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Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education

Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education is a research topic within Health Information Management. Science Explorer counts 9.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the implementation, evolution, and impact of the Nutrition Care Process and Model in the field of dietetics. It covers topics such as professional practice standards, outcomes management, research involvement, ethical considerations, and its application in various healthcare settings.

  • Nutrition Care Process
  • Dietetics
  • Professional Practice
  • Outcomes Management
  • Standards of Practice
  • Research Involvement
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Healthcare Settings
  • Documentation
  • Education
Research works
9.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
959
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education

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

Which countries lead Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (675 and 126 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 675 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 126 works
  3. 3 Australia 95 works
  4. 4 Canada 68 works
  5. 5 Hungary 40 works
  6. 6 India 39 works
  7. 7 China 31 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 29 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 27 works
  10. 10 Japan 24 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: 58.5%United Kingdom: 11.0%Australia: 8.2%Canada: 5.9%6 others listed: 16.4%59%largest
United States675 · 58.5%United Kingdom126 · 11.0%Australia95 · 8.2%Canada68 · 5.9%6 others listed190 · 16.4%

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

Which institutions lead Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research, followed by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 11 works
  4. 4 Brigham Young UniversityUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 Monash UniversityAustralia 9 works
  6. 6 University of North FloridaUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 The University of QueenslandAustralia 8 works
  8. 8 Griffith UniversityAustralia 8 works
  9. 9 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education include Walter Churchill Willett, Sudhir Kumar and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  3. 3 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  4. 4 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k 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 Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education?

The most cited paper in Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education is "ESPEN guidelines on definitions and terminology of clinical nutrition" (Tommy Cederholm et al., 2016), with 2,569 citations. Next come "Diagnostic criteria for malnutrition – An ESPEN Consensus Statement" (1,770) and "GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition – A consensus report from the global clinical nutrition community" (1,712).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ESPEN guidelines on definitions and terminology of clinical nutrition Tommy Cederholm et al. · Clinical Nutrition Open access 15 Sep 2016 2,569
2 Diagnostic criteria for malnutrition – An ESPEN Consensus Statement Tommy Cederholm, Ingvar G. Bosaeus, Rocco Barazzoni et al. · Clinical Nutrition Open access 9 Mar 2015 1,770
3 GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition – A consensus report from the global clinical nutrition community Tommy Cederholm et al. · Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle Open access Feb 2019 1,712
4 GLIM Criteria for the Diagnosis of Malnutrition: A Consensus Report From the Global Clinical Nutrition Community Gordon Lee Jensen et al. · Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Open access 2 Sep 2018 1,446
5 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 Teresa A. Marshall · The Journal of the American Dental Association Jun 2011 1,402
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Where is Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research done?

The largest centres of Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Chicago (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  2. 2 ChicagoUnited States 25 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 23 works
  5. 5 BudapestHungary 20 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 19 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 16 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 15 works
  10. 10 ClevelandUnited States 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Monash University, The University of Queensland 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.

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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
1Monash UniversityAustralia 66.520.4%7.3×9 +36.5%
2The University of QueenslandAustralia 63.728.4%6.5×8 +9.4%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.014.5%2.6×11 +102.7%
4University of North FloridaUnited States 43.014.0%120.3×9 +71.8%
5University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 41.12.5%6.9×16 -42.9%
6Brigham Young UniversityUnited States 32.11.0%33.4×10 +34.3%

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 Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education, country by country

Is Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education.

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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 Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education 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.

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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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