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Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies

Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 7.9k 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 research and properties of herbal medicines, particularly St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) and Garcinia mangostana. It covers topics such as the chemistry, pharmacology, clinical properties, and biological activities of natural compounds, including xanthones and phloroglucinol compounds. The cluster also explores the effectiveness of these natural compounds in treating conditions such as depression, cancer, and inflammation.

  • St John's Wort
  • Garcinia Mangostana
  • Xanthones
  • Antioxidant
  • Depression
  • Phloroglucinol Compounds
  • Apoptosis Induction
  • Hypericum Perforatum
  • Mangosteen Extracts
  • Chemopreventive Agents
Research works
7.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
789
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies

Which countries lead Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (413 and 255 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 413 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 255 works
  3. 3 India 217 works
  4. 4 United States 100 works
  5. 5 Thailand 82 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 79 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 77 works
  8. 8 Brazil 73 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 55 works
  10. 10 Iran 39 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: 29.7%Indonesia: 18.4%India: 15.6%United States: 7.2%6 others listed: 29.1%30%largest
China413 · 29.7%Indonesia255 · 18.4%India217 · 15.6%United States100 · 7.2%6 others listed405 · 29.1%

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

Which institutions lead Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research, followed by University of Pisa and Padjadjaran University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 23 works
  2. 2 University of PisaItaly 14 works
  3. 3 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 13 works
  4. 4 Kasetsart UniversityThailand 10 works
  5. 5 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 10 works
  6. 6 Andalas UniversityIndonesia 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 9 works
  8. 8 Prince of Songkla UniversityThailand 9 works
  9. 9 IPB UniversityIndonesia 9 works
  10. 10 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies include Amirhossein Sahebkar, John Joseph McGrath and Félix Dias Carvalho.

  1. 1 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  2. 2 John Joseph McGrath Australia 214k citations
  3. 3 Félix Dias Carvalho Portugal 174k citations
  4. 4 Stefan Lorkowski Germany 166k citations
  5. 5 Frank J. Gonzalez United States 153k citations
  6. 6 Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal United States 142k citations
  7. 7 Eduarda G. R. Fernandes Portugal 142k 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 Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies?

The most cited paper in Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies is "The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial" (Rob McCarney, James P. Warner, Steve Iliffe et al., 2007), with 1,749 citations. Next come "Ethnobotanical Studies of Reputed Aphrodisiac Plants Used in Traditional Medicine in Haut-Katanga in DR of Congo" (1,552) and "Essential oils: From extraction to encapsulation" (1,066).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial Rob McCarney, James P. Warner, Steve Iliffe et al. · BMC Medical Research Methodology Open access 3 Jul 2007 1,749
2 Ethnobotanical Studies of Reputed Aphrodisiac Plants Used in Traditional Medicine in Haut-Katanga in DR of Congo Dikala Otete François, Ngoy Kihuya Eddy, Maloba Mwinensenge James et al. · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access 19 Jun 2024 1,552
3 Essential oils: From extraction to encapsulation Abdelhafed El Asbahani, Karim Miladi, Waisudin Badri et al. · International Journal of Pharmaceutics 13 Feb 2015 1,066
4 Encapsulation Efficiency of Food Flavours and Oils during Spray Drying Seid Mahdi Jafari, Elham Assadpoor, Yinghe He et al. · Drying Technology 24 Jun 2008 1,058
5 Effect of the carriers on the microstructure of mango powder obtained by spray drying and its functional characterization Milton Nobel Cano-Chauca, Paulo César Stringheta, Afonso Mota Ramos et al. · Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies 20 Aug 2005 1,005
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Where is Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Bangkok (Thailand), Guangzhou (China) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bangkok.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 53 works
  2. 2 BangkokThailand 36 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 28 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 25 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 24 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 22 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 20 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 19 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 19 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BangkokTH · 36.2 works7.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Padjadjaran University, Prince of Songkla University and University of Pisa 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%10%20%mean 8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Padjadjaran UniversityHuazhong University …Prince of Songkla Un…University of Pisa
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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
1Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 77.116.5%8.4×13 -8.1%
2Prince of Songkla UniversityThailand 68.013.4%22.8×9 +91.5%
3University of PisaItaly 58.61.6%16.5×14 -
4Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 56.416.5%2.6×8 +19.2%
5Kasetsart UniversityThailand 48.23.2%29.2×10 +8.0%
6Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 43.610.1%5.0×9 -3.2%
7China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 37.18.9%20.4×8 -41.6%
8Andalas UniversityIndonesia 35.84.3%10.9×10 +78.6%
9IPB UniversityIndonesia 26.73.2%9.1×9 +6.4%
10Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 23.92.3%6.6×10 -39.1%

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 Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies, country by country

Is Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies.

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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 Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0070% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies0.0094% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies 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%Natural Compound Pharmacology Studies10.1% 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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