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Melamine detection and toxicity

Melamine detection and toxicity is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 2.8k 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 focuses on the contamination of food and feed with melamine, a toxic compound that poses serious health risks. The papers cover various aspects such as detection methods, health implications, renal toxicity, colorimetric detection using gold nanoparticles, and the global impact of melamine contamination on food safety.

  • Melamine
  • Contamination
  • Detection
  • Food Safety
  • Toxicity
  • Adulteration
  • Renal Toxicity
  • Colorimetric Detection
  • Gold Nanoparticles
  • Health Impact
Research works
2.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
285
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+43%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Melamine detection and toxicity

Which countries lead Melamine detection and toxicity research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (234 and 94 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 234 works
  2. 2 India 94 works
  3. 3 United States 54 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 28 works
  5. 5 Iran 26 works
  6. 6 Brazil 17 works
  7. 7 Taiwan 16 works
  8. 8 Egypt 15 works
  9. 9 South Korea 14 works
  10. 10 Spain 14 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: 45.7%India: 18.4%United States: 10.6%Türkiye: 5.4%6 others listed: 19.9%46%largest
China234 · 45.7%India94 · 18.4%United States54 · 10.6%Türkiye28 · 5.4%6 others listed102 · 19.9%

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

Which institutions lead Melamine detection and toxicity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Melamine detection and toxicity research, followed by Kaohsiung Medical University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 7 works
  2. 2 Kaohsiung Medical UniversityTaiwan 5 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 5 works
  4. 4 Jiangnan UniversityChina 5 works
  5. 5 Nanchang UniversityChina 5 works
  6. 6 Jiangsu UniversityChina 4 works
  7. 7 Nankai UniversityChina 3 works
  8. 8 Tezpur UniversityIndia 3 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 3 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Melamine detection and toxicity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Melamine detection and toxicity include Abdullah Mohamed Asiri and ‪Damià Barceló.

  1. 1 Abdullah Mohamed Asiri Saudi Arabia 140k citations
  2. 2 ‪Damià Barceló Spain 132k 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 Melamine detection and toxicity?

The most cited paper in Melamine detection and toxicity is "Mercury in the Aquatic Environment: A Review of Factors Affecting Methylation" (Susanne M. Ullrich, Trevor W. Tanton, S.A. Abdrashitova, 2001), with 1,677 citations. Next come "Methylmercury Poisoning in Iraq" (1,610) and "Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey" (947).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mercury in the Aquatic Environment: A Review of Factors Affecting Methylation Susanne M. Ullrich, Trevor W. Tanton, S.A. Abdrashitova · Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology Jul 2001 1,677
2 Methylmercury Poisoning in Iraq Fatih Bakır, Salem F. Damluji, Laman Amin‐Zaki et al. · Science 20 Jul 1973 1,610
3 Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey Vikram Patel, Chinthanie F. Ramasundarahettige, Lakshmi Vijayakumar et al. · The Lancet Open access Jun 2012 947
4 Bacillus cereus and related species Francis A. Drobniewski · Clinical Microbiology Reviews Open access Oct 1993 842
5 Triple‐Mode Emission of Carbon Dots: Applications for Advanced Anti‐Counterfeiting Kai Jiang, 张凌, Junfeng Lu et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2 May 2016 814
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Where is Melamine detection and toxicity research done?

The largest centres of Melamine detection and toxicity research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 29 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 12 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 11 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 11 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 10 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 9 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 8 works
  8. 8 WuxiChina 8 works
  9. 9 Kaohsiung CityTaiwan 7 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BeijingCN · 29.3 works1.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Melamine detection and toxicity than the world average.

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Is Melamine detection and toxicity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Melamine detection and toxicity.

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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 Melamine detection and toxicity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Melamine detection and toxicity 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%Melamine detection and toxicity10.5% in 202520102020

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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