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Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Agricultural Innovations and Practices is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 explores the dynamics of agricultural innovation, technology adoption, and livelihood diversification among smallholder farmers in developing countries. It delves into topics such as market participation, conservation practices, income strategies, and the role of social networks in promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development.

  • Agricultural Innovation
  • Livelihood Diversification
  • Technology Adoption
  • Rural Development
  • Smallholder Farmers
  • Market Participation
  • Conservation Practices
  • Income Strategies
  • Social Networks
  • Sustainable Agriculture
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Which countries lead Agricultural Innovations and Practices research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (903 and 801 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 903 works
  2. 2 China 801 works
  3. 3 United States 690 works
  4. 4 Nigeria 550 works
  5. 5 Ethiopia 453 works
  6. 6 Kenya 338 works
  7. 7 South Africa 289 works
  8. 8 Tanzania 229 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 225 works
  10. 10 Germany 201 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: 19.3%China: 17.1%United States: 14.7%Nigeria: 11.8%6 others listed: 37.1%19%largest
India903 · 19.3%China801 · 17.1%United States690 · 14.7%Nigeria550 · 11.8%6 others listed1,736 · 37.1%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Innovations and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, CGIAR publishes the most Agricultural Innovations and Practices research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 CGIARFrance 118 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 111 works
  3. 3 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 86 works
  4. 4 Sokoine University of AgricultureTanzania 60 works
  5. 5 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 57 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 54 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 47 works
  8. 8 University for Development StudiesGhana 46 works
  9. 9 University of NairobiKenya 40 works
  10. 10 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Innovations and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Innovations and Practices include David Tilman, Carl Folke and Ian J. Deary.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  3. 3 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  4. 4 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  5. 5 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 Innovations and Practices?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Innovations and Practices 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 "The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops" (4,298) and "A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis" (3,565).

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 The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops Serge Savary, Laetitia Willocquet, Sarah Jane Pethybridge et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution Open access 4 Feb 2019 4,298
3 A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis Kaoru Tone · European Journal of Operational Research 26 Aug 2002 3,565
4 Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030 David B. Lobell, Marshall Burke, Claudia Tebaldi et al. · Science Feb 2008 3,116
5 The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal Robert Chambers · World Development Open access Jul 1994 2,523
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Innovations and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Innovations and Practices research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Beijing (China), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Morogoro, Nakuru and Tamale.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 200 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 196 works
  3. 3 Addis AbabaEthiopia 164 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 84 works
  5. 5 MorogoroTanzania 81 works
  6. 6 Dar es SalaamTanzania 75 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 69 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 66 works
  9. 9 AccraGhana 61 works
  10. 10 WageningenNetherlands 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MorogoroTZ · 81.0 works100×
  2. NakuruKE · 38.7 works88×
  3. TamaleGH · 51.1 works63×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wageningen University & Research and ETH Zurich 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%20%40%mean 26.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →ETH ZurichLincoln UniversitySichuan Agricultural…Wageningen Universit…
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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
1Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 74.430.4%20.7×37 +217.6%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 70.618.9%24.4×57 -5.0%
3ETH ZurichSwitzerland 68.438.4%2.6×12 +50.4%
4Lincoln UniversityNew Zealand 68.233.3%44.0×12 +62.5%
5University of BonnGermany 67.532.9%7.8×24 +17.2%
6Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 64.015.9%28.5×40 +95.6%
7Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 63.525.4%15.3×15 +47.5%
8Jiangxi Agricultural UniversityChina 61.732.5%16.9×13 +967.2%
9Northwest A&F UniversityChina 61.519.2%12.1×31 +110.0%
10Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 60.020.6%10.1×25 +71.1%

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 Innovations and Practices, country by country

Is Agricultural Innovations and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Innovations 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 Innovations and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Agricultural Innovations and Practices0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Innovations 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 Innovations and Practices10.5% 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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