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Phytochemistry and Biological Activities

Phytochemistry and Biological Activities is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the phytochemistry, biological activities, and medicinal uses of various plants, including their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It covers a wide range of compounds such as iridoids, phenylethanoids, flavonoids, and their potential applications in traditional Chinese medicine.

  • Medicinal Plants
  • Phytochemistry
  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Iridoids
  • Phenylethanoids
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Ethnopharmacology
  • Flavonoids
  • Biological Activities
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Phytochemistry and Biological Activities

Which countries lead Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 950 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 950 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 400 works
  4. 4 Iran 224 works
  5. 5 Vietnam 199 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 190 works
  7. 7 United States 187 works
  8. 8 Brazil 179 works
  9. 9 Russia 168 works
  10. 10 South Korea 164 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: 42.1%India: 20.7%Türkiye: 8.7%Iran: 4.9%6 others listed: 23.6%42%largest
China1,937 · 42.1%India950 · 20.7%Türkiye400 · 8.7%Iran224 · 4.9%6 others listed1,087 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Ilia State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 131 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 58 works
  3. 3 Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 58 works
  4. 4 State Museum of Natural History KarlsruheGermany 56 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 54 works
  6. 6 Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 44 works
  7. 7 Vietnam Academy of Science and TechnologyVietnam 39 works
  8. 8 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 39 works
  9. 9 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 38 works
  10. 10 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phytochemistry and Biological Activities?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phytochemistry and Biological Activities include Jun Wang, Heng Li and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  7. 7 David M. Pereira Portugal 183k citations
  8. 8 Barry B. Halliwell United Kingdom 179k citations
  9. 9 Félix Dias Carvalho Portugal 174k 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 Phytochemistry and Biological Activities?

The most cited paper in Phytochemistry and Biological Activities is "Biological effects of essential oils – A review" (Fadil Bakkali, Simone Averbeck, Dietrich Averbeck et al., 2007), with 7,885 citations. Next come "Plant Phenolics: Extraction, Analysis and Their Antioxidant and Anticancer Properties" (4,484) and "Flavonoid antioxidants: chemistry, metabolism and structure-activity relationships" (4,216).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biological effects of essential oils – A review Fadil Bakkali, Simone Averbeck, Dietrich Averbeck et al. · Food and Chemical Toxicology Open access Oct 2007 7,885
2 Plant Phenolics: Extraction, Analysis and Their Antioxidant and Anticancer Properties Jin Dai, Russell J. Mumper · Molecules Open access 21 Oct 2010 4,484
3 Flavonoid antioxidants: chemistry, metabolism and structure-activity relationships Kelly E Heim, Anthony R. Tagliaferro, Dennis J. Bobilya · The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry Oct 2002 4,216
4 Flavonoids: a review of probable mechanisms of action and potential applications Robert J. Nijveldt, Els van Nood, Danny EC van Hoorn et al. · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Open access Oct 2001 3,083
5 Antioxidant activity and phenolic compounds of 112 traditional Chinese medicinal plants associated with anticancer Yi‐Zhong Cai, Qiong Luo, Mei Sun et al. · Life Sciences Open access 12 Jan 2004 2,833
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Where is Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research done?

The largest centres of Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Kunming (China), Guangzhou (China) and Hanoi (Vietnam). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Thái Nguyên, Port Elizabeth and Tbilisi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 284 works
  2. 2 KunmingChina 98 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 92 works
  4. 4 HanoiVietnam 80 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 78 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 73 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 71 works
  8. 8 TbilisiGeorgia 66 works
  9. 9 ShenyangChina 63 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Thái NguyênVN · 25.9 works31×
  2. Port ElizabethZA · 22.0 works28×
  3. TbilisiGE · 65.7 works21×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phytochemistry and Biological Activities than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Phytochemistry and Biological Activities?

Among universities, judged by research, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, King Saud University and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah 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%20%40%mean 19.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Agricu…Chengdu University o…King Saud UniversitySidi Mohamed Ben Abd…
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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
1Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 76.330.6%19.9×33 +80.6%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 73.521.6%6.0×39 +63.1%
3Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco 64.419.2%9.9×18 +51.2%
4University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-NapocaRomania 62.631.2%23.2×8 +31.6%
5Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 61.022.5%4.7×11 +162.1%
6University of Novi SadSerbia 60.022.1%6.3×13 +23.9%
7Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 57.710.6%52.8×44 +20.0%
8Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 57.20.0%114.3×58 +8.6%
9Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 55.216.4%8.8×18 +60.2%
10Heilongjiang University of Chinese MedicineChina 54.719.3%39.6×23 +73.0%

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 Phytochemistry and Biological Activities, country by country

Is Phytochemistry and Biological Activities research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Phytochemistry and 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 Phytochemistry and Biological Activities as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Phytochemistry and 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%Phytochemistry and 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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