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Fatty Acid Research and Health

Fatty Acid Research and Health is a research topic within Nutrition and Dietetics. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 role of omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease, inflammation, dietary intake, fatty acid metabolism, neurodevelopment, and the synthesis of lipid mediators such as resolvins. It discusses the potential health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and their impact on chronic diseases.

  • Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Inflammation
  • Dietary Intake
  • Fatty Acid Metabolism
  • Neurodevelopment
  • Lipid Mediators
  • Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA)
  • Resolvins
  • Chronic Diseases
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fatty Acid Research and Health

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

Which countries lead Fatty Acid Research and Health research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 864 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 864 works
  3. 3 India 219 works
  4. 4 Japan 195 works
  5. 5 Brazil 175 works
  6. 6 Spain 164 works
  7. 7 Iran 148 works
  8. 8 Italy 146 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 137 works
  10. 10 Canada 134 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: 35.0%United States: 25.7%India: 6.5%Japan: 5.8%6 others listed: 26.9%35%largest
China1,173 · 35.0%United States864 · 25.7%India219 · 6.5%Japan195 · 5.8%6 others listed904 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Fatty Acid Research and Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Fatty Acid Research and Health research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 53 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 34 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  4. 4 Nanchang UniversityChina 32 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 25 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Jiangnan UniversityChina 21 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 21 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 20 works
  10. 10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fatty Acid Research and Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fatty Acid Research and Health 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 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  5. 5 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  9. 9 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  10. 10 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k 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 Fatty Acid Research and Health?

The most cited paper in Fatty Acid Research and Health is "A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis" (Pontus Boström, Jun Wu, Mark P. Jedrychowski et al., 2012), with 4,823 citations. Next come "Metabolism of Isolated Fat Cells" (4,432) and "The importance of the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 essential fatty acids" (4,197).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis Pontus Boström, Jun Wu, Mark P. Jedrychowski et al. · Nature Open access 2012 4,823
2 Metabolism of Isolated Fat Cells Martin Rodbell · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Feb 1964 4,432
3 The importance of the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 essential fatty acids Artemis P. Simopoulos · Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy Oct 2002 4,197
4 Fish Consumption, Fish Oil, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, William Stephen Harris, Lawrence J. Appel · Circulation 18 Nov 2002 3,714
5 Wine, alcohol, platelets, and the French paradox for coronary heart disease Samantha Renaud, Michel de Lorgeril · The Lancet Jun 1992 3,645
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fatty Acid Research and Health research done?

The largest centres of Fatty Acid Research and Health research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wuxi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 156 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 77 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 63 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 55 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 52 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 48 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 47 works
  8. 8 WuxiChina 45 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 44 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WuxiCN · 45.3 works9.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fatty Acid Research and Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fatty Acid Research and Health?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Nanchang University and Jiangnan University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 20.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanchang UniversityHarvard UniversityJiangnan UniversityZhejiang 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.

Citation 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 80.318.9%3.6×53 -36.7%
2Nanchang UniversityChina 72.521.3%9.4×32 +68.9%
3Jiangnan UniversityChina 62.017.0%8.0×22 +20.4%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.515.3%2.0×25 +57.3%
5Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 54.120.1%11.9×14 +86.2%
6Northwest A&F UniversityChina 51.824.0%4.8×8 +63.0%
7Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 51.618.9%14.0×11 +281.3%
8University of ChileChile 50.822.0%5.4×9 +7.0%
9Central South UniversityChina 50.424.6%1.6×14 +96.5%
10University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 49.919.7%4.2×10 -43.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Fatty Acid Research and Health, country by country

Is Fatty Acid Research and Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Fatty Acid Research and Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Fatty Acid Research and Health 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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