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Insect Utilization and Effects

Insect Utilization and Effects is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the potential of edible insects as a sustainable source of food and feed, addressing topics such as nutritional composition, environmental impact, consumer acceptance, waste management, and their role in ensuring food security. It covers a wide range of research on insect farming, sustainability, and the use of insects as a protein source for both human and animal consumption.

  • Edible Insects
  • Food Security
  • Animal Feed
  • Nutritional Composition
  • Environmental Impact
  • Insect Farming
  • Sustainability
  • Consumer Acceptance
  • Waste Management
  • Protein Source
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+56%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect Utilization and Effects

Which countries lead Insect Utilization and Effects research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (1.1k and 673 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 673 works
  3. 3 India 565 works
  4. 4 United States 520 works
  5. 5 Brazil 310 works
  6. 6 Italy 254 works
  7. 7 South Korea 232 works
  8. 8 France 183 works
  9. 9 Germany 163 works
  10. 10 Spain 162 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: 25.7%Indonesia: 16.3%India: 13.7%United States: 12.6%6 others listed: 31.6%26%largest
China1,059 · 25.7%Indonesia673 · 16.3%India565 · 13.7%United States520 · 12.6%6 others listed1,303 · 31.6%

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

Which institutions lead Insect Utilization and Effects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Insect Utilization and Effects research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Zambia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 82 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 53 works
  3. 3 University of ZambiaZambia 51 works
  4. 4 Institute of Natural SciencesBelgium 49 works
  5. 5 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 46 works
  6. 6 IPB UniversityIndonesia 45 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 42 works
  8. 8 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 38 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  10. 10 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect Utilization and Effects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect Utilization and Effects include Richard M. Durbin, Jun Wang and Hongjie Dai.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Hongjie Dai United States 189k citations
  4. 4 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  5. 5 David M. Pereira Portugal 183k 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 Insect Utilization and Effects?

The most cited paper in Insect Utilization and Effects is "Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G" (Eva Olsson Engvall, Peter Perlmann, 1971), with 3,774 citations. Next come "Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers" (3,527) and "Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate" (2,611).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G Eva Olsson Engvall, Peter Perlmann · Immunochemistry Sep 1971 3,774
2 Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers Francisco Sánchez‐Bayo, Kris A. G. Wyckhuys · Biological Conservation 31 Jan 2019 3,527
3 Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate Hanspeter Streb, R.F. Irvine, Michael John Berridge et al. · Nature Nov 1983 2,611
4 Small molecule drug screening in Drosophila identifies the 5HT2A receptor as a feeding modulation target Gabriel Gasque, Stephen R. Conway, Juan Huang et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 2 Jul 2013 2,320
5 Hepcidin, a Urinary Antimicrobial Peptide Synthesized in the Liver Christina H. Park, Erika V. Valore, Alan J. Waring et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Mar 2001 2,185
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Where is Insect Utilization and Effects research done?

The largest centres of Insect Utilization and Effects research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Seoul (South Korea) and Lusaka (Zambia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bondo, Lusaka and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 155 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 63 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 61 works
  4. 4 LusakaZambia 57 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 56 works
  6. 6 BrusselsBelgium 54 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 53 works
  8. 8 BogorIndonesia 52 works
  9. 9 NairobiKenya 51 works
  10. 10 BangkokThailand 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BondoKE · 25.2 works169×
  2. LusakaZM · 56.5 works28×
  3. WageningenNL · 47.3 works17×
  4. VolosGR · 24.0 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect Utilization and Effects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect Utilization and Effects?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, University of Turin and University of Basilicata 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 26.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Basili…Zhejiang Ocean Unive…Wageningen Universit…University of Turin
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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 88.422.3%20.1×46 +21.5%
2University of TurinItaly 69.221.4%6.4×22 +98.0%
3University of BasilicataItaly 65.840.2%22.4×9 +176.6%
4Zhejiang Ocean UniversityChina 65.134.9%10.3×11 +88.3%
5University of PisaItaly 63.931.3%4.0×12 +106.9%
6Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 61.816.7%11.3×24 +19.6%
7University of ThessalyGreece 60.815.6%16.8×24 +148.4%
8Yunnan Agricultural UniversityChina 57.936.9%12.5×8 +554.6%
9Universidade Católica PortuguesaPortugal 56.220.3%18.4×12 +253.7%
10Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 56.020.9%7.3×18 +98.2%

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 Insect Utilization and Effects, country by country

Is Insect Utilization and Effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Insect Utilization and Effects.

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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 Insect Utilization and Effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Insect Utilization and Effects0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Insect Utilization and Effects 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%Insect Utilization and Effects10.2% 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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