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Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science

Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. 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 focuses on the application of meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, and statistical models to analyze ecological and agricultural research data. It covers topics such as soil chemical properties, forage production, crop yield, growth modeling, and the impact of phylogenetic nonindependence on data analysis.

  • Meta-analysis
  • Ecological Statistics
  • Structural Equation Modeling
  • Growth Modeling
  • Soil Chemical Properties
  • Forage Production
  • Crop Yield
  • Phylogenetic Nonindependence
  • Statistical Models
  • Missing Data
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science

Which countries lead Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (978 and 328 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 978 works
  2. 2 South Korea 328 works
  3. 3 United States 202 works
  4. 4 India 163 works
  5. 5 Japan 118 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 97 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 41 works
  8. 8 Egypt 34 works
  9. 9 Canada 29 works
  10. 10 Germany 27 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.

China: 48.4%South Korea: 16.2%United States: 10.0%India: 8.1%6 others listed: 17.2%48%largest
China978 · 48.4%South Korea328 · 16.2%United States202 · 10.0%India163 · 8.1%6 others listed348 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 90 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69 works
  3. 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 26 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural AffairsSouth Korea 26 works
  5. 5 National Institute of Agricultural Science and TechnologySouth Korea 24 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 21 works
  7. 7 National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationJapan 20 works
  8. 8 China Agricultural UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Gyeongsang National UniversitySouth Korea 18 works
  10. 10 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science include Roger Chou, James Thomas and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Roger Chou United States 248k citations
  2. 2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k 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, Soil, Plant Science?

The most cited paper in Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science is "Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil" (Johannes Rousk, Erland Bååth, Philip Charles Brookes et al., 2010), with 4,299 citations. Next come "The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty" (2,207) and "Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies" (2,198).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil Johannes Rousk, Erland Bååth, Philip Charles Brookes et al. · The ISME Journal Open access 6 May 2010 4,299
2 The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty David M. Lawrence et al. · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Open access 19 Oct 2019 2,207
3 Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies Fangjie J. Zhao, Yibing Ma, Yong‐Guan Zhu et al. · Environmental Science & Technology 16 Dec 2014 2,198
4 Modeling and optimization I: Usability of response surface methodology Deniz Baş, İsmail Hakkı Boyacı · Journal of Food Engineering 8 Feb 2006 2,147
5 CINeMA: An approach for assessing confidence in the results of a network meta-analysis Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Julian P. T. Higgins, Theodoros Papakonstantinou et al. · PLoS Medicine Open access 3 Apr 2020 1,912
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Where is Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research done?

The largest centres of Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Changchun (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Suwon and Jeonju.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 197 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 54 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 48 works
  4. 4 ChangchunChina 42 works
  5. 5 JeonjuSouth Korea 38 works
  6. 6 SuwonSouth Korea 34 works
  7. 7 KunmingChina 34 works
  8. 8 DaejeonSouth Korea 32 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 32 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SuwonKR · 34.0 works41×
  2. JeonjuKR · 38.3 works41×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science?

Among universities, judged by research, Aarhus University, Northwest A&F 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 22.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yangzhou UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…Aarhus UniversityChina Agricultural U…
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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
1Aarhus UniversityDenmark 83.418.7%8.3×16 +161.1%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 77.928.8%19.1×16 +244.4%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 72.917.2%15.7×19 +64.6%
4Yangzhou UniversityChina 70.628.9%10.9×13 +33.0%
5Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 69.129.6%15.0×12 +26.2%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67.032.6%3.0×11 +50.2%
7Gyeongsang National UniversitySouth Korea 62.35.0%44.5×18 +27.5%
8Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 59.128.7%20.6×12 +10.0%
9Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 58.822.9%23.1×13 +135.6%
10Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 53.214.6%47.2×14 +180.2%

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, Soil, Plant Science, country by country

Is Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science.

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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, Soil, Plant Science as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science 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, Soil, Plant Science10.8% 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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