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Agricultural Systems and Practices

Agricultural Systems and Practices is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ecological mechanisms and sustainability of integrated rice-fish farming systems, focusing on agricultural heritage systems in China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. It investigates the benefits of co-cultivating rice and fish, including improved resource utilization, enhanced food security, and conservation of wetland ecosystem services. The research also addresses challenges such as pesticide use, nitrogen loss, and adoption barriers faced by smallholders.

  • Rice-Fish Farming
  • Integrated Farming Systems
  • Sustainability
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Agricultural Heritage Systems
  • Biodiversity
  • Food Security
  • Vietnam
  • Mekong Delta
  • Aquaculture
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+62%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Systems and Practices

Which countries lead Agricultural Systems and Practices research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.3k and 471 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 471 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 302 works
  4. 4 Bangladesh 192 works
  5. 5 United States 180 works
  6. 6 Vietnam 115 works
  7. 7 Japan 92 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 74 works
  9. 9 Philippines 63 works
  10. 10 Australia 56 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: 45.3%China: 16.7%Indonesia: 10.7%Bangladesh: 6.8%6 others listed: 20.6%45%largest
India1,280 · 45.3%China471 · 16.7%Indonesia302 · 10.7%Bangladesh192 · 6.8%6 others listed581 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Agricultural Systems and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Agricultural Systems and Practices research, followed by Bangladesh Agricultural University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 215 works
  2. 2 Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 44 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 44 works
  4. 4 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 37 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 33 works
  6. 6 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 27 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
  8. 8 Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 21 works
  9. 9 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 19 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Systems and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Systems and Practices include Seeram Ramakrishna, Arun Kumar and Johan Rockström.

  1. 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  2. 2 Arun Kumar Germany 150k citations
  3. 3 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k citations
  4. 4 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 Systems and Practices?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Systems and Practices is "Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle" (Tilden Wayne Perry, 1995), with 2,121 citations. Next come "Farmers’ adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research" (1,833) and "The role of probiotics in aquaculture" (1,349).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle Tilden Wayne Perry · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1995 2,121
2 Farmers’ adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research Duncan J. Knowler, Ben Bradshaw · Food Policy 20 May 2006 1,833
3 The role of probiotics in aquaculture José Luís Balcázar, Ignacio de Blas, Imanol Ruiz‐Zarzuela et al. · Veterinary Microbiology 22 Feb 2006 1,349
4 Role of gastrointestinal microbiota in fish Sukanta Kumar Nayak · Aquaculture Research Open access 16 Jun 2010 1,097
5 Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate Anne Mottet, Cees de Haan, Alessandra Falcucci et al. · Global Food Security Open access 10 Jan 2017 1,030
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Systems and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Systems and Practices research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Dhaka (Bangladesh), New Delhi (India) and Hyderabad (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mymensingh, Karnāl and Jorhat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 119 works
  2. 2 DhakaBangladesh 82 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 81 works
  4. 4 HyderabadIndia 53 works
  5. 5 MumbaiIndia 49 works
  6. 6 MymensinghBangladesh 48 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 39 works
  8. 8 LudhianaIndia 35 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 35 works
  10. 10 BhubaneswarIndia 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MymensinghBD · 48.2 works104×
  2. KarnālIN · 27.4 works85×
  3. JorhatIN · 21.7 works57×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Huazhong Agricultural University and China 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%mean 18.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Huazhong Agricultura…China Agricultural U…Wageningen Universit…Bangladesh Agricultu…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 67.426.5%7.3×8 +91.3%
2Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 61.934.8%13.6×14 +105.1%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 58.432.1%8.6×15 +90.9%
4Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 56.78.8%154.5×44 -23.1%
5Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 49.16.0%54.0×27 +88.3%
6Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 48.10.5%237.9×37 +23.5%
7Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 48.126.8%9.2×11 +94.9%
8Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 47.93.1%47.3×33 +44.8%
9Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 47.417.6%8.0×12 +471.3%
10Hunan Agricultural UniversityChina 47.232.2%17.5×8 +33.3%

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 Systems and Practices, country by country

Is Agricultural Systems and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Systems 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 Systems and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Agricultural Systems and Practices0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agricultural Systems 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 Systems and Practices11.0% 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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