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Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Polysaccharides Composition and Applications is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 31k 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 production, properties, and applications of hydrocolloids, particularly in food and biomedical fields. It covers a wide range of hydrocolloids such as xanthan gum, guar gum, gellan gum, pullulan, konjac glucomannan, and locust bean gum. The papers discuss their rheological properties, microbial production, antioxidant activity, molecular structure, and various food and biomedical applications.

  • Hydrocolloids
  • Thickening Agents
  • Gelling Agents
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Food Applications
  • Rheological Properties
  • Exopolysaccharides
  • Microbial Production
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Molecular Structure
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Which countries lead Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.5k and 887 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 India 887 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 527 works
  4. 4 United States 340 works
  5. 5 Brazil 283 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 245 works
  7. 7 Iran 223 works
  8. 8 Mexico 170 works
  9. 9 France 142 works
  10. 10 Spain 130 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: 46.3%India: 16.2%Indonesia: 9.6%United States: 6.2%6 others listed: 21.7%46%largest
China2,545 · 46.3%India887 · 16.2%Indonesia527 · 9.6%United States340 · 6.2%6 others listed1,193 · 21.7%

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

Which institutions lead Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research, followed by Nanchang University and Jiangnan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 118 works
  2. 2 Nanchang UniversityChina 104 works
  3. 3 Jiangnan UniversityChina 71 works
  4. 4 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 58 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 51 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 50 works
  7. 7 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 46 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  9. 9 Henan University of TechnologyChina 43 works
  10. 10 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Polysaccharides Composition and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Polysaccharides Composition and Applications include Róbert Langer, Kai You Wang and Hongjie Dai.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Hongjie Dai United States 189k citations
  4. 4 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  5. 5 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  6. 6 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations
  7. 7 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  8. 8 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Polysaccharides Composition and Applications?

The most cited paper in Polysaccharides Composition and Applications is "Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the walls during growth" (Nicholas C. Carpita, David M. Gibeaut, 1993), with 3,493 citations. Next come "Growth of the plant cell wall" (3,348) and "Biological interactions between polysaccharides and divalent cations: The egg‐box model" (2,893).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the walls during growth Nicholas C. Carpita, David M. Gibeaut · The Plant Journal Open access 1993 3,493
2 Growth of the plant cell wall Daniel J. Cosgrove · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review Nov 2005 3,348
3 Biological interactions between polysaccharides and divalent cations: The egg‐box model Gregor T. Grant, Edwin R. Morris, David Allan Rees et al. · FEBS Letters Open access 15 May 1973 2,893
4 Modeling of drug release from delivery systems based on hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) Juergen Siepmann · Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 11 Jun 2001 2,608
5 Pectin structure and biosynthesis Debra Mohnen · Current Opinion in Plant Biology 16 May 2008 2,455
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuxi (China), Wuhan (China) and Harbin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wuxi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 272 works
  2. 2 WuxiChina 149 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 136 works
  4. 4 HarbinChina 116 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 111 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 93 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 83 works
  8. 8 ZhengzhouChina 83 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 75 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WuxiCN · 149.0 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Polysaccharides Composition and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeast Agricultural University, Nanchang University and China Agricultural 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 26.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…China Agricultural U…Nanchang UniversityWageningen Universit…
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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
1Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 84.441.5%31.7×58 +233.7%
2Nanchang UniversityChina 78.323.4%19.7×104 +41.1%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 67.626.5%10.0×39 +21.2%
4Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 65.822.7%9.9×25 +58.4%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 65.724.6%5.6×31 +55.0%
6Jiangnan UniversityChina 64.215.5%17.3×71 +66.1%
7Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 64.020.9%19.8×46 +79.2%
8University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 62.937.8%6.2×15 +57.2%
9Northwest A&F UniversityChina 61.322.0%9.4×26 +30.4%
10Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.026.9%24.0×29 +284.2%

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 Polysaccharides Composition and Applications, country by country

Is Polysaccharides Composition and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Polysaccharides Composition and 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 Polysaccharides Composition and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Polysaccharides Composition and 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%Polysaccharides Composition and Applications10.1% 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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