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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. 10.1% 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%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agriculture and Biological Studies

Which countries lead Agriculture and Biological Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.7k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.7k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 227 works
  4. 4 China 194 works
  5. 5 India 171 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 158 works
  7. 7 Egypt 151 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 128 works
  9. 9 Poland 79 works
  10. 10 Belarus 67 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: 41.5%Ukraine: 30.3%United States: 5.5%China: 4.6%6 others listed: 18.1%42%largest
Russia1,733 · 41.5%Ukraine1,266 · 30.3%United States227 · 5.5%China194 · 4.6%6 others listed754 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture and Biological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Agriculture and Biological Studies research, followed by National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine and Vinnytsia National Agrarian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 331 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of UkraineUkraine 194 works
  3. 3 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 118 works
  4. 4 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 88 works
  5. 5 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 75 works
  6. 6 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 71 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 66 works
  8. 8 Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 59 works
  9. 9 Omsk State Agrarian UniversityRussia 52 works
  10. 10 Bila Tserkva National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 49 works

What are the most cited papers in Agriculture and Biological Studies?

The most cited paper in Agriculture and Biological Studies is "THE INTERACTION OF SELECTION AND LINKAGE. I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; HETEROTIC MODELS" (Richard C Lewontin, 1964), with 1,879 citations. Next come "THE FUNCTION OF CYTIDINE COENZYMES IN THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF PHOSPHOLIPIDES" (1,848) and "THE STEPPING STONE MODEL OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE DECREASE OF GENETIC CORRELATION WITH DISTANCE" (1,768).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE INTERACTION OF SELECTION AND LINKAGE. I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; HETEROTIC MODELS Richard C Lewontin · Genetics 10 Jan 1964 1,879
2 THE FUNCTION OF CYTIDINE COENZYMES IN THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF PHOSPHOLIPIDES Eugene Paul Kennedy, Samuel B. Weiss · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Sep 1956 1,848
3 THE STEPPING STONE MODEL OF POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE DECREASE OF GENETIC CORRELATION WITH DISTANCE Motoo Kimura, George H. Weiss · Genetics Apr 1964 1,768
4 THE FUNCTIONS AND REGULATION OF GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES IN PLANTS Kathleen A. Marrs · Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology Jun 1996 1,417
5 ON THE PROBABILITY OF FIXATION OF MUTANT GENES IN A POPULATION Motoo Kimura · Genetics Jun 1962 1,314
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agriculture and Biological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture and Biological Studies research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 422 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 336 works
  3. 3 VinnytsiaUkraine 157 works
  4. 4 LvivUkraine 140 works
  5. 5 GizaEgypt 87 works
  6. 6 KrasnodarRussia 86 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 75 works
  8. 8 YekaterinburgRussia 73 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 67 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LobnyaRU · 33.7 works659×
  2. Bila TserkvaUA · 49.3 works325×
  3. VinnytsiaUA · 156.7 works148×
  4. KirovRU · 45.1 works137×
  5. UmanUA · 39.8 works131×
  6. OrenburgRU · 51.7 works118×
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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, S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University and Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic 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%10%20%30%mean 15.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →S.Seifullin Kazakh A…Dnipro State Agraria…National University …Vinnytsia National A…
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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
1S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical UniversityKazakhstan 70.525.5%60.9×11 +61.8%
2Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 69.411.0%430.9×118 +7.3%
3Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic UniversityUkraine 65.517.7%226.1×34 -5.9%
4National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 64.814.7%183.1×88 -36.5%
5Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 63.215.9%418.8×59 -25.9%
6Weatherford CollegeUnited States 59.27.8%11.4×66 +33.1%
7Kazakh National Agrarian Research UniversityKazakhstan 57.715.5%132.4×13 +29.0%
8Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 56.422.0%28.6×9 +125.2%
9Novosibirsk State Agricultural UniversityRussia 56.213.2%256.4×26 +37.5%
10Poltava State Agrarian UniversityUkraine 56.17.8%241.1×39 +39.7%

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 Agriculture and Biological Studies, country by country

Is Agriculture and Biological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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 Agriculture and Biological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Agriculture and Biological Studies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agriculture and Biological Studies 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%Agriculture and Biological Studies10.8% 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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