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Agricultural pest management studies

Agricultural pest management studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the genetics, breeding, and utilization of cowpea as a sustainable and climate-resilient legume crop. It covers topics such as drought tolerance, nutritional quality, genetic diversity, marker development, and agricultural sustainability.

  • Cowpea
  • Genetics
  • Breeding
  • Drought Tolerance
  • Nutritional Quality
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Marker Development
  • Agricultural Sustainability
  • Legume Crop
  • Climate Resilience
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural pest management studies

Which countries lead Agricultural pest management studies research?

By volume, India and Nigeria publish the most (2k and 421 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2k works
  2. 2 Nigeria 421 works
  3. 3 United States 312 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 281 works
  5. 5 China 214 works
  6. 6 Egypt 206 works
  7. 7 Ethiopia 202 works
  8. 8 Brazil 164 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 158 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 110 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: 48.9%Nigeria: 10.4%United States: 7.7%Indonesia: 6.9%6 others listed: 26.0%49%largest
India1,978 · 48.9%Nigeria421 · 10.4%United States312 · 7.7%Indonesia281 · 6.9%6 others listed1,054 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural pest management studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Agricultural pest management studies research, followed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 309 works
  2. 2 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 101 works
  3. 3 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 90 works
  4. 4 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 89 works
  5. 5 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 69 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 59 works
  7. 7 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 57 works
  8. 8 Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 44 works
  9. 9 Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa VidyalayaIndia 43 works
  10. 10 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural pest management studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural pest management studies include Rob Knight, Jun Wang and Huanming Yang.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  4. 4 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  5. 5 Kazuo Shinozaki Japan 170k citations
  6. 6 Anil K. Sood United States 152k citations
  7. 7 J. B. Singh India 144k citations
  8. 8 Debbie A. Lawlor United Kingdom 133k citations
  9. 9 Xun Xu China 132k 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 pest management studies?

The most cited paper in Agricultural pest management studies is "Legumes: Importance and Constraints to Greater Use" (Peter Graham, Carroll P. Vance, 2003), with 1,810 citations. Next come "Beans (Phaseolus spp.) – model food legumes" (1,526) and "Properties and Potential of Natural Pesticides from the Neem Tree, Azadirachta Indica" (1,411).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Legumes: Importance and Constraints to Greater Use Peter Graham, Carroll P. Vance · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Mar 2003 1,810
2 Beans (Phaseolus spp.) – model food legumes W. J. Broughton, Gina Hernández, Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair et al. · Plant and Soil Open access May 2003 1,526
3 Properties and Potential of Natural Pesticides from the Neem Tree, Azadirachta Indica H. Schmutterer · Annual Review of Entomology 1990 1,411
4 Draft genome sequence of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) provides a resource for trait improvement Rajeev Kumar Varshney et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 27 Jan 2013 1,294
5 Green revolution: the way forward Gurdev Singh Khush · Nature Reviews Genetics Review Oct 2001 989
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural pest management studies research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural pest management studies research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Coimbatore (India), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Parbhani, Jūnāgadh and Rāichūr.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 135 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 116 works
  3. 3 Addis AbabaEthiopia 103 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 100 works
  5. 5 AllahabadIndia 98 works
  6. 6 HyderabadIndia 76 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 63 works
  8. 8 LudhianaIndia 62 works
  9. 9 KanpurIndia 62 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ParbhaniIN · 27.4 works131×
  2. JūnāgadhIN · 21.9 works117×
  3. RāichūrIN · 22.5 works98×
  4. KrishnanagarIN · 21.1 works85×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural pest management studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural pest management studies?

Among universities, judged by research, King Saud University, Hawassa University and University of Saskatchewan 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 17.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hawassa UniversityKing Saud UniversityUniversity of Saskat…Ethiopian Institute …
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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
1King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.230.2%1.7×8 +27.1%
2Hawassa UniversityEthiopia 62.035.7%19.5×9 +6.3%
3University of SaskatchewanCanada 60.223.0%8.8×14 -10.5%
4Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 57.24.1%153.6×89 +33.4%
5Université d'Abomey-CalaviBenin 53.816.6%28.5×13 +4.0%
6University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 53.324.5%7.1×13 -38.7%
7Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 53.12.3%92.0×101 +22.2%
8Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 52.911.6%10.3×25 +175.1%
9North-West UniversitySouth Africa 52.220.7%6.6×9 +124.4%
10Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 51.65.1%72.2×57 +27.0%

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 pest management studies, country by country

Is Agricultural pest management studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural pest management studies.

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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 pest management studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Agricultural pest management studies0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural pest management studies 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 pest management studies11.1% 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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