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Fruit Growing Institute

In research, Fruit Growing Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#10,140 of 11,023 worldwide) and Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#4,775 of 5,126 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Plant Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Life Sciences (Plant Science is 29.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#34,416
of 34,923
Rank in Bulgaria
#82
of 89
Research works
212
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.7k
8.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.80×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Fruit Growing Institute

What is Fruit Growing Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Life SciencesDomain #10,140 of 11,023 1.6%181
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #4,775 of 5,126 1.7%152

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Fruit Growing Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Fruit Growing Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Fruit Growing Institute is in Life Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (69%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Environmental Science (4%). It does 4.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 40 fractional works · 79.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 35 fractional works · 69.4% of its workPlant Science: 26 fractional works · 51.8% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 6.6% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFruit GrowingInstitute51fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences79%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences7%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3569.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology59.6%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Environmental Science23.9%
    2. Engineering11.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.0%
    4. Chemistry00.8%
    5. Materials Science00.3%
    1. Psychology12.6%
    2. Social Sciences11.8%
    3. Decision Sciences01.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.9%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine23.8%
    2. Health Professions11.1%
    3. Nursing01.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Fruit Growing Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Plant Science takes 29.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Plant ScienceSubfield · 26.3 works30×
  2. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 35.3 works15×
  3. Life SciencesDomain · 40.2 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 14.60× its world share, 35 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.80× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.78× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 2.01× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.86× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 14.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.60×35 works
  2. Nursing2.01×0 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.80×5 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.02×0 works
  5. Psychology0.86×1 works
  6. Environmental Science0.78×2 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.63×0 works
  8. Chemistry0.52×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.41×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.41×0 works
  11. Medicine0.20×2 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.14×1 works
  14. Engineering0.13×1 works
  15. Neuroscience0.10×0 works
  16. Materials Science0.08×0 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Fruit Growing Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Bill Lingren, Elena Iurea and Claudia Nicola lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Fruit Growing Institute.

  1. 1 Bill Lingren Bulgaria · #3,534,979 worldwide 311 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Elena Iurea Bulgaria · #3,893,216 worldwide 58 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Claudia Nicola Bulgaria · #4,070,976 worldwide 60 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 L. E. Long Bulgaria · #4,539,354 worldwide 61 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Monica Sturzeanu Bulgaria · #4,552,417 worldwide 134 citations · 44 works
  6. 6 V. Petre Bulgaria · #4,673,220 worldwide 15 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Eugenia Mareși Bulgaria · #4,763,615 worldwide 29 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Svetoslav Malchev Bulgaria · #4,769,363 worldwide 108 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Valentina Bozhkova Bulgaria · #4,848,040 worldwide 13 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Irina Staneva Bulgaria · #4,857,698 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Fruit Growing Institute

What are the most cited papers from Fruit Growing Institute?

The most cited paper from Fruit Growing Institute is "Main quality attributes and antioxidants in Hungarian sour cherries: identification of genotypes with enhanced functional properties" (Nóra Papp, Blanka Szilvássy, László Abrankó et al., 2010), with 83 citations. Next come "The antimicrobial activity of fruits from some cultivar varieties of Rubus idaeus and Rubus occidentalis" (73) and "Measuring, monitoring and improving the quality of massreared Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata Wied." (63).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Main quality attributes and antioxidants in Hungarian sour cherries: identification of genotypes with enhanced functional properties Nóra Papp, Blanka Szilvássy, László Abrankó et al. · International Journal of Food Science & Technology 25 Jan 2010 83
2 The antimicrobial activity of fruits from some cultivar varieties of Rubus idaeus and Rubus occidentalis Mirosława Krauze‐Baranowska, Magdalena Majdan, Rafał Hałasa et al. · Food & Function 2014 73
3 Measuring, monitoring and improving the quality of massreared Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata Wied. E. F. Boller, Byron Katsoyannos, U. Remund et al. · Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 12 Jan 1981 63
4 Different extraction processes affect the metabolites in blue honeysuckle(Loniceracaerulea L. subsp. edulis) food products Mateja Šenica, Franci Štampar, Maja Mikulič-Petkovšek · TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY Open access 10 Sep 2019 55
5 Floral traits affecting fire blight infection and management Ágnes Farkas, Erzsébet Mihalik, László Dorgai et al. · Trees Open access 7 Oct 2011 51
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Fruit Growing Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Nutrient Uptake, Rootstock, Dormancy, Fruit Trees, Genetics, Transcriptome Analysis and Grapevine.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change14▲ 10×9 topics
  2. Nutrient Uptake8▲ 240×2 topics
  3. Rootstock8▲ 276×2 topics
  4. Dormancy7▲ 396×1 topic
  5. Fruit Trees7▲ 396×1 topic
  6. Genetics6▲ 17×2 topics
  7. Grapevine5▲ 269×2 topics
  8. Transcriptome Analysis5▲ 174×2 topics
  9. Anthocyanins5▲ 144×1 topic
  10. Wine Quality5▲ 305×1 topic
  11. Horticultural Crops4▲ 85×3 topics
  12. Biological Control3▲ 36×5 topics
  13. Aroma Compounds2▲ 54×2 topics
  14. Plant Hormones2▲ 78×2 topics
  15. Pest Management2▲ 54×3 topics
  16. Biotechnology2▲ 48×3 topics
  17. Ethylene Biosynthesis2▲ 145×1 topic
  18. Fruit Ripening2▲ 145×1 topic
  19. Genetic Regulation2▲ 27×2 topics
  20. Biodiversity2▲ 5.2×4 topics
  21. Gene Expression2▲ 6.4×4 topics
  22. Genome Sequencing2▲ 24×3 topics
  23. Population Dynamics2▲ 15×3 topics
  24. Host Specificity2▲ 32×2 topics
  25. Crop Productivity2▲ 49×2 topics
  26. Invasive Species2▲ 7.7×2 topics
  27. Pollen Tube Growth2▲ 144×1 topic
  28. Self-Incompatibility2▲ 144×1 topic
  29. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation2▲ 75×1 topic
  30. Fruit Quality2▲ 119×2 topics
  31. Genetic Mapping2▲ 38×3 topics
  32. Phylogenetic Analysis2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  33. Plant Secondary Metabolites2▲ 41×1 topic
  34. Food Security1▲ 5.2×3 topics
  35. Phenolic Compounds1▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Plant Immunity1▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Blueberry1▲ 313×1 topic
  38. Microbiota1▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Soil Fertility1▲ 11×5 topics
  40. Strawberry1▲ 313×1 topic

Which research topics does Fruit Growing Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management and Plant Reproductive Biology.

Plant Physiology and Cul…7Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies: 7 fractional worksHorticultural and Viticu…5Horticultural and Viticultural Research: 5 fractional worksPostharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management: 2 fractional worksPlant Reproductive Biology: 2 fractional worksPlant tissue culture and…2Plant tissue culture and regeneration: 2 fractional worksBerry genetics and cultivation research: 1 fractional worksPlant Virus Research Studies: 1 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases: 1 fractional worksOrganic Food and Agriculture: 1 fractional worksIrrigation Practices and Water Management: 1 fractional works
Plant ScienceMolecular BiologyCell BiologySoil Science

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies Plant Science 7 works
  2. 2 Horticultural and Viticultural Research Plant Science 5 works
  3. 3 Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management Plant Science 2 works
  4. 4 Plant Reproductive Biology Molecular Biology 2 works
  5. 5 Plant tissue culture and regeneration Molecular Biology 2 works
  6. 6 Berry genetics and cultivation research Plant Science 1 works
  7. 7 Plant Virus Research Studies Plant Science 1 works
  8. 8 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 1 works
  9. 9 Organic Food and Agriculture Plant Science 1 works
  10. 10 Irrigation Practices and Water Management Soil Science 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available75.0%not open25.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.0%domestic only69.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Fruit Growing Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Fruit Growing Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Fruit Growing Institute0.00016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fruit Growing Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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