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Food and Agricultural Sciences

Food and Agricultural Sciences is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of various food processing methods on the nutrient composition, safety, and functional properties of food. It covers topics such as protein profile, mineral content, fatty acid composition, amino acid analysis, antioxidant activity, and the use of fermentation in developing functional foods.

  • Food Composition
  • Nutrient Analysis
  • Food Safety
  • Protein Profile
  • Mineral Content
  • Fatty Acid Composition
  • Amino Acid Analysis
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Fermentation Process
  • Functional Food
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
91% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food and Agricultural Sciences

Which countries lead Food and Agricultural Sciences research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (17k and 407 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 17k works
  2. 2 ?? 407 works
  3. 3 India 254 works
  4. 4 United States 185 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 185 works
  6. 6 China 173 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 148 works
  8. 8 Egypt 71 works
  9. 9 Philippines 71 works
  10. 10 Thailand 68 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.

Indonesia: 91.5%??: 2.2%India: 1.4%United States: 1.0%6 others listed: 3.9%91%largest
Indonesia17k · 91.5%??407 · 2.2%India254 · 1.4%United States185 · 1.0%6 others listed715 · 3.9%

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

Which institutions lead Food and Agricultural Sciences research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Food and Agricultural Sciences research, followed by Padjadjaran University and University of Mataram.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 413 works
  2. 2 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 355 works
  3. 3 University of MataramIndonesia 344 works
  4. 4 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 326 works
  5. 5 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 308 works
  6. 6 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 301 works
  7. 7 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 279 works
  8. 8 Universitas JemberIndonesia 276 works
  9. 9 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 264 works
  10. 10 University of PattimuraIndonesia 231 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food and Agricultural Sciences?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food and Agricultural Sciences include David Julian McClements and Fereidoon Shahidi.

  1. 1 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Fereidoon Shahidi Canada 84k 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 and Agricultural Sciences?

The most cited paper in Food and Agricultural Sciences is "Dietary fibre and fibre-rich by-products of food processing: Characterisation, technological functionality and commercial applications: A review" (Mohamed Elleuch, Dorothea Bedigian, Olivier Roiseux et al., 2010), with 1,711 citations. Next come "Dietary fibre in foods: a review" (1,452) and "Plant-based milk alternatives an emerging segment of functional beverages: a review" (1,099).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dietary fibre and fibre-rich by-products of food processing: Characterisation, technological functionality and commercial applications: A review Mohamed Elleuch, Dorothea Bedigian, Olivier Roiseux et al. · Food Chemistry 26 Jun 2010 1,711
2 Dietary fibre in foods: a review Devinder Dhingra, Mona Michael, Hradesh Rajput et al. · Journal of Food Science and Technology Open access 12 Apr 2011 1,452
3 Plant-based milk alternatives an emerging segment of functional beverages: a review Swati Sethi, Sanjeev Kumar Tyagi, Rahul Kumar Anurag · Journal of Food Science and Technology Open access Sep 2016 1,099
4 Starch digestibility in food matrix: a review Jaspreet Singh, Anne Dartois, Lovedeep Kaur · Trends in Food Science & Technology 22 Dec 2009 992
5 Antioxidant and free radical-scavenging activities of chickpea protein hydrolysate (CPH) Yanhong Li, Bo Jiang, Tao Zhang et al. · Food Chemistry 15 May 2007 759
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Food and Agricultural Sciences research done?

The largest centres of Food and Agricultural Sciences research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kupang, Jember and Manokwari.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 1.4k works
  2. 2 SemarangIndonesia 956 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 879 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 790 works
  5. 5 BogorIndonesia 709 works
  6. 6 MalangIndonesia 662 works
  7. 7 MakassarIndonesia 656 works
  8. 8 MedanIndonesia 651 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 566 works
  10. 10 PadangIndonesia 513 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kupang35.9 works137×
  2. Jember72.7 works61×
  3. ManokwariID · 56.7 works48×
  4. KefamenanuID · 55.5 works45×
  5. Sukoharjo SatuID · 41.5 works43×
  6. MajeneID · 66.3 works40×
  7. Banda Aceh22.4 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food and Agricultural Sciences than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Food and Agricultural Sciences?

Among universities, judged by research, Universiti of Malaysia Sabah, IPB University and Universitas Jember 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%60%mean 16.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universiti of Malays…IPB UniversityUniversitas JemberUniversity of Mataram
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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
1Universiti of Malaysia SabahMalaysia 66.148.0%3.8×12 +106.1%
2IPB UniversityIndonesia 59.916.9%45.3×413 -4.2%
3Universitas JemberIndonesia 56.18.6%30.1×276 +54.1%
4University of MataramIndonesia 55.87.6%26.2×344 +38.7%
5Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 54.511.1%25.1×355 -1.3%
6Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 54.55.8%48.7×308 +73.0%
7Lampung UniversityIndonesia 53.27.1%29.7×264 +32.0%
8Universitas DjuandaIndonesia 52.912.0%54.3×160 +153.8%
9Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 52.736.1%1.9×16 -4.2%
10Andalas UniversityIndonesia 52.110.4%26.7×218 +6.5%

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 Food and Agricultural Sciences, country by country

Is Food and Agricultural Sciences research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Food and Agricultural Sciences.

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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 and Agricultural Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.076% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Food and Agricultural Sciences0.059% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Food and Agricultural Sciences 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%Food and Agricultural Sciences9.5% in 202520102020

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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