Table 6.
Top 20 most cited articles on citrus waste and animal feed research from 1961 to 2020.
| S/N | References | Journal name | Article title | Total citations | TC per year | Normalized TC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xu et al. (2007) | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | Effect of heat treatment on the phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity of citrus peel extract | 280 | 18.66 | 6.08 |
| 2 | Mandalari et al. (2007) | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Antimicrobial activity of flavonoids extracted from bergamot (Citrus bergamia Risso) peel, a byproduct of the essential oil industry | 230 | 15.33 | 5 |
| 3 | Ramful et al. (2011) | Food Research International | Polyphenol composition, vitamin C content and antioxidant capacity of Mauritian citrus fruit pulps | 179 | 16.27 | 5.78 |
| 4 | Hameed et al. (2008) | Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects | Sorption of basic dye from aqueous solution by pomelo (Citrus grandis) peel in a batch system | 175 | 12.50 | 5.98 |
| 5 | Kyriazakis and Emmans (1995) | British Journal of Nutrition | The voluntary feed intake of pigs given feeds based on wheat bran, dried citrus pulp and grass meal, in relation to measurements of feed bulk | 157 | 5.81 | 1.83 |
| 6 | Ashgar and Bhati (2012) | Ecological Engineering | Evaluation of thermodynamics and effect of chemical treatments on sorption potential of Citrus waste biomass for removal of anionic dyes from aqueous solutions | 154 | 15.40 | 5.73 |
| 7 | Trebitsh et al. (1993) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | Ethylene induces de novo synthesis of chlorophyllase, a chlorophyll degrading enzyme, in Citrus fruit peel | 153 | 5.27 | 1.83 |
| 8 | Shakoor and Nasar (2016) | Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers | Removal of methylene blue dye from artificially contaminated water using citrus limetta peel waste as a very low cost adsorbent | 138 | 23 | 8.67 |
| 9 | Dutta et al. (2011) | Desalination | Application of response surface methodology for preparation of low-cost adsorbent from citrus fruit peel and for removal of methylene blue | 131 | 11.90 | 4.23 |
| 10 | Qiao et al. (2008) | Molecules | Characterization of aroma active compounds in fruit juice and peel oil of jinchen sweet orange fruit [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] by GC-MS and GC-O | 127 | 9.07 | 4.34 |
| 11 | Malisch (2000) | Chemosphere | Increase of the PCDD/F-contamination of milk, butter, and meat samples by use of contaminated citrus pulp | 122 | 5.54 | 2.16 |
| 12 | Sunvold et al. (1995) | Journal of Animal Science | In vitro fermentation of cellulose, beet pulp, citrus pulp, and citrus pectin using fecal inoculum from cats, dogs, horses, humans, and pigs and ruminal fluid from cattle | 114 | 4.22 | 1.33 |
| 13 | Xu et al. (2008) | Journal of Food Sciences | Minerals, phenolic compounds, and antioxidant capacity of citrus peel extract by hot water | 109 | 7.78 | 3.72 |
| 14 | Kamal et al. (2011) | International Food Research Journal | Yield and chemical composition of Citrus essential oils as affected by drying pretreatment of peels | 105 | 9.54 | 3.39 |
| 15 | Fagbohungbe et al. (2016) | Bioresource Technology | Impact of biochar on the anaerobic digestion of citrus peel waste | 97 | 16.16 | 6.09 |
| 16 | Lagha-Benamrouchea and Madani (2013) | Industrial Crops and Products | Phenolic contents and antioxidant activity of orange varieties (Citrus sinensis L. and Citrus aurantium L.) cultivated in Algeria: peels and leaves | 95 | 10.55 | 4.30 |
| 17 | Schiewer and Patil (2008) | Journal of Hazardous Materials | Modeling the effect of pH on biosorption of heavy metals by citrus peels | 92 | 6.57 | 3.14 |
| 18 | Acar et al. (2015) | Aquaculture | Evaluation of the effects of essential oil extracted from sweet orange peel (Citrus sinensis) on growth rate of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) and possible disease resistance against Streptococcus iniae | 91 | 13 | 5.06 |
| 19 | Garcia-Castello et al. (2015) | Lebensmittel-Wissenschaft and Technologie | Optimization of conventional and ultrasound assisted extraction of flavonoids from grapefruit (Citrus paradisi L.) solid wastes | 88 | 12.57 | 4.89 |
| 20 | Wu et al. (2014) | Journal of Experimental Botany | An integrative analysis of the transcriptome and proteome of the pulp of a spontaneous late-ripening sweet orange mutant and its wild type improves our understanding of fruit ripening in citrus | 86 | 10.75 | 5 |