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Food Supply Chain Traceability

Food Supply Chain Traceability is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 the traceability of food products throughout the supply chain, emphasizing the use of RFID technology, cold chain monitoring, and quality assurance. It explores topics such as consumer perception, logistics management, and the integration of Internet of Things for ensuring transparency and efficient temperature management. The cluster also addresses challenges and opportunities in implementing traceability systems in the food industry.

  • Traceability
  • Food Supply Chain
  • RFID Technology
  • Cold Chain Monitoring
  • Quality Assurance
  • Logistics Management
  • Consumer Perception
  • Internet of Things
  • Temperature Management
  • Supply Chain Transparency
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+111%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Food Supply Chain Traceability

Which countries lead Food Supply Chain Traceability research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 991 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 991 works
  3. 3 United States 424 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 301 works
  5. 5 Italy 179 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 132 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 124 works
  8. 8 Germany 115 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 103 works
  10. 10 South Korea 90 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: 33.4%India: 26.8%United States: 11.5%Indonesia: 8.1%6 others listed: 20.1%33%largest
China1,234 · 33.4%India991 · 26.8%United States424 · 11.5%Indonesia301 · 8.1%6 others listed742 · 20.1%

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

Which institutions lead Food Supply Chain Traceability research?

By volume in 2022-now, China Agricultural University publishes the most Food Supply Chain Traceability research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and SRM Institute of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China Agricultural UniversityChina 35 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 29 works
  3. 3 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 28 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 27 works
  5. 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 23 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 23 works
  7. 7 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 23 works
  8. 8 Saveetha UniversityIndia 21 works
  9. 9 Chitkara UniversityIndia 20 works
  10. 10 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 20 works

What are the most cited papers in Food Supply Chain Traceability?

The most cited paper in Food Supply Chain Traceability is "Big Data in Smart Farming – A review" (J. Wolfert, Lan Ge, C.N. Verdouw et al., 2017), with 3,328 citations. Next come "E-Commerce Promotional Products Selection Using SWARA and TOPSIS" (1,547) and "Traceability in a food supply chain: Safety and quality perspectives" (1,340).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Big Data in Smart Farming – A review J. Wolfert, Lan Ge, C.N. Verdouw et al. · Agricultural Systems Open access 7 Feb 2017 3,328
2 E-Commerce Promotional Products Selection Using SWARA and TOPSIS Nabilla Farah Raissa Maharani, Novandra Rhezza Pratama, M. Dachyar · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access 21 May 2024 1,547
3 Traceability in a food supply chain: Safety and quality perspectives Myo Min Aung, Yoon‐Seok Chang · Food Control 12 Nov 2013 1,340
4 Internet-of-Things (IoT)-Based Smart Agriculture: Toward Making the Fields Talk Muhammad Ayaz, Mohammad Ammad-Uddin, Zubair Sharif et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2019 1,296
5 The STARTEC Decision Support Tool for Better Tradeoffs between Food Safety, Quality, Nutrition, and Costs in Production of Advanced Ready-to-Eat Foods Taran Skjerdal et al. · BioMed Research International Open access 2017 1,183
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Food Supply Chain Traceability research done?

The largest centres of Food Supply Chain Traceability research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Pune (India) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wageningen and Hohhot.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 189 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 109 works
  3. 3 PuneIndia 64 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 62 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 60 works
  6. 6 CoimbatoreIndia 53 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 48 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 48 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 41 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WageningenNL · 23.1 works11×
  2. HohhotCN · 31.2 works6.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Food Supply Chain Traceability than the world average.

See Food Supply Chain Traceability on the map

Where is the best place to study Food Supply Chain Traceability?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, China Agricultural University and Jiangsu 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 22.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityWageningen Universit…Northwest A&F Univer…China Agricultural U…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 90.824.1%12.9×23 +29.3%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 76.320.8%13.1×35 +78.0%
3Jiangsu UniversityChina 68.533.8%3.6×14 +503.4%
4Northwest A&F UniversityChina 63.822.6%7.5×14 +135.6%
5University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 60.127.5%2.7×8 +204.3%
6Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 58.117.7%8.7×14 +796.5%
7University of MiyazakiJapan 57.924.6%24.8×11 +65.4%
8University of CataniaItaly 57.524.9%5.5×8 +220.9%
9University of GuelphCanada 56.114.1%6.7×9 +51.7%
10Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 55.610.8%4.9×23 +182.8%

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 Supply Chain Traceability, country by country

Is Food Supply Chain Traceability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 111% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Food Supply Chain Traceability.

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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 Supply Chain Traceability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Food Supply Chain Traceability0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Food Supply Chain Traceability 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 Supply Chain Traceability10.1% 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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