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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. 10.1% 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%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

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 (2.2k and 681 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.2k works
  2. 2 Brazil 681 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 548 works
  4. 4 China 454 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 382 works
  6. 6 India 372 works
  7. 7 Australia 289 works
  8. 8 Italy 283 works
  9. 9 Canada 249 works
  10. 10 Spain 241 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: 38.6%Brazil: 12.0%United Kingdom: 9.6%China: 8.0%6 others listed: 31.9%39%largest
United States2,199 · 38.6%Brazil681 · 12.0%United Kingdom548 · 9.6%China454 · 8.0%6 others listed1,816 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 72 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 54 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  6. 6 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 34 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 34 works
  8. 8 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 34 works
  9. 9 University of CincinnatiUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 InsermFrance 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Ali H. Mokdad.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  4. 4 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  5. 5 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues?

The most cited paper in Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues is "Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012" (Cynthia L. Ogden, Margaret Deutsch Carroll, Brian K. Kit et al., 2014), with 8,151 citations. Next come "Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2014" (5,556) and "The Eating Attitudes Test: psychometric features and clinical correlates" (5,027).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012 Cynthia L. Ogden, Margaret Deutsch Carroll, Brian K. Kit et al. · JAMA Open access 25 Feb 2014 8,151
2 Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2014 Jon Baio et al. · MMWR Surveillance Summaries Open access 26 Apr 2018 5,556
3 The Eating Attitudes Test: psychometric features and clinical correlates David Matthew Garner, Marion Patricia Olmsted, Yvonne M. Bohr et al. · Psychological Medicine Nov 1982 5,027
4 Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report Sarah E. Barlow · PEDIATRICS 30 Nov 2007 4,560
5 Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among US Children, Adolescents, and Adults, 1999-2002 Allison Hedley · JAMA 15 Jun 2004 4,492
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Where is Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research done?

The largest centres of Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 193 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 134 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 85 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 85 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 81 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 80 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 75 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 70 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 64 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 63 works
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Where is the best place to study Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, University College London and Harvard 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%30%mean 19.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Karolinska InstitutetKing's College LondonUniversity College L…Harvard 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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 74.325.0%5.3×35 -4.1%
2University College LondonUnited Kingdom 72.019.8%3.1×38 +12.2%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 70.518.7%2.9×72 -14.0%
4Karolinska InstitutetSweden 66.125.3%3.7×16 +15.6%
5University of TorontoCanada 62.013.1%2.7×41 +1.4%
6Emory UniversityUnited States 59.716.0%4.1×25 +19.3%
7The University of MelbourneAustralia 59.323.1%2.2×19 -1.2%
8University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 59.017.7%3.7×20 +22.3%
9Deakin UniversityAustralia 58.417.5%3.9×13 +28.3%
10The University of QueenslandAustralia 57.716.4%3.0×22 +7.8%

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 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, country by country

Is Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues.

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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 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues 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.

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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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