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. 20.8% 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%
- 8.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 20.8% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +35% the tick is no change
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 (1.4k and 1k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.4k works
- 2 United States 1k works
- 3 India 491 works
- 4 Russia 299 works
- 5 Japan 272 works
- 6 Indonesia 256 works
- 7 South Korea 202 works
- 8 Italy 200 works
- 9 Iran 189 works
- 10 Egypt 166 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Jiangnan University publishes the most Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research, followed by State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology and Ain Shams University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Jiangnan UniversityChina 40 works
- 2 State Key Laboratory of Food Science and TechnologyChina 26 works
- 3 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 21 works
- 4 Kagawa UniversityJapan 18 works
- 5 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 17 works
- 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 17 works
- 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 16 works
- 8 University of California, DavisUnited States 15 works
- 9 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 14 works
- 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 14 works
Who are the leading researchers in Diet, Metabolism, and Disease?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Diet, Metabolism, and Disease include Walter C. Willett, Amirhossein Sahebkar and Dariush Mozaffarian.
- 1 Walter C. Willett United States 6.8k citations
- 2 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 5.6k citations
- 3 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 5.2k citations
- 4 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 4.9k citations
- 5 Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 4.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research done?
The largest centres of Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) 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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- TakamatsuJP · 20.2 works29×
- WuxiCN · 68.4 works10×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diet, Metabolism, and Disease than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Diet, Metabolism, and Disease?
Among universities, judged by research, Jiangnan University, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University and Tianjin University of Science and Technology 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jiangnan UniversityChina | 72.3 | 41.7% | 9.5× | 40 | +25.7% |
| 2 | Guangdong Pharmaceutical UniversityChina | 59.0 | 41.8% | 13.9× | 10 | +81.8% |
| 3 | Tianjin University of Science and TechnologyChina | 55.9 | 55.9% | 6.9× | 9 | +53.7% |
| 4 | Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran | 54.0 | 34.9% | 6.7× | 11 | +160.1% |
| 5 | Medical University of BiałystokPoland | 53.5 | 26.2% | 16.9× | 10 | +109.3% |
| 6 | Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina | 50.9 | 42.2% | 8.0× | 11 | +22.6% |
| 7 | Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical UniversityUkraine | 45.5 | 0.6% | 22.5× | 11 | +501.2% |
| 8 | Kagawa UniversityJapan | 45.1 | 14.1% | 38.6× | 18 | -30.1% |
| 9 | National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece | 44.5 | 32.7% | 3.2× | 11 | +143.1% |
| 10 | Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina | 44.5 | 38.9% | 6.6× | 8 | — |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Diet, Metabolism, and Disease research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diet, Metabolism, and Disease.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.