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Agricultural Economics and Practices

Agricultural Economics and Practices is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on agricultural development, policy analysis, and economic sustainability in South Asia, particularly in India. It covers topics such as production technology, climate change impact, food security, and the economic analysis of agricultural practices. The papers also discuss the challenges and potential strategies for sustainable agricultural development in the region.

  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Policy
  • Production
  • Technology
  • Sustainability
  • India
  • Economic Analysis
  • Climate Change
  • Food Security
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
79% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Economics and Practices

Which countries lead Agricultural Economics and Practices research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (5.9k and 358 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 5.9k works
  2. 2 United States 358 works
  3. 3 Bangladesh 285 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 191 works
  5. 5 Egypt 168 works
  6. 6 Nepal 125 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 117 works
  8. 8 Iraq 104 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 101 works
  10. 10 China 92 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.

India: 79.2%United States: 4.8%Bangladesh: 3.8%Pakistan: 2.6%6 others listed: 9.5%79%largest
India5,882 · 79.2%United States358 · 4.8%Bangladesh285 · 3.8%Pakistan191 · 2.6%6 others listed708 · 9.5%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Economics and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Agricultural Economics and Practices research, followed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed Amravati.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 561 works
  2. 2 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 215 works
  3. 3 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 147 works
  4. 4 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 125 works
  5. 5 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 111 works
  6. 6 Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 99 works
  7. 7 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 97 works
  8. 8 Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural UniversityIndia 94 works
  9. 9 Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 81 works
  10. 10 Anand Agricultural UniversityIndia 77 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Economics and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Economics and Practices include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Anil K. Sood and Arun Kumar.

  1. 1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  2. 2 Anil K. Sood United States 152k citations
  3. 3 Arun Kumar Germany 150k citations
  4. 4 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  5. 5 Khurshid Alam United States 136k citations
  6. 6 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k citations
  7. 7 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 Practices?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Economics and Practices is "Frontier production functions, technical efficiency and panel data: With application to paddy farmers in India" (George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli, 1992), with 2,877 citations. Next come "Applied Multivariate Techniques" (2,642) and "Outliers in Statistical Data." (1,690).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frontier production functions, technical efficiency and panel data: With application to paddy farmers in India George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli · Journal of Productivity Analysis Jun 1992 2,877
2 Applied Multivariate Techniques Mark Marcucci, S. C. Sharma · Technometrics Feb 1997 2,642
3 Outliers in Statistical Data. Anthony C. Atkinson, V. D. BARNETT, T. Lewis · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) 1995 1,690
4 Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on Wade D. Cook, L. Seiford · European Journal of Operational Research 5 Feb 2008 1,601
5 SISVAR: A COMPUTER ANALYSIS SYSTEM TO FIXED EFFECTS SPLIT PLOT TYPE DESIGNS Daniel Furtado Ferreira · Brazilian Journal of Biometrics Open access 20 Dec 2019 1,395
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Economics and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Economics and Practices research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Coimbatore (India), Hyderabad (India) and Mumbai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pālanpur, Jobner and Parbhani.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 344 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 266 works
  3. 3 HyderabadIndia 213 works
  4. 4 MumbaiIndia 212 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 185 works
  6. 6 AllahabadIndia 150 works
  7. 7 DhakaBangladesh 138 works
  8. 8 LudhianaIndia 131 works
  9. 9 BhubaneswarIndia 124 works
  10. 10 GunturIndia 116 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PālanpurIN · 31.4 works216×
  2. JobnerIN · 20.3 works178×
  3. ParbhaniIN · 47.7 works159×
  4. JūnāgadhIN · 41.4 works154×
  5. FaizabadIN · 45.4 works118×
  6. SabaurIN · 25.6 works112×
  7. SamāstipurIN · 23.3 works112×
  8. BikanerIN · 71.1 works109×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural Economics and Practices than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of Agriculture Faisalabad and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 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 19.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…Indian Institute of …University of Agricu…Tamil Nadu Agricultu…
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
1Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 57.847.1%3.1×11 +17.1%
2University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 57.219.8%19.9×23 +30.0%
3Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 56.539.3%3.1×11 +19.8%
4Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 54.88.4%136.3×215 +7.6%
5Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 54.29.1%98.6×111 +69.3%
6Gazipur Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 53.922.3%66.9×16 +10.9%
7Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 53.616.7%10.6×36 +154.1%
8Agriculture and Forestry UniversityNepal 53.47.1%105.8×49 +31.1%
9Anand Agricultural UniversityIndia 51.210.9%281.3×77 +265.1%
10Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 51.016.9%78.6×51 -11.0%

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 Economics and Practices, country by country

Is Agricultural Economics and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Economics and Practices.

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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 Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Agricultural Economics and Practices0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Economics and Practices 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 Practices11.2% 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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