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Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds

Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds is a research topic within Aquatic Science. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 bioactive compounds found in seaweed, particularly their functional food applications and potential health benefits. It covers a wide range of topics including antioxidant activity, sulfated polysaccharides, fucoidan, and the nutritional value of marine algae.

  • Seaweed
  • Bioactive Compounds
  • Functional Food
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Sulfated Polysaccharides
  • Fucoidan
  • Marine Algae
  • Nutritional Value
  • Phlorotannins
  • Health Benefits
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+47%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds

Which countries lead Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.7k and 644 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 India 644 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 377 works
  4. 4 South Korea 278 works
  5. 5 United States 220 works
  6. 6 Japan 145 works
  7. 7 Portugal 144 works
  8. 8 Egypt 144 works
  9. 9 Brazil 143 works
  10. 10 Spain 140 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: 42.5%India: 16.6%Indonesia: 9.7%South Korea: 7.2%6 others listed: 24.1%43%largest
China1,654 · 42.5%India644 · 16.6%Indonesia377 · 9.7%South Korea278 · 7.2%6 others listed936 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ocean University of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 72 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  3. 3 Ocean University of ChinaChina 64 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  5. 5 Saveetha UniversityIndia 43 works
  6. 6 Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 41 works
  8. 8 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 37 works
  9. 9 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 27 works
  10. 10 Nanchang UniversityChina 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds include JoAnn E. Manson, Amirhossein Sahebkar and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  2. 2 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 218k citations
  5. 5 David Julian McClements United States 185k 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 Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds?

The most cited paper in Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds is "Marine natural products" (D. J. Faulkner, 1990), with 4,883 citations. Next come "Recognition of Commensal Microflora by Toll-Like Receptors Is Required for Intestinal Homeostasis" (4,278) and "Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation" (2,116).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Marine natural products D. J. Faulkner · Natural Product Reports 1990 4,883
2 Recognition of Commensal Microflora by Toll-Like Receptors Is Required for Intestinal Homeostasis Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Justin C. Paglino, Fatima Eslami-Varzaneh et al. · Cell Open access Jul 2004 4,278
3 Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation Susan Løvstad Holdt, Stefan Kraan · Journal of Applied Phycology Open access 7 Feb 2011 2,116
4 COMPLEMENTARY CHROMATIC ADAPTATION IN A FILAMENTOUS BLUE-GREEN ALGA Allen Bennett, Lawrence Bogorad · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access Aug 1973 1,772
5 Algae as nutritional and functional food sources: revisiting our understanding Mark L. Wells, Philippe Potin, James S. Craigie et al. · Journal of Applied Phycology Book chapterOpen access 21 Nov 2016 1,566
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Where is Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research done?

The largest centres of Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research in 2022-now are Qingdao (China), Beijing (China), Chennai (India) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jeju City, Vladivostok and Zhanjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 QingdaoChina 155 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 149 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 107 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 89 works
  5. 5 DalianChina 70 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 67 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 63 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 61 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 57 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jeju CityKR · 21.6 works29×
  2. VladivostokRU · 39.7 works22×
  3. ZhanjiangCN · 29.1 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Coimbra, Ocean University of China and Saveetha 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 18.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of CoimbraNanchang UniversitySaveetha UniversityOcean University of …
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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
1University of CoimbraPortugal 66.921.3%7.1×18 +73.2%
2Ocean University of ChinaChina 64.09.1%25.1×64 +55.2%
3Saveetha UniversityIndia 62.511.6%8.8×43 +778.4%
4Nanchang UniversityChina 62.416.4%6.8×26 +99.4%
5Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 60.318.2%21.8×26 +343.5%
6Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 59.927.0%8.3×11 +289.0%
7Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.511.8%46.5×41 +197.1%
8Universidade de VigoSpain 57.513.2%15.9×20 +8.6%
9Jiangsu UniversityChina 57.232.2%2.8×11 -2.6%
10University of AveiroPortugal 55.922.3%8.3×14 -16.8%

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 Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds, country by country

Is Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds.

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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 Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds 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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