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Garlic and Onion Studies

Garlic and Onion Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 biological properties, health benefits, and potential therapeutic uses of garlic and its bioactive compounds. It covers topics such as antioxidant effects, cardiovascular health, cancer prevention, antimicrobial properties, and the chemistry of sulfur compounds in garlic.

  • Garlic
  • Bioactive Compounds
  • Antioxidant
  • Cardiovascular Health
  • Cancer Prevention
  • Antimicrobial
  • Allicin
  • Sulfur Compounds
  • Aged Garlic Extract
  • Health Benefits
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Garlic and Onion Studies

Which countries lead Garlic and Onion Studies research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (513 and 367 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 513 works
  2. 2 China 367 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 316 works
  4. 4 United States 187 works
  5. 5 Egypt 148 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 147 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 118 works
  8. 8 Iran 105 works
  9. 9 South Korea 85 works
  10. 10 Brazil 80 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: 24.8%China: 17.8%Indonesia: 15.3%United States: 9.0%6 others listed: 33.0%25%largest
India513 · 24.8%China367 · 17.8%Indonesia316 · 15.3%United States187 · 9.0%6 others listed682 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Garlic and Onion Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Garlic and Onion Studies research, followed by Agricultural Research Center and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 61 works
  2. 2 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 24 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 22 works
  4. 4 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 22 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 20 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 14 works
  7. 7 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 14 works
  8. 8 Federal Scientific Center for Vegetable GrowingRussia 14 works
  9. 9 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 13 works
  10. 10 IPB UniversityIndonesia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Garlic and Onion Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Garlic and Onion Studies include Jun Wang, Cynthia D. Mulrow and Hagop M. Kantarjian.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Cynthia D. Mulrow United States 278k citations
  3. 3 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  5. 5 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Elisabete Weiderpass France 221k citations
  8. 8 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k 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 Garlic and Onion Studies?

The most cited paper in Garlic and Onion Studies is "Theoretical aspects of DNA-protein interactions: Co-operative and non-co-operative binding of large ligands to a one-dimensional homogeneous lattice" (James D. McGhee, Peter H. von Hippel, 1974), with 2,973 citations. Next come "Bioactive compounds in foods: their role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer" (2,550) and "Antifungal Agents: Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Correlation of These Mechanisms with Bacterial Resistance" (1,807).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theoretical aspects of DNA-protein interactions: Co-operative and non-co-operative binding of large ligands to a one-dimensional homogeneous lattice James D. McGhee, Peter H. von Hippel · Journal of Molecular Biology Jun 1974 2,973
2 Bioactive compounds in foods: their role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Kari D. Hecker, Andrea Bonanome et al. · The American Journal of Medicine Dec 2002 2,550
3 Antifungal Agents: Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Correlation of These Mechanisms with Bacterial Resistance Mahmoud Afif Ghannoum, Louis B. Rice · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access Oct 1999 1,807
4 Molecular targets of dietary agents for prevention and therapy of cancer Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, Shishir Shishodia · Biochemical Pharmacology 24 Feb 2006 1,761
5 Nilotinib versus Imatinib for Newly Diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Giuseppe Saglio, Dong‐Wook Kim, Surapol Issaragrisil et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 5 Jun 2010 1,691
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Where is Garlic and Onion Studies research done?

The largest centres of Garlic and Onion Studies research in 2022-now are Giza (Egypt), Beijing (China), New Delhi (India) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Addis Ababa and Giza.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GizaEgypt 50 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 47 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 38 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 34 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 34 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 31 works
  7. 7 CairoEgypt 29 works
  8. 8 SurabayaIndonesia 27 works
  9. 9 MedanIndonesia 26 works
  10. 10 DhakaBangladesh 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Addis AbabaET · 24.3 works11×
  2. GizaEG · 50.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Garlic and Onion Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Garlic and Onion Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Shandong Agricultural University, King Saud University and Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research 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 9.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shandong Agricultura…King Saud UniversityCairo UniversityEthiopian Institute …
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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
1Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina 67.932.7%20.9×10 +17.4%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.428.0%3.3×9 +40.9%
3Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 53.91.6%67.4×22 +26.5%
4Cairo UniversityEgypt 46.012.2%5.4×11 +117.1%
5Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 40.44.3%28.8×13 +48.0%
6Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 33.711.4%3.1×14 -41.4%
7University of BrawijayaIndonesia 33.40.5%5.8×14 +64.7%
8Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and ForestryIndia 32.65.1%65.9×10 +96.3%
9IPB UniversityIndonesia 32.50.0%8.1×13 +44.4%
10Zagazig UniversityEgypt 27.63.6%8.5×9 -8.9%

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 Garlic and Onion Studies, country by country

Is Garlic and Onion Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Garlic and Onion 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 Garlic and Onion Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Garlic and Onion Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Garlic and Onion 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%Garlic and Onion Studies11.0% 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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