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Medicinal plant effects and applications

Medicinal plant effects and applications is a research topic within Complementary and alternative medicine. Science Explorer counts 9.1k 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 medicinal properties of Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) and its bioactive compounds, particularly Dihydromyricetin. The research covers a wide range of pharmacological effects, including immunomodulatory, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, anticancer, and neuroprotective activities.

  • Stinging Nettle
  • Dihydromyricetin
  • Flavonoid Glycosides
  • Immunomodulatory Activity
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Pharmacological Effects
  • Hepatoprotective
  • Anticancer
  • Neuroprotective
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
919
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medicinal plant effects and applications

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

Which countries lead Medicinal plant effects and applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (453 and 203 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 453 works
  2. 2 Russia 203 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 144 works
  4. 4 India 136 works
  5. 5 United States 92 works
  6. 6 Poland 83 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 70 works
  8. 8 Iran 51 works
  9. 9 Romania 44 works
  10. 10 South Korea 42 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: 34.4%Russia: 15.4%Ukraine: 10.9%India: 10.3%6 others listed: 29.0%34%largest
China453 · 34.4%Russia203 · 15.4%Ukraine144 · 10.9%India136 · 10.3%6 others listed382 · 29.0%

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

Which institutions lead Medicinal plant effects and applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Medicinal plant effects and applications research, followed by Weatherford College and National University of Pharmacy.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 National University of PharmacyUkraine 15 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 12 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works
  6. 6 Sechenov UniversityRussia 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 10 works
  8. 8 Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 9 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 9 works
  10. 10 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medicinal plant effects and applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medicinal plant effects and applications include Cyrus Cooper, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Jasvinder A. Singh United States 247k citations
  5. 5 Peter John Barnes United Kingdom 225k citations
  6. 6 David John Hunter Australia 211k citations
  7. 7 Barry B. Halliwell United Kingdom 179k citations
  8. 8 Rachelle Buchbinder Australia 173k 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 Medicinal plant effects and applications?

The most cited paper in Medicinal plant effects and applications is "2016 updated EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the management of gout" (Pascal Richette et al., 2016), with 1,712 citations. Next come "EULAR evidence based recommendations for gout. Part II: Management. Report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee For International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT)" (1,420) and "Distribution and Biological Activities of the Flavonoid Luteolin" (1,113).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 2016 updated EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the management of gout Pascal Richette et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access 25 Jul 2016 1,712
2 EULAR evidence based recommendations for gout. Part II: Management. Report of a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee For International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT) Weiya Zhang, M Doherty, T Bardin et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access 17 May 2006 1,420
3 Distribution and Biological Activities of the Flavonoid Luteolin Miguel López‐Lázaro · Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 31 Dec 2008 1,113
4 Structure−Activity Relationship and Classification of Flavonoids as Inhibitors of Xanthine Oxidase and Superoxide Scavengers Paul Cos, Ying Li, Mario R. Calomme et al. · Journal of Natural Products Open access 1998 1,088
5 The role of cytokines in osteoarthritis pathophysiology Julio Fernandes, Johanne Martel‐Pelletier, Jean‐Pierre Pelletier · Biorheology 2002 1,023
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Where is Medicinal plant effects and applications research done?

The largest centres of Medicinal plant effects and applications research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kharkiv.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 62 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 59 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 38 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 21 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 20 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 20 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 19 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 17 works
  10. 10 TashkentUzbekistan 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KharkivUA · 20.2 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medicinal plant effects and applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medicinal plant effects and applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Weatherford College 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%10%20%30%mean 12.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese Academy of M…Chengdu University o…University of BelgradeWeatherford College
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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
1Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 66.824.9%21.6×9 +160.1%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 61.725.5%5.4×10 +79.6%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 60.67.6%6.9×16 +57.7%
4University of BelgradeSerbia 58.416.3%7.2×8 +80.6%
5University of ZagrebCroatia 50.415.7%7.0×8 +52.9%
6National University of PharmacyUkraine 44.42.3%429.0×15 -62.9%
7Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 32.83.6%7.2×8 +36.9%
8Sechenov UniversityRussia 27.41.7%19.6×10 -36.4%

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 Medicinal plant effects and applications, country by country

Is Medicinal plant effects and applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Medicinal plant effects 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 Medicinal plant effects and applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0079% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Medicinal plant effects and applications0.0077% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Medicinal plant effects 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.

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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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