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Child Nutrition and Water Access

Child Nutrition and Water Access is a research topic within Nutrition and Dietetics. Science Explorer counts 67k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on maternal and child nutrition in low-income and middle-income countries, addressing issues such as undernutrition, stunting, diarrheal disease, water sanitation, hygiene interventions, early childhood development, and the long-term consequences of malnutrition. It also explores the impact of various interventions and programs on improving maternal and child nutrition.

  • Maternal and Child Undernutrition
  • Child Development
  • Water Sanitation Hygiene
  • Early Childhood Stimulation
  • Dietary Diversity
  • Global Burden of Disease
  • Environmental Enteropathy
  • Household Water Treatment
  • Malnutrition Impacts
  • Nutrition-sensitive Interventions
Research works
67k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Child Nutrition and Water Access

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

Which countries lead Child Nutrition and Water Access research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (3k and 2.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 3k works
  2. 2 United States 2.4k works
  3. 3 India 2.3k works
  4. 4 Ethiopia 939 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 835 works
  6. 6 Brazil 796 works
  7. 7 China 759 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 728 works
  9. 9 Bangladesh 465 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 414 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.

Indonesia: 23.6%United States: 19.0%India: 18.5%Ethiopia: 7.4%6 others listed: 31.6%24%largest
Indonesia2,989 · 23.6%United States2,402 · 19.0%India2,337 · 18.5%Ethiopia939 · 7.4%6 others listed3,997 · 31.6%

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

Which institutions lead Child Nutrition and Water Access research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Semarang publishes the most Child Nutrition and Water Access research, followed by Airlangga University and University of Gondar.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 128 works
  2. 2 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 124 works
  3. 3 University of GondarEthiopia 110 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 108 works
  5. 5 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 97 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 84 works
  7. 7 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 80 works
  8. 8 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 78 works
  9. 9 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 71 works
  10. 10 University of GhanaGhana 71 works

Who are the leading researchers in Child Nutrition and Water Access?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child Nutrition and Water Access include Douglas G. Altman, Christopher J L Murray and Rob Knight.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  4. 4 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  5. 5 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  6. 6 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  7. 7 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  8. 8 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  9. 9 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  10. 10 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k 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 Water Access?

The most cited paper in Child Nutrition and Water Access is "Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013" (Marie Ng et al., 2014), with 12,158 citations. Next come "Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents" (8,902) and "Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries" (8,670).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Marie Ng et al. · The Lancet Open access140 authors 28 May 2014 12,158
2 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
3 Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries Robert E. Black, Cesar Gomes Victora, Susan P. Walker et al. · The Lancet 5 Jun 2013 8,670
4 Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect Cesar Gomes Victora, Rajiv Bahl, Aluísio J. D. Barros et al. · The Lancet Open access 2016 8,227
5 Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences Robert E. Black, Lindsay Helen Allen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al. · The Lancet 2008 6,557
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Child Nutrition and Water Access research done?

The largest centres of Child Nutrition and Water Access research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Dhaka (Bangladesh), London (United Kingdom) and Semarang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gonder, Dīla and Dessie.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 342 works
  2. 2 DhakaBangladesh 313 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 272 works
  4. 4 SemarangIndonesia 270 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 263 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 218 works
  7. 7 Addis AbabaEthiopia 205 works
  8. 8 NairobiKenya 202 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 174 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 161 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GonderET · 110.4 works40×
  2. DīlaET · 28.0 works39×
  3. DessieET · 40.0 works35×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Child Nutrition and Water Access than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Child Nutrition and Water Access?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Gondar, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Deakin University score highest, combining citation 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 19.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Deakin UniversityUniversity of GondarWollo UniversityLondon School of Hyg…
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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.

Citation 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
1University of GondarEthiopia 83.123.9%44.7×110 +47.6%
2London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 67.716.4%23.7×63 -22.1%
3Deakin UniversityAustralia 67.527.3%2.7×20 +26.6%
4Wollo UniversityEthiopia 67.020.7%39.7×40 +89.3%
5Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 63.416.5%19.7×78 +0.7%
6Bahir Dar UniversityEthiopia 61.415.8%23.5×57 +2.3%
7Harvard Global Health InstituteUnited States 61.325.4%34.8×16 -33.8%
8University of GhanaGhana 61.113.1%16.5×71 +5.3%
9Aga Khan UniversityPakistan 61.013.6%12.8×39 +21.1%
10Samara UniversityEthiopia 60.026.7%33.3×10 +29.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Water Access, country by country

Is Child Nutrition and Water Access research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Child Nutrition and Water Access.

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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 Water Access as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.084% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Child Nutrition and Water Access0.086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Child Nutrition and Water Access 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%Child Nutrition and Water Access10.3% 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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