Banana Cultivation and Research
Banana Cultivation and Research is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the genetics, domestication, cultivation, and challenges faced by bananas, including topics such as Mycosphaerella fijiensis disease, drought tolerance, ensete ventricosum, AFLP markers, phenylphenalenones, and nutrient balance in banana and plantain cultivation.
- Banana
- Genetics
- Domestication
- Mycosphaerella fijiensis
- Drought Tolerance
- Ensete ventricosum
- AFLP Markers
- Phenylphenalenones
- Plantain
- Nutrient Balance
- Research works
- 26k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 2.8k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +45% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Banana Cultivation and Research research?
By volume, India and Brazil publish the most (969 and 897 works in 2022–2025).
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Banana Cultivation and Research research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation publishes the most Banana Cultivation and Research research, followed by University of Florida and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Brazil 56 works
- 2 University of Florida United States 53 works
- 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University India 44 works
- 4 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Ethiopia 43 works
- 5 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) Brazil 33 works
- 6 Agriculture and Forestry University Nepal 30 works
- 7 Kerala Agricultural University India 28 works
- 8 Universidade Federal de Viçosa Brazil 25 works
- 9 Agricultural Research Center Egypt 25 works
- 10 National Research Centre for Banana India 22 works
Who are the leading researchers in Banana Cultivation and Research?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Banana Cultivation and Research include Kevin D. Hyde.
- 1 Kevin D. Hyde 4.8k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Banana Cultivation and Research research done?
The largest centres of Banana Cultivation and Research research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil), Coimbatore (India) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Montecillo and Machala.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 São Paulo Brazil 94 works
- 2 Brasília Brazil 73 works
- 3 Coimbatore India 66 works
- 4 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 56 works
- 5 New Delhi India 54 works
- 6 Gainesville United States 53 works
- 7 Giza Egypt 45 works
- 8 Beijing China 44 works
- 9 Bengaluru India 43 works
- 10 Dhaka Bangladesh 35 works
Where it is the local speciality
- MontecilloMX · 20.3 works50×
- MachalaEC · 20.7 works49×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Banana Cultivation and Research than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Banana Cultivation and Research?
Among universities, judged by research, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research and South 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamil Nadu Agricultural University India | 59.8 | 7.0% | 39.9× | 44 | +142.2% |
| 2 | Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Ethiopia | 59.5 | 1.4% | 74.5× | 43 | +668.9% |
| 3 | South China Agricultural University China | 58.7 | 39.0% | 9.0× | 15 | -68.4% |
| 4 | Chitkara University India | 57.1 | 30.7% | 8.3× | 16 | — |
| 5 | Kerala Agricultural University India | 56.5 | 4.4% | 94.6× | 28 | +446.9% |
| 6 | University of Florida United States | 55.3 | 3.7% | 10.6× | 53 | +43.9% |
| 7 | University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan | 54.9 | 8.7% | 13.1× | 10 | +328.1% |
| 8 | Punjab Agricultural University India | 54.1 | 8.1% | 21.0× | 16 | +213.3% |
| 9 | Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana Brazil | 52.6 | 9.4% | 21.5× | 12 | +254.9% |
| 10 | Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry India | 52.4 | 6.9% | 58.5× | 15 | +294.3% |
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 Banana Cultivation and Research research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 45% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Banana Cultivation and Research.
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.