Horticulture Research: Who Leads Worldwide

Which countries lead Horticulture research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and India rank highest in Horticulture. By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (355 and 312 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

1 United States #1 all time 1.19× excellence · 1.62× journals · 100% breadth 13.4% top 10% · 223 works
2 China #2 all time 1.41× excellence · 1.18× journals · 100% breadth 20.5% top 10% · 284 works
3 India #5 all time 0.55× excellence · 0.42× journals · 100% breadth 6.9% top 10% · 200 works
4 Indonesia #6 all time 0.47× excellence · 0.06× journals · 100% breadth 2.5% top 10% · 300 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 4 countries ranked in Horticulture. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Horticulture

By volume, 2022-now

1 Indonesia 355 works
2 China 312 works
3 United States 259 works
4 India 226 works
5 Brazil 199 works
6 France 152 works
7 Ecuador 126 works
8 Colombia 125 works
9 Mexico 121 works
10 Côte d'Ivoire 121 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia355 · 17.8%China312 · 15.6%United States259 · 13.0%India226 · 11.3%6 others listed845 · 42.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Horticulture research?

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (India) ranks first in Horticulture on research quality in 2022-now, followed by .

By research quality, 2022-now

1 Indian Council of Agricultural Research India · New Delhi · #6 all time 7.2% top 10% · 63 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 1 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Horticulture.

Top 100 Horticulture institutions

By volume, 2022-now

1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 69 works
2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 61 works
3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 42 works
4 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 36 works
5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
6 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 30 works
7 Université Jean Lorougnon GuédéCôte d'Ivoire 29 works
8 Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 27 works
9 Cocoa Research Institute of GhanaGhana 26 works
10 Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le DéveloppementFrance 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Horticulture?

Counting only their work in Horticulture, Teja Tscharntke, Nian Wang and Yiqun Weng have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

1 Teja Tscharntke Germany · #201 worldwide overall 10.8 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
2 Nian Wang United States · #58,955 worldwide overall 10.3 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
3 Yiqun Weng United States · #67,901 worldwide overall 9.0 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
4 Luc De Vuyst Belgium · #280,603 worldwide overall 10.5 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
5 Richard Asare Denmark · #146,206 worldwide overall 8.3 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
6 Laura Armengot Switzerland · #317,898 worldwide overall 8.0 of 18 papers here in the top 10%
7 Sanwen Huang China · #5,167 worldwide overall 7.0 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
8 Alexander H. Purcell United States · #70,585 worldwide overall 6.8 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
9 Frederick G. Gmitter United States · #943,935 worldwide overall 8.7 of 29 papers here in the top 10%
10 Zhonghua Zhang China · #51,208 worldwide overall 6.3 of 8 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Horticulture alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 57,032 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Horticulture researchers

What are the most cited papers in Horticulture?

The most cited paper in Horticulture is "Regeneration and molecular characterization of intergeneric somatic hybrids between Citrus reticulata and Poncirus trifoliata" (W. W. Guo, Yufeng Cheng, Xiuxin Deng, 2002), with 2,226 citations. Next come "Huanglongbing : a destructive, newly-emerging, century-old disease of citrus" (2,047) and "Phytophthora diseases worldwide" (1,690).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Regeneration and molecular characterization of intergeneric somatic hybrids between Citrus reticulata and Poncirus trifoliata W. W. Guo, Yufeng Cheng, Xiuxin Deng · Plant Cell Reports	Feb 2002	2,226
2	Huanglongbing : a destructive, newly-emerging, century-old disease of citrus Joseph M. Bové · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)	2006	2,047
3	Phytophthora diseases worldwide D. Michael Benson · Crop Protection	Jun 1997	1,690
4	The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. Sanwen Huang et al. · Nature Genetics Open access102 authors	Nov 2009	1,524
5	A negative staining method for high resolution electron microscopy of viruses Sydney Brenner, Robert W. Horne · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta	1959	1,515

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Horticulture research done?

The largest centres of Horticulture research in 2022-now are Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Montpellier (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tafo, Daloa and Mosquera.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire 58 works
2 BeijingChina 55 works
3 ParisFrance 51 works
4 MontpellierFrance 44 works
5 JakartaIndonesia 41 works
6 Washington D.C.United States 33 works
7 New DelhiIndia 32 works
8 MakassarIndonesia 30 works
9 BogotáColombia 30 works
10 KumasiGhana 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

TafoGH · 25.9 works1644×
DaloaCI · 29.0 works326×
MosqueraCO · 22.9 works249×
QuevedoEC · 27.2 works104×
AbidjanCI · 57.8 works87×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Horticulture than the world average.

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Horticulture research by country

The best places for Horticulture research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

India

Where is the best place to study Horticulture?

Among universities, judged by research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Université de Montpellier and Wageningen University & Research score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now

50%

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

20%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

5%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

15%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

5%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

5%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Rank in field (all time)	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana	39.4	-	14.6%	47.2×	30	+69.6%
2	Université de MontpellierFrance	34.6	-	16.1%	19.0×	18	+34.9%
3	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands	33.4	-	30.8%	9.0×	9	-4.4%
4	National University Toribio Rodríguez de MendozaPeru	32.5	-	17.2%	222.3×	20	+322.4%
5	University of GhanaGhana	28.5	-	13.5%	17.7×	13	+78.7%
6	Université Jean Lorougnon GuédéCôte d'Ivoire	27.2	-	1.5%	365.1×	29	+83.9%
7	Universidade Estadual de Santa CruzBrazil	26.9	-	10.9%	86.6×	20	+14.7%
8	Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador	26.8	-	1.8%	126.5×	27	+99.8%
9	Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire	26.5	-	3.7%	91.8×	24	+17.3%
10	University of FloridaUnited States	26.2	- (#3)	17.3%	6.1×	19	-42.2%
11	Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia	22.8	-	7.1%	15.6×	16	+19.2%
12	Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico	22.1	-	2.8%	46.3×	18	+49.8%
13	University of BamendaCameroon	21.2	-	13.2%	48.0×	8	+325.7%
14	Université Alassane OuattaraCôte d'Ivoire	20.5	-	0.0%	108.8×	13	+78.5%
15	Université d'Abomey-CalaviBenin	20.4	-	3.3%	40.2×	11	+47.8%
16	Université de DschangCameroon	20.1	-	10.3%	37.6×	11	+1.4%
17	University of LoméTogo	19.4	-	1.3%	70.0×	11	+503.2%
18	Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire	19.2	-	5.0%	218.3×	9	+76.1%
19	South China Agricultural UniversityChina	19.2	-	16.9%	8.2×	8	+176.3%
20	University of BrawijayaIndonesia	19.0	-	3.8%	6.0×	15	+141.5%
21	Université Nangui AbrogouaCôte d'Ivoire	18.4	-	4.5%	158.8×	16	-11.2%
22	Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia	18.3	-	9.9%	19.0×	9	+141.8%
23	Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia	17.5	-	3.2%	10.4×	20	-32.7%
24	IPB UniversityIndonesia	17.2	-	6.4%	9.5×	16	-14.1%
25	Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia	17.2	-	4.6%	18.3×	12	+123.8%
26	Universidad de AntioquiaColombia	17.1	-	4.4%	13.1×	9	+92.5%
27	Université Pelefero Gon CoulibalyCôte d'Ivoire	15.9	-	1.8%	188.8×	11	+14.2%
28	Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil	15.9	-	15.2%	11.2×	8	-9.2%
29	Universitas JemberIndonesia	14.5	-	1.9%	7.0×	12	+360.4%
30	Lampung UniversityIndonesia	13.9	-	0.8%	7.0×	11	+309.8%
31	Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia	13.6	-	3.3%	5.0×	14	-10.4%
32	Escuela Superior Politécnica del ChimborazoEcuador	13.6	-	0.0%	43.0×	9	+650.7%
33	Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador	13.3	-	5.3%	21.2×	9	+9.2%
34	Universitas Syiah KualaIndonesia	12.7	-	5.7%	6.7×	8	+50.0%
35	Kerala Agricultural UniversityIndia	11.8	-	0.9%	49.1×	9	+34.0%
36	Universidad Agraria del EcuadorEcuador	11.8	-	0.5%	193.3×	8	+179.4%
37	Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia	11.7	-	0.0%	10.3×	10	+14.7%
38	Université de Yaoundé ICameroon	11.3	-	3.5%	20.2×	8	-37.6%
39	Federal University of TechnologyNigeria	10.6	-	3.6%	21.5×	9	-25.4%
40	University of MataramIndonesia	9.2	-	0.0%	4.0×	9	+266.7%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Horticulture, country by country

Is Horticulture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy.

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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 Horticulture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

Fractional works of Horticulture 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.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

What does Horticulture include?

Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy

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The leading institutions' badges1Each links to that institution's page and updates with every snapshot

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Which countries lead Horticulture research?

By research quality, 2022-now

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Horticulture research?

By research quality, 2022-now

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Horticulture?

What are the most cited papers in Horticulture?

Where is Horticulture research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Horticulture research by country

Where is the best place to study Horticulture?

Is Horticulture research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

What does Horticulture include?

Share who leads Horticulture

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