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Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the field of nutritional genomics, focusing on personalized nutrition and health. It explores nutrigenomics, genetic variation, diet-gene interactions, precision medicine, metabolic syndrome, public health implications, behavior change, chronic diseases, and ethical issues related to genetic-based personalized nutrition. The research aims to understand how genetic information can be utilized to tailor dietary recommendations for individuals and its impact on health outcomes.

  • Nutrigenomics
  • Personalized Nutrition
  • Genetic Variation
  • Diet-Gene Interactions
  • Precision Medicine
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Public Health
  • Behavior Change
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Ethical Issues
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Which countries lead Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 700 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 700 works
  3. 3 India 521 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 370 works
  5. 5 Russia 314 works
  6. 6 Germany 223 works
  7. 7 Brazil 199 works
  8. 8 Italy 191 works
  9. 9 Spain 176 works
  10. 10 Australia 150 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: 37.5%China: 15.4%India: 11.4%United Kingdom: 8.1%6 others listed: 27.5%38%largest
United States1,708 · 37.5%China700 · 15.4%India521 · 11.4%United Kingdom370 · 8.1%6 others listed1,254 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 91 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 72 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 61 works
  4. 4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 36 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 31 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 21 works
  9. 9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease include Ahmedin Jemal, Freddie Bray and Eric S. Lander.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
  3. 3 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  4. 4 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  7. 7 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  8. 8 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  9. 9 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  10. 10 Peer Bork Germany 396k 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 Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease?

The most cited paper in Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease is "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America" (John E. Dowling, George Wald, 2009), with 18,068 citations. Next come "UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age" (13,925) and "Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue" (13,483).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America John E. Dowling, George Wald · Nutrition Reviews 27 Apr 2009 18,068
2 UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age Cathie L. M. Sudlow, John Gallacher, Naomi E. Allen et al. · PLoS Medicine Open access 31 Mar 2015 13,925
3 Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue Yiying Zhang, Ricardo Proenca, Margherita Maffei et al. · Nature Dec 1994 13,483
4 A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing Junjie Qin et al. · Nature Open access Mar 2010 11,892
5 Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline Michael F. Holick, Neil Binkley, Heike Annette Bischoff-Ferrari et al. · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Open access 7 Jun 2011 10,622
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Where is Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research done?

The largest centres of Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 136 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 118 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 117 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 90 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 75 works
  6. 6 Chapel HillUnited States 64 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 56 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 55 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 54 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 63.8 works5.0×
  2. BethesdaUS · 40.1 works4.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Wageningen University & Research and University of Reading 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%30%mean 19.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…University of ReadingHarvard UniversityDeakin 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 87.020.3%4.6×91 +11.3%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 69.021.9%6.5×15 +37.5%
3University of ReadingUnited Kingdom 68.621.6%10.5×12 +40.4%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 63.416.8%4.8×13 +140.4%
5Universidade de São PauloBrazil 62.023.5%1.7×21 +15.4%
6Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 54.918.2%2.2×21 +12.5%
7Nanchang UniversityChina 54.227.8%1.8×8 +308.8%
8University of California, DavisUnited States 53.614.5%3.8×19 +43.9%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 53.012.3%2.0×20 +32.5%
10University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 52.417.9%2.1×15 +32.5%

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 Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, country by country

Is Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease.

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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 Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease 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%Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease10.9% 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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