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Wuhan Botanical Garden

In research, Wuhan Botanical Garden stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#759 of 3,409 worldwide), Life Sciences (#3,164 of 7,800 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,537 of 3,551 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Ecology — Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 15.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,049
of 28,054 · #9,667 all time
Rank in China
#1,279
of 3,058
Research works
1.2k
▲ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
38k
32.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
34.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Wuhan Botanical Garden 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 #759 of 3,409 38.3%105 #994
Life SciencesDomain #3,164 of 7,800 36.1%176 #4799
Environmental ScienceField #1,537 of 3,551 32.9%98 #2012
Plant ScienceSubfield #631 of 1,395 41.9%63 #777
Physical SciencesDomain #6,290 of 12,888 32.7%124 #10628
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,466 of 3,579 33.0%68 #4350

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Wuhan Botanical Garden 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#994 #759
  2. Life Sciences#4,799 #3,164
  3. Environmental Science#2,012 #1,537
  4. Plant Science#777 #631
  5. Physical Sciences#10,628 #6,290
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#4,350 #2,466
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 Wuhan Botanical Garden specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 15.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 22.6 works15×
  2. Plant ScienceSubfield · 62.5 works11×
  3. EcologySubfield · 26.1 works11×
← 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: 7.05× its world share, 105 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.07× its world share, 68 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.94× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.78× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.90× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.76× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.32× its world share, 98 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× 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, 7.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Wuhan Botanical Garden?

Ranked on the composite score, Quanfa Zhang, Wenzhi Liu and Wei Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wuhan Botanical Garden.

  1. 1 Quanfa Zhang China · #223,833 worldwide 203 citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Wenzhi Liu China · #548,590 worldwide 75 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Wei Li China · #592,062 worldwide 132 citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Qingfeng Wang China · #772,084 worldwide 119 citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Xinwei Li China · #810,327 worldwide 30 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Caihong Zhong China · #861,491 worldwide 75 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Kerong Zhang China · #955,576 worldwide 95 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Yuyi Yang China · #986,219 worldwide 115 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Jianqing Ding China · #987,020 worldwide 43 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Yuepeng Han China · #1,161,051 worldwide 65 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Wuhan Botanical Garden

Which keywords describe research at Wuhan Botanical Garden?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Global Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Ecosystem Services, Transcription Factors and Biogeography.

▲ 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 Change62▲ 7.3×48 topics
  2. Invasive Species27▲ 20×15 topics
  3. Biodiversity27▲ 11×15 topics
  4. Global Change24▲ 29×7 topics
  5. Habitat Fragmentation22▲ 32×4 topics
  6. Ecosystem Services18▲ 15×8 topics
  7. Transcription Factors18▲ 47×4 topics
  8. Biogeography18▲ 22×13 topics
  9. Gene Expression17▲ 9.0×12 topics
  10. Water Quality14▲ 12×11 topics
  11. Conservation14▲ 11×9 topics
  12. Ecosystem Functioning14▲ 23×7 topics
  13. Microbial Communities13▲ 9.5×7 topics
  14. Eutrophication12▲ 39×4 topics
  15. Anthocyanins12▲ 53×2 topics
  16. Phylogenetic Analysis11▲ 12×9 topics
  17. Ecosystem11▲ 33×4 topics
  18. Epigenetic Regulation11▲ 16×5 topics
  19. Antioxidant11▲ 5.0×30 topics
  20. Biological Invasions10▲ 37×3 topics
  21. Nutrient Limitation10▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Community Ecology10▲ 37×2 topics
  23. Functional Diversity10▲ 57×1 topic
  24. Species Richness10▲ 49×1 topic
  25. Anti-inflammatory10▲ 11×19 topics
  26. Plant-Animal Interactions10▲ 36×1 topic
  27. Pollinator Decline10▲ 36×1 topic
  28. Regulation10▲ 5.6×3 topics
  29. Taxonomy10▲ 23×7 topics
  30. Metabolic Pathways9▲ 58×3 topics
  31. Wastewater Treatment9▲ 13×9 topics
  32. Flavonoid Biosynthesis9▲ 109×1 topic
  33. MYB9▲ 109×1 topic
  34. Medicinal Plants9▲ 7.1×16 topics
  35. MicroRNA9▲ 23×2 topics
  36. Development8▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Auxin8▲ 59×1 topic
  38. Molecular Phylogeny8▲ 17×5 topics
  39. Plant8▲ 59×1 topic
  40. Microbial Ecology8▲ 15×3 topics

Which research topics does Wuhan Botanical Garden publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Plant Gene Expression Analysis and Plant Molecular Biology Research.

Ecology and Vegetation D…10Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 10 fractional worksPlant and animal studies10Plant and animal studies: 10 fractional worksPlant Gene Expression Analysis: 9 fractional worksPlant Molecular Biology …8Plant Molecular Biology Research: 8 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evol…8Plant Diversity and Evolution: 8 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 8 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology: 7 fractional worksPlant and Fungal Species…7Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions: 7 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 6 fractional worksPhotosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms: 6 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsMolecular BiologyPlant Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 10 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 10 works
  3. 3 Plant Gene Expression Analysis Molecular Biology 9 works
  4. 4 Plant Molecular Biology Research Plant Science 8 works
  5. 5 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 8 works
  6. 6 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 8 works
  7. 7 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 7 works
  8. 8 Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions Molecular Biology 7 works
  9. 9 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 6 works
  10. 10 Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms Molecular Biology 6 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 available42.8%not open57.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.5%domestic only73.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Wuhan Botanical Garden's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.