometry. It covers topics related to clinical practice, obesity, muscle mass, and nutritional assessment in various populations.

  • Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
  • Body Mass Index
  • Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry
  • Body Fat Percentage
  • Segmental Body Composition
  • Clinical Practice
  • Obesity
  • Muscle Mass
  • Nutritional Assessment
  • Adiposity
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Body Composition Measurement Techniques

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

Which countries lead Body Composition Measurement Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (857 and 755 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 857 works
  2. 2 China 755 works
  3. 3 Brazil 363 works
  4. 4 Japan 357 works
  5. 5 India 332 works
  6. 6 Spain 248 works
  7. 7 South Korea 225 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 203 works
  9. 9 Italy 187 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 183 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.

United States: 23.1%China: 20.3%Brazil: 9.8%Japan: 9.6%6 others listed: 37.1%23%largest
United States857 · 23.1%China755 · 20.3%Brazil363 · 9.8%Japan357 · 9.6%6 others listed1,378 · 37.1%

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

Which institutions lead Body Composition Measurement Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Body Composition Measurement Techniques research, followed by Harvard University and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sichuan UniversityChina 32 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 26 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 26 works
  4. 4 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 25 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 21 works
  7. 7 Capital Medical UniversityChina 21 works
  8. 8 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 18 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 17 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Body Composition Measurement Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Body Composition Measurement Techniques include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Julian P. T. Higgins.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  8. 8 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  9. 9 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  10. 10 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k 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 Body Composition Measurement Techniques?

The most cited paper in Body Composition Measurement Techniques is "Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey" (Tim James Cole, 2000), with 16,616 citations. Next come "Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis" (14,151) and "Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis" (11,720).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey Tim James Cole · BMJ Open access 6 May 2000 16,616
2 Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis Alfonso José Cruz-Jentoft et al. · Age and Ageing Open access 24 Sep 2018 14,151
3 Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis Alfonso José Cruz-Jentoft, Jean‐Pierre Baeyens, Jürgen Martin Bauer et al. · Age and Ageing Open access 13 Apr 2010 11,720
4 Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents Mercedes de Onís · Bulletin of the World Health Organization Open access Sep 2007 8,902
5 Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults Leandra Abarca-Gómez et al. · The Lancet Open access1,040 authors 13 Oct 2017 7,739
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Where is Body Composition Measurement Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Body Composition Measurement Techniques research in 2022-now are Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeoulSouth Korea 114 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 107 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 72 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 61 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 55 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 54 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 51 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 48 works
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Where is the best place to study Body Composition Measurement Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Central South University and Yonsei 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 20.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Sichuan UniversityYonsei UniversityHarvard 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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 81.526.1%2.8×32 +70.0%
2Central South UniversityChina 66.931.0%1.5×15 +280.5%
3Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 63.415.0%5.4×25 +45.2%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.613.8%1.6×26 -1.6%
5Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 58.220.3%3.3×15 +75.1%
6Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 57.123.9%4.4×10 +118.4%
7Capital Medical UniversityChina 56.215.8%3.8×21 +157.0%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.020.5%1.1×15 +181.4%
9Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina 54.522.9%4.6×12 +305.1%
10Texas Tech UniversityUnited States 54.220.5%5.6×11 +31.0%

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 Body Composition Measurement Techniques, country by country

Is Body Composition Measurement Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Body Composition Measurement 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 Body Composition Measurement Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Body Composition Measurement 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%Body Composition Measurement Techniques10.3% 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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