Research
The Global Matcha Research Library
641 papers, trials, theses and preprints that study matcha, gathered from PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC, tagged by study type and topic, and linked back to every source. We keep abstracts and citations; the full text stays with its publisher.
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6 studies match for “cultural relations”
La ceremonia del té japonesa : comunicación, performatividad e interculturalidad
Yamid Fuken Bernier… forms a fundamental part of social interactions and plays an important role in relations between cultures. In this degree project, I want to analyze the Japanese tea ceremony as a communicative practice. Analyzing the Japanese tea …
Other / not statedMarket, culture and sustainabilityProcessing, milling and qualityTea in the History of Japan's Global Interfaces
Robert I. Hellyer — Routledge eBooksHellyer uses the case of tea to illuminate Japan&s;s long global entanglements. Beginning with its eighth-century transmission from China, he tracks how practices like matcha and sencha emerged through technological borrowings and shifting…
Observational (human)Market, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensoryFenomena Konsumsi Minuman Jepang di Indonesia: Kajian Budaya Jepang terhadap Ketertarikan Konsumen
Felicia Nafftali Primastito, Rezki Fatimah, Fitri Alfarisy — DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)… to provide a descriptive overview of respondents’ perceptions regarding the relationship between Japanese culture and their interest in consuming Japanese beverages. The findings indicate that respondents associate their interest in …
ReviewMarket, culture and sustainabilityFood products and applicationsGathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period by Taka Oshikiri
Meghen Jones — Monumenta Nipponica… of chanoyu as “tea ceremony,” she defines it as “a highly formalized sociocultural activity elaborated from the consumption of powdered green tea (matcha)” and involving a “whole set of customs . . . organizing the space in which to …
Observational (human)Market, culture and sustainabilityProcessing, milling and qualityGathering for Tea in Modern Japan : Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period
Authors not listed — Bloomsbury Academic eBooks… for Tea in Modern Japan investigates the interactions between intellectual and cultural legacies of the Tokugawa period and the incoming influences of Western ideas, material cultures and institutions. It explores the construction of …
Other / not statedMarket, culture and sustainabilityHow this library is built
Every record comes from three open scholarly indexes — PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC — searched for the word “matcha.” Records are merged by DOI and PubMed ID so each study appears once. A paper is kept only if matcha appears in its title, abstract, author keywords or subject terms and the text is about tea or food, which filters out the surname Matcha, software called Matcha, and the Scandinavian verb “matcha” (to match).
Study type and topic tags are assigned automatically from each paper's own title, abstract and subject terms using fixed keyword rules — no guesses, and papers without an abstract are marked as unclassified. Automatic tagging is imperfect, so treat tags as a way to narrow a search, not as a verdict on a paper's quality. A study being listed here is not an endorsement of its findings.
Coverage: this is every indexed paper that names matcha, not every study of green tea or its compounds (those are far more numerous). Papers that mention matcha only in passing are hidden by default. Work that never uses the word “matcha,” and publications outside these indexes, are not included. The library was last rebuilt October 20, 2026.
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