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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. 10.2% 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%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food Safety and Hygiene

Which countries lead Food Safety and Hygiene research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (635 and 587 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 635 works
  2. 2 Brazil 587 works
  3. 3 China 250 works
  4. 4 India 207 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 206 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 158 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 150 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 133 works
  9. 9 Italy 95 works
  10. 10 Egypt 76 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: 23.5%China: 10.0%India: 8.3%6 others listed: 32.8%25%largest
United States635 · 25.4%Brazil587 · 23.5%China250 · 10.0%India207 · 8.3%6 others listed818 · 32.8%

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

Which institutions lead Food Safety and Hygiene research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Food Safety and Hygiene research, followed by Wageningen University & Research and Rivers State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 23 works
  2. 2 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 22 works
  3. 3 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 18 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 18 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 United States Food and Drug AdministrationUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 15 works
  8. 8 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food Safety and Hygiene?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food Safety and Hygiene include Yousef Saleh Khader, Ai Koyanagi and Ziad Ahmed Memish.

  1. 1 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  2. 2 Ai Koyanagi Spain 231k citations
  3. 3 Ziad Ahmed Memish Saudi Arabia 224k citations
  4. 4 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 218k citations
  5. 5 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  6. 6 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k 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 Safety and Hygiene?

The most cited paper in Food Safety and Hygiene is "Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens" (Elaine Scallan, Robert Michael Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo et al., 2010), with 7,709 citations. Next come "Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States" (7,276) and "Detection Theory: A User's Guide" (5,240).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens Elaine Scallan, Robert Michael Hoekstra, Frederick J. Angulo et al. · Emerging infectious diseases Open access 27 Dec 2010 7,709
2 Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States Paul S. Mead, Laurence Slutsker, VANCE J. DIETZ et al. · Emerging infectious diseases Open access Oct 1999 7,276
3 Detection Theory: A User's Guide Neil A. Macmillan, C. Douglas Creelman 25 Jan 1991 5,240
4 Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene Didier Pittet, Stéphane Hugonnet, Stephan Harbarth et al. · The Lancet Oct 2000 2,541
5 Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks—United States, 2006 L Hannah Gould, Kelly A. Walsh, António R. Vieira et al. · Annals of Emergency Medicine Open access 23 Dec 2009 2,376
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Food Safety and Hygiene research done?

The largest centres of Food Safety and Hygiene research in 2022-now 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, São Luís and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 76 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 55 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 47 works
  4. 4 DhakaBangladesh 40 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 33 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 27 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 27 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Port HarcourtNG · 24.9 works15×
  2. São LuísBR · 22.1 works14×
  3. WageningenNL · 22.6 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Ghent University and Cornell 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 19.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…Ghent UniversityAddis Ababa UniversityCornell University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 100.034.8%16.2×22 +31.2%
2Ghent UniversityBelgium 72.431.2%3.9×12 +68.3%
3Cornell UniversityUnited States 67.527.3%3.4×17 +11.8%
4Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 60.429.7%9.2×8 +81.3%
5Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 47.618.4%3.9×14 -2.9%
6Universidade de São PauloBrazil 46.512.8%2.3×18 -1.8%
7Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 45.77.9%6.2×12 +7.5%
8Rivers State UniversityNigeria 44.10.1%28.0×18 +92.7%
9Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 43.021.2%4.4×13 -56.0%
10Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 41.816.5%23.0×8 +61.7%

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 Safety and Hygiene, country by country

Is Food Safety and Hygiene research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Safety and Hygiene.

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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 Safety and Hygiene as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Food Safety and Hygiene0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Food Safety and Hygiene 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 Safety and Hygiene10.6% 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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