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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. 10.2% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Banana Cultivation and Research

Which countries lead Banana Cultivation and Research research?

By volume, India and Brazil publish the most (1k and 920 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1k works
  2. 2 Brazil 920 works
  3. 3 China 332 works
  4. 4 United States 303 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 284 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 178 works
  7. 7 Mexico 153 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 141 works
  9. 9 Ecuador 126 works
  10. 10 Egypt 113 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: 29.0%Brazil: 25.6%China: 9.2%United States: 8.4%6 others listed: 27.7%29%largest
India1,042 · 29.0%Brazil920 · 25.6%China332 · 9.2%United States303 · 8.4%6 others listed994 · 27.7%

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

Which institutions lead Banana Cultivation and Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Banana Cultivation and Research research, followed by Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and University of Florida.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 162 works
  2. 2 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 57 works
  3. 3 University of FloridaUnited States 53 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 47 works
  5. 5 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 46 works
  6. 6 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 45 works
  7. 7 CGIARFrance 35 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 35 works
  9. 9 Agriculture and Forestry UniversityNepal 31 works
  10. 10 Kerala Agricultural UniversityIndia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Banana Cultivation and Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Banana Cultivation and Research include Jun Wang, John Hardy and Dennis W. Dickson.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  3. 3 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  4. 4 Peter B. Reich United States 189k 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 Banana Cultivation and Research?

The most cited paper in Banana Cultivation and Research is "Soil quality – A critical review" (Else K. Bünemann, Giulia Bongiorno, Zhanguo Bai et al., 2018), with 2,924 citations. Next come "Multiple evolutionary origins of the fungus causing Panama disease of banana: Concordant evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial gene genealogies" (2,462) and "TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access" (2,168).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soil quality – A critical review Else K. Bünemann, Giulia Bongiorno, Zhanguo Bai et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry Open access 12 Feb 2018 2,924
2 Multiple evolutionary origins of the fungus causing Panama disease of banana: Concordant evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial gene genealogies Kerry L. O'Donnell, Harold Corby Kistler, Elizabeth Cigelnik et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 3 Mar 1998 2,462
3 TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access Jens Kattge et al. · Global Change Biology Open access729 authors 31 Dec 2019 2,168
4 The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex Bevan Simon Weir, Peter R. Johnston, Ulrike Damm · Studies in Mycology Open access Sep 2012 1,661
5 Introduction to Quantitative Genetics W. P. Byrd · Agronomy Journal 1961 1,583
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Banana Cultivation and Research research done?

The largest centres of Banana Cultivation and Research research in 2022-now 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 Machala, Montecillo and Bharatpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 97 works
  2. 2 BrasíliaBrazil 74 works
  3. 3 CoimbatoreIndia 70 works
  4. 4 Addis AbabaEthiopia 61 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 57 works
  6. 6 GainesvilleUnited States 54 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 49 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 46 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 45 works
  10. 10 DhakaBangladesh 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MachalaEC · 22.7 works49×
  2. MontecilloMX · 20.8 works48×
  3. BharatpurNP · 31.5 works44×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Banana Cultivation and Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Banana Cultivation and Research?

Among universities, judged by research, South China Agricultural University, Chitkara University and Guangxi 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%20%40%60%mean 17.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi UniversitySouth China Agricult…Chitkara UniversityTamil Nadu Agricultu…
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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
1South China Agricultural UniversityChina 65.643.0%9.8×16 +71.0%
2Chitkara UniversityIndia 60.433.2%9.1×16 -
3Guangxi UniversityChina 55.651.1%3.1×9 +166.7%
4Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 53.76.3%43.5×45 +19.2%
5Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 53.03.4%84.7×46 +104.3%
6University of FloridaUnited States 52.57.5%10.8×53 -38.5%
7Agriculture and Forestry UniversityNepal 49.10.7%103.7×32 +168.1%
8Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 47.324.7%7.5×8 +20.5%
9Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 46.02.7%47.6×30 +100.6%
10Kerala Agricultural UniversityIndia 44.93.4%107.8×30 +51.2%

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 Banana Cultivation and Research, country by country

Is Banana Cultivation and Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Banana Cultivation and Research.

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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 Banana Cultivation and Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Banana Cultivation and Research0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Banana Cultivation and Research 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%Banana Cultivation and Research11.3% 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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