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Hops Chemistry and Applications

Hops Chemistry and Applications is a research topic within Pharmacology. Science Explorer counts 4.7k 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 explores the pharmacognostic, pharmacological, and therapeutic properties of hop phytochemicals, particularly focusing on compounds like xanthohumol and prenylflavonoids derived from Humulus lupulus. The research covers a wide range of topics including cancer chemoprevention, antioxidant effects, estrogenic properties, metabolism, angiogenesis inhibition, and antimicrobial activity.

  • Xanthohumol
  • Prenylflavonoids
  • Humulus lupulus
  • Cancer Chemoprevention
  • Antioxidant
  • Estrogenic Properties
  • Bitter Acids
  • Metabolism
  • Angiogenesis Inhibition
  • Antimicrobial Activity
Research works
4.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
478
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hops Chemistry and Applications

Which countries lead Hops Chemistry and Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (192 and 132 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 192 works
  2. 2 United States 132 works
  3. 3 India 87 works
  4. 4 Brazil 55 works
  5. 5 Italy 52 works
  6. 6 Poland 37 works
  7. 7 Germany 33 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 33 works
  9. 9 Iran 31 works
  10. 10 South Korea 31 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: 28.1%United States: 19.3%India: 12.8%Brazil: 8.1%6 others listed: 31.8%28%largest
China192 · 28.1%United States132 · 19.3%India87 · 12.8%Brazil55 · 8.1%6 others listed218 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Hops Chemistry and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Oregon State University publishes the most Hops Chemistry and Applications research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Oregon State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 7 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 7 works
  4. 4 National Research CouncilItaly 5 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 5 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 4 works
  7. 7 Research Institute of Brewing and Malting (Czechia)Czechia 4 works
  8. 8 Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agrariaItaly 4 works
  9. 9 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 4 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hops Chemistry and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hops Chemistry and Applications include Amirhossein Sahebkar and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  2. 2 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k 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 Hops Chemistry and Applications?

The most cited paper in Hops Chemistry and Applications is "The Effects of Plant Flavonoids on Mammalian Cells:Implications for Inflammation, Heart Disease, and Cancer" (Elliott Middleton, Chithan Kandaswami, Theoharis Constantin Theoharides, 2000), with 4,876 citations. Next come "NF-κB activation by tumour necrosis factor requires the Akt serine–threonine kinase" (2,184) and "Molecular targets of dietary agents for prevention and therapy of cancer" (1,761).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Effects of Plant Flavonoids on Mammalian Cells:Implications for Inflammation, Heart Disease, and Cancer Elliott Middleton, Chithan Kandaswami, Theoharis Constantin Theoharides · Pharmacological Reviews Dec 2000 4,876
2 NF-κB activation by tumour necrosis factor requires the Akt serine–threonine kinase Osman Nidai Özeş, Lindsey D. Mayo, Jason A. Gustin et al. · Nature Sep 1999 2,184
3 Molecular targets of dietary agents for prevention and therapy of cancer Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, Shishir Shishodia · Biochemical Pharmacology 24 Feb 2006 1,761
4 Phyto-oestrogens and Western Diseases Herman Adlercreutz, Witold Mazur · Annals of Medicine Open access 1997 1,286
5 Platelet-activating factor. Evidence for 1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glyceryl-3-phosphorylcholine as the active component (a new class of lipid chemical mediators). Constantinos Alexandros Demopoulos, R. Neal Pinckard, D J Hanahan · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Oct 1979 1,207
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Where is Hops Chemistry and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Hops Chemistry and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Corvallis (United States), Guangzhou (China) and Prague (Czechia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 20 works
  2. 2 CorvallisUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 12 works
  4. 4 PragueCzechia 11 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 11 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 11 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 10 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 9 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 9 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 9 works
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Where is the best place to study Hops Chemistry and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Oregon State 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.

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
1Oregon State UniversityUnited States 3.06.7%34.7×10 -7.9%

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 Hops Chemistry and Applications, country by country

Is Hops Chemistry and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hops Chemistry 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 Hops Chemistry and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0038% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Hops Chemistry 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%Hops Chemistry and Applications10.7% 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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