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Food Quality and Safety Studies

Food Quality and Safety Studies is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the antioxidant activity, quality characteristics, and health functionality of various Korean traditional foods, including kimchi, rice wine (makgeolli), cookies, noodles, and herbal extracts. It investigates the fermentation process, microbial properties, and physicochemical composition of these foods, often incorporating medicinal plants to enhance their health benefits.

  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Quality Characteristics
  • Korean Traditional Food
  • Fermentation
  • Health Functionality
  • Microbial Properties
  • Physicochemical Composition
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Kimchi
  • Rice Wine
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+72%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food Quality and Safety Studies

Which countries lead Food Quality and Safety Studies research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (1.9k and 524 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 South Korea 524 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 299 works
  4. 4 India 251 works
  5. 5 Japan 215 works
  6. 6 United States 176 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 127 works
  8. 8 Egypt 89 works
  9. 9 Thailand 73 works
  10. 10 Russia 71 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: 50.8%South Korea: 14.1%Indonesia: 8.1%India: 6.8%6 others listed: 20.3%51%largest
China1,881 · 50.8%South Korea524 · 14.1%Indonesia299 · 8.1%India251 · 6.8%6 others listed751 · 20.3%

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

Which institutions lead Food Quality and Safety Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Food Quality and Safety Studies research, followed by Jiangnan University and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 164 works
  2. 2 Jiangnan UniversityChina 42 works
  3. 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 39 works
  4. 4 Nanchang UniversityChina 39 works
  5. 5 Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 35 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 30 works
  7. 7 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 29 works
  8. 8 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 27 works
  9. 9 Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 25 works
  10. 10 Guizhou UniversityChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food Quality and Safety Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food Quality and Safety Studies include Wei Huang and Kenji Watanabe.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Quality and Safety Studies?

The most cited paper in Food Quality and Safety Studies is "Studies on products of browning reaction. Antioxidative activities of products of browning reaction prepared from glucosamine." (Makoto Oyaizu, 1986), with 7,717 citations. Next come "Determination of protein: A modification of the lowry method that gives a linear photometric response" (5,552) and "The determination of hydroxyproline in tissue and protein samples containing small proportions of this imino acid" (3,857).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Studies on products of browning reaction. Antioxidative activities of products of browning reaction prepared from glucosamine. Makoto Oyaizu · The Japanese Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics Open access 1986 7,717
2 Determination of protein: A modification of the lowry method that gives a linear photometric response Edward F. Hartree · Analytical Biochemistry Aug 1972 5,552
3 The determination of hydroxyproline in tissue and protein samples containing small proportions of this imino acid J. Frederick Woessner · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics May 1961 3,857
4 The phenolic constituents of Prunus domestica . I.—The quantitative analysis of phenolic constituents Trupti Rekha Swain, W. E. Hillis · Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1959 3,700
5 Determination of Total Monomeric Anthocyanin Pigment Content of Fruit Juices, Beverages, Natural Colorants, and Wines by the pH Differential Method: Collaborative Study Jungmin Lee, Robert W. Durst, Ronald E. Wrolstad et al. · Journal of AOAC International Sep 2005 3,021
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Food Quality and Safety Studies research done?

The largest centres of Food Quality and Safety Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Hangzhou (China) and Wuxi (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jeonju.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 246 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 114 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 85 works
  4. 4 WuxiChina 71 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 69 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 67 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 65 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 56 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JeonjuKR · 38.9 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food Quality and Safety Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Food Quality and Safety Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanchang University, Beijing Technology and Business University and Jiangnan 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.

0%20%40%mean 24.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fujian Agriculture a…Nanchang UniversityBeijing Technology a…Jiangnan 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.

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 86.326.0%12.8×39 +171.1%
2Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 84.625.1%40.9×35 +118.8%
3Jiangnan UniversityChina 83.024.0%17.7×42 +151.3%
4Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 75.926.8%31.6×29 +1104.1%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 75.822.4%17.3×27 +274.6%
6Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 75.626.6%16.1×22 +160.6%
7Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 73.424.7%36.0×25 +144.9%
8Jiangsu UniversityChina 73.033.9%4.9×16 +230.5%
9Korea UniversitySouth Korea 66.510.9%5.3×13 +43.1%
10Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 64.326.7%15.8×18 +91.2%

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 Quality and Safety Studies, country by country

Is Food Quality and Safety Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 72% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Food Quality and Safety Studies.

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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 Quality and Safety Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Food Quality and Safety Studies0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Food Quality and Safety Studies 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 Quality and Safety Studies10.2% 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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