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Agricultural and Rural Development Research

Agricultural and Rural Development Research is a research topic within Forestry. Science Explorer counts 6.7k 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 sustainable management of rangelands, livestock, and agriculture, addressing topics such as climate change effects, economic analysis, migration patterns, and the role of cooperatives in the context of rangeland management. It also explores the impact of grazing, vegetation characteristics, and the sustainability of livestock production.

  • Rangelands
  • Livestock
  • Sustainability
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Grazing
  • Vegetation
  • Economic Analysis
  • Migration
  • Cooperatives
Research works
6.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
659
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
90% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural and Rural Development Research

Which countries lead Agricultural and Rural Development Research research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 42 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 42 works
  3. 3 Iran 32 works
  4. 4 ?? 24 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 20 works
  6. 6 Egypt 18 works
  7. 7 Iraq 18 works
  8. 8 India 13 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 12 works
  10. 10 China 10 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.

Türkiye: 90.5%United States: 2.1%Iran: 1.6%??: 1.2%6 others listed: 4.6%90%largest
Türkiye1,794 · 90.5%United States42 · 2.1%Iran32 · 1.6%??24 · 1.2%6 others listed91 · 4.6%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural and Rural Development Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Atatürk University publishes the most Agricultural and Rural Development Research research, followed by Selçuk University and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 63 works
  2. 2 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 62 works
  3. 3 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 61 works
  4. 4 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 58 works
  5. 5 Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam UniversityTürkiye 50 works
  6. 6 Ege UniversityTürkiye 49 works
  7. 7 Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa ÜniversitesiTürkiye 48 works
  8. 8 Cukurova UniversityTürkiye 38 works
  9. 9 Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 38 works
  10. 10 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural and Rural Development Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural and Rural Development Research include Andrew Gelman, Biswajeet Pradhan and Jean Poesen.

  1. 1 Andrew Gelman United States 132k citations
  2. 2 Biswajeet Pradhan Australia 78k citations
  3. 3 Jean Poesen Belgium 65k 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 Rural Development Research?

The most cited paper in Agricultural and Rural Development Research is "Agricultural land use suitability analysis using GIS and AHP technique" (Halil Akıncı, Ayşe Yavuz Özalp, Bülent Turgut, 2013), with 603 citations. Next come "Turkey’s globally important biodiversity in crisis" (376) and "Exploring the potential for silvopasture adoption in south-central Florida: an application of SWOT–AHP method" (329).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Agricultural land use suitability analysis using GIS and AHP technique Halil Akıncı, Ayşe Yavuz Özalp, Bülent Turgut · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 3 Aug 2013 603
2 Turkey’s globally important biodiversity in crisis Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu, Sean Anderson, Erol Akçay et al. · Biological Conservation Open access 9 Sep 2011 376
3 Exploring the potential for silvopasture adoption in south-central Florida: an application of SWOT–AHP method Ram Krishna Shrestha, Janaki R.R. Alavalapati, Robert S. Kalmbacher · Agricultural Systems 30 Dec 2003 329
4 Energy requirement and economic analysis of citrus production in Turkey Burhan Özkan, HANDAN VURUŞ AKÇAÖZ, Feyza Karadeniz · Energy Conversion and Management 22 Nov 2003 312
5 Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies in swine production in Hawaii: a comparison of parametric and nonparametric approaches Khem R. Sharma · Agricultural Economics Open access 1999 298
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural and Rural Development Research research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural and Rural Development Research research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Izmir (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Iğdır, Kahramanmaraş and Tokat Province.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 140 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 125 works
  3. 3 KonyaTürkiye 85 works
  4. 4 IzmirTürkiye 79 works
  5. 5 ErzurumTürkiye 63 works
  6. 6 SamsunTürkiye 62 works
  7. 7 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 61 works
  8. 8 KahramanmaraşTürkiye 50 works
  9. 9 Tokat ProvinceTürkiye 48 works
  10. 10 BursaTürkiye 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IğdırTR · 20.9 works154×
  2. KahramanmaraşTR · 49.8 works143×
  3. Tokat ProvinceTR · 48.0 works136×
  4. BingölTR · 23.6 works119×
  5. ÇanakkaleTR · 60.5 works119×
  6. TekirdağTR · 29.4 works119×
  7. AntakyaTR · 23.3 works103×
  8. IspartaTR · 36.9 works101×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural and Rural Development Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural and Rural Development Research?

Among universities, judged by research, İskenderun Technical University, Atatürk University and Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University 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%20%40%mean 12.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →İskenderun Technical…Kahramanmaraş Sütçü …Ondokuz Mayıs Univer…Atatürk University
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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.

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
1İskenderun Technical UniversityTürkiye 61.833.9%101.3×8 +77.6%
2Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 59.48.8%97.9×63 +1.7%
3Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam UniversityTürkiye 58.410.2%159.5×50 +6.9%
4Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye 56.810.1%116.8×58 -8.4%
5Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa ÜniversitesiTürkiye 55.55.8%154.3×48 +24.7%
6Ege UniversityTürkiye 55.013.8%79.7×48 -31.7%
7Yozgat Bozok ÜniversitesiTürkiye 54.716.4%85.3×22 +86.5%
8Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 54.68.8%95.4×38 +20.1%
9Isparta University of Applied SciencesTürkiye 54.311.1%190.0×33 +5.9%
10Tekirdağ Namık Kemal UniversityTürkiye 54.210.1%131.6×29 +51.9%

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 Rural Development Research, country by country

Is Agricultural and Rural Development Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural and Rural Development Research.

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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 Rural Development Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0090% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Agricultural and Rural Development Research0.0069% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural and Rural Development Research 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 Rural Development Research10.0% 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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