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Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

In research, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#423 of 3,409 worldwide), Environmental Science (#1,101 of 3,551 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,454 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science — Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 33.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,167
of 28,054 · #5,895 all time
Rank in China
#955
of 3,058
Research works
1.9k
▲ 26% vs 2013–17
Citations
56k
29.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
32.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
46%
world 28%

What is Xishuangbanna Tropical 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 #423 of 3,409 33.6%179 #536
Environmental ScienceField #1,101 of 3,551 34.7%118 #1114
Life SciencesDomain #2,454 of 7,800 30.7%265 #3244
Physical SciencesDomain #5,138 of 12,888 33.1%155 #6519
Plant ScienceSubfield #565 of 1,395 37.4%72 #613
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield #115 of 255 27.8%73 #323
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,369 of 3,579 24.7%77 #3152

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Xishuangbanna Tropical 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#536 #423
  2. Environmental Science#1,114 #1,101
  3. Life Sciences#3,244 #2,454
  4. Physical Sciences#6,519 #5,138
  5. Plant Science#613 #565
  6. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics#323 #115
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,152 #2,369
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 Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 33.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 72.8 works34×
  2. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 30.7 works28×
  3. Plant ScienceSubfield · 72.3 works9.1×
  4. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 178.9 works8.2×
  5. EcologySubfield · 29.2 works8.1×
  6. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 27.9 works8.0×
← 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: 8.23× its world share, 179 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.15× its world share, 77 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.41× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.37× its world share, 17 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.19× its world share, 118 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 8.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden?

Ranked on the composite score, Richard T. Corlett, Wenjie Liu and Yiping Zhang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.

  1. 1 Richard T. Corlett China · #89,860 worldwide 421 citations · 55 works
  2. 2 Wenjie Liu China · #151,087 worldwide 260 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Yiping Zhang China · #272,262 worldwide 177 citations · 41 works
  4. 4 Diqiu Yu China · #274,625 worldwide 135 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Akihiro Nakamura China · #302,763 worldwide 100 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Alice C. Hughes China · #305,962 worldwide 151 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 Kun‐Fang Cao China · #349,084 worldwide 168 citations · 36 works
  8. 8 Yang Bai China · #446,389 worldwide 134 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Yun‐Hong Tan China · #504,962 worldwide 51 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Tao Su China · #584,707 worldwide 172 citations · 65 works
All ranked researchers at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Which keywords describe research at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden?

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

▲ 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 Change103▲ 8.4×66 topics
  2. Biodiversity74▲ 22×22 topics
  3. Invasive Species61▲ 31×17 topics
  4. Biogeography61▲ 51×16 topics
  5. Global Change57▲ 48×6 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation54▲ 53×5 topics
  7. Ecosystem Services39▲ 22×8 topics
  8. Conservation36▲ 18×17 topics
  9. Molecular Phylogeny30▲ 43×10 topics
  10. Plant-Animal Interactions28▲ 73×1 topic
  11. Pollinator Decline28▲ 73×1 topic
  12. Taxonomy27▲ 45×10 topics
  13. Ecosystem25▲ 50×4 topics
  14. Biological Invasions24▲ 59×2 topics
  15. Diversification24▲ 134×2 topics
  16. Phylogenetics24▲ 115×2 topics
  17. Angiosperm Phylogeny23▲ 197×1 topic
  18. Flowering Plants23▲ 197×1 topic
  19. molecular systematics23▲ 213×2 topics
  20. Community Ecology23▲ 59×2 topics
  21. Species Richness23▲ 77×2 topics
  22. Functional Diversity22▲ 89×1 topic
  23. Gesneriaceae22▲ 288×1 topic
  24. phylogenetic reconstruction22▲ 288×1 topic
  25. Antioxidant18▲ 5.8×26 topics
  26. Population Dynamics18▲ 15×11 topics
  27. Phylogenetic Analysis17▲ 12×13 topics
  28. Biodiversity Conservation16▲ 9.5×13 topics
  29. Land Use Change16▲ 11×7 topics
  30. Medicinal Plants15▲ 8.3×18 topics
  31. Mycorrhizal Fungi15▲ 45×2 topics
  32. Conservation Biology15▲ 31×4 topics
  33. Phylogeny15▲ 21×12 topics
  34. Anti-inflammatory14▲ 11×18 topics
  35. Gene Expression14▲ 5.2×9 topics
  36. Ecosystem Functioning14▲ 16×5 topics
  37. Ecosystem Resilience13▲ 20×5 topics
  38. Model Evaluation13▲ 23×2 topics
  39. Ecological Niche12▲ 45×1 topic
  40. Species Distribution Modeling12▲ 45×1 topic

Which research topics does Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Plant and animal studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

Plant and animal studies: 28 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evolution: 23 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…22Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 22 fractional worksPlant and Fungal Species…22Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions: 22 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 12 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 11 fractional worksPlant Parasitism and Res…10Plant Parasitism and Resistance: 10 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 9 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 7 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 7 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsNature and Landscape ConservationMolecular BiologyEcological Modeling4 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 28 works
  2. 2 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 23 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 22 works
  4. 4 Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions Molecular Biology 22 works
  5. 5 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 12 works
  6. 6 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 11 works
  7. 7 Plant Parasitism and Resistance Plant Science 10 works
  8. 8 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 9 works
  9. 9 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 7 works
  10. 10 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 7 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 available46.0%not open54.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.9%domestic only67.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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.