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Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of pesticides use in agriculture, covering topics such as pesticide exposure, associated human health effects, environmental impact, risk assessment, neurotoxicity, chronic diseases, organophosphates, and chemical warfare agents. The papers discuss the benefits and hazards of pesticides use, their effects on food safety and security, as well as the urgent need for new concepts in agriculture to address the issues related to pesticide usage.

  • Pesticides
  • Exposure
  • Health Effects
  • Environmental Impact
  • Risk Assessment
  • Neurotoxicity
  • Chronic Diseases
  • Organophosphates
  • Food Safety
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Which countries lead Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (854 and 613 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 854 works
  2. 2 China 613 works
  3. 3 India 519 works
  4. 4 Brazil 384 works
  5. 5 France 202 works
  6. 6 Egypt 143 works
  7. 7 Iran 142 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 137 works
  9. 9 Germany 121 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 108 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: 26.5%China: 19.0%India: 16.1%Brazil: 11.9%6 others listed: 26.5%26%largest
United States854 · 26.5%China613 · 19.0%India519 · 16.1%Brazil384 · 11.9%6 others listed853 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research, followed by Inserm and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 35 works
  2. 2 InsermFrance 33 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 29 works
  5. 5 Columbia UniversityUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 University of ArizonaUnited States 28 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 28 works
  8. 8 Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 Lund UniversitySweden 26 works
  10. 10 Research Institute for Fragrance MaterialsUnited States 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity include Jun Wang, Matthias Egger and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k 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 Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity?

The most cited paper in Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity is "Free radicals in biology and medicine" (J. M. C. Gutteridge, 1991), with 17,218 citations. Next come "The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase" (9,109) and "Oxygen-Derived Free Radicals in Postischemic Tissue Injury" (5,459).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Free radicals in biology and medicine J. M. C. Gutteridge · General Pharmacology The Vascular System 1991 17,218
2 The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase Hara Prasad Misra, Irwin Fridovich · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access May 1972 9,109
3 Oxygen-Derived Free Radicals in Postischemic Tissue Injury Franklin H. Epstein, Joe M. McCord · New England Journal of Medicine 17 Jan 1985 5,459
4 The occurrence of superoxide anion in the reaction of reduced phenazine methosulfate and molecular oxygen Morimitsu Nishikimi, N. Appaji Rao, Kunio Yagi · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 1972 4,097
5 Impact of pesticides use in agriculture: their benefits and hazards Md. Wasim Aktar, Dwaipayan Sengupta, Ashim Chowdhury · Interdisciplinary Toxicology Open access Mar 2009 3,586
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research done?

The largest centres of Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Woodcliff Lake, Wurzburg and Lund.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 122 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 66 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 61 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 50 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 49 works
  6. 6 GizaEgypt 38 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 37 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 36 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 35 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Woodcliff LakeUS · 25.4 works418×
  2. WurzburgDE · 24.7 works14×
  3. LundSE · 29.0 works8.7×
  4. PortlandUS · 28.2 works8.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity?

Among universities, judged by research, Columbia University, Lund University and Universidade de São Paulo 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 10.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade de São …University of MichiganColumbia UniversityLund 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.

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
1Columbia UniversityUnited States 58.71.7%5.9×28 +21.3%
2Lund UniversitySweden 57.21.5%10.6×26 +17.4%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 55.42.8%4.0×35 +27.8%
4University of MichiganUnited States 55.02.8%4.4×29 +19.8%
5University of ArizonaUnited States 54.90.9%9.9×28 +39.7%
6China Agricultural UniversityChina 54.933.8%4.1×10 -16.6%
7Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 53.515.4%5.0×13 +20.8%
8Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 52.71.1%18.2×26 +20.0%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 52.023.7%1.2×11 +127.3%
10University of BelgradeSerbia 52.025.1%3.4×10 +47.6%

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 Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity, country by country

Is Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity.

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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 Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity 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%Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity10.4% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads pesticide research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity research, followed by Inserm and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (854 and 613 works in 2022-now).

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