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Agricultural Science and Fertilization

Agricultural Science and Fertilization is a research topic within Soil Science. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 management of soil fertility and crop productivity through various agricultural practices such as integrated nutrient management, organic manure application, biofertilizers usage, and sustainable agriculture. The research covers topics related to enhancing plant growth, improving nutrient uptake, and promoting environmental sustainability in agricultural systems.

  • Soil Fertility
  • Crop Productivity
  • Organic Manure
  • Integrated Nutrient Management
  • Biofertilizers
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Plant Growth
  • Nutrient Uptake
  • Agricultural Practices
  • Environmental Sustainability
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Science and Fertilization

Which countries lead Agricultural Science and Fertilization research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (2.7k and 231 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 231 works
  3. 3 Egypt 201 works
  4. 4 Bangladesh 197 works
  5. 5 Pakistan 188 works
  6. 6 Iraq 144 works
  7. 7 United States 138 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 122 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 118 works
  10. 10 Ethiopia 117 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: 65.3%China: 5.5%Egypt: 4.8%Bangladesh: 4.7%6 others listed: 19.7%65%largest
India2,747 · 65.3%China231 · 5.5%Egypt201 · 4.8%Bangladesh197 · 4.7%6 others listed829 · 19.7%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Science and Fertilization research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 329 works
  2. 2 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 181 works
  3. 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 103 works
  4. 4 Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and TechnologyIndia 76 works
  5. 5 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 72 works
  6. 6 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 58 works
  7. 7 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 57 works
  8. 8 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 57 works
  9. 9 Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa VidyalayaIndia 52 works
  10. 10 Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural UniversityIndia 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Science and Fertilization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Science and Fertilization include Ejaz Ahmad Khan, ‪Damià Barceló and Yong Sik Ok.

  1. 1 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  2. 2 ‪Damià Barceló Spain 132k citations
  3. 3 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  4. 4 Rattan Lal United States 126k citations
  5. 5 Carlos Lacasta France 120k 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 Science and Fertilization?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Science and Fertilization is "Physical properties of plant and animal materials" (Agricultural Engineering, 1968), with 3,068 citations. Next come "Enrichment of cereal grains with zinc: Agronomic or genetic biofortification?" (2,183) and "Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 4. Physical Methods" (1,697).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Physical properties of plant and animal materials Agricultural Engineering · Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research Dec 1968 3,068
2 Enrichment of cereal grains with zinc: Agronomic or genetic biofortification? İsmail Çakmak · Plant and Soil 27 Nov 2007 2,183
3 Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 4. Physical Methods Gerrit Huibert de Rooij · Vadose Zone Journal May 2004 1,697
4 Tansley Review No. 111 İsmail Çakmak · New Phytologist May 2000 1,288
5 Potential benefits and risks of land application of sewage sludge Rajeev Pratap Singh, Madhoolika Agrawal · Waste Management 23 Feb 2007 1,139
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Science and Fertilization research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Science and Fertilization research in 2022-now are Allahabad (India), Coimbatore (India), New Delhi (India) and Kanpur (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jobner, Pālanpur and Rāhuri.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AllahabadIndia 195 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 126 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 121 works
  4. 4 KanpurIndia 97 works
  5. 5 DhakaBangladesh 90 works
  6. 6 HyderabadIndia 87 works
  7. 7 GizaEgypt 83 works
  8. 8 LudhianaIndia 78 works
  9. 9 BhubaneswarIndia 77 works
  10. 10 MumbaiIndia 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JobnerIN · 22.3 works317×
  2. PālanpurIN · 23.4 works261×
  3. RāhuriIN · 32.6 works213×
  4. SabaurIN · 24.6 works176×
  5. ParbhaniIN · 28.4 works154×
  6. KrishnanagarIN · 31.8 works145×
  7. JūnāgadhIN · 23.4 works141×
  8. BikanerIN · 54.7 works136×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural Science and Fertilization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural Science and Fertilization?

Among universities, judged by research, King Saud University, University of Agriculture Faisalabad and Punjab 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%60%mean 12.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Saud UniversityUniversity of Agricu…Punjab Agricultural …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.

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 63.249.8%2.5×10 +191.2%
2University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 58.319.0%35.8×26 +2.7%
3Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 57.513.0%103.1×72 +13.5%
4Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 54.011.0%96.8×49 +52.5%
5Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 52.59.0%22.3×47 +189.7%
6Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and TechnologyIndia 49.42.2%390.2×76 +218.8%
7Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 45.75.0%106.4×103 -15.4%
8Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural UniversityIndia 45.73.0%318.0×52 +23.6%
9Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 45.52.6%257.7×56 +16.9%
10Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 44.46.0%144.4×57 +0.7%

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 Science and Fertilization, country by country

Is Agricultural Science and Fertilization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Science and Fertilization.

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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 Science and Fertilization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Agricultural Science and Fertilization0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Science and Fertilization 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 Science and Fertilization12.2% 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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