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Sodium Intake and Health

Sodium Intake and Health is a research topic within Nutrition and Dietetics. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of dietary sodium on health, with a focus on hypertension, cardiovascular disease, salt reduction, immune system response, and the role of potassium intake. The research covers various aspects such as blood pressure regulation, inflammation, and public health implications.

  • Hypertension
  • Sodium Intake
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Salt Reduction
  • Blood Pressure
  • Immune System
  • Potassium Intake
  • Inflammation
  • Public Health
  • Dietary Approaches
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sodium Intake and Health

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Sodium Intake and Health research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (796 and 652 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 796 works
  2. 2 China 652 works
  3. 3 Japan 205 works
  4. 4 India 183 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 141 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 135 works
  7. 7 South Korea 106 works
  8. 8 Australia 101 works
  9. 9 Brazil 95 works
  10. 10 Italy 80 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: 31.9%China: 26.1%Japan: 8.2%India: 7.4%6 others listed: 26.4%32%largest
United States796 · 31.9%China652 · 26.1%Japan205 · 8.2%India183 · 7.4%6 others listed658 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Sodium Intake and Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, Vanderbilt University publishes the most Sodium Intake and Health research, followed by Harvard University and Augusta University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 38 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 32 works
  3. 3 Augusta UniversityUnited States 23 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 21 works
  5. 5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 The George Institute for Global HealthAustralia 18 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 18 works
  8. 8 Capital Medical UniversityChina 16 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 16 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sodium Intake and Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sodium Intake and Health include Christopher J L Murray, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  8. 8 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  9. 9 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  10. 10 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k 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 Sodium Intake and Health?

The most cited paper in Sodium Intake and Health is "The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure The JNC 7 Report" (Aram V. Chobanian, 2003), with 25,591 citations. Next come "2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension" (10,602) and "Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (9,961).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure The JNC 7 Report Aram V. Chobanian · JAMA 20 May 2003 25,591
2 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension Bryan Williams et al. · European Heart Journal Open access211 authors 25 Aug 2018 10,602
3 Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Christopher J L Murray et al. · The Lancet Open access940 authors Oct 2020 9,961
4 Global burden of hypertension: analysis of worldwide data Patricia M. Kearney, Megan Whelton, Kristi Reynolds et al. · The Lancet 2005 7,745
5 A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure Lawrence J. Appel, Thomas J. Moore, Eva Obarzanek et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Apr 1997 6,008
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Where is Sodium Intake and Health research done?

The largest centres of Sodium Intake and Health research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Seoul (South Korea) and Nashville (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Augusta, Nashville and New Orleans.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 114 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  4. 4 NashvilleUnited States 49 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 48 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 36 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 35 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 33 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AugustaUS · 23.9 works24×
  2. NashvilleUS · 49.1 works14×
  3. New OrleansUS · 20.8 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sodium Intake and Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sodium Intake and Health?

Among universities, judged by research, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins 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 18.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Johns Hopkins Univer…Vanderbilt UniversityHarvard University
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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
1Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 77.818.4%15.9×38 +35.2%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.817.7%3.0×32 +16.7%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 62.320.4%3.9×20 -4.4%
4Central South UniversityChina 60.434.0%1.7×11 +486.3%
5Tulane UniversityUnited States 58.618.8%17.0×14 +4.5%
6Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 55.914.6%6.1×21 +67.5%
7UNSW SydneyAustralia 54.716.0%4.3×13 +46.5%
8Capital Medical UniversityChina 49.317.0%4.6×16 +28.8%
9Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States 48.324.1%10.2×8 +169.6%
10Augusta UniversityUnited States 48.07.4%37.6×23 +6.4%

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 Sodium Intake and Health, country by country

Is Sodium Intake and Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sodium Intake and Health.

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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 Sodium Intake and Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sodium Intake and Health 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%Sodium Intake and Health10.1% 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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