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Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of ultra-processed foods on consumer health, including topics such as consumer acceptance, nutrition labeling, functional foods, health claims, obesity, food classification, consumer perception, nutrient content, and chronic diseases.

  • Ultra-Processed Foods
  • Consumer Acceptance
  • Nutrition Labeling
  • Functional Foods
  • Health Claims
  • Obesity
  • Food Classification
  • Consumer Perception
  • Nutrient Content
  • Chronic Diseases
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

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

Which countries lead Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (990 and 524 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 990 works
  2. 2 Brazil 524 works
  3. 3 India 383 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 355 works
  5. 5 China 342 works
  6. 6 Australia 243 works
  7. 7 Italy 218 works
  8. 8 Spain 191 works
  9. 9 Canada 169 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 169 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: 27.6%Brazil: 14.6%India: 10.7%United Kingdom: 9.9%6 others listed: 37.2%28%largest
United States990 · 27.6%Brazil524 · 14.6%India383 · 10.7%United Kingdom355 · 9.9%6 others listed1,331 · 37.2%

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

Which institutions lead Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Deakin University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 53 works
  3. 3 Deakin UniversityAustralia 47 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 36 works
  5. 5 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 34 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 27 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 25 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 21 works
  10. 10 InsermFrance 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling include Christopher J L Murray, Freddie Bray and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  8. 8 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  9. 9 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  10. 10 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k 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 Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling?

The most cited paper in Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling is "A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure" (Lawrence J. Appel, Thomas J. Moore, Eva Obarzanek et al., 1997), with 6,008 citations. Next come "Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017" (5,940) and "Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them" (2,941).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure Lawrence J. Appel, Thomas J. Moore, Eva Obarzanek et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Apr 1997 6,008
2 Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Ashkan Afshin et al. · The Lancet Open access133 authors 3 Apr 2019 5,940
3 Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon, Renata Bertazzi Levy et al. · Public Health Nutrition Open access 12 Feb 2019 2,941
4 Designing and developing a literature-derived, population-based dietary inflammatory index Nitin Shivappa, Susan E. Steck, Thomas G. Hurley et al. · Public Health Nutrition Open access 14 Aug 2013 2,754
5 Creating Healthy Food and Eating Environments: Policy and Environmental Approaches Mary T. Story, Karen M Kaphingst, Ramona Robinson‐O’Brien et al. · Annual Review of Public Health Review 22 Nov 2007 2,392
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research done?

The largest centres of Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Burwood and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 112 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 87 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 75 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 57 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 56 works
  6. 6 Chapel HillUnited States 55 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 51 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 50 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 47 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BurwoodAU · 46.7 works18×
  2. WageningenNL · 35.3 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling?

Among universities, judged by research, Deakin University, Wageningen University & Research 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%20%40%mean 19.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityWageningen Universit…Deakin UniversityUniversidade de São …
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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
1Deakin UniversityAustralia 76.515.4%20.2×47 +32.7%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 75.818.4%18.1×34 +24.0%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 70.123.3%2.2×36 -15.1%
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 68.212.4%5.1×53 +19.2%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.022.3%1.6×13 +151.8%
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 61.922.1%3.0×19 -10.1%
7University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60.06.0%6.0×56 +17.3%
8University of GöttingenGermany 59.825.9%4.7×9 +60.5%
9University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 59.832.0%4.4×8 +52.3%
10University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 57.014.5%5.4×16 +76.2%

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 Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, country by country

Is Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling.

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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 Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling 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%Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling10.3% 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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