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Exercise and Physiological Responses

Exercise and Physiological Responses is a research topic within Rehabilitation. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of exercise on inflammation, oxidative stress, and muscle damage. It investigates topics such as the role of muscle-derived interleukin-6, antioxidant supplementation, immune function, and the inflammatory response to exercise. Additionally, it delves into the mechanisms of exercise-induced oxidative stress and the impact of various recovery strategies on physical performance and muscle damage.

  • Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress
  • Muscle-Derived Interleukin-6
  • Antioxidant Supplementation
  • Immune Function
  • Muscle Damage
  • Inflammatory Effects of Exercise
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Myokines
  • Cytokine Response
  • Recovery Strategies
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Exercise and Physiological Responses

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

Which countries lead Exercise and Physiological Responses research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 928 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 928 works
  3. 3 Germany 460 works
  4. 4 Brazil 366 works
  5. 5 Japan 344 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 327 works
  7. 7 Iran 251 works
  8. 8 Spain 226 works
  9. 9 South Korea 218 works
  10. 10 Italy 211 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: 26.7%China: 20.4%Germany: 10.1%Brazil: 8.0%6 others listed: 34.7%27%largest
United States1,212 · 26.7%China928 · 20.4%Germany460 · 10.1%Brazil366 · 8.0%6 others listed1,577 · 34.7%

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

Which institutions lead Exercise and Physiological Responses research?

By volume in 2022-now, Witten/Herdecke University publishes the most Exercise and Physiological Responses research, followed by Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 122 works
  2. 2 Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenGermany 122 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 63 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 31 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 28 works
  6. 6 University of CopenhagenDenmark 28 works
  7. 7 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27 works
  9. 9 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Exercise and Physiological Responses?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Exercise and Physiological Responses include Rob Knight, Walter Churchill Willett and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  6. 6 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Penny F. Whiting United Kingdom 264k citations
  9. 9 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  10. 10 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k 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 Exercise and Physiological Responses?

The most cited paper in Exercise and Physiological Responses is "An Integrated Stress Response Regulates Amino Acid Metabolism and Resistance to Oxidative Stress" (Heather P. Harding, Yuhong Zhang, Huiquing Zeng et al., 2003), with 3,400 citations. Next come "Beige Adipocytes Are a Distinct Type of Thermogenic Fat Cell in Mouse and Human" (3,365) and "The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise" (3,096).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Integrated Stress Response Regulates Amino Acid Metabolism and Resistance to Oxidative Stress Heather P. Harding, Yuhong Zhang, Huiquing Zeng et al. · Molecular Cell Open access Mar 2003 3,400
2 Beige Adipocytes Are a Distinct Type of Thermogenic Fat Cell in Mouse and Human Jun Wu, Pontus Boström, Lauren Marie Sparks et al. · Cell Open access Jul 2012 3,365
3 The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise Anne Marie Winther Petersen, Bente Klarlund Pedersen · Journal of Applied Physiology 16 Mar 2005 3,096
4 Dietary Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens Bruce N. Ames · Science 23 Sep 1983 2,987
5 Muscles, exercise and obesity: skeletal muscle as a secretory organ Bente Klarlund Pedersen, Mark Anthony Febbraio · Nature Reviews Endocrinology Review 3 Apr 2012 2,921
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Exercise and Physiological Responses research done?

The largest centres of Exercise and Physiological Responses research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Giessen (Germany), Witten (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Witten and Giessen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 144 works
  2. 2 GiessenGermany 123 works
  3. 3 WittenGermany 122 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 118 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 90 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 79 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 79 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 74 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WittenDE · 122.1 works146×
  2. GiessenDE · 122.7 works48×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Exercise and Physiological Responses than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Exercise and Physiological Responses?

Among universities, judged by research, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Harvard University and University of Copenhagen 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 20.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Justus-Liebig-Univer…Harvard UniversityUniversity of Copenh…Witten/Herdecke Univ…
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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
1Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenGermany 84.435.3%91.9×122 -24.4%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.418.9%1.6×31 +21.5%
3University of CopenhagenDenmark 61.718.9%4.8×28 +5.4%
4Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 61.16.4%222.1×122 +59.3%
5Edith Cowan UniversityAustralia 54.422.3%15.6×13 -8.5%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 52.428.6%1.0×18 +121.3%
7Monash UniversityAustralia 52.025.9%1.7×10 +8.8%
8Beijing Sport UniversityChina 51.016.0%67.5×28 +120.8%
9Shanghai University of SportChina 50.618.3%54.9×19 +21.4%
10Karolinska InstitutetSweden 50.318.6%4.4×15 -2.6%

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 Exercise and Physiological Responses, country by country

Is Exercise and Physiological Responses research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Exercise and Physiological Responses.

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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 Exercise and Physiological Responses as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Exercise and Physiological Responses0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Exercise and Physiological Responses 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%Exercise and Physiological Responses10.1% 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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