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Natural Products and Biological Research is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 9.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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  • Policosanol
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Perilla frutescens
  • Lipid-lowering
  • Nutritional significance
  • AMP-Kinase activation
  • Phytochemical profile
  • Anti-inflammatory effects
  • Antioxidant activity
  • Non-centrifugal sugar
Research works
9.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
966
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Natural Products and Biological Research

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Natural Products and Biological Research research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (353 and 232 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 353 works
  2. 2 China 232 works
  3. 3 Mexico 147 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 104 works
  5. 5 United States 90 works
  6. 6 Brazil 71 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 69 works
  8. 8 Colombia 60 works
  9. 9 South Korea 57 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 47 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.

India: 28.7%China: 18.8%Mexico: 11.9%Indonesia: 8.5%6 others listed: 32.1%29%largest
India353 · 28.7%China232 · 18.8%Mexico147 · 11.9%Indonesia104 · 8.5%6 others listed394 · 32.1%

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

Which institutions lead Natural Products and Biological Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Natural Products and Biological Research research, followed by Colegio de Postgraduados and Tecnológico Nacional de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 46 works
  2. 2 Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 22 works
  3. 3 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 15 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 13 works
  5. 5 Guangxi UniversityChina 11 works
  6. 6 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 10 works
  7. 7 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 9 works
  8. 8 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 9 works
  9. 9 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 8 works
  10. 10 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Natural Products and Biological Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Natural Products and Biological Research include Walter Churchill Willett, JoAnn E. Manson and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Ridker United States 233k citations
  5. 5 Deepak L. Bhatt United States 227k citations
  6. 6 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 218k citations
  7. 7 Maciej Banach Poland 204k 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 Products and Biological Research?

The most cited paper in Natural Products and Biological Research is "Primary Prevention of Acute Coronary Events With Lovastatin in Men and Women With Average Cholesterol Levels" (John R. Downs, Michael B. Clearfield, Stephen E. Weis et al., 1998), with 5,297 citations. Next come "Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis" (4,053) and "Pro-resolving lipid mediators are leads for resolution physiology" (3,047).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Primary Prevention of Acute Coronary Events With Lovastatin in Men and Women With Average Cholesterol Levels John R. Downs, Michael B. Clearfield, Stephen E. Weis et al. · JAMA 27 May 1998 5,297
2 Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Claire Bombardier, Loren Laine, Alise S. Reicin et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Nov 2000 4,053
3 Pro-resolving lipid mediators are leads for resolution physiology Charles Nicholas Serhan · Nature Open access 3 Jun 2014 3,047
4 A MODIFIED COLORIMETRIC METHOD FOR THE ESTIMATION OF N-ACETYLAMINO SUGARS José L. Reissig, Jack L. Strominger, Luis Federico Leloir · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Dec 1955 2,591
5 Vascular and upper gastrointestinal effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: meta-analyses of individual participant data from randomised trials N Bhala · The Lancet Open access 29 May 2013 1,809
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Where is Natural Products and Biological Research research done?

The largest centres of Natural Products and Biological Research research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Coimbatore (India), Beijing (China) and Bogotá (Colombia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 31 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 29 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 25 works
  4. 4 BogotáColombia 20 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 20 works
  6. 6 MontecilloMexico 17 works
  7. 7 GuayaquilEcuador 17 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 17 works
  9. 9 GizaEgypt 15 works
  10. 10 NanningChina 15 works
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Where is the best place to study Natural Products and Biological Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi University, Colegio de Postgraduados and Tamil Nadu Agricultural 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 6.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi UniversityTamil Nadu Agricultu…Northeast Forestry U…Colegio de Postgradu…
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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
1Guangxi UniversityChina 63.931.2%11.1×11 +65.7%
2Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 50.20.0%101.8×22 +67.7%
3Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 24.64.2%28.6×10 +48.9%
4Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 22.63.1%19.3×9 +158.2%
5Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 17.10.0%34.5×8 +32.5%
6Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 13.80.2%31.4×9 +43.7%

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 Natural Products and Biological Research, country by country

Is Natural Products and Biological Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Natural Products and Biological Research.

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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 Products and Biological Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0084% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Natural Products and Biological Research 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.

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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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