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Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development

Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 8.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of biomass and bioenergy in the bioeconomy, focusing on policies, sustainability, innovation, and the transition to a circular economy. It covers a wide range of topics including national strategies, governance, societal perceptions, industrial transformation, and the potential impact on regional development.

  • Bioeconomy
  • Biomass
  • Bioenergy
  • Circular Economy
  • Sustainability
  • Policy
  • Innovation
  • Transition
  • Forestry
  • Agro-industrial Complex
Research works
8.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
936
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development

Which countries lead Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (382 and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 382 works
  2. 2 United States 268 works
  3. 3 Germany 252 works
  4. 4 Brazil 183 works
  5. 5 Russia 167 works
  6. 6 China 165 works
  7. 7 France 141 works
  8. 8 Italy 124 works
  9. 9 Spain 122 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 93 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: 20.1%United States: 14.1%Germany: 13.3%Brazil: 9.6%6 others listed: 42.8%20%largest
India382 · 20.1%United States268 · 14.1%Germany252 · 13.3%Brazil183 · 9.6%6 others listed813 · 42.8%

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

Which institutions lead Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement publishes the most Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Wageningen University & Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 34 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  3. 3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 25 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 21 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 19 works
  6. 6 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 17 works
  7. 7 Riga Technical UniversityLatvia 15 works
  8. 8 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 15 works
  9. 9 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 15 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development include David Julian McClements, David Lee Kaplan and Jens Juul Holst.

  1. 1 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  2. 2 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k citations
  3. 3 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k 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 Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development?

The most cited paper in Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development is "The Path Forward for Biofuels and Biomaterials" (Arthur J. Ragauskas, Charlotte K. Williams, Brian H. Davison et al., 2006), with 5,734 citations. Next come "Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma" (1,603) and "Biocontrol mechanisms of Trichoderma strains." (1,430).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Path Forward for Biofuels and Biomaterials Arthur J. Ragauskas, Charlotte K. Williams, Brian H. Davison et al. · Science 26 Jan 2006 5,734
2 Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma David Tilman, Robert H. Socolow, Jonathan A. Foley et al. · Science 16 Jul 2009 1,603
3 Biocontrol mechanisms of Trichoderma strains. Tahı́a Benı́tez, Ana María Rincón, M. Carmen Limón et al. · PubMed Dec 2004 1,430
4 Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels Chris R. Somerville, Heather L. Youngs, Caroline M. Taylor et al. · Science 12 Aug 2010 1,339
5 Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications Olaf Erenstein, Moti Jaleta, Kai Sonder et al. · Food Security Open access 17 May 2022 1,328
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Where is Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research done?

The largest centres of Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Paris (France), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wageningen and Riga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 51 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 44 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 43 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 32 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 30 works
  6. 6 WageningenNetherlands 27 works
  7. 7 Mexico CityMexico 26 works
  8. 8 HelsinkiFinland 25 works
  9. 9 BogotáColombia 24 works
  10. 10 BucharestRomania 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WageningenNL · 27.1 works20×
  2. RigaLV · 21.5 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, University College Dublin and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 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 20.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College D…Swedish University o…Universidade de Sant…Wageningen Universit…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 76.314.7%22.8×25 +16.2%
2University College DublinIreland 69.847.1%6.3×10 +120.7%
3Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 61.740.9%17.8×8 +8.7%
4Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain 58.431.9%8.8×8 +151.8%
5University of HelsinkiFinland 56.630.3%4.5×10 +16.2%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 49.49.0%5.5×15 +35.1%
7University of HohenheimGermany 43.414.8%36.0×12 -10.1%
8University of BonnGermany 42.78.8%8.2×12 +7.2%
9Riga Technical UniversityLatvia 41.51.5%44.5×15 +33.7%
10BOKU UniversityAustria 39.25.1%34.1×11 -8.0%

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 Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, country by country

Is Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development.

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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 Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development 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 counting10%20%Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development11.0% 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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