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Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 25.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of food insecurity on health outcomes, focusing on the association between food insecurity and chronic diseases, mental health, nutritional consequences, and children's health. It also examines the role of social determinants and public assistance in addressing household food security among low-income families.

  • Food Insecurity
  • Health Outcomes
  • Social Determinants
  • Nutritional Consequences
  • Household Food Security
  • Low-Income Families
  • Mental Health
  • Chronic Disease
  • Children's Health
  • Public Assistance
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
9.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
25.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+68%
the tick is no change

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

Which countries lead Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (4.9k and 539 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 4.9k works
  2. 2 Brazil 539 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 508 works
  4. 4 Canada 454 works
  5. 5 India 399 works
  6. 6 Australia 289 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 257 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 206 works
  9. 9 South Africa 193 works
  10. 10 Ethiopia 189 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: 61.7%Brazil: 6.8%United Kingdom: 6.4%Canada: 5.7%6 others listed: 19.4%62%largest
United States4,883 · 61.7%Brazil539 · 6.8%United Kingdom508 · 6.4%Canada454 · 5.7%6 others listed1,532 · 19.4%

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

Which institutions lead Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 196 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 83 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 53 works
  5. 5 University of MichiganUnited States 50 works
  6. 6 Emory UniversityUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 41 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 37 works
  9. 9 University of WashingtonUnited States 36 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations include Ali H. Mokdad, Zulfiqar A Bhutta and Walter C. Willett.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 10k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar A Bhutta Pakistan 7k citations
  3. 3 Walter C. Willett United States 6.8k citations
  4. 4 Olalekan A. Uthman United Kingdom 5.2k citations
  5. 5 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 5.2k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations research done?

The largest centres of Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations research in 2022–2025 are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Chapel Hill (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 204 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C. United States 204 works
  3. 3 Chapel Hill United States 199 works
  4. 4 London United Kingdom 153 works
  5. 5 Boston United States 140 works
  6. 6 Atlanta United States 136 works
  7. 7 Baltimore United States 130 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 94 works
  9. 9 Los Angeles United States 93 works
  10. 10 Toronto Canada 89 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 199.2 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, San Francisco, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 29%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of California, San Francisco: 54, 39.5%London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: 16, 27.8%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 196, 8.8%Tufts University: 30, 34.9%Harvard University: 64, 40.6%Addis Ababa University: 24, 19.8%Johns Hopkins University: 83, 28.0%Duke University: 32, 33.5%Boston University: 31, 35.1%Haramaya University: 9, 22.0%University of Califo…Tufts UniversityLondon School of Hyg…University of North …
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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 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 68.139.5%8.5×54 +47.5%
2 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 67.327.8%10.9×16 +98.1%
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 66.48.8%11.6×196 +381.3%
4 Tufts UniversityUnited States 64.834.9%11.1×30 +46.5%
5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 64.740.6%5.1×64 +78.2%
6 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 63.419.8%10.1×24 +197.8%
7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.228.0%7.8×83 +81.8%
8 Duke UniversityUnited States 58.633.5%4.5×32 +231.3%
9 Boston UniversityUnited States 58.235.1%6.3×31 +84.5%
10 Haramaya UniversityEthiopia 58.222.0%11.9×9 +222.0%

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 Security and Health in Diverse Populations research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 68% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

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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.

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.