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Plant-based Medicinal Research

Plant-based Medicinal Research is a research topic within Pharmacology. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 explores the pharmacology, toxicity, and potential therapeutic effects of Aconitum alkaloids, particularly in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It covers topics such as the phytochemistry, pharmacokinetics, cardiotoxicity, and anticancer effects of these alkaloids, as well as their metabolism and potential for herbal poisoning.

  • Aconitum Alkaloids
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Toxicity
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Diterpenoid Alkaloids
  • Herbal Poisoning
  • Phytochemistry
  • Cardiotoxicity
  • Anticancer Effects
  • Metabolism
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant-based Medicinal Research

Which countries lead Plant-based Medicinal Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 414 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 414 works
  3. 3 United States 258 works
  4. 4 Japan 93 works
  5. 5 Russia 79 works
  6. 6 South Korea 56 works
  7. 7 Iran 51 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 46 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 41 works
  10. 10 France 35 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: 52.7%India: 18.2%United States: 11.4%Japan: 4.1%6 others listed: 13.6%53%largest
China1,196 · 52.7%India414 · 18.2%United States258 · 11.4%Japan93 · 4.1%6 others listed307 · 13.6%

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

Which institutions lead Plant-based Medicinal Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine publishes the most Plant-based Medicinal Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 44 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 41 works
  3. 3 Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina 40 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina 24 works
  6. 6 University of CalicutIndia 23 works
  7. 7 National Institute of AyurvedaIndia 23 works
  8. 8 Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 22 works
  9. 9 Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina 21 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant-based Medicinal Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant-based Medicinal Research include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 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 Plant-based Medicinal Research?

The most cited paper in Plant-based Medicinal Research is "The Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine from Natural Products" (Hai-Dan Yuan, Qianqian Ma, Ye Li et al., 2016), with 2,460 citations. Next come "Identification of Pseudomonas pyocyanea by the Oxidase Reaction" (1,496) and "Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague" (1,251).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine from Natural Products Hai-Dan Yuan, Qianqian Ma, Ye Li et al. · Molecules Open access 29 Apr 2016 2,460
2 Identification of Pseudomonas pyocyanea by the Oxidase Reaction Nicholas Kovacs · Nature 29 Sep 1956 1,496
3 Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague Julian Parkhill et al. · Nature Open access Oct 2001 1,251
4 POLYMORPHIC HYDROXYLATION OF DEBRISOQUINE IN MAN Abdulrahman Mahgoub, L. Graham Dring, Jeffrey R. Idle et al. · The Lancet Sep 1977 1,189
5 Yersinia pestis , the cause of plague, is a recently emerged clone of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Mark Achtman, Kerstin Zurth, Giovanna Bobadilla Morelli et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 23 Nov 1999 1,135
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Where is Plant-based Medicinal Research research done?

The largest centres of Plant-based Medicinal Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Malappuram, Xianyang and Jaipur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 194 works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 84 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 64 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 63 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 49 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 40 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 36 works
  8. 8 KunmingChina 33 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 33 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MalappuramIN · 23.4 works60×
  2. XianyangCN · 20.7 works34×
  3. JaipurIN · 26.1 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant-based Medicinal Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant-based Medicinal Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine 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 16.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chengdu University o…Nanjing University o…Guangzhou University…Chinese Academy of M…
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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 92.132.2%71.8×44 +64.4%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 64.311.9%16.1×41 -17.2%
3Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina 60.012.4%40.9×24 +26.3%
4Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina 60.016.3%35.4×21 +14.9%
5Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina 59.312.3%70.3×40 -15.1%
6Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 58.516.4%31.1×20 +6.6%
7Shenyang Pharmaceutical UniversityChina 53.413.9%50.6×16 +18.8%
8Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina 53.416.5%23.9×14 +76.8%
9Shandong University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina 52.720.2%43.2×12 +120.5%
10Heilongjiang University of Chinese MedicineChina 50.410.1%56.6×12 +57.5%

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 Plant-based Medicinal Research, country by country

Is Plant-based Medicinal Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Plant-based Medicinal Research.

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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 Plant-based Medicinal Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Plant-based Medicinal Research 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%Plant-based Medicinal Research10.4% 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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