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Health promoting properties of bee royal jelly: Food of the queens

Publicated to:Nutrients. 13 (2): 1-26 - 2021-02-01 13(2), DOI: 10.3390/nu13020543

Authors: Collazo N; Carpena M; Nuñez‐estevez B; Otero P; Simal‐gandara J; Prieto MA

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Instituto Politecnico de Braganca - Author
Universidade de Vigo - Author
‎ Inst Politecn Braganca, Ctr Invest Montanha CIMO, Campus Santa Apolonia, P-5300253 Braganca, Portugal - Author
‎ Univ Vigo, Nutr & Bromatol Grp, Dept Analyt & Food Chem, Fac Food Sci & Technol, Ourense Campus, E-32004 Orense, Spain - Author

Abstract

Royal jelly (RJ) demand is growing every year and so is the market for functional foods in general. RJ is formed by different substances, mainly carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, but also vitamins, minerals, and phenolic or volatile compounds in lower proportion. Major royal jelly proteins (MRJP) are, together with 10‐hydroxy‐2‐decenoic acid (10‐HDA), key substances of RJ due to their different biological properties. In particular, 10‐HDA is a unique substance in this product. RJ has been historically employed as health enhancer and is still very relevant in China due to the traditional medicine and the apitherapy. Nowadays, it is mainly consumed as a functional food or is found in supplements and other formulations for its health‐beneficial properties. Within these properites, anti‐lipidemic, antioxidant, antiproliferative, antimicrobial, neuroprotective, anti‐inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antiaging, and estrogenic activities have been reported for RJ or its specific components. This manuscript is aimed at reviewing the current knowledge on RJ components, their assessment in terms of authenticity, their biological activities, and related health applications.

Keywords

10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acidauthenticitybiological propertieshealth applicationsmain proteins of royal jelly10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid10‐hydroxy‐2‐decenoic acidAuthenticityBiological propertiesHealth applicationsMain proteins of royal jellyRoyal jelly

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Nutrients due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 15/90, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Nutrition & Dietetics.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 5.6. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 6.33 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 34.58 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-07, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 57
  • Scopus: 69

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-07:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 189.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 189 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 36.1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 13 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 4 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Portugal.