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Radiation Effects and Dosimetry

Radiation Effects and Dosimetry is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 14k 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 history, current status, and future prospects of food irradiation, covering topics such as irradiation effects on food safety, EPR dosimetry for radiation detection, microbial decontamination, antioxidant activity, and consumer acceptance. It also delves into the regulatory considerations and quality characteristics of irradiated foods.

  • Food Irradiation
  • Irradiation Effects
  • Food Safety
  • EPR Dosimetry
  • Microbial Decontamination
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Consumer Acceptance
  • Gamma Irradiation
  • Quality Characteristics
  • Regulatory Considerations
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radiation Effects and Dosimetry

Which countries lead Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (152 and 141 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 152 works
  2. 2 China 141 works
  3. 3 Russia 111 works
  4. 4 India 86 works
  5. 5 Brazil 80 works
  6. 6 Japan 54 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 52 works
  8. 8 Egypt 41 works
  9. 9 South Korea 40 works
  10. 10 Italy 34 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.

United States: 19.2%China: 17.8%Russia: 14.0%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 38.0%19%largest
United States152 · 19.2%China141 · 17.8%Russia111 · 14.0%India86 · 10.9%6 others listed301 · 38.0%

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

Which institutions lead Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research, followed by Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority and Department of Atomic Energy.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 29 works
  2. 2 Egyptian Atomic Energy AuthorityEgypt 14 works
  3. 3 Department of Atomic EnergyIndia 14 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  5. 5 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 9 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 7 works
  7. 7 Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e NuclearesBrazil 7 works
  8. 8 National Nuclear Energy CommissionBrazil 7 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 6 works
  10. 10 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radiation Effects and Dosimetry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radiation Effects and Dosimetry include Michaël Grätzel.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k 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 Radiation Effects and Dosimetry?

The most cited paper in Radiation Effects and Dosimetry is "Revised methods for the Salmonella mutagenicity test" (Dorothy M. Maron, Bruce N. Ames, 1983), with 7,400 citations. Next come "Dose-Response Analysis Using R" (3,885) and "A technique for the quantitative evaluation of dose distributions" (2,895).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revised methods for the Salmonella mutagenicity test Dorothy M. Maron, Bruce N. Ames · Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects Mar 1983 7,400
2 Dose-Response Analysis Using R Christian Ritz, Florent Baty, Jens Carl Streibig et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 30 Dec 2015 3,885
3 A technique for the quantitative evaluation of dose distributions Daniel A. Low, William B. Harms, Sasa Mutic et al. · Medical Physics May 1998 2,895
4 Applications of ultrasound in food technology: Processing, preservation and extraction Farid Chemat, Zill-e-Huma, Muhammad Kamran Khan · Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 17 Dec 2010 2,531
5 Resonant Formation of DNA Strand Breaks by Low-Energy (3 to 20 eV) Electrons Badia Boudaı̈ffa, Pierre Cloutier, Darel John Hunting et al. · Science 3 Mar 2000 2,267
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Where is Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research done?

The largest centres of Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Cairo (Egypt) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cairo and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 60 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 29 works
  3. 3 CairoEgypt 22 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 20 works
  5. 5 MumbaiIndia 20 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 15 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 15 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 11 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 11 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CairoEG · 22.3 works7.3×
  2. MoscowRU · 60.4 works4.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radiation Effects and Dosimetry than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radiation Effects and Dosimetry?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State 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.

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
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 10.05.4%9.1×9 +78.3%

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 Radiation Effects and Dosimetry, country by country

Is Radiation Effects and Dosimetry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Radiation Effects and Dosimetry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0049% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Radiation Effects and Dosimetry0.0051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Radiation Effects and Dosimetry 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.

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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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