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Pharmacological Effects and Assays

Pharmacological Effects and Assays is a research topic within Animal Science and Zoology. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 effects, detection, and adverse consequences of beta-adrenergic agonists, such as clenbuterol, ractopamine, and zilpaterol, in livestock. The research covers topics such as their impact on meat quality, performance, and the development of detection methods including immunoassays and electrochemical sensors.

  • Clenbuterol
  • Ractopamine
  • Zilpaterol
  • Meat Quality
  • Livestock
  • Performance
  • Detection
  • Immunoassay
  • Electrochemical Sensor
  • Adverse Effects
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pharmacological Effects and Assays

Which countries lead Pharmacological Effects and Assays research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (380 and 371 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 380 works
  2. 2 United States 371 works
  3. 3 India 162 works
  4. 4 Egypt 93 works
  5. 5 Brazil 89 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 63 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 61 works
  8. 8 Germany 53 works
  9. 9 Italy 49 works
  10. 10 Iraq 49 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: 27.7%United States: 27.1%India: 11.8%Egypt: 6.8%6 others listed: 26.5%28%largest
China380 · 27.7%United States371 · 27.1%India162 · 11.8%Egypt93 · 6.8%6 others listed364 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Pharmacological Effects and Assays research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Pharmacological Effects and Assays research, followed by Cairo University and Iowa State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 21 works
  2. 2 Cairo UniversityEgypt 14 works
  3. 3 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  4. 4 Kansas State UniversityUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 China Agricultural UniversityChina 10 works
  6. 6 University of California, DavisUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 9 works
  8. 8 University of MosulIraq 9 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 9 works
  10. 10 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pharmacological Effects and Assays?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pharmacological Effects and Assays include Cyrus Cooper, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Piotr P. Ponikowski Poland 253k 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 Pharmacological Effects and Assays?

The most cited paper in Pharmacological Effects and Assays is "The open field as a paradigm to measure the effects of drugs on anxiety-like behaviors: a review" (Laetitia Prut, Catherine Belzung, 2003), with 3,236 citations. Next come "Decreased Catecholamine Sensitivity and β-Adrenergic-Receptor Density in Failing Human Hearts" (2,284) and "The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction" (1,970).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The open field as a paradigm to measure the effects of drugs on anxiety-like behaviors: a review Laetitia Prut, Catherine Belzung · European Journal of Pharmacology Feb 2003 3,236
2 Decreased Catecholamine Sensitivity and β-Adrenergic-Receptor Density in Failing Human Hearts Michael R. Bristow, Robert Ginsburg, Wayne A. Minobe et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 22 Jul 1982 2,284
3 The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction Hugh Esmor Huxley · Science 20 Jun 1969 1,970
4 Genetics of Mouse Behavior: Interactions with Laboratory Environment John C. Crabbe, Douglas Wahłsten, Bruce C. Dudek · Science 4 Jun 1999 1,704
5 Effect of Inhaled Formoterol and Budesonide on Exacerbations of Asthma ROMAIN A. PAUWELS, Claes-Göran Löfdahl, Dirkje Sjoukje Postma et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 13 Nov 1997 1,524
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Where is Pharmacological Effects and Assays research done?

The largest centres of Pharmacological Effects and Assays research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Cairo (Egypt), Giza (Egypt) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cairo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 65 works
  2. 2 CairoEgypt 25 works
  3. 3 GizaEgypt 20 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 19 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 19 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 17 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 16 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 16 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 16 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CairoEG · 24.6 works4.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pharmacological Effects and Assays than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pharmacological Effects and Assays?

Among universities, judged by research, Cairo University, China Agricultural University and Iowa State 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.

0%10%20%mean 6.9875%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Mansoura UniversityChina Agricultural U…Cairo UniversityIowa State 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
1Cairo UniversityEgypt 80.812.9%9.4×14 +39.1%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 70.917.4%9.4×10 +4.2%
3Iowa State UniversityUnited States 63.20.5%16.5×12 +55.6%
4Mansoura UniversityEgypt 60.118.1%9.5×8 +66.9%
5University of California, DavisUnited States 52.24.4%6.4×10 +60.1%
6Kansas State UniversityUnited States 39.00.0%25.2×11 -37.9%
7University of MosulIraq 27.90.0%13.3×9 +38.2%
8Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 13.62.6%2.5×8 -50.6%

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 Pharmacological Effects and Assays, country by country

Is Pharmacological Effects and Assays research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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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 Pharmacological Effects and Assays as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0089% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Pharmacological Effects and Assays0.0081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pharmacological Effects and Assays 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%Pharmacological Effects and Assays10.4% 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.

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