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Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

Diet, Metabolism, and Disease is a research topic within Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Science Explorer counts 42k 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 explores the impact of fructose consumption on metabolic health, including its association with metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, lipid dysregulation, and hepatic steatosis. The research delves into the effects of dietary fructose on glucose metabolism and its potential role in the development of various metabolic disorders.

  • Fructose
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Obesity
  • Glucose Metabolism
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Hypertension
  • Lipid Dysregulation
  • Dietary Sugars
  • Hepatic Steatosis
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

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

Which countries lead Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 524 works
  4. 4 Russia 315 works
  5. 5 Japan 292 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 276 works
  7. 7 South Korea 221 works
  8. 8 Italy 214 works
  9. 9 Iran 197 works
  10. 10 Germany 177 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.

China: 32.7%United States: 22.1%India: 10.7%Russia: 6.4%6 others listed: 28.1%33%largest
China1,600 · 32.7%United States1,084 · 22.1%India524 · 10.7%Russia315 · 6.4%6 others listed1,377 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research, followed by Jiangnan University and Nanchang University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 65 works
  2. 2 Jiangnan UniversityChina 44 works
  3. 3 Nanchang UniversityChina 43 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 32 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 24 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 22 works
  10. 10 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diet, Metabolism, and Disease?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diet, Metabolism, and Disease include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  5. 5 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k 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 Diet, Metabolism, and Disease?

The most cited paper in Diet, Metabolism, and Disease is "Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal" (Ndiaye, Matar, Lespez, Laurent, Tribolo, Chantal et al., 2024), with 24,104 citations. Next come "Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome" (14,957) and "Phosphorus Assay in Column Chromatography" (12,866).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal Ndiaye, Matar, Lespez, Laurent, Tribolo, Chantal et al. · Monash University Research Portal (Monash University) Open access 28 Mar 2024 24,104
2 Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome K. G. M. M. Alberti, Robert H. Eckel, Scott M. Grundy et al. · Circulation Open access 5 Oct 2009 14,957
3 Phosphorus Assay in Column Chromatography Grant R. Bartlett · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Mar 1959 12,866
4 Role of Insulin Resistance in Human Disease Gerald M. Reaven · Diabetes Dec 1988 12,183
5 The metabolic syndrome—a new worldwide definition K. G. M. M. Alberti, Paul Zimmet, Jonathan Edward Shaw · The Lancet Sep 2005 9,351
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research done?

The largest centres of Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Takamatsu and Wuxi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 189 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 107 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 105 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 99 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  6. 6 WuxiChina 76 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 70 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 70 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 69 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TakamatsuJP · 21.3 works29×
  2. WuxiCN · 76.4 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diet, Metabolism, and Disease than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diet, Metabolism, and Disease?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanchang University, Jiangnan University 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 21.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai University …Nanchang UniversityHarvard UniversityJiangnan 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
1Nanchang UniversityChina 78.022.3%8.4×43 +28.6%
2Jiangnan UniversityChina 73.316.8%11.2×44 +64.3%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.822.3%1.5×33 -24.9%
4Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 61.322.7%9.3×17 +148.4%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 58.921.6%1.6×24 +174.3%
6Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 58.732.8%5.0×8 +250.6%
7National University of SingaporeSingapore 56.930.1%1.3×10 +100.6%
8University of California San DiegoUnited States 56.524.5%1.9×13 +8.5%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.313.3%1.6×28 +87.7%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 54.711.8%1.6×32 +29.6%

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 Diet, Metabolism, and Disease, country by country

Is Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diet, Metabolism, and Disease.

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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 Diet, Metabolism, and Disease as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Diet, Metabolism, and Disease0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diet, Metabolism, and Disease 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%Diet, Metabolism, and Disease10.2% 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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