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Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications

Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 4.9k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the nutritional composition, health benefits, and bioactive compounds of Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) fruit. It covers topics such as flavonoids, antioxidant activity, triterpenoids, phenolic compounds, saponins, amino acids, and genomic analysis, highlighting the potential medicinal and functional food applications of Jujube fruit.

  • Jujube Fruit
  • Nutritional Composition
  • Health Benefits
  • Flavonoids
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Triterpenoids
  • Phenolic Compounds
  • Saponins
  • Amino Acids
  • Genomic Analysis
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
501
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+64%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications

Which countries lead Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (489 and 201 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 489 works
  2. 2 India 201 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 151 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 55 works
  5. 5 United States 49 works
  6. 6 South Korea 44 works
  7. 7 Iran 43 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 33 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 30 works
  10. 10 Iraq 29 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: 43.5%India: 17.8%Indonesia: 13.4%Nigeria: 4.9%6 others listed: 20.4%43%largest
China489 · 43.5%India201 · 17.8%Indonesia151 · 13.4%Nigeria55 · 4.9%6 others listed230 · 20.4%

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

Which institutions lead Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research, followed by Hebei Agricultural University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications include Jun Wang and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 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 Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications?

The most cited paper in Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications is "Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China" (Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang et al., 2004), with 1,098 citations. Next come "Anti-inflammatory effects of compounds alpha-humulene and (−)-trans-caryophyllene isolated from the essential oil of Cordia verbenacea" (596) and "The Jujube (Ziziphus Jujuba Mill.) Fruit: A Review of Current Knowledge of Fruit Composition and Health Benefits" (571).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 8 Dec 2004 1,098
2 Anti-inflammatory effects of compounds alpha-humulene and (−)-trans-caryophyllene isolated from the essential oil of Cordia verbenacea Elizabeth Soares Fernandes, Giselle Fazzioni Passos, Rodrigo Medeiros et al. · European Journal of Pharmacology 24 May 2007 596
3 The Jujube (Ziziphus Jujuba Mill.) Fruit: A Review of Current Knowledge of Fruit Composition and Health Benefits Qinghan Gao, Chunsen Wu, Min Wang · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 13 Mar 2013 571
4 Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antiviral Properties of Herbal Materials Shokoh Parham, Anousheh Zargar Kharazi, Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi‐Rad et al. · Antioxidants Open access 21 Dec 2020 536
5 A Comprehensive Review on the Biological, Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Properties of Secondary Metabolites Based-Plant Origin Hazem S. Elshafie, Ippolito Camele, Amira Ahmed Mohamed · International Journal of Molecular Sciences Open access 7 Feb 2023 438
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Where is Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Baoding (China), Guangzhou (China) and Changchun (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 71 works
  2. 2 BaodingChina 18 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 18 works
  4. 4 ChangchunChina 17 works
  5. 5 ÜrümqiChina 16 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 16 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 15 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 15 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 14 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 13 works
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Where is the best place to study Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, Hebei Agricultural University and Shanxi Agricultural University score highest, combining citation 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 21.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F Univer…Hebei Agricultural U…Shanxi Agricultural …Tarim 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.

Citation 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
1Northwest A&F UniversityChina 79.534.7%20.4×10 +205.5%
2Hebei Agricultural UniversityChina 70.126.2%92.1×15 +215.3%
3Shanxi Agricultural UniversityChina 43.223.9%57.8×9 +192.8%
4Tarim UniversityChina 31.98.1%122.0×10 +704.1%
5Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 28.116.6%6.2×8 +267.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications, country by country

Is Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 64% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ziziphus Jujuba Studies 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 Ziziphus Jujuba Studies and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ziziphus Jujuba Studies 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.

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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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