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Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications

Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications is a research topic within Complementary and alternative medicine. Science Explorer counts 9.9k 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 therapeutic effects of Ginkgo biloba extracts, particularly in the context of neuroprotection, dementia prevention, and cognitive enhancement. It covers topics such as the pharmacokinetics of Ginkgo biloba compounds, their antioxidant properties, and their potential in mitigating cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

  • Ginkgo Biloba
  • Neuroprotective
  • Dementia
  • Antioxidant
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Terpene Trilactones
  • Flavonoids
  • Memory Enhancement
Research works
9.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications

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

Which countries lead Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (546 and 239 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 546 works
  2. 2 India 239 works
  3. 3 Brazil 197 works
  4. 4 United States 177 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 106 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 73 works
  7. 7 Japan 64 works
  8. 8 South Korea 62 works
  9. 9 France 50 works
  10. 10 Iran 48 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: 35.0%India: 15.3%Brazil: 12.6%United States: 11.3%6 others listed: 25.8%35%largest
China546 · 35.0%India239 · 15.3%Brazil197 · 12.6%United States177 · 11.3%6 others listed404 · 25.8%

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

Which institutions lead Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing Forestry University publishes the most Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research, followed by Universidade Federal do Ceará and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 28 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 15 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 14 works
  4. 4 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 11 works
  5. 5 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 10 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 10 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 9 works
  10. 10 Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications include David Moher, Jost Bruno Jonas and John Q. Trojanowski.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  3. 3 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  5. 5 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  6. 6 Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian Singapore 252k citations
  7. 7 Kaj Blennow Sweden 247k citations
  8. 8 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  9. 9 John C. Morris United States 241k citations
  10. 10 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k 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 Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications?

The most cited paper in Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications is "Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study" (M.G.L Hertog, Edith J. M. Feskens, Daan Kromhout et al., 1993), with 4,357 citations. Next come "Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease" (3,081) and "Antioxidant Activity and Phenolic Compounds in Selected Herbs" (2,885).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study M.G.L Hertog, Edith J. M. Feskens, Daan Kromhout et al. · The Lancet Open access Oct 1993 4,357
2 Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease Murat Emre et al. · Movement Disorders 31 May 2007 3,081
3 Antioxidant Activity and Phenolic Compounds in Selected Herbs Wei Zheng, Shiow Y. Wang · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 28 Sep 2001 2,885
4 Dietary (Poly)phenolics in Human Health: Structures, Bioavailability, and Evidence of Protective Effects Against Chronic Diseases Daniele Del Rio, Ana Rodriguez‐Mateos, Jeremy P. E. Spencer et al. · Antioxidants and Redox Signaling Open access 15 Jul 2012 2,587
5 Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines Irene Litvan, Jennifer G. Goldman, Alexander I. Tröster et al. · Movement Disorders Open access 24 Jan 2012 2,583
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Where is Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research done?

The largest centres of Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Hangzhou (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fortaleza.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 73 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 54 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 27 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 26 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  6. 6 FortalezaBrazil 22 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 20 works
  8. 8 AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire 18 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 17 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FortalezaBR · 21.6 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, Yangzhou University and Universidade Federal do Ceará score highest, combining citation 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 10.6286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yangzhou UniversityZhejiang UniversityNanjing Forestry Uni…Universidade Federal…
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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.

Citation 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
1Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 77.19.4%30.1×28 +57.2%
2Yangzhou UniversityChina 62.720.0%7.2×8 +60.4%
3Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 56.14.8%16.8×15 +54.0%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.018.1%1.6×9 -5.0%
5Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 49.611.4%4.7×10 -5.0%
6Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina 35.910.7%18.0×9 -27.1%
7Ladoke Akintola University of TechnologyNigeria 32.00.0%46.7×9 +360.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications, country by country

Is Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ginkgo biloba and Cashew 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 Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ginkgo biloba and Cashew 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%Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications11.0% 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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