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Food Science and Nutritional Studies

Food Science and Nutritional Studies is a research topic within Nutrition and Dietetics. Science Explorer counts 8.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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  • Wheatgrass
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  • Antioxidant
  • Cancer
  • Functional Beverage
  • Nutraceutical
  • Apoptosis
  • Chemoprevention
  • Fermented Extract
  • Bioactive Compounds
Research works
8.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
854
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food Science and Nutritional Studies

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

Which countries lead Food Science and Nutritional Studies research?

By volume, India and Indonesia publish the most (1.2k and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.2k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 219 works
  3. 3 Nigeria 139 works
  4. 4 Egypt 121 works
  5. 5 United States 107 works
  6. 6 China 94 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 92 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 86 works
  9. 9 Brazil 54 works
  10. 10 Iran 52 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.

India: 56.0%Indonesia: 10.0%Nigeria: 6.3%Egypt: 5.5%6 others listed: 22.1%56%largest
India1,230 · 56.0%Indonesia219 · 10.0%Nigeria139 · 6.3%Egypt121 · 5.5%6 others listed486 · 22.1%

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

Which institutions lead Food Science and Nutritional Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Food Science and Nutritional Studies research, followed by Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 85 works
  2. 2 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 21 works
  3. 3 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 18 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 17 works
  5. 5 Desh Bhagat Ayurvedic College and HospitalIndia 17 works
  6. 6 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 17 works
  7. 7 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 16 works
  8. 8 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 15 works
  9. 9 Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 14 works
  10. 10 National Institute of AyurvedaIndia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food Science and Nutritional Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food Science and Nutritional Studies include Walter Churchill Willett, Frank B. Hu and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Viswanathan Mohan India 141k 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 Science and Nutritional Studies?

The most cited paper in Food Science and Nutritional Studies is "Physical properties of plant and animal materials" (Agricultural Engineering, 1968), with 3,068 citations. Next come "Extraction and Determination of Ascorbate and Dehydroascorbate from Plant Tissue" (1,069) and "The prevalence of complementary/Alternative medicine in cancer" (895).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Physical properties of plant and animal materials Agricultural Engineering · Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research Dec 1968 3,068
2 Extraction and Determination of Ascorbate and Dehydroascorbate from Plant Tissue Karlheinz Kampfenkel, M. Vanmontagu, Dirk Inzé · Analytical Biochemistry Feb 1995 1,069
3 The prevalence of complementary/Alternative medicine in cancer Edzard Ernst · Cancer 15 Aug 1998 895
4 Lack of Effect of a High-Fiber Cereal Supplement on the Recurrence of Colorectal Adenomas David Samuel Alberts, Marı́a Elena Martı́nez, Denise J. Roe et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 20 Apr 2000 828
5 Optimization of extraction of phenolic compounds from wheat using response surface methodology Chandrika M. Liyana‐Pathirana, Fereidoon Shahidi · Food Chemistry 9 Dec 2004 812
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Food Science and Nutritional Studies research done?

The largest centres of Food Science and Nutritional Studies research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Giza (Egypt), Chennai (India) and Mumbai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanded.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 61 works
  2. 2 GizaEgypt 38 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 37 works
  4. 4 MumbaiIndia 36 works
  5. 5 LucknowIndia 30 works
  6. 6 PuneIndia 29 works
  7. 7 KolkataIndia 28 works
  8. 8 JaipurIndia 27 works
  9. 9 LudhianaIndia 26 works
  10. 10 CairoEgypt 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NandedIN · 21.3 works44×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Food Science and Nutritional Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Lovely Professional University, Punjab Agricultural University and University of Agriculture Faisalabad 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%mean 7.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lovely Professional …Punjab Agricultural …University of Agricu…Banaras Hindu Univer…
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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
1Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 91.417.4%13.2×16 +108.6%
2Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 79.214.9%42.8×17 +25.5%
3University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 67.012.9%23.5×10 +105.9%
4Banaras Hindu UniversityIndia 60.17.7%7.2×14 +65.6%
5Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and TechnologyIndia 54.39.7%52.1×11 +145.9%
6National Institute of AyurvedaIndia 46.43.0%100.8×14 +165.2%
7Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 44.82.7%76.0×13 +42.8%
8Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 44.10.4%26.0×14 +10.9%
9Government Ayurved College, NandedIndia 41.30.5%118.6×14 +201.4%
10Cairo UniversityEgypt 39.56.3%4.6×9 +146.8%

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 Science and Nutritional Studies, country by country

Is Food Science and Nutritional Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Science and Nutritional 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 Science and Nutritional Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Food Science and Nutritional 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 Science and Nutritional Studies11.8% 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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