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Fungal Biology and Applications

Fungal Biology and Applications is a research topic within Pharmacology. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the medicinal properties of mushrooms, focusing on their potential as antitumor and immunomodulating agents. It covers topics such as antioxidant activity, polysaccharides, cancer therapy, nutritional value, and specific mushroom species like Ganoderma lucidum. The research delves into the pharmacological potential and biological activities of these mushrooms.

  • Medicinal Mushrooms
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Polysaccharides
  • Cancer Therapy
  • Immunomodulating Compounds
  • Nutritional Value
  • Ganoderma lucidum
  • Antitumor Agents
  • Biological Activities
  • Pharmacological Potential
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fungal Biology and Applications

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

Which countries lead Fungal Biology and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3k and 917 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 India 917 works
  3. 3 United States 393 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 224 works
  5. 5 Brazil 223 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 202 works
  7. 7 South Korea 191 works
  8. 8 Japan 190 works
  9. 9 Russia 168 works
  10. 10 Thailand 165 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: 52.8%India: 16.2%United States: 6.9%Indonesia: 4.0%6 others listed: 20.1%53%largest
China2,984 · 52.8%India917 · 16.2%United States393 · 6.9%Indonesia224 · 4.0%6 others listed1,139 · 20.1%

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

Which institutions lead Fungal Biology and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Fungal Biology and Applications research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 194 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 176 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 72 works
  4. 4 Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 50 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 50 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 45 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 44 works
  8. 8 Guizhou UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 40 works
  10. 10 Yunnan UniversityChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fungal Biology and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fungal Biology and Applications include Rob Knight, Jun Wang and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Aviv Regev United States 236k citations
  5. 5 Didier Raoult France 232k 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 Fungal Biology and Applications?

The most cited paper in Fungal Biology and Applications is "TOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism" (Stephan Wullschleger, Robbie Loewith, Michael N. Hall, 2006), with 5,827 citations. Next come "Signal Transduction by the JNK Group of MAP Kinases" (4,242) and "mTOR: from growth signal integration to cancer, diabetes and ageing" (3,983).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism Stephan Wullschleger, Robbie Loewith, Michael N. Hall · Cell Open access Feb 2006 5,827
2 Signal Transduction by the JNK Group of MAP Kinases Roger J Davis · Cell Open access Oct 2000 4,242
3 mTOR: from growth signal integration to cancer, diabetes and ageing Roberto Zoncu, Alejo Efeyan, David M. Sabatini · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ReviewOpen access 15 Dec 2010 3,983
4 A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Terence P. McGonigle, M. H. Miller, D. G. Evans et al. · New Phytologist Open access Jul 1990 3,939
5 The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications Rolf Henrik Nilsson, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Andy F. S. Taylor et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 12 Oct 2018 3,746
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fungal Biology and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Fungal Biology and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Kunming (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chiang Rai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 465 works
  2. 2 KunmingChina 158 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 139 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 114 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 109 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 108 works
  7. 7 ChangchunChina 97 works
  8. 8 GuiyangChina 87 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 78 works
  10. 10 FuzhouChina 70 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chiang RaiTH · 25.6 works52×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fungal Biology and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fungal Biology and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, Nanchang University and King Saud 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 20.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F Univer…Nanchang UniversityChina Agricultural U…King Saud University
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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
1Northwest A&F UniversityChina 74.129.8%8.6×25 +52.7%
2Nanchang UniversityChina 70.023.6%3.6×20 +10.5%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 67.316.0%3.2×23 +110.8%
4China Agricultural UniversityChina 66.623.5%6.0×24 +64.6%
5Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 65.815.4%23.5×40 +73.3%
6Agricultural University of AthensGreece 65.020.1%21.6×13 +83.2%
7Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 64.512.7%49.0×50 +70.8%
8Jiangnan UniversityChina 64.426.3%4.9×21 +35.3%
9Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 62.423.8%9.0×18 +58.3%
10Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 61.09.2%5.7×44 +30.8%

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 Fungal Biology and Applications, country by country

Is Fungal Biology and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fungal Biology and Applications.

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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 Fungal Biology and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Fungal Biology and Applications0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fungal Biology and Applications 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%Fungal Biology and Applications10.1% 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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