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Agricultural and Food Sciences

Agricultural and Food Sciences is a research topic within Forestry. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the utilization of forest biomass, including wood residues, for various applications such as bioenergy generation, value-added products, and sustainable production. It also explores the environmental impact, technological innovation, and economic analysis related to small-scale forestry and waste utilization.

  • Forest Biomass
  • Wood Residues
  • Sustainable Production
  • Bioenergy Generation
  • Value-Added Products
  • Environmental Impact
  • Small-Scale Forestry
  • Technological Innovation
  • Economic Analysis
  • Waste Utilization
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural and Food Sciences

Which countries lead Agricultural and Food Sciences research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (6.1k and 325 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 6.1k works
  2. 2 United States 325 works
  3. 3 Mexico 131 works
  4. 4 Portugal 126 works
  5. 5 Spain 101 works
  6. 6 India 89 works
  7. 7 ?? 86 works
  8. 8 Peru 78 works
  9. 9 Colombia 75 works
  10. 10 Ecuador 73 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.

Brazil: 84.9%United States: 4.5%Mexico: 1.8%Portugal: 1.8%6 others listed: 7.0%85%largest
Brazil6,107 · 84.9%United States325 · 4.5%Mexico131 · 1.8%Portugal126 · 1.8%6 others listed502 · 7.0%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural and Food Sciences research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Federal do Pará publishes the most Agricultural and Food Sciences research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 121 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 121 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 111 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 110 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 101 works
  6. 6 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 99 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 95 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 84 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 81 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 77 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural and Food Sciences?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural and Food Sciences include Alberto Mantovani and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

  1. 1 Alberto Mantovani Italy 224k citations
  2. 2 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k 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 Sciences?

The most cited paper in Agricultural and Food Sciences is "Bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacities of 18 non-traditional tropical fruits from Brazil" (Maria do Socorro Moura Rufino, Ricardo Elesbão Alves, Edy Sousa de Brito et al., 2010), with 1,490 citations. Next come "The Assistat Software Version 7.7 and its use in the analysis of experimental data" (1,219) and "Chemical, Functional, and Structural Properties of Spent Coffee Grounds and Coffee Silverskin" (877).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacities of 18 non-traditional tropical fruits from Brazil Maria do Socorro Moura Rufino, Ricardo Elesbão Alves, Edy Sousa de Brito et al. · Food Chemistry Open access Feb 2010 1,490
2 The Assistat Software Version 7.7 and its use in the analysis of experimental data de Assis Santos e Silva Francisco, Alberto Vieira de Azevedo Carlos · African Journal of Agricultural Research Open access 29 Sep 2016 1,219
3 Chemical, Functional, and Structural Properties of Spent Coffee Grounds and Coffee Silverskin Lina Fernanda Ballesteros, José António Teixeira, Solange Inês Mussatto · Food and Bioprocess Technology Open access 19 Jun 2014 877
4 Yerba Mate Tea ( Ilex paraguariensis ): A Comprehensive Review on Chemistry, Health Implications, and Technological Considerations Caleb I. Heck, Elvira González de Mejı́a · Journal of Food Science Open access 17 Oct 2007 708
5 Pomegranate peel and peel extracts: Chemistry and food features Saeed Akhtar, Tariq Ismail, Daniele Fraternale et al. · Food Chemistry Open access 17 Nov 2014 574
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Where is Agricultural and Food Sciences research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural and Food Sciences research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Belém (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Porto Alegre, Santarém and Marabá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 630 works
  2. 2 BelémBrazil 311 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 293 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 290 works
  5. 5 CuritibaBrazil 219 works
  6. 6 ManausBrazil 203 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 189 works
  8. 8 FortalezaBrazil 170 works
  9. 9 SalvadorBrazil 159 works
  10. 10 Belo HorizonteBrazil 156 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Porto AlegreBR · 24.2 works101×
  2. SantarémBR · 33.2 works87×
  3. MarabáBR · 21.9 works75×
  4. GoiásBR · 36.4 works72×
  5. PetrolinaBR · 47.3 works70×
  6. Rio BrancoBR · 40.1 works69×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural and Food Sciences than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural and Food Sciences?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Lavras and Universidade Federal do Amazonas 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%10%20%mean 11.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …Universidade Federal…
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 63.713.2%8.1×111 -9.4%
2Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil 63.717.9%55.9×62 -47.4%
3Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 63.28.8%75.7×110 +42.3%
4Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 60.616.0%45.0×77 -40.0%
5Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 58.011.4%45.3×121 -25.2%
6Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 55.99.7%21.6×121 -36.0%
7Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 54.28.5%29.7×101 -34.3%
8Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 53.98.6%28.5×84 -9.9%
9Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil 53.212.7%29.2×61 -26.2%
10Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil 52.710.6%29.1×63 -46.3%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Sciences, country by country

Is Agricultural and Food Sciences research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% 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 Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Agricultural and Food Sciences0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural and Food Sciences 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 Sciences10.7% 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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