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Food Safety and Hygiene

Food Safety and Hygiene is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 13.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on food safety and hygiene practices, including consumer awareness, food handling behaviors, HACCP implementation, risk perception, microbiological hazards, street food vendors, consumer behavior, and regulatory strategies.

  • Food Safety
  • Hygiene Practices
  • Consumer Awareness
  • Food Handling
  • HACCP Implementation
  • Risk Perception
  • Microbiological Hazards
  • Street Food Vendors
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Regulatory Strategies
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
13.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+4%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Food Safety and Hygiene research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (563 and 556 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 563 works
  2. 2 Brazil 556 works
  3. 3 China 208 works
  4. 4 India 183 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 170 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 142 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 122 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 115 works
  9. 9 Italy 84 works
  10. 10 Egypt 70 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: 25.4%Brazil: 25.1%China: 9.4%India: 8.3%6 others listed: 31.8%25%largest
United States563 · 25.4%Brazil556 · 25.1%China208 · 9.4%India183 · 8.3%6 others listed704 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Food Safety and Hygiene research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Wageningen University & Research publishes the most Food Safety and Hygiene research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 20 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 15 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 14 works
  4. 4 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 14 works
  5. 5 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 13 works
  6. 6 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 13 works
  7. 7 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 University of FloridaUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 12 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 12 works

Where is Food Safety and Hygiene research done?

The largest centres of Food Safety and Hygiene research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Port Harcourt and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 72 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 47 works
  3. 3 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 44 works
  4. 4 Dhaka Bangladesh 35 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C. United States 30 works
  6. 6 London United Kingdom 29 works
  7. 7 Recife Brazil 25 works
  8. 8 New York United States 25 works
  9. 9 Seoul South Korea 24 works
  10. 10 Tokyo Japan 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Port HarcourtNG · 20.5 works15×
  2. WageningenNL · 20.4 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food Safety and Hygiene than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Food Safety and Hygiene?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and Ghent 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%10%20%30%mean 12.9%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Wageningen University & Research: 20, 26.9%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 12, 19.5%Ghent University: 10, 26.1%Cornell University: 12, 23.6%Rivers State University: 14, 0.0%Universidade Estadual do Maranhão: 11, 0.0%Universidade de São Paulo: 15, 15.4%Benha University: 11, 0.0%Universidade de Brasília: 8, 11.7%Universiti Putra Malaysia: 12, 5.8%Wageningen Universit…Ghent UniversityCornell UniversityUniversidade Estadua…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 87.226.9%14.5×20 +1.9%
2 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 51.419.5%4.2×12 +144.6%
3 Ghent UniversityBelgium 51.326.1%4.7×10 -27.1%
4 Cornell UniversityUnited States 48.323.6%3.1×12 +62.1%
5 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 42.40.0%21.1×14 —
6 Universidade Estadual do MaranhãoBrazil 39.50.0%40.1×11 +84.9%
7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 39.115.4%2.3×15 +9.8%
8 Benha UniversityEgypt 38.00.0%9.1×11 —
9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 36.711.7%4.0×8 +362.1%
10 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 36.55.8%6.0×12 +33.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Food Safety and Hygiene research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Safety and Hygiene.

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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.