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Agricultural Economics and Policy

Agricultural Economics and Policy is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its reform, addressing issues such as multifunctionality, sustainability, agricultural subsidies, land values, environmental policy, farm succession, and biodiversity. The papers analyze the impact of CAP on farm structure, income inequality, regional development, and environmental outcomes.

  • Common Agricultural Policy
  • multifunctionality
  • sustainability
  • agricultural subsidies
  • land values
  • environmental policy
  • farm succession
  • EU agriculture
  • policy reform
  • biodiversity
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Economics and Policy

Which countries lead Agricultural Economics and Policy research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (329 and 199 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 329 works
  2. 2 China 199 works
  3. 3 Germany 115 works
  4. 4 France 101 works
  5. 5 Italy 100 works
  6. 6 Poland 85 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 73 works
  8. 8 India 68 works
  9. 9 Spain 59 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 46 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.

United States: 28.0%China: 17.0%Germany: 9.8%France: 8.6%6 others listed: 36.7%28%largest
United States329 · 28.0%China199 · 17.0%Germany115 · 9.8%France101 · 8.6%6 others listed431 · 36.7%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Economics and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement publishes the most Agricultural Economics and Policy research, followed by University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Wageningen University & Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 47 works
  2. 2 University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 18 works
  4. 4 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  6. 6 Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development AuthorityIreland 13 works
  7. 7 Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und HeimatGermany 13 works
  8. 8 Agricultural & Applied Economics AssociationUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 AgroscopeSwitzerland 11 works
  10. 10 Kansas State UniversityUnited States 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Economics and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Economics and Policy include Philippe Ciais, Peter M. Visscher and Ian J. Deary.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Peter M. Visscher Australia 193k citations
  3. 3 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  4. 4 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  5. 5 M. Hashem Pesaran United States 150k citations
  6. 6 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  7. 7 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k citations
  8. 8 J. Conway Germany 139k 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 Economics and Policy?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Economics and Policy is "A model for technical inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data" (George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli, 1995), with 6,045 citations. Next come "Prediction of firm-level technical efficiencies with a generalized frontier production function and panel data" (1,959) and "Review of Modern applied statistics with S, 4th ed. by W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley. Springer-Verlag 2002" (1,849).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A model for technical inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli · Empirical Economics Jun 1995 6,045
2 Prediction of firm-level technical efficiencies with a generalized frontier production function and panel data George E. Battese, Tim Coelli · Journal of Econometrics Jul 1988 1,959
3 Review of Modern applied statistics with S, 4th ed. by W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley. Springer-Verlag 2002 Walter Krämer · Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 28 May 2003 1,849
4 Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies Tara Garnett, M. C. Appleby, Andrew P. Balmford et al. · Science 4 Jul 2013 1,740
5 Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review M.K. van Ittersum, Kenneth G. Cassman, Patricio Grassini et al. · Field Crops Research Open access 21 Dec 2012 1,669
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Where is Agricultural Economics and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Economics and Policy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lincoln.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 55 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 34 works
  3. 3 WarsawPoland 34 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 27 works
  5. 5 LincolnUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 22 works
  7. 7 PoznańPoland 20 works
  8. 8 WageningenNetherlands 19 works
  9. 9 SofiaBulgaria 16 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LincolnUS · 23.4 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural Economics and Policy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural Economics and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Università degli Studi della Tuscia and University of Nebraska–Lincoln 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%10%20%mean 11.3111%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Università degli Stu…Wageningen Universit…Kansas State Univers…University of Nebras…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 77.219.1%30.3×18 -10.9%
2Università degli Studi della TusciaItaly 58.022.2%74.8×9 -9.3%
3University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 52.00.4%50.0×23 +143.6%
4Kansas State UniversityUnited States 39.96.4%27.9×10 +14.0%
5Cornell UniversityUnited States 33.415.8%3.8×8 +16.1%
6Warsaw University of Life SciencesPoland 28.117.0%33.2×9 -64.3%
7University of GöttingenGermany 25.04.7%14.5×9 -41.3%
8University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 22.312.0%48.2×8 -33.8%
9Poznań University of Economics and BusinessPoland 15.24.2%82.7×8 -52.1%

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 Economics and Policy, country by country

Is Agricultural Economics and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Economics and Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Agricultural Economics and Policy0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Economics and Policy 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 Economics and Policy10.5% 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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