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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. 5.9% 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%
585
per year above
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+277%
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Which countries lead Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.7k and 250 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 1.7k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 250 works
  3. 3 United States 162 works
  4. 4 China 125 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 114 works
  6. 6 Egypt 109 works
  7. 7 India 95 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 62 works
  9. 9 Iraq 38 works
  10. 10 Belarus 30 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: 63.4%Ukraine: 9.3%United States: 6.0%China: 4.7%6 others listed: 16.7%63%largest
Russia1,706 · 63.4%Ukraine250 · 9.3%United States162 · 6.0%China125 · 4.7%6 others listed449 · 16.7%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Agricultural Research Center publishes the most Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research, followed by Omsk State Agrarian University and Weatherford College.

Where is Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 300 works
  2. 2 Krasnodar Russia 93 works
  3. 3 Giza Egypt 87 works
  4. 4 Kyiv Ukraine 83 works
  5. 5 Saint Petersburg Russia 79 works
  6. 6 Novosibirsk Russia 71 works
  7. 7 Omsk Russia 68 works
  8. 8 Volgograd Russia 62 works
  9. 9 Kazan’ Russia 56 works
  10. 10 Yekaterinburg Russia 56 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LobnyaRU · 45.8 works1464×
  2. KirovRU · 40.0 works192×
  3. BryanskRU · 22.8 works163×
  4. OmskRU · 68.4 works128×
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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, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Omsk State Agrarian University and Weatherford College 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%5%10%15%mean 3.68%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Vinnytsia National Agrarian University: 39, 13.3%Omsk State Agrarian University: 66, 2.5%Weatherford College: 49, 2.0%Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy: 22, 3.4%Kuban State Agrarian University: 44, 0.7%Kazakh National Agrarian Research University: 10, 4.6%Penza State Agricultural Academy: 20, 2.1%Kazan State Agrarian University: 41, 3.2%Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. Goryachkin: 19, 2.6%Uman National University: 14, 2.4%Vinnytsia National A…Russian State Agrari…Omsk State Agrarian …Weatherford College
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 75.513.3%209.4×39
2 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 64.62.5%669.3×66 +630.2%
3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 62.12.0%12.4×49 +518.0%
4 Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural AcademyRussia 57.93.4%266.9×22 +255.9%
5 Kuban State Agrarian UniversityRussia 57.30.7%258.9×44 +1286.9%
6 Kazakh National Agrarian Research UniversityKazakhstan 57.24.6%155.6×10 +318.0%
7 Penza State Agricultural AcademyRussia 53.12.1%587.5×20 +225.0%
8 Kazan State Agrarian UniversityRussia 52.83.2%641.9×41
9 Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. GoryachkinRussia 52.62.6%127.5×19 +166.1%
10 Uman National UniversityUkraine 51.92.4%205.4×14 +1269.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 277% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement.

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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.

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.