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Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research

Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research is a research topic within Immunology and Allergy. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 focuses on the diagnosis and management of food allergy, with an emphasis on anaphylaxis, allergen immunotherapy, peanut allergy, epidemiology, and prevalence in children. It covers topics such as IgE-mediated reactions, clinical features, oral immunotherapy, and the impact of food allergy on quality of life.

  • Food Allergy
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Allergen Immunotherapy
  • Peanut Allergy
  • Epidemiology
  • Diagnosis
  • Management
  • Children
  • IgE-mediated
  • Prevalence
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research

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

Which countries lead Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 667 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 667 works
  3. 3 Japan 338 works
  4. 4 France 281 works
  5. 5 Italy 238 works
  6. 6 Germany 234 works
  7. 7 Spain 234 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 205 works
  9. 9 India 177 works
  10. 10 Canada 174 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: 34.6%China: 17.1%Japan: 8.7%France: 7.2%6 others listed: 32.4%35%largest
United States1,351 · 34.6%China667 · 17.1%Japan338 · 8.7%France281 · 7.2%6 others listed1,262 · 32.4%

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

Which institutions lead Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research, followed by Harvard University and Nanchang University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 66 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 51 works
  3. 3 Nanchang UniversityChina 46 works
  4. 4 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 42 works
  5. 5 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 InsermFrance 32 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 28 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 McGill UniversityCanada 22 works
  10. 10 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research include Walter Churchill Willett, Robert John Tibshirani and Hermann Brenner.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  6. 6 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 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 Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research?

The most cited paper in Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research is "Atopic Dermatitis: Global Epidemiology and Risk Factors" (Sophie Nutten, 2015), with 3,086 citations. Next come "Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis" (2,989) and "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Summary of the NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel Report" (2,352).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Atopic Dermatitis: Global Epidemiology and Risk Factors Sophie Nutten · Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 2015 3,086
2 Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis Colin N A Palmer et al. · Nature Genetics 19 Mar 2006 2,989
3 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States: Summary of the NIAID-Sponsored Expert Panel Report Joshua A. Boyce et al. · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Open access Dec 2010 2,352
4 Second symposium on the definition and management of anaphylaxis: Summary report—Second National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network symposium Hugh A. Sampson et al. · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Feb 2006 2,316
5 Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy George Du Toit, Graham Roberts, Peter H. Sayre et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Feb 2015 2,246
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Where is Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research done?

The largest centres of Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), New York (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zama.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 102 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 97 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 86 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 83 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 83 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 80 works
  7. 7 Chapel HillUnited States 66 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 64 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZamaJP · 21.1 works305×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanchang University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northeast Agricultural 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%20%40%mean 22.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Polytechnic U…Northeast Agricultur…Nanchang UniversityUniversity of North …
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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
1Nanchang UniversityChina 75.626.0%12.3×46 +126.6%
2University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 65.513.2%7.4×66 +13.0%
3Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 62.032.7%9.9×13 +239.3%
4Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.533.3%14.6×13 -
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.513.9%3.2×50 -6.6%
6Ocean University of ChinaChina 60.037.8%4.1×10 +49.6%
7Northwestern UniversityUnited States 59.818.0%10.1×42 -9.3%
8McGill UniversityCanada 59.118.5%4.5×22 +39.8%
9Karolinska InstitutetSweden 58.218.7%5.4×15 +26.7%
10Medical University of ViennaAustria 56.017.3%11.7×19 +4.1%

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 Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research, country by country

Is Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research.

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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 Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research 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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