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Agricultural and Food Production Studies

Agricultural and Food Production Studies is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to food and agriculture in Latin America, including nutrition, sustainable agriculture, rural development, globalization's impact on food systems, livestock production, public health, economic analysis of agricultural enterprises, and policy implications. The papers provide insights into the challenges and opportunities for food security, nutrition, and sustainable agricultural practices in the region.

  • Food
  • Agriculture
  • Nutrition
  • Sustainability
  • Rural Development
  • Globalization
  • Livestock
  • Public Health
  • Economic Analysis
  • Policy
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural and Food Production Studies

Which countries lead Agricultural and Food Production Studies research?

By volume, Mexico and Ecuador publish the most (1.2k and 428 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 1.2k works
  2. 2 Ecuador 428 works
  3. 3 Colombia 426 works
  4. 4 Peru 304 works
  5. 5 Spain 181 works
  6. 6 Argentina 127 works
  7. 7 Venezuela 92 works
  8. 8 United States 79 works
  9. 9 Chile 69 works
  10. 10 ?? 69 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.

Mexico: 40.7%Ecuador: 14.3%Colombia: 14.2%Peru: 10.2%6 others listed: 20.6%41%largest
Mexico1,219 · 40.7%Ecuador428 · 14.3%Colombia426 · 14.2%Peru304 · 10.2%6 others listed617 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural and Food Production Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Colegio de Postgraduados publishes the most Agricultural and Food Production Studies research, followed by Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México and Tecnológico Nacional de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 184 works
  2. 2 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 65 works
  3. 3 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 59 works
  4. 4 Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y PecuariasMexico 58 works
  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 56 works
  6. 6 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 50 works
  7. 7 Universidad VeracruzanaMexico 50 works
  8. 8 Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research - AGROSAVIAColombia 41 works
  9. 9 Escuela Superior Politécnica del ChimborazoEcuador 39 works
  10. 10 Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural and Food Production Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural and Food Production Studies include Miguel Ángel Hernán, Carlos Lacasta and Barry M. Popkin.

  1. 1 Miguel Ángel Hernán United States 130k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Lacasta France 120k citations
  3. 3 Barry M. Popkin United States 112k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Agricultural and Food Production Studies?

The most cited paper in Agricultural and Food Production Studies is "Estimación lineal de los requerimientos nutricionales del NRC para ganado de leche." (Jorge Alberto Elizondo-Salazar, 2014), with 6,499 citations. Next come "Técnicas de Muestreo sobre una Población a Estudio" (1,551) and "Beverage purchases from stores in Mexico under the excise tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study" (836).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Estimación lineal de los requerimientos nutricionales del NRC para ganado de leche. Jorge Alberto Elizondo-Salazar · Agronomía Mesoamericana Open access 20 Feb 2014 6,499
2 Técnicas de Muestreo sobre una Población a Estudio Támara Otzen, Carlos Manterola · International Journal of Morphology Open access Mar 2017 1,551
3 Beverage purchases from stores in Mexico under the excise tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study M. Arantxa Colchero, Barry M. Popkin, Juan Á. Rivera et al. · BMJ Open access 6 Jan 2016 836
4 Nutritional Value and Use of the Andean Crops Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) and Kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule) Ritva Repo‐Carrasco‐Valencia, Carmen Rosa Aguirre Espinoza, Sven‐Erik Jacobsen · Food Reviews International 5 Jan 2003 645
5 Chapter 1 Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Lilian E. Abugoch James · Advances in food and nutrition research Book chapter 2009 527
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural and Food Production Studies research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural and Food Production Studies research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), Montecillo (Mexico) and Lima (Peru). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mosquera, Montecillo and Texcoco.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 183 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 135 works
  3. 3 MontecilloMexico 106 works
  4. 4 LimaPeru 102 works
  5. 5 TexcocoMexico 80 works
  6. 6 XalapaMexico 80 works
  7. 7 TolucaMexico 69 works
  8. 8 CoyoacánMexico 58 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 58 works
  10. 10 PachucaMexico 56 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MosqueraCO · 41.3 works444×
  2. MontecilloMX · 106.2 works386×
  3. TexcocoMX · 80.1 works384×
  4. CoyoacánMX · 58.2 works318×
  5. Tuxtla GutiérrezMX · 31.1 works155×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural and Food Production Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural and Food Production Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Amazon, Universidad Nacional de Loja and Colegio de Postgraduados score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of the Am…Universidad Nacional…Universidad Autónoma…Colegio de Postgradu…
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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.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of the AmazonColombia 65.634.9%181.2×13 +71.7%
2Universidad Nacional de LojaEcuador 64.130.8%58.8×10 +395.7%
3Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 62.712.3%466.3×184 -8.1%
4Universidad Autónoma de ChiapasMexico 56.320.1%270.1×24 +99.8%
5Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 55.810.0%146.8×65 +9.3%
6Universidad Nacional Agraria La MolinaPeru 54.722.5%249.8×29 -50.1%
7Universidad Autónoma de GuerreroMexico 52.011.7%120.2×20 +20.5%
8Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 51.016.7%116.5×25 +43.6%
9Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 49.88.8%110.7×56 +21.1%
10Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 47.113.9%41.6×18 +46.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Agricultural and Food Production Studies, country by country

Is Agricultural and Food Production Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Agricultural and Food Production Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Agricultural and Food Production Studies0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural and Food Production Studies 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.

still counting5%10%15%Agricultural and Food Production Studies9.9% in 2025200020102020

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.

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