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Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization

Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the physical and mechanical properties of agricultural machinery, including studies on moisture content, seed and kernel properties, postharvest technology, oil extraction processes, route planning for agricultural tasks, fleet management, grain separation loss monitoring, and various agricultural operations.

  • Physical Properties
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Moisture Content
  • Seed and Kernel
  • Postharvest Technology
  • Oil Extraction
  • Route Planning
  • Fleet Management
  • Grain Separation
  • Agricultural Operations
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization

Which countries lead Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (885 and 337 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 885 works
  2. 2 India 337 works
  3. 3 Russia 238 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 135 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 122 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 118 works
  7. 7 United States 113 works
  8. 8 Brazil 81 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 79 works
  10. 10 Uzbekistan 74 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.

China: 40.6%India: 15.5%Russia: 10.9%Nigeria: 6.2%6 others listed: 26.9%41%largest
China885 · 40.6%India337 · 15.5%Russia238 · 10.9%Nigeria135 · 6.2%6 others listed587 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs publishes the most Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research, followed by Jiangsu University and China Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 68 works
  2. 2 Jiangsu UniversityChina 53 works
  3. 3 China Agricultural UniversityChina 47 works
  4. 4 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 44 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  6. 6 Shandong University of TechnologyChina 28 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 27 works
  8. 8 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 25 works
  9. 9 Inner Mongolia Agricultural UniversityChina 22 works
  10. 10 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 20 works

What are the most cited papers in Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization is "Physical properties of plant and animal materials" (Agricultural Engineering, 1968), with 3,068 citations. Next come "A simple gas production method using a pressure transducer to determine the fermentation kinetics of ruminant feeds" (1,839) and "Silage review: Factors affecting dry matter and quality losses in silages" (802).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Physical properties of plant and animal materials Agricultural Engineering · Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research Dec 1968 3,068
2 A simple gas production method using a pressure transducer to determine the fermentation kinetics of ruminant feeds Michael K. Theodorou, Barbara A. Williams, M.S. Dhanoa et al. · Animal Feed Science and Technology Open access Aug 1994 1,839
3 Silage review: Factors affecting dry matter and quality losses in silages G. Borreani, Ernesto Tabacco, R.J. Schmidt et al. · Journal of Dairy Science Open access 20 Apr 2018 802
4 Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components Avital Bechar, Clément Vigneault · Biosystems Engineering 14 Jul 2016 772
5 Effects of compressive force, particle size and moisture content on mechanical properties of biomass pellets from grasses Sudhagar Mani, Lope G. Tabil, Shahabaddine Sokhansanj · Biomass and Bioenergy Apr 2006 732
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Zhenjiang (China), Nanjing (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zibo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 149 works
  2. 2 ZhenjiangChina 56 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 53 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 48 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 42 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 38 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 35 works
  8. 8 ZhengzhouChina 31 works
  9. 9 ChangchunChina 31 works
  10. 10 ZiboChina 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZiboCN · 28.6 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization on the map

Where is the best place to study Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, China Agricultural University and Northeast Agricultural 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 29.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityNortheast Agricultur…China Agricultural U…Northwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 96.244.8%26.2×53 +92.2%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 83.733.7%33.5×47 +77.2%
3Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 69.036.2%37.5×25 +190.0%
4Northwest A&F UniversityChina 64.228.8%13.0×13 +130.0%
5Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 62.223.7%12.4×16 +37.9%
6Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 60.429.9%14.2×14 +71.7%
7Shandong University of TechnologyChina 58.219.2%42.5×28 +753.0%
8Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 56.031.0%34.4×12 +96.5%
9Inner Mongolia Agricultural UniversityChina 55.618.5%65.9×22 +175.3%
10Jilin UniversityChina 53.931.5%4.9×14 +43.3%

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 Engineering and Mechanization, country by country

Is Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization.

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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 Engineering and Mechanization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization 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 Engineering and Mechanization11.0% 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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