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Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management

Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 9.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effects of using effective microorganisms (EM) in agriculture, focusing on topics such as organic fertilizers, nutrient sources, seed yield, microbial inoculants, soil properties, plant growth, waste management, antioxidant properties, and sustainable agriculture.

  • Organic Fertilizers
  • Nutrient Sources
  • Seed Yield
  • Microbial Inoculant
  • Soil Properties
  • Plant Growth
  • Biofertilizers
  • Waste Management
  • Antioxidant Properties
  • Sustainable Agriculture
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management

Which countries lead Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research?

By volume, India and Poland publish the most (297 and 211 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 297 works
  2. 2 Poland 211 works
  3. 3 Russia 181 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 95 works
  5. 5 China 91 works
  6. 6 Egypt 89 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 82 works
  8. 8 United States 77 works
  9. 9 Iraq 66 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 50 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: 24.0%Poland: 17.0%Russia: 14.6%Ukraine: 7.7%6 others listed: 36.7%24%largest
India297 · 24.0%Poland211 · 17.0%Russia181 · 14.6%Ukraine95 · 7.7%6 others listed455 · 36.7%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

Who are the leading researchers in Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management include Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Michael C. O’Donovan and Debbie A. Lawlor.

  1. 1 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  2. 2 Michael C. O’Donovan United Kingdom 158k citations
  3. 3 Debbie A. Lawlor United Kingdom 133k citations
  4. 4 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k 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 Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management?

The most cited paper in Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management is "Plant Analysis Handbook" (M. E. Watson, 1992), with 1,536 citations. Next come "A review of wheat diseases—a field perspective" (739) and "Handbook of plant and crop stress" (735).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Plant Analysis Handbook M. E. Watson · Soil Science 1992 1,536
2 A review of wheat diseases—a field perspective Melania Figueroa, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Peter Scott Solomon · Molecular Plant Pathology Open access 18 Oct 2017 739
3 Handbook of plant and crop stress Rana Munns · Field Crops Research Jul 1994 735
4 Decline in Percentage N of C3 and C4 Crops with Increasing Plant Mass D. J. Greenwood, Gilles Lemaire, Ghislain Gosse et al. · Annals of Botany Oct 1990 661
5 Preformed Antimicrobial Compounds and Plant Defense against Fungal Attack. Anne Osbourn · The Plant Cell Open access Oct 1996 652
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Where is Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Giza (Egypt), Moscow (Russia) and Poznań (Poland).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 42 works
  2. 2 GizaEgypt 41 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 41 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 34 works
  5. 5 LublinPoland 26 works
  6. 6 WarsawPoland 25 works
  7. 7 KrakowPoland 23 works
  8. 8 AllahabadIndia 20 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 19 works
  10. 10 Addis AbabaEthiopia 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, University of Life Sciences in Poznań and Punjab Agricultural University score highest, combining citation 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%mean 11.425%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Life S…University of Life S…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.

Citation 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
1University of Life Sciences in LublinPoland 79.612.3%124.5×17 -58.0%
2University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 55.122.4%86.3×15 -76.1%
3Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 37.67.1%52.9×14 +60.7%
4Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 37.53.9%86.4×17 +127.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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, Plant Science, Crop Management, country by country

Is Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009. The fastest-growing topics are Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management.

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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, Plant Science, Crop Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management 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, Plant Science, Crop Management11.2% 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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