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Phytase and its Applications

Phytase and its Applications is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 explores the significance of phytic acid in nutrition and agriculture, focusing on its presence in food sources, impact on human nutrition, bioavailability, genetic and enzymatic manipulation, as well as its interaction with minerals. The research covers topics such as phytase production, myo-inositol metabolism, reduction of phytic acid in food grains, and the protective role of phytic acid against oxidative stress and cancer.

  • Phytic Acid
  • Phytase
  • myo-Inositol
  • Bioavailability
  • Seed Genetics
  • Nutritional Impact
  • Food Processing
  • Enzyme Engineering
  • Mineral Interaction
  • Plant Breeding
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Phytase and its Applications

Which countries lead Phytase and its Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (746 and 369 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 746 works
  2. 2 India 369 works
  3. 3 United States 219 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 147 works
  5. 5 Brazil 128 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 120 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 102 works
  8. 8 Russia 88 works
  9. 9 Egypt 73 works
  10. 10 Canada 72 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: 36.2%India: 17.9%United States: 10.6%Nigeria: 7.1%6 others listed: 28.2%36%largest
China746 · 36.2%India369 · 17.9%United States219 · 10.6%Nigeria147 · 7.1%6 others listed583 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Phytase and its Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Phytase and its Applications research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 65 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 49 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  4. 4 Nanchang UniversityChina 25 works
  5. 5 Jiangnan UniversityChina 22 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  7. 7 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 19 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 18 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Henan University of TechnologyChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phytase and its Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phytase and its Applications include Walter Churchill Willett, Jun Wang and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  4. 4 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  5. 5 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k 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 Phytase and its Applications?

The most cited paper in Phytase and its Applications is "Inositol trisphosphate and diacylglycerol as second messengers" (Michael John Berridge, 1984), with 3,535 citations. Next come "Use of Detergents in the Analysis of Fibrous Feeds. II. A Rapid Method for the Determination of Fiber and Lignin" (2,563) and "Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions" (2,526).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inositol trisphosphate and diacylglycerol as second messengers Michael John Berridge · Biochemical Journal Open access Jun 1984 3,535
2 Use of Detergents in the Analysis of Fibrous Feeds. II. A Rapid Method for the Determination of Fiber and Lignin P J Vax Soest · Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL Oct 1963 2,563
3 Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions Richard G. Burns, Jared L. DeForest, Jürgen Marxsen et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry 12 Dec 2012 2,526
4 Changes in the levels of inositol phosphates after agonist-dependent hydrolysis of membrane phosphoinositides Michael John Berridge, REX M. C. DAWSON, C. Peter Downes et al. · Biochemical Journal Open access 15 May 1983 1,968
5 Pulse proteins: Processing, characterization, functional properties and applications in food and feed Joyce I. Boye, Fatemeh Zare, Alison N. Pletch · Food Research International 12 Sep 2009 1,573
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Where is Phytase and its Applications research done?

The largest centres of Phytase and its Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuxi (China), Zhengzhou (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wuxi and Addis Ababa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 113 works
  2. 2 WuxiChina 42 works
  3. 3 ZhengzhouChina 35 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 33 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 33 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 32 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 30 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 30 works
  9. 9 Addis AbabaEthiopia 28 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WuxiCN · 42.3 works13×
  2. Addis AbabaET · 28.3 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phytase and its Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Phytase and its Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanchang University, Northeast Agricultural University and Wageningen University & Research 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%20%40%60%mean 27.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Nanchang UniversityWageningen Universit…Jiangnan 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
1Nanchang UniversityChina 89.432.4%11.1×25 +88.4%
2Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 73.948.5%18.0×14 +117.2%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 73.429.7%11.0×12 +46.2%
4Jiangnan UniversityChina 73.322.4%12.7×22 +51.3%
5University of ManitobaCanada 67.119.6%15.6×15 +53.0%
6Northwest A&F UniversityChina 62.424.7%11.5×13 +76.5%
7Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 62.331.5%15.9×10 +69.0%
8Jiangsu UniversityChina 58.230.7%3.8×9 +118.2%
9Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 55.527.8%11.3×11 +31.9%
10China Agricultural UniversityChina 55.112.4%10.0×16 +34.6%

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 Phytase and its Applications, country by country

Is Phytase and its Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Phytase and its Applications.

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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 Phytase and its Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Phytase and its Applications0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Phytase and its Applications 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%Phytase and its Applications10.6% 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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