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Horticulture research

Horticulture is a subfield of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 22.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: agriculture of plants.

Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+51%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Horticulture research?

On research quality in 2022–2025, China, the United States and India rank highest in Horticulture. By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (300 and 284 works in 2022–2025).

By research quality, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China · #2 all time 34.6% top 10% · 284 works
  2. 2 United States · #1 all time 27.6% top 10% · 223 works
  3. 3 India · #6 all time 13.9% top 10% · 200 works
  4. 4 Indonesia · #5 all time 7.9% top 10% · 300 works

The track on each row is that row’s top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the composite score, which the rate is only one part of.

Of 4 countries ranked in Horticulture. Composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%); the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Horticulture

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia 300 works
  2. 2 China 284 works
  3. 3 United States 223 works
  4. 4 India 200 works
  5. 5 Brazil 161 works
  6. 6 France 127 works
  7. 7 Colombia 107 works
  8. 8 Ecuador 106 works
  9. 9 Mexico 103 works
  10. 10 Côte d'Ivoire 102 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.

Indonesia: 17.5%China: 16.6%United States: 13.0%India: 11.7%6 others listed: 41.2%18%largest
Indonesia300 · 17.5%China284 · 16.6%United States223 · 13.0%India200 · 11.7%6 others listed706 · 41.2%

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

Which institutions lead Horticulture research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology publishes the most Horticulture research, followed by Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé and Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 27 works
  2. 2 Université Jean Lorougnon GuédéCôte d'Ivoire 23 works
  3. 3 Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 23 works
  4. 4 Cocoa Research Institute of GhanaGhana 22 works
  5. 5 Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire 22 works
  6. 6 Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research - AGROSAVIAColombia 20 works
  7. 7 University of FloridaUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual de Santa CruzBrazil 18 works
  9. 9 Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 17 works
  10. 10 National University Toribio Rodríguez de MendozaPeru 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Horticulture?

Among the most productive authors in Horticulture, Daniel Simberloff, Rosa M. Lamuela‐Raventós and Éric F. Lambin rank highest on the composite score.

  1. 1 Daniel Simberloff United States · #1,360 worldwide 2.9k citations · 130 works
  2. 2 Rosa M. Lamuela‐Raventós Spain · #1,762 worldwide 3.5k citations · 81 works
  3. 3 Éric F. Lambin Belgium · #3,846 worldwide 1.5k citations · 80 works
  4. 4 Piotr A. Mieczkowski United States · #3,856 worldwide 1.8k citations · 65 works
  5. 5 Davor Miličić Croatia · #4,208 worldwide 1.3k citations · 158 works
  6. 6 Philip K. Thornton Kenya · #5,087 worldwide 1.7k citations · 137 works
  7. 7 Teja Tscharntke Germany · #7,856 worldwide 1.7k citations · 83 works
  8. 8 Alexander Knohl Germany · #8,352 worldwide 1.3k citations · 64 works
  9. 9 Tom A. B. Snijders Netherlands · #8,601 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
  10. 10 Johan Six Switzerland · #12,134 worldwide 2.1k citations · 163 works

Re-ranked on the composite score from the 1,935 highest-output authors in Horticulture. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Horticulture researchers

Where is Horticulture research done?

The largest centres of Horticulture research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), 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 Quevedo.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 52 works
  2. 2 Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire 50 works
  3. 3 Paris France 42 works
  4. 4 Montpellier France 40 works
  5. 5 Jakarta Indonesia 36 works
  6. 6 New Delhi India 30 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C. United States 29 works
  8. 8 Kumasi Ghana 27 works
  9. 9 Accra Ghana 26 works
  10. 10 Makassar Indonesia 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TafoGH · 22.4 works1737×
  2. DaloaCI · 22.9 works300×
  3. QuevedoEC · 22.5 works109×
  4. AbidjanCI · 50.5 works88×
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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.

Where is the best place to study Horticulture?

Among universities, judged by research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza and Wageningen University & Research score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%75%mean 27.86%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology: 27, 50.1%National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza: 16, 37.7%Wageningen University & Research: 8, 61.9%Université Nangui Abrogoua: 13, 16.2%Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz: 18, 27.1%University of Ghana: 12, 23.5%Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny: 22, 10.0%Université d'Abomey-Calavi: 9, 18.0%Université de Dschang: 10, 29.0%Hasanuddin University: 17, 5.1%Wageningen Universit…Kwame Nkrumah Univer…National University …Université Nangui Ab…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 78.550.1%49.3×27 +55.4%
2 National University Toribio Rodríguez de MendozaPeru 62.237.7%188.0×16 —
3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 59.861.9%8.2×8 +98.3%
4 Université Nangui AbrogouaCôte d'Ivoire 58.216.2%138.8×13 +210.0%
5 Universidade Estadual de Santa CruzBrazil 56.627.1%79.1×18 +44.7%
6 University of GhanaGhana 54.823.5%20.1×12 +104.2%
7 Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire 54.510.0%85.7×22 +65.7%
8 Université d'Abomey-CalaviBenin 53.918.0%35.6×9 +177.1%
9 Université de DschangCameroon 51.929.0%37.0×10 —
10 Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 51.45.1%9.2×17 +244.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Horticulture research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 51% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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?