Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues is a research topic within Psychiatry and Mental health. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 16.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on feeding disorders in children with autism spectrum disorders, including food selectivity, sensory sensitivity, nutrient intake, mealtime behaviors, and the impact on parental stress. It covers a wide range of topics such as pediatric feeding disorders, failure to thrive, and behavioral treatments for addressing feeding problems.
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Feeding Problems
- Sensory Sensitivity
- Pediatric Feeding Disorders
- Food Selectivity
- Mealtime Behaviors
- Nutrient Intake
- Failure to Thrive
- Behavioral Treatment
- Parental Stress
- Research works
- 38k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.1k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 16.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +41% the tick is no change
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research?
By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (2k and 644 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 2k works
- 2 Brazil 644 works
- 3 United Kingdom 500 works
- 4 China 370 works
- 5 Türkiye 344 works
- 6 India 323 works
- 7 Australia 261 works
- 8 Italy 254 works
- 9 Canada 231 works
- 10 Spain 224 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.
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Which institutions lead Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research, followed by King's College London and University College London.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 43 works
- 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
- 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
- 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 25 works
- 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 23 works
- 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 21 works
- 7 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 21 works
- 8 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 20 works
- 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 20 works
- 10 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 19 works
Who are the leading researchers in Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues include Dan J. Stein, Zulfiqar A Bhutta and Hans W. Hoek.
- 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 7.7k citations
- 2 Zulfiqar A Bhutta Pakistan 7k citations
- 3 Hans W. Hoek Netherlands 4.5k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research done?
The largest centres of Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cincinnati.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- CincinnatiUS · 29.1 works4.8×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues?
Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, University of Canterbury and Karolinska Institutet 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King's College LondonUnited Kingdom | 65.6 | 40.4% | 5.2× | 30 | +28.9% |
| 2 | University of CanterburyNew Zealand | 56.3 | 20.4% | 10.5× | 13 | +38.5% |
| 3 | Karolinska InstitutetSweden | 52.0 | 35.2% | 3.6× | 12 | +42.8% |
| 4 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 50.2 | 30.9% | 2.2× | 21 | +79.7% |
| 5 | University of California, San FranciscoUnited States | 48.4 | 30.5% | 3.7× | 18 | +67.2% |
| 6 | University College LondonUnited Kingdom | 48.0 | 26.4% | 2.6× | 27 | +6.8% |
| 7 | University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States | 47.0 | 12.4% | 3.3× | 44 | +135.3% |
| 8 | Drexel UniversityUnited States | 46.1 | 26.0% | 5.8× | 10 | +120.0% |
| 9 | Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye | 45.1 | 7.4% | 5.4× | 21 | +342.5% |
| 10 | Flinders UniversityAustralia | 44.4 | 32.3% | 5.2× | 9 | +16.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 41% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues.
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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.