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Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging

Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging is a research topic within Biomaterials. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the properties and diverse applications of chitin and chitosan, including their use in biomedical applications, antimicrobial properties, food packaging, nanocomposites, biomaterials, biodegradable polymers, tissue engineering, and as antioxidants.

  • Chitin
  • Chitosan
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Antimicrobial
  • Food Packaging
  • Nanocomposites
  • Biomaterials
  • Biodegradable Polymers
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Antioxidant
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging

Which countries lead Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.9k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.6k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 660 works
  4. 4 Brazil 517 works
  5. 5 Iran 482 works
  6. 6 United States 414 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 359 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 317 works
  9. 9 Egypt 289 works
  10. 10 Thailand 281 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: 36.7%India: 21.0%Indonesia: 8.4%Brazil: 6.6%6 others listed: 27.3%37%largest
China2,880 · 36.7%India1,648 · 21.0%Indonesia660 · 8.4%Brazil517 · 6.6%6 others listed2,142 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 105 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 87 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  4. 4 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 62 works
  5. 5 Jiangnan UniversityChina 59 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 59 works
  7. 7 Saveetha UniversityIndia 55 works
  8. 8 National Research CentreEgypt 54 works
  9. 9 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 53 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging include Kai You Wang, Lei Jiang and Hongjie Dai.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Hongjie Dai United States 189k citations
  4. 4 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  5. 5 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  6. 6 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k citations
  7. 7 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k citations
  8. 8 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging?

The most cited paper in Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging is "Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications" (Marguerite Rinaudo, 2006), with 8,231 citations. Next come "A review of chitin and chitosan applications" (6,029) and "Review on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Antibacterial Activity and Toxicity Mechanism" (4,606).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications Marguerite Rinaudo · Progress in Polymer Science Jul 2006 8,231
2 A review of chitin and chitosan applications Majeti N. V. Ravi Kumar · Reactive and Functional Polymers Nov 2000 6,029
3 Review on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Antibacterial Activity and Toxicity Mechanism Amna Hassan Sirelkhatim, Shahrom Mahmud, Azman Seeni et al. · Nano-Micro Letters Open access 18 Apr 2015 4,606
4 Nanocelluloses: A New Family of Nature‐Based Materials Dieter Klemm, Friederike Krämer, Sebastian Moritz et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 20 May 2011 4,473
5 TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibers Akira Isogai, Tsuguyuki Saito, Hayaka Fukuzumi · Nanoscale 19 Oct 2010 3,184
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Where is Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research done?

The largest centres of Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Tehran (Iran) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tezpur, Hermosillo and Urmia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 306 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 159 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 146 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 144 works
  5. 5 BangkokThailand 143 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 126 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 116 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 112 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 109 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 108 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TezpurIN · 25.3 works19×
  2. HermosilloMX · 20.8 works14×
  3. UrmiaIR · 27.6 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging?

Among universities, judged by research, Kyung Hee University, Jiangsu University and Northwest A&F 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%60%mean 26.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Karnatak UniversityJiangsu UniversityKyung Hee UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 79.034.3%9.6×41 +28.7%
2Jiangsu UniversityChina 78.137.6%6.0×49 +142.1%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 65.925.0%9.6×38 +105.2%
4Karnatak UniversityIndia 63.948.1%22.8×10 +31.3%
5Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 63.126.1%14.6×39 +140.0%
6Nanchang UniversityChina 60.419.6%6.4×49 +59.6%
7Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.821.5%21.9×39 +314.1%
8Saveetha UniversityIndia 58.613.9%5.6×55 +1534.1%
9Jiangnan UniversityChina 58.313.4%9.8×59 +58.6%
10China Agricultural UniversityChina 57.921.0%6.2×35 +134.1%

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 Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging, country by country

Is Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging.

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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 Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging0.052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging 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%Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging9.8% 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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