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Bioenergy crop production and management

Bioenergy crop production and management is a research topic within Agronomy and Crop Science. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 explores the development, cultivation, and impacts of bioenergy crops, with a focus on perennial grasses such as switchgrass and miscanthus. It covers topics such as biomass production, energy balance, soil carbon sequestration, genetic improvement, and environmental implications of cultivating bioenergy crops. The research aims to understand the potential of these crops for sustainable energy production and their effects on agricultural landscapes.

  • Bioenergy Crops
  • Switchgrass
  • Miscanthus
  • Perennial Grasses
  • Biomass Production
  • Energy Balance
  • Soil Carbon Sequestration
  • Genetic Improvement
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Sustainable Agriculture
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bioenergy crop production and management

Which countries lead Bioenergy crop production and management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (547 and 522 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 547 works
  2. 2 United States 522 works
  3. 3 India 238 works
  4. 4 Russia 105 works
  5. 5 Germany 94 works
  6. 6 Poland 91 works
  7. 7 France 80 works
  8. 8 Brazil 78 works
  9. 9 Canada 78 works
  10. 10 Australia 65 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: 28.8%United States: 27.5%India: 12.5%Russia: 5.5%6 others listed: 25.6%29%largest
China547 · 28.8%United States522 · 27.5%India238 · 12.5%Russia105 · 5.5%6 others listed486 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Bioenergy crop production and management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Bioenergy crop production and management research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 52 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 51 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 49 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 48 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 30 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 30 works
  7. 7 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 20 works
  9. 9 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 17 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bioenergy crop production and management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bioenergy crop production and management include Jun Wang, Mark A. Bradford and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  5. 5 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k citations
  6. 6 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  7. 7 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  8. 8 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k 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 Bioenergy crop production and management?

The most cited paper in Bioenergy crop production and management is "Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security" (Rattan Lal, 2004), with 8,396 citations. Next come "Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change" (3,950) and "Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt" (3,906).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security Rattan Lal · Science 10 Jun 2004 8,396
2 Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change Rattan Lal · Geoderma 21 Apr 2004 3,950
3 Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill, David Tilman et al. · Science 7 Feb 2008 3,906
4 The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses Andrew H. Paterson et al. · Nature Open access 2009 3,257
5 Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta‐analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control Hendrik Poorter, Karl Joseph Niklas, Peter B. Reich et al. · New Phytologist Open access 15 Nov 2011 3,197
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Where is Bioenergy crop production and management research done?

The largest centres of Bioenergy crop production and management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Washington D.C. (United States) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 156 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 36 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 28 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 24 works
  5. 5 MadisonUnited States 24 works
  6. 6 UppsalaSweden 24 works
  7. 7 Addis AbabaEthiopia 22 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 19 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 17 works
  10. 10 KaunasLithuania 17 works
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Where is the best place to study Bioenergy crop production and management?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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%mean 16.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…University of Illino…Swedish University o…Beijing Forestry Uni…
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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
1China Agricultural UniversityChina 65.526.7%10.2×14 +0.9%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 63.510.7%51.5×20 -9.6%
3University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 61.016.6%7.2×16 -5.0%
4Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 60.89.1%31.3×23 +15.2%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 60.015.2%15.5×15 +33.3%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 56.619.5%5.8×13 -2.3%
7Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 56.112.4%13.8×16 +50.3%
8Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 55.813.3%10.2×9 +30.1%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.934.9%2.0×8 +66.9%
10University of Nebraska–LincolnUnited States 52.87.7%18.6×13 +16.7%

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 Bioenergy crop production and management, country by country

Is Bioenergy crop production and management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bioenergy crop production and 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 Bioenergy crop production and management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Bioenergy crop production and management0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bioenergy crop production and 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%Bioenergy crop production and management10.6% 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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