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Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects

Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects is a research topic within Complementary and alternative medicine. Science Explorer counts 4.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of herbal medicine, such as Passiflora, Valerian, Kava extract, and Melissa Officinalis, for the treatment of mental health disorders including anxiety, depression, and insomnia. The research includes systematic reviews, meta-analyses, clinical trials, and pharmacological studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of these herbal remedies.

  • Herbal Medicine
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Passiflora
  • Valerian
  • Kava Extract
  • Melissa Officinalis
  • GABAergic Effects
Research works
4.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
451
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

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

Which countries lead Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (174 and 138 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 174 works
  2. 2 China 138 works
  3. 3 Brazil 105 works
  4. 4 United States 98 works
  5. 5 Iran 72 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 39 works
  7. 7 Germany 29 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 29 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 25 works
  10. 10 South Korea 23 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: 23.7%China: 18.9%Brazil: 14.4%United States: 13.3%6 others listed: 29.6%24%largest
India174 · 23.7%China138 · 18.9%Brazil105 · 14.4%United States98 · 13.3%6 others listed216 · 29.6%

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

Which institutions lead Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research, followed by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects include Amirhossein Sahebkar and Mostafa Qorbani.

  1. 1 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  2. 2 Mostafa Qorbani Iran 184k 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 Extracts Effects?

The most cited paper in Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects is "Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States" (David W. Kaufman, Judith Parsells Kelly, Lynn A. Rosenberg et al., 2002), with 1,844 citations. Next come "Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by US adults: 1997-2002." (1,111) and "Synergy and other interactions in phytomedicines" (1,001).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States David W. Kaufman, Judith Parsells Kelly, Lynn A. Rosenberg et al. · JAMA 16 Jan 2002 1,844
2 Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by US adults: 1997-2002. Hilary Aurora Tindle, Roger B. Davis, Russell S. Phillips et al. · PubMed 24 Mar 2005 1,111
3 Synergy and other interactions in phytomedicines E WILLIAMSON · Phytomedicine 2001 1,001
4 Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Australia A. H. MacLennan, David H. WILSON, Anne Winifred Taylor · The Lancet Mar 1996 955
5 Cannabis sativa: A comprehensive ethnopharmacological review of a medicinal plant with a long history Sara Anna Bonini, Marika Premoli, Simone Tambaro et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology 8 Sep 2018 681
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Where is Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research done?

The largest centres of Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research in 2022-now are Tehran (Iran), Beijing (China), New Delhi (India) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tehran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TehranIran 25 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 23 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 11 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 10 works
  5. 5 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 9 works
  6. 6 BogotáColombia 8 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 8 works
  8. 8 BengaluruIndia 7 works
  9. 9 KunmingChina 7 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TehranIR · 24.8 works4.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects?

Among universities, judged by research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 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
1Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 0.92.2%5.9×10 -16.3%

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 Extracts Effects, country by country

Is Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Medicinal Plant Extracts 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 Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0042% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Medicinal Plant Extracts 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.

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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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