Dietary Effects on Health
Dietary Effects on Health is a research topic within Physiology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 19.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the effects of intermittent fasting, time-restricted feeding, and fasting-mimicking diets on metabolic health, cancer treatment, cardiovascular disease prevention, weight loss, insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and aging. It also investigates the impact of Ramadan fasting on various health parameters.
- Intermittent Fasting
- Time-Restricted Feeding
- Metabolic Health
- Cancer Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Ramadan Fasting
- Weight Loss
- Insulin Sensitivity
- Inflammation
- Aging
- Research works
- 18k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 3.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 19.3% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +78% 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 Dietary Effects on Health research?
By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 844 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 1k works
- 2 China 844 works
- 3 India 459 works
- 4 Türkiye 225 works
- 5 United Kingdom 192 works
- 6 Iran 170 works
- 7 Germany 155 works
- 8 Indonesia 151 works
- 9 Japan 142 works
- 10 Brazil 136 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.
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Which institutions lead Dietary Effects on Health research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tehran University of Medical Sciences publishes the most Dietary Effects on Health research, followed by University of Alabama at Birmingham and King Saud University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 20 works
- 2 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 19 works
- 3 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 19 works
- 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 18 works
- 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 17 works
- 6 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 14 works
- 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 13 works
- 8 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 12 works
- 9 University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States 12 works
- 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 12 works
Who are the leading researchers in Dietary Effects on Health?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Dietary Effects on Health include Luigi Ferrucci and Nicholas J. Wareham.
- 1 Luigi Ferrucci United States 5.3k citations
- 2 Nicholas J. Wareham United Kingdom 4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Dietary Effects on Health research done?
The largest centres of Dietary Effects on Health research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Shanghai (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Birmingham.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- BirminghamUS · 20.8 works7.0×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dietary Effects on Health than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Dietary Effects on Health?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Sharjah, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and University of Alabama at Birmingham 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 | University of SharjahUnited Arab Emirates | 68.1 | 31.5% | 8.2× | 12 | — |
| 2 | Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran | 63.2 | 21.3% | 9.0× | 11 | +383.8% |
| 3 | University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States | 62.1 | 22.0% | 7.5× | 19 | +79.0% |
| 4 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 55.6 | 31.4% | 2.6× | 17 | +43.7% |
| 5 | Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran | 55.3 | 16.1% | 8.1× | 20 | -14.4% |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina | 53.2 | 32.8% | 2.7× | 14 | +118.0% |
| 7 | King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia | 51.7 | 15.6% | 3.9× | 19 | +31.6% |
| 8 | Harbin Medical UniversityChina | 50.5 | 30.0% | 8.0× | 8 | — |
| 9 | Karolinska InstitutetSweden | 49.1 | 36.4% | 3.6× | 8 | +31.1% |
| 10 | China Agricultural UniversityChina | 48.2 | 38.9% | 3.2× | 10 | — |
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 Dietary Effects on Health research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 78% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dietary Effects on Health.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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