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Malaysian Palm Oil Board

In research, Malaysian Palm Oil Board stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,902 of 10,670 worldwide), Life Sciences (#4,219 of 6,403 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,214 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology (Ecology is 17.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,804
of 22,385 · #12,685 all time
Rank in Malaysia
#70
of 124
Research works
1.4k
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
31k
22.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.84×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
48%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Malaysian Palm Oil Board

What is Malaysian Palm Oil Board known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #5,902 of 10,670 5.9%172 #8029
Life SciencesDomain #4,219 of 6,403 5.0%88 #6291
EngineeringField #5,214 of 5,901 5.4%61 #7429
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,863 of 3,157 5.4%60 #2753

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Malaysian Palm Oil Board 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Physical Sciences#8,029 #5,902
  2. Life Sciences#6,291 #4,219
  3. Engineering#7,429 #5,214
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2,753 #2,863
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Malaysian Palm Oil Board work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Malaysian Palm Oil Board is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Environmental Science (19%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 188 fractional works · 59.4% of its workEngineering: 66 fractional works · 20.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 34 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 59 fractional works · 18.7% of its workEcology: 45 fractional works · 14.1% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 29 fractional works · 9.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 21 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBiomaterials: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 94 fractional works · 29.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 64 fractional works · 20.2% of its workPlant Science: 31 fractional works · 9.7% of its workFood Science: 17 fractional works · 5.3% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workForestry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHorticulture: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 28 fractional works · 8.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMedicine: 16 fractional works · 5.2% of its workBiochemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMalaysian PalmOil Board316fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences30%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences4%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering6620.8%
    2. Environmental Science5918.7%
    3. Chemistry299.2%
    4. Materials Science216.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences51.6%
    6. Chemical Engineering41.2%
    7. Computer Science20.7%
    8. Energy10.3%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6420.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology288.7%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Medicine165.2%
    2. Nursing41.2%
    3. Health Professions10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences62.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting20.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.7%
    4. Psychology00.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Malaysian Palm Oil Board specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology takes 17.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EcologySubfield · 44.5 works18×
← 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: 4.25× its world share, 64 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.64× its world share, 28 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.72× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 3.44× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 5.89× its world share, 29 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.38× its world share, 66 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.76× its world share, 59 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.92× its world share, 21 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 2.36× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.04× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry5.89×29 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.25×64 works
  3. Environmental Science3.76×59 works
  4. Chemical Engineering3.44×4 works
  5. Nursing2.36×4 works
  6. Materials Science1.92×21 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.72×2 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.64×28 works
  9. Engineering1.38×66 works
  10. Veterinary1.04×0 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.01×5 works
  12. Energy0.38×1 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.35×2 works
  14. Medicine0.27×16 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.23×2 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×1 works
  17. Health Professions0.17×1 works
  18. Social Sciences0.16×6 works
  19. Dentistry0.14×0 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.14×0 works
  21. Computer Science0.09×2 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  23. Neuroscience0.04×0 works
  24. Psychology0.04×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Malaysian Palm Oil Board?

Ranked on the quality score, Lip Khoon Kho, Kalyana Sundram and Yuen May Choo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Malaysian Palm Oil Board.

  1. 1 Lip Khoon Kho Malaysia · #521,788 worldwide 2.1k citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Kalyana Sundram Malaysia · #1,021,811 worldwide 6.8k citations · 92 works
  3. 3 Yuen May Choo Malaysia · #1,152,582 worldwide 3.5k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Ab. GAPOR Malaysia · #1,248,352 worldwide 1.5k citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Eng‐Ti Leslie Low Malaysia · #1,610,280 worldwide 2.4k citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Rajanaidu Nookiah Malaysia · #1,663,837 worldwide 1.8k citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Norazah Azizi Malaysia · #1,792,353 worldwide 1.8k citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Astimar Abdul Aziz Malaysia · #1,822,826 worldwide 1.2k citations · 47 works
  9. 9 Abdul Gapor Malaysia · #1,862,321 worldwide 1.6k citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Kuang‐Lim Chan Malaysia · #2,031,628 worldwide 2k citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Malaysian Palm Oil Board

What are the most cited papers from Malaysian Palm Oil Board?

The most cited paper from Malaysian Palm Oil Board is "Phenolic compounds in plants and agri-industrial by-products: Antioxidant activity, occurrence, and potential uses" (Nagendran Balasundram, Kalyana Sundram, Samir Samman, 2005), with 3,109 citations. Next come "Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds" (642) and "Palm oil production through sustainable plantations" (585).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Phenolic compounds in plants and agri-industrial by-products: Antioxidant activity, occurrence, and potential uses Nagendran Balasundram, Kalyana Sundram, Samir Samman · Food Chemistry 6 Oct 2005 3,109
2 Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds Rajinder Singh et al. · Nature Open access 24 Jul 2013 642
3 Palm oil production through sustainable plantations Yusof Basiron · European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology Apr 2007 585
4 Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm Meilina Ong‐Abdullah et al. · Nature Open access Sep 2015 559
5 Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity Willem Renema, David R. Bellwood, Juan Carlos Braga et al. · Science 31 Jul 2008 541
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Malaysian Palm Oil Board?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Environmental Impact, Biodiversity, Conservation, Land Use Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Smallholder Farmers, Oil Palm Expansion and Tropical Agriculture.

▲ 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. Environmental Impact58▲ 11×23 topics
  2. Biodiversity44▲ 18×14 topics
  3. Conservation44▲ 32×8 topics
  4. Land Use Change42▲ 44×2 topics
  5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions42▲ 48×4 topics
  6. Smallholder Farmers42▲ 62×3 topics
  7. Oil Palm Expansion40▲ 712×1 topic
  8. Tropical Agriculture40▲ 712×1 topic
  9. Antioxidant Activity25▲ 13×14 topics
  10. Renewable Energy19▲ 4.1×12 topics
  11. Emissions16▲ 26×4 topics
  12. Polyphenols16▲ 28×5 topics
  13. Fatty Acids15▲ 46×3 topics
  14. Biodiesel15▲ 53×2 topics
  15. Catalyst14▲ 72×1 topic
  16. Transesterification14▲ 114×1 topic
  17. Ionic Liquids14▲ 15×7 topics
  18. Pest Management13▲ 50×3 topics
  19. Biomedical Applications13▲ 3.5×12 topics
  20. Genetic Diversity13▲ 9.3×10 topics
  21. Functional Properties11▲ 63×2 topics
  22. Nutritional Composition11▲ 70×2 topics
  23. Antioxidant11▲ 4.9×12 topics
  24. Genome Sequencing11▲ 22×1 topic
  25. Phenolic Profile11▲ 238×1 topic
  26. Lignocellulosic Biomass10▲ 32×2 topics
  27. Health Benefits10▲ 9.1×5 topics
  28. Phenolic Compounds9▲ 16×4 topics
  29. Biological Activities9▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Enzymatic Hydrolysis9▲ 28×2 topics
  31. Antimicrobial8▲ 9.4×2 topics
  32. Waste Management8▲ 6.6×5 topics
  33. Bioethanol Production8▲ 47×1 topic
  34. Oxidative Stability8▲ 60×2 topics
  35. Pretreatment8▲ 47×1 topic
  36. Nutritional Properties8▲ 92×2 topics
  37. Renewable Resources8▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Coconut8▲ 167×1 topic
  39. Virgin Coconut Oil8▲ 167×1 topic
  40. Quality Assessment8▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Malaysian Palm Oil Board publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Biodiesel Production and Applications, Date Palm Research Studies and Biofuel production and bioconversion.

Oil Palm Production and …40Oil Palm Production and Sustainability: 40 fractional worksBiodiesel Production and Applications: 14 fractional worksDate Palm Research Studies: 11 fractional worksBiofuel production and bioconversion: 8 fractional worksCoconut Research and Applications: 8 fractional worksEdible Oils Quality and Analysis: 7 fractional worksFood Chemistry and Fat Analysis: 6 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Cellulose Research Studies: 5 fractional worksLignin and Wood Chemistry: 5 fractional works
EcologyBiomedical EngineeringPlant ScienceInorganic Chemistry4 others

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

  1. 1 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability Ecology 40 works
  2. 2 Biodiesel Production and Applications Biomedical Engineering 14 works
  3. 3 Date Palm Research Studies Plant Science 11 works
  4. 4 Biofuel production and bioconversion Biomedical Engineering 8 works
  5. 5 Coconut Research and Applications Inorganic Chemistry 8 works
  6. 6 Edible Oils Quality and Analysis Organic Chemistry 7 works
  7. 7 Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis Food Science 6 works
  8. 8 Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses Analytical Chemistry 5 works
  9. 9 Advanced Cellulose Research Studies Biomaterials 5 works
  10. 10 Lignin and Wood Chemistry Biomedical Engineering 5 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 available47.9%not open52.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.6%domestic only84.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Malaysian Palm Oil Board's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Malaysian Palm Oil Board as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Malaysian Palm Oil Board0.00085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Malaysian Palm Oil Board over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Malaysian Palm Oil Board5.3% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.9% in 2011.

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