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Agriculture and Biological Studies

Agriculture and Biological Studies is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 9.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in agricultural science and technology, including plant genetics, crop productivity, soil fertility, livestock breeding, food security, biotechnology, sustainable farming practices, climate change adaptation, and agroecosystem management.

  • Agriculture
  • Plant Genetics
  • Crop Productivity
  • Soil Fertility
  • Livestock Breeding
  • Food Security
  • Biotechnology
  • Sustainable Farming
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Agroecosystem Management
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+189%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Agriculture and Biological Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 1.7k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 219 works
  4. 4 China 185 works
  5. 5 India 167 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 154 works
  7. 7 Egypt 150 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 122 works
  9. 9 Poland 78 works
  10. 10 Belarus 65 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: 41.7%Ukraine: 29.7%United States: 5.5%China: 4.7%6 others listed: 18.5%42%largest
Russia1,660 · 41.7%Ukraine1,181 · 29.7%United States219 · 5.5%China185 · 4.7%6 others listed736 · 18.5%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture and Biological Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine publishes the most Agriculture and Biological Studies research, followed by Vinnytsia National Agrarian University and National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.

Where is Agriculture and Biological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture and Biological Studies research in 2022–2025 are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Vinnytsia (Ukraine) and Lviv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lobnya, Bila Tserkva and Vinnytsia.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Kyiv Ukraine 391 works
  2. 2 Moscow Russia 315 works
  3. 3 Vinnytsia Ukraine 149 works
  4. 4 Lviv Ukraine 133 works
  5. 5 Giza Egypt 85 works
  6. 6 Krasnodar Russia 83 works
  7. 7 Tashkent Uzbekistan 75 works
  8. 8 Yekaterinburg Russia 69 works
  9. 9 Novosibirsk Russia 65 works
  10. 10 Saint Petersburg Russia 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LobnyaRU · 32.5 works658×
  2. Bila TserkvaUA · 44.5 works300×
  3. VinnytsiaUA · 149.0 works142×
  4. KirovRU · 44.1 works134×
  5. UmanUA · 37.4 works121×
  6. OrenburgRU · 49.9 works115×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agriculture and Biological Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agriculture and Biological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University and Bukhara State 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.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 64.37.5%155.2×81 +663.7%
2 Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic UniversityUkraine 63.714.6%185.8×30 +1377.3%
3 Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 62.031.6%25.8×8
4 Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 61.017.6%367.5×56
5 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 59.711.4%376.2×112
6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58.93.8%10.0×63 +421.5%
7 Poltava State Agrarian UniversityUkraine 57.97.0%215.5×38 +430.2%
8 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 55.22.7%321.6×50 +329.6%
9 Uman National UniversityUkraine 53.73.0%308.8×34 +1217.1%
10 Mykolayiv National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 53.616.4%215.4×20

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 Agriculture and Biological Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 189% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Agriculture and Biological 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.

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.