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Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement

Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement is a research topic within Agronomy and Crop Science. Science Explorer counts 9.8k 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 adaptation of forage production to the challenges and opportunities arising from climate change. It covers topics such as forage crop breeding, genetic improvement, drought tolerance, soil fertility, and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing environmental conditions.

  • Forage Production
  • Climate Change
  • Crop Adaptation
  • Genetic Improvement
  • Drought Tolerance
  • Soil Fertility
  • Plant Breeding
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Genetic Resources
  • Agroecosystem
Research works
9.8k
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
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement

Which countries lead Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.9k and 266 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.9k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 266 works
  3. 3 United States 184 works
  4. 4 China 132 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 126 works
  6. 6 Egypt 115 works
  7. 7 India 99 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 66 works
  9. 9 Iraq 39 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan 32 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.

Russia: 63.7%Ukraine: 9.1%United States: 6.3%China: 4.5%6 others listed: 16.4%64%largest
Russia1,858 · 63.7%Ukraine266 · 9.1%United States184 · 6.3%China132 · 4.5%6 others listed477 · 16.4%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research, followed by Agricultural Research Center and Omsk State Agrarian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 410 works
  2. 2 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 87 works
  3. 3 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 73 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 57 works
  5. 5 National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of UkraineUkraine 52 works
  6. 6 Federal Scientific Center for Feed Production and Agroecology named after V.R. WilliamsRussia 52 works
  7. 7 Kuban State Agrarian UniversityRussia 48 works
  8. 8 Kazan State Agrarian UniversityRussia 43 works
  9. 9 Federal Agrarian Scientific Center of the North-East named after NV RudnitskyRussia 43 works
  10. 10 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement include Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki and Yakov V. Kuzyakov.

  1. 1 Kazuo Shinozaki Japan 170k citations
  2. 2 Kazuko Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki Japan 115k citations
  3. 3 Yakov V. Kuzyakov Germany 100k citations
  4. 4 Muhammad Ashraf Pakistan 96k 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 Productivity and Crop Improvement?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement is "Positional cloning of the wheat vernalization gene VRN1" (Liuling Yan, Artem Loukoianov, Gabriela Edith Tranquilli et al., 2003), with 1,471 citations. Next come "ON THE PROBABILITY OF FIXATION OF MUTANT GENES IN A POPULATION" (1,314) and "Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene" (660).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Positional cloning of the wheat vernalization gene VRN1 Liuling Yan, Artem Loukoianov, Gabriela Edith Tranquilli et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access May 2003 1,471
2 ON THE PROBABILITY OF FIXATION OF MUTANT GENES IN A POPULATION Motoo Kimura · Genetics Jun 1962 1,314
3 Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene Takao Komatsuda, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Congfen He et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 12 Jan 2007 660
4 Dry matter and qualitative characteristics of alfalfa as affected by harvest times and soil water content Giorgio Testa, Fabio Gresta, Salvatore L. Cosentino · European Journal of Agronomy 8 Jan 2011 480
5 Abrupt Increase in the Level of Hydrogen Peroxide in Leaves of Winter Wheat Is Caused by Cold Treatment Tohru Okuda, Yusuke Matsuda, Akira Yamanaka et al. · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Open access Nov 1991 461
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Where is Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Krasnodar (Russia), Giza (Egypt) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lobnya, Kirov and Bryansk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 329 works
  2. 2 KrasnodarRussia 106 works
  3. 3 GizaEgypt 92 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 91 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 87 works
  6. 6 OmskRussia 78 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 72 works
  8. 8 VolgogradRussia 65 works
  9. 9 AlmatyKazakhstan 63 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LobnyaRU · 51.7 works1535×
  2. KirovRU · 45.3 works209×
  3. BryanskRU · 23.3 works159×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement?

Among universities, judged by research, S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Kazan State Agrarian University and Belgorod National Research University 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 12.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →S.Seifullin Kazakh A…Belgorod National Re…Kazan State Agrarian…Weatherford College
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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
1S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical UniversityKazakhstan 71.918.3%115.6×14 +299.3%
2Kazan State Agrarian UniversityRussia 71.612.3%703.4×43 +41.0%
3Belgorod National Research UniversityRussia 70.915.0%59.2×15 +36.3%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 69.99.4%15.0×57 +52.3%
5Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 66.18.0%770.3×73 +15.9%
6Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 64.811.8%224.9×40 +7.4%
7Kazakh National Agrarian Research UniversityKazakhstan 59.016.3%166.5×11 +2.3%
8Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 55.211.1%30.6×10 +56.6%
9Novosibirsk State Agricultural UniversityRussia 52.58.3%327.0×22 +52.3%
10Zhangir Khan West Kazakhstan Agrarian Technical UniversityKazakhstan 51.711.4%257.9×8 +83.3%

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 Productivity and Crop Improvement, country by country

Is Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Productivity and Crop Improvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement 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 Productivity and Crop Improvement10.9% 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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