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Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies is a research topic within Sensory Systems. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 explores the various aspects of olfactory dysfunction, including its association with COVID-19, neurological implications, neural processing, and the impact on quality of life. It covers topics such as anosmia, olfactory receptors, pheromones, taste disorders, and the role of the olfactory system in health and disease.

  • Olfactory Dysfunction
  • COVID-19
  • Olfactory System
  • Anosmia
  • Olfactory Receptors
  • Neural Processing
  • Pheromones
  • Taste Disorders
  • Neurological Implications
  • Quality of Life
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Which countries lead Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 1.5k works
  3. 3 Japan 630 works
  4. 4 Germany 457 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 384 works
  6. 6 India 361 works
  7. 7 Italy 341 works
  8. 8 France 335 works
  9. 9 South Korea 283 works
  10. 10 Brazil 226 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: 25.9%China: 24.1%Japan: 10.4%Germany: 7.6%6 others listed: 32.0%26%largest
United States1,566 · 25.9%China1,457 · 24.1%Japan630 · 10.4%Germany457 · 7.6%6 others listed1,931 · 32.0%

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

Which institutions lead Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research, followed by Harvard University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 98 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 45 works
  4. 4 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 44 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 41 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 The University of TokyoJapan 35 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 33 works
  9. 9 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 32 works
  10. 10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies include George Davey Smith, Jun Wang and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 John Q. Trojanowski United States 286k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  9. 9 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  10. 10 Hans C. Clevers Netherlands 260k 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 Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies?

The most cited paper in Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies is "Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential" (Margaret M. Bradley, Peter J. Lang, 1994), with 9,653 citations. Next come "The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework" (6,855) and "Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments" (5,933).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential Margaret M. Bradley, Peter J. Lang · Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry Mar 1994 9,653
2 The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework Stephen Kaplan · Journal of Environmental Psychology Sep 1995 6,855
3 Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments Roger S. Ulrich, Robert F. Simons, Barbara D. Losito et al. · Journal of Environmental Psychology Sep 1991 5,933
4 A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel · Cell Open access Apr 1991 5,046
5 Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations Hannah Davis, Lisa McCorkell, Julia Moore Vogel et al. · Nature Reviews Microbiology ReviewOpen access 13 Jan 2023 4,321
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Where is Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research done?

The largest centres of Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dijon and Dresden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 257 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 202 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 133 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 128 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 110 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 103 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 82 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 80 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 79 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DijonFR · 22.7 works10×
  2. DresdenDE · 47.1 works6.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Technology and Business University, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard 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.

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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
1Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 78.750.3%14.3×23 +244.1%
2Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 58.014.9%3.2×38 +12.4%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.317.3%1.9×46 -12.0%
4Technische Universität DresdenGermany 54.94.7%10.5×44 +0.6%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 53.525.1%2.3×25 -49.1%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53.124.8%1.3×28 +24.7%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 50.419.0%2.4×29 -13.8%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 49.515.7%1.6×33 +72.9%
9University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 47.813.5%3.8×30 -7.9%
10Columbia UniversityUnited States 45.415.5%2.2×19 +16.4%

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 Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, country by country

Is Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Olfactory and Sensory Function 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 Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Olfactory and Sensory Function 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%Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies10.2% 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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