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Phytochemical compounds biological activities

Phytochemical compounds biological activities is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the bioactive properties of limonoids, triterpenes, and related compounds found in medicinal plants. The research covers their anticancer, antimalarial, and antioxidant activities, as well as their potential pharmacological uses. The papers also delve into the chemistry and pharmacology of these natural compounds.

  • Limonoids
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Bioactivity
  • Triterpenes
  • Anticancer
  • Antimalarial
  • Pharmacology
  • Chemistry
  • Quassinoids
  • Flavaglines
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Phytochemical compounds biological activities

Which countries lead Phytochemical compounds biological activities research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (825 and 390 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 825 works
  2. 2 India 390 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 260 works
  4. 4 Brazil 155 works
  5. 5 United States 133 works
  6. 6 Japan 72 works
  7. 7 South Korea 64 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 62 works
  9. 9 Egypt 60 works
  10. 10 Thailand 58 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: 39.7%India: 18.8%Indonesia: 12.5%Brazil: 7.4%6 others listed: 21.6%40%largest
China825 · 39.7%India390 · 18.8%Indonesia260 · 12.5%Brazil155 · 7.4%6 others listed449 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Phytochemical compounds biological activities research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Phytochemical compounds biological activities research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Padjadjaran University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 27 works
  3. 3 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 18 works
  5. 5 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 17 works
  6. 6 Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 15 works
  7. 7 IPB UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  8. 8 Vietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyVietnam 14 works
  9. 9 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 13 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phytochemical compounds biological activities?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phytochemical compounds biological activities include Amirhossein Sahebkar, Hua Zhang and David Julian McClements.

  1. 1 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  2. 2 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  3. 3 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  4. 4 David M. Pereira Portugal 183k citations
  5. 5 Kenneth Carl Anderson United States 171k citations
  6. 6 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k 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 Phytochemical compounds biological activities?

The most cited paper in Phytochemical compounds biological activities is "Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs from 1981 to 2014" (David J. Newman, Gordon M. L. Cragg, 2016), with 5,967 citations. Next come "Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities" (5,395) and "Natural products: A continuing source of novel drug leads" (2,925).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs from 1981 to 2014 David J. Newman, Gordon M. L. Cragg · Journal of Natural Products Open access 7 Feb 2016 5,967
2 Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities Atanas G. Atanasov et al. · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ReviewOpen access 28 Jan 2021 5,395
3 Natural products: A continuing source of novel drug leads Gordon M. L. Cragg, David J. Newman · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects Open access 18 Feb 2013 2,925
4 Potent and specific inhibition of mammalian histone deacetylase both in vivo and in vitro by trichostatin A. Minoru Yoshida, Masako Kijima, Motomu Akita et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Oct 1990 1,869
5 Drug discovery from medicinal plants Marcy J. Balunas, Alan Douglas Kinghorn · Life Sciences 30 Sep 2005 1,823
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Where is Phytochemical compounds biological activities research done?

The largest centres of Phytochemical compounds biological activities research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guiyang and Kunming.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 108 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 51 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 36 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 33 works
  5. 5 KunmingChina 32 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 32 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 30 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 29 works
  9. 9 ShenyangChina 26 works
  10. 10 GuiyangChina 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuiyangCN · 25.2 works6.4×
  2. KunmingCN · 32.5 works5.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phytochemical compounds biological activities than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Phytochemical compounds biological activities?

Among universities, judged by research, Padjadjaran University, King Saud University and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College 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 12.29%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Saud UniversityChinese Academy of M…Guizhou UniversityPadjadjaran 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
1Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 73.110.9%11.5×26 +34.7%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 72.613.3%4.8×12 +119.0%
3Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 67.513.2%6.6×18 +15.7%
4Guizhou UniversityChina 59.711.9%8.7×12 +391.9%
5Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 57.212.6%12.7×10 +81.8%
6China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 57.023.2%18.1×10 -60.3%
7Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 54.410.3%46.0×15 +7.5%
8Northwest A&F UniversityChina 54.49.8%12.4×13 +3.8%
9Saveetha UniversityIndia 53.715.0%3.7×9 -
10IPB UniversityIndonesia 39.42.7%10.0×15 +64.1%

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 Phytochemical compounds biological activities, country by country

Is Phytochemical compounds biological activities research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Phytochemical compounds biological activities.

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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 Phytochemical compounds biological activities as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Phytochemical compounds biological activities 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%Phytochemical compounds biological activities10.2% 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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