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Moringa oleifera research and applications

Moringa oleifera research and applications is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 extensive research conducted on Moringa oleifera, exploring its antioxidant properties, medicinal uses, nutritional characterization, phytochemical composition, and therapeutic potential. The studies cover a wide range of applications including anti-inflammatory activity and the identification of bioactive compounds.

  • Moringa oleifera
  • antioxidant properties
  • medicinal uses
  • nutritional characterization
  • phytochemicals
  • therapeutic potential
  • anti-inflammatory activity
  • phytochemistry
  • bioactive compounds
  • nutritional quality
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Moringa oleifera research and applications

Which countries lead Moringa oleifera research and applications research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (1k and 946 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 1k works
  2. 2 India 946 works
  3. 3 China 507 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 486 works
  5. 5 Egypt 407 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 223 works
  7. 7 United States 180 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 174 works
  9. 9 Iraq 170 works
  10. 10 Brazil 163 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.

Indonesia: 24.0%India: 22.1%China: 11.8%Nigeria: 11.3%6 others listed: 30.7%24%largest
Indonesia1,028 · 24.0%India946 · 22.1%China507 · 11.8%Nigeria486 · 11.3%6 others listed1,317 · 30.7%

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

Which institutions lead Moringa oleifera research and applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Moringa oleifera research and applications research, followed by King Saud University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 58 works
  2. 2 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 49 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 41 works
  4. 4 Saveetha UniversityIndia 35 works
  5. 5 IPB UniversityIndonesia 35 works
  6. 6 National Research CentreEgypt 34 works
  7. 7 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 33 works
  8. 8 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 31 works
  9. 9 Zagazig UniversityEgypt 30 works
  10. 10 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Moringa oleifera research and applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Moringa oleifera research and applications include David Julian McClements, Barry B. Halliwell and Yuming Guo.

  1. 1 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Barry B. Halliwell United Kingdom 179k citations
  3. 3 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  4. 4 Masayuki P. Yamamoto Japan 162k 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 Moringa oleifera research and applications?

The most cited paper in Moringa oleifera research and applications is "The chemical diversity and distribution of glucosinolates and isothiocyanates among plants" (Jed W. Fahey, Amy T. Zalcmann, Paul Talalay, 2001), with 2,987 citations. Next come "Synthesis of metallic nanoparticles using plant extracts" (2,676) and "BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF GLUCOSINOLATES" (2,324).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The chemical diversity and distribution of glucosinolates and isothiocyanates among plants Jed W. Fahey, Amy T. Zalcmann, Paul Talalay · Phytochemistry 2001 2,987
2 Synthesis of metallic nanoparticles using plant extracts Amit Kumar Mittal, Yusuf Chisti, Uttam Chand Banerjee · Biotechnology Advances 12 Jan 2013 2,676
3 BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF GLUCOSINOLATES Barbara Ann Halkier, Jonathan Gershenzon · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 31 Jan 2006 2,324
4 Carotenoids and human health Aluri S. Rao, Li Rao · Pharmacological Research 26 Jan 2007 2,010
5 Inhibition of nitrite formation from hydroxylammoniumchloride: A simple assay for superoxide dismutase Erich F. Elstner, Adelheid Heupel · Analytical Biochemistry Feb 1976 1,911
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Where is Moringa oleifera research and applications research done?

The largest centres of Moringa oleifera research and applications research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Giza (Egypt), Chennai (India) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Abeokuta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 100 works
  2. 2 GizaEgypt 94 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 88 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 84 works
  5. 5 CairoEgypt 81 works
  6. 6 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 75 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 68 works
  8. 8 SemarangIndonesia 66 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 55 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AbeokutaNG · 22.8 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Moringa oleifera research and applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Moringa oleifera research and applications?

Among universities, judged by research, King Saud University, Yunnan Agricultural University and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman 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.

0%20%40%mean 24.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yunnan Agricultural …Princess Nourah bint…King Saud UniversitySaveetha University
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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
1King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 82.822.1%9.3×49 +107.9%
2Yunnan Agricultural UniversityChina 72.635.2%31.1×18 +226.6%
3Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 68.725.4%8.5×12 +368.3%
4Saveetha UniversityIndia 66.319.3%6.9×35 +131.3%
5Alexandria UniversityEgypt 66.018.0%12.1×30 +28.6%
6Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 63.019.3%11.3×23 +79.0%
7China Agricultural UniversityChina 59.829.2%4.2×12 +20.3%
8Universidade do PortoPortugal 58.130.9%2.5×9 +108.1%
9Zagazig UniversityEgypt 56.218.5%15.2×30 -21.8%
10University of JeddahSaudi Arabia 55.622.2%12.7×10 +375.3%

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 Moringa oleifera research and applications, country by country

Is Moringa oleifera research and applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Moringa oleifera research 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 Moringa oleifera research and applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Moringa oleifera research and applications0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Moringa oleifera research 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%Moringa oleifera research and applications10.6% 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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