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Gansu Agricultural University

In research, Gansu Agricultural University stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#45 of 3,409 worldwide), Plant Science (#22 of 1,395 worldwide) and Agronomy and Crop Science (#9 of 121 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science and Soil Science — Agronomy and Crop Science is 16.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,363
of 28,054 · #3,897 all time
Rank in China
#404
of 3,058
Research works
9.7k
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Citations
84k
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
38%
world 28%

What is Gansu Agricultural University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #45 of 3,409 42.8%1,361 #249
Plant ScienceSubfield #22 of 1,395 47.7%789 #221
Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield #9 of 121 40.0%118 #91
Life SciencesDomain #648 of 7,800 37.2%2,008 #1898
Environmental ScienceField #436 of 3,551 31.0%305 #1254
Soil ScienceSubfield #18 of 139 37.5%134 #103
Physical SciencesDomain #1,899 of 12,888 25.9%689 #4889
Food ScienceSubfield #74 of 492 35.4%146 #412
Molecular BiologySubfield #347 of 2,175 25.7%348 #1457
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #740 of 3,579 25.7%567 #2365

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gansu Agricultural University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#249 #45
  2. Plant Science#221 #22
  3. Agronomy and Crop Science#91 #9
  4. Life Sciences#1,898 #648
  5. Environmental Science#1,254 #436
  6. Soil Science#103 #18
  7. Physical Sciences#4,889 #1,899
  8. Food Science#412 #74
  9. Molecular Biology#1,457 #347
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#2,365 #740
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Gansu Agricultural University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Agronomy and Crop Science takes 16.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 117.6 works16×
  2. Plant ScienceSubfield · 788.6 works15×
  3. Soil ScienceSubfield · 133.8 works15×
  4. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 1,360.8 works9.4×
  5. BiochemistrySubfield · 34.1 works9.1×
  6. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 59.8 works8.9×
  7. Food ScienceSubfield · 145.8 works6.3×
← 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: 9.43× its world share, 1,361 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.50× its world share, 567 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.53× its world share, 47 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 16 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.58× its world share, 17 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.59× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.93× its world share, 44 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 48 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 39 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.56× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 153 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.02× its world share, 305 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.63× its world share, 67 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 228 worksMedicineNursing: 2.38× its world share, 35 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.47× its world share, 10 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 9 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 31 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Gansu Agricultural University?

Ranked on the composite score, Qiang Chai, Fang Hua and Li Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gansu Agricultural University.

  1. 1 Qiang Chai China · #370,571 worldwide 109 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Fang Hua China · #399,681 worldwide 64 citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Li Li China · #445,525 worldwide 95 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Guang Li China · #449,566 worldwide 73 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Qi Wang China · #476,998 worldwide 53 citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Junlian Zhang China · #488,869 worldwide 35 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Aizhong Yu China · #498,619 worldwide 80 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Weiwei Wu China · #534,293 worldwide 87 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Yi Wang China · #538,528 worldwide 43 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Fuqiang Li China · #543,340 worldwide 70 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at Gansu Agricultural University

Which keywords describe research at Gansu Agricultural University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gene Expression, Climate Change, Antioxidants, Oxidative Stress, Metabolism, Reactive Oxygen Species, Drought Resistance and Transcription Factors.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change337▲ 4.1×61 topics
  2. Gene Expression256▲ 14×17 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress242▲ 4.9×51 topics
  4. Antioxidants218▲ 16×14 topics
  5. Metabolism145▲ 9.3×27 topics
  6. Reactive Oxygen Species137▲ 11×13 topics
  7. Drought Resistance135▲ 46×4 topics
  8. Transcription Factors133▲ 37×5 topics
  9. Signal Transduction133▲ 30×6 topics
  10. Abiotic Stress122▲ 57×2 topics
  11. Plant Responses118▲ 49×2 topics
  12. Salt Tolerance112▲ 76×1 topic
  13. Stress Signaling112▲ 76×1 topic
  14. Epigenetic Regulation108▲ 16×5 topics
  15. Cancer106▲ 2.6×42 topics
  16. Regulation99▲ 6.0×12 topics
  17. Genetic Regulation99▲ 20×5 topics
  18. Microbial Communities96▲ 7.4×10 topics
  19. MicroRNA93▲ 25×2 topics
  20. Antioxidant Activity91▲ 4.7×28 topics
  21. Ecosystem Functioning86▲ 15×7 topics
  22. Development80▲ 7.6×9 topics
  23. Soil Fertility79▲ 11×7 topics
  24. Plant Development79▲ 42×3 topics
  25. Anthocyanins79▲ 38×2 topics
  26. Rhizosphere Interactions77▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Horticultural Crops76▲ 33×3 topics
  28. Auxin73▲ 52×1 topic
  29. Plant73▲ 52×1 topic
  30. Land Use Change71▲ 7.7×8 topics
  31. Soil Carbon Sequestration70▲ 31×2 topics
  32. Biochar Application68▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Nutrient Limitation67▲ 21×2 topics
  34. Nitrogen Cycle67▲ 35×1 topic
  35. Organic Matter Dynamics67▲ 35×1 topic
  36. Gut Microbiota66▲ 6.2×7 topics
  37. Modified Atmosphere Packaging63▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Phosphorus61▲ 23×3 topics
  39. Metabolic Pathways60▲ 38×3 topics
  40. Nitrate60▲ 35×2 topics

Which research topics does Gansu Agricultural University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance: 112 fractional worksPlant Molecular Biology Research: 73 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen…67Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 67 fractional worksPlant nutrient uptake an…58Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism: 58 fractional worksPlant Gene Expression Analysis: 52 fractional worksPlant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity: 50 fractional worksPhotosynthetic Processes…40Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms: 40 fractional worksIrrigation Practices and Water Management: 35 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 32 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 32 fractional works
Plant ScienceSoil ScienceMolecular BiologyAgronomy and Crop Science1 others

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

  1. 1 Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance Plant Science 112 works
  2. 2 Plant Molecular Biology Research Plant Science 73 works
  3. 3 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 67 works
  4. 4 Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism Plant Science 58 works
  5. 5 Plant Gene Expression Analysis Molecular Biology 52 works
  6. 6 Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity Plant Science 50 works
  7. 7 Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms Molecular Biology 40 works
  8. 8 Irrigation Practices and Water Management Soil Science 35 works
  9. 9 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 32 works
  10. 10 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 32 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 available37.7%not open62.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.1%domestic only92.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Gansu Agricultural University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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