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Consumer behavior in food and health

Consumer behavior in food and health is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 5.4k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to consumer studies, including consumer policy, behavioral economics, sustainable consumption, market populism, digital transformation, and the intersection of culture and consumption. It also delves into issues such as social capital, economic democracy, and ethical consumption. The interdisciplinary nature of the papers reflects a comprehensive analysis of consumer behavior and its implications for policy and society.

  • Consumer Policy
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Sustainable Consumption
  • Verbraucherpolitik
  • Digital Transformation
  • Cultural Turns
  • Market Populism
  • Social Capital
  • Economic Democracy
  • Ethical Consumption
Research works
5.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
544
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Consumer behavior in food and health

Which countries lead Consumer behavior in food and health research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (1.1k and 117 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.1k works
  2. 2 Austria 117 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 87 works
  4. 4 United States 46 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 14 works
  6. 6 France 10 works
  7. 7 China 10 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 9 works
  9. 9 Italy 9 works
  10. 10 Poland 7 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.

Germany: 78.1%Austria: 8.3%Switzerland: 6.1%United States: 3.2%6 others listed: 4.2%78%largest
Germany1,102 · 78.1%Austria117 · 8.3%Switzerland87 · 6.1%United States46 · 3.2%6 others listed60 · 4.2%

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

Which institutions lead Consumer behavior in food and health research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Consumer behavior in food and health research, followed by Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Vienna.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 38 works
  2. 2 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 19 works
  3. 3 University of ViennaAustria 19 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 19 works
  5. 5 University of KasselGermany 18 works
  6. 6 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 17 works
  7. 7 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 16 works
  8. 8 Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 15 works
  9. 9 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 15 works
  10. 10 Ruhr University BochumGermany 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Consumer behavior in food and health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Consumer behavior in food and health include Pierre Bourdıeu, Florian Fischer and Jens Juul Holst.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  3. 3 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations
  4. 4 Geert H. Hofstede Netherlands 116k 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 behavior in food and health?

The most cited paper in Consumer behavior in food and health is "cPSA" (Axel M. Gressner, Torsten Arndt, 2019), with 473 citations. Next come "Numerische Differenz. Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie des (quantitativen) Vergleichs / Numerical Difference. Toward a Sociology of (Quantitative) Comparisons" (277) and "Homo Ignorans" (255).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 cPSA Axel M. Gressner, Torsten Arndt · Springer Reference Medizin Book chapter 2019 473
2 Numerische Differenz. Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie des (quantitativen) Vergleichs / Numerical Difference. Toward a Sociology of (Quantitative) Comparisons Bettina Heintz · Zeitschrift für Soziologie Jun 2010 277
3 Homo Ignorans Ralph Hertwig, Christoph Engel · Perspectives on Psychological Science May 2016 255
4 Qualitative Sozialforschung David Kergel Book chapter 12 Dec 2017 237
5 Vom Wirkungsgefüge der Triebe Erich v. Holst, Ursula von Saint Paul · Die Naturwissenschaften 1960 194
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Where is Consumer behavior in food and health research done?

The largest centres of Consumer behavior in food and health research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Munich (Germany) and Hamburg (Germany).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 100 works
  2. 2 ViennaAustria 65 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 62 works
  4. 4 HamburgGermany 47 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am MainGermany 47 works
  6. 6 CologneGermany 39 works
  7. 7 EssenGermany 31 works
  8. 8 ZurichSwitzerland 27 works
  9. 9 MünsterGermany 24 works
  10. 10 KielGermany 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Consumer behavior in food and health?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 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 16.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Duisbu…Humboldt-Universität…Ludwig-Maximilians-U…Christian-Albrechts-…
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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 Duisburg-EssenGermany 83.725.5%28.1×14 +32.3%
2Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 82.719.7%36.5×16 -1.8%
3Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 70.615.3%17.4×19 -24.4%
4Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 70.115.3%40.1×15 +134.0%
5Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 68.213.5%34.6×19 -40.6%
6University of ViennaAustria 66.79.2%29.9×19 +13.4%
7Bielefeld UniversityGermany 66.419.9%54.3×16 -34.3%
8Universität HamburgGermany 65.817.2%15.8×14 -23.0%
9University of MünsterGermany 65.217.5%26.4×14 +2.6%
10Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgGermany 59.912.6%67.1×13 +12.8%

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 Consumer behavior in food and health, country by country

Is Consumer behavior in food and health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Consumer behavior in food and health.

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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 behavior in food and health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0053% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Consumer behavior in food and health0.0055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Consumer behavior in food and health 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 behavior in food and health10.2% 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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