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Muscle metabolism and nutrition

Muscle metabolism and nutrition is a research topic within Cell Biology. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the metabolism of protein, amino acids, and creatine in the context of exercise, nutrition, and aging. It explores the effects of different protein sources, timing of protein intake, and resistance training on muscle protein synthesis and anabolic signaling pathways.

  • Protein
  • Metabolism
  • Exercise
  • Nutrition
  • Amino Acids
  • Muscle Protein Synthesis
  • Resistance Training
  • Leucine
  • Whey Protein
  • Aging
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Muscle metabolism and nutrition

Which countries lead Muscle metabolism and nutrition research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 785 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 785 works
  3. 3 Brazil 426 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 340 works
  5. 5 Japan 286 works
  6. 6 Spain 239 works
  7. 7 Germany 231 works
  8. 8 Canada 207 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 199 works
  10. 10 Poland 193 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.

United States: 29.6%China: 19.0%Brazil: 10.3%United Kingdom: 8.2%6 others listed: 32.8%30%largest
United States1,224 · 29.6%China785 · 19.0%Brazil426 · 10.3%United Kingdom340 · 8.2%6 others listed1,356 · 32.8%

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

Which institutions lead Muscle metabolism and nutrition research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Muscle metabolism and nutrition research, followed by Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement and Texas A&M University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 36 works
  2. 2 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 34 works
  3. 3 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 31 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 30 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 29 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 26 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Muscle metabolism and nutrition?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Muscle metabolism and nutrition include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Mann Germany 308k 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 Muscle metabolism and nutrition?

The most cited paper in Muscle metabolism and nutrition is "PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT" (OliverH. Lowry, NiraJ. Rosebrough, A. Lewis Farr et al., 1951), with 319,095 citations. Next come "A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding" (212,905) and "Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities" (8,615).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT OliverH. Lowry, NiraJ. Rosebrough, A. Lewis Farr et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Nov 1951 319,095
2 A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Marion M. Bradford · Analytical Biochemistry May 1976 212,905
3 Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities Barbara E. Ainsworth, William L. Haskell, Melicia C. Whitt et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise Sep 2000 8,615
4 Brown Adipose Tissue: Function and Physiological Significance Barbara Cannon, Jan Nedergaard · Physiological Reviews Review 2004 6,496
5 Weight-Reducing Effects of the Plasma Protein Encoded by the obese Gene Jeffrey L. Halaas, K.S. Gajiwala, Margherita Maffei et al. · Science 28 Jul 1995 4,468
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Where is Muscle metabolism and nutrition research done?

The largest centres of Muscle metabolism and nutrition research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), São Paulo (Brazil) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Palmerston North.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 139 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 102 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 89 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 70 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 60 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 55 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 54 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 52 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 49 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Palmerston NorthNZ · 20.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Muscle metabolism and nutrition than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Muscle metabolism and nutrition?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeast Agricultural University, Wageningen University & Research and Harvard University score highest, combining citation 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 23.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Wageningen Universit…Maastricht UniversityHarvard 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.

Citation 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
1Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 73.037.8%10.4×15 +78.0%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 66.624.3%8.8×18 +33.2%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.712.6%1.6×29 +28.0%
4Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 63.122.4%9.8×22 -28.1%
5McMaster UniversityCanada 63.031.7%5.3×17 -18.4%
6Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 62.436.3%7.8×17 +1.5%
7Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia 58.020.7%23.1×13 +14.9%
8University of CopenhagenDenmark 57.215.8%4.8×26 -32.3%
9Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 56.722.5%13.4×12 +364.5%
10Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 56.612.4%6.7×32 +1.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Muscle metabolism and nutrition, country by country

Is Muscle metabolism and nutrition research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Muscle metabolism and nutrition.

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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 Muscle metabolism and nutrition as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Muscle metabolism and nutrition0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Muscle metabolism and nutrition 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%Muscle metabolism and nutrition9.9% 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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