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Botanical Research and Chemistry

Botanical Research and Chemistry is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 evolution, nutritional evaluation, and health benefits of lupin seeds, focusing on secondary metabolites, protein crops, quinolizidine alkaloids, and molecular phylogeny. It also delves into the genomic insights, antioxidant activity, and marker development related to lupin seeds.

  • Lupin Seeds
  • Secondary Metabolites
  • Nutritional Evaluation
  • Protein Crop
  • Genome Sequence
  • Quinolizidine Alkaloids
  • Health Benefits
  • Molecular Phylogeny
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Marker Development
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Botanical Research and Chemistry

Which countries lead Botanical Research and Chemistry research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (651 and 209 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 651 works
  2. 2 United States 209 works
  3. 3 China 182 works
  4. 4 Russia 119 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 97 works
  6. 6 Germany 78 works
  7. 7 Egypt 75 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 66 works
  9. 9 Spain 59 works
  10. 10 Poland 57 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: 40.9%United States: 13.1%China: 11.4%Russia: 7.5%6 others listed: 27.1%41%largest
India651 · 40.9%United States209 · 13.1%China182 · 11.4%Russia119 · 7.5%6 others listed431 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead Botanical Research and Chemistry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Botanical Survey of India publishes the most Botanical Research and Chemistry research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 88 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 36 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  4. 4 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 20 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 18 works
  6. 6 Federal Scientific Center for Feed Production and Agroecology named after V.R. WilliamsRussia 15 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  8. 8 Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 13 works
  9. 9 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 13 works
  10. 10 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Botanical Research and Chemistry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Botanical Research and Chemistry include Douglas G. Altman, Amirhossein Sahebkar and Ralph B. D’Agostino.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  3. 3 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  4. 4 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k 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 Botanical Research and Chemistry?

The most cited paper in Botanical Research and Chemistry is "A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance" (Marti Jane Anderson, 2001), with 13,523 citations. Next come "NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES" (5,927) and "Calculation of protein extinction coefficients from amino acid sequence data" (5,331).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance Marti Jane Anderson · Austral Ecology Feb 2001 13,523
2 NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES ALBERT LEVAN, Karl Fredga, Avery A. Sandberg · Hereditas Open access 2 Sep 2009 5,927
3 Calculation of protein extinction coefficients from amino acid sequence data Stanley C. Gill, Peter H. von Hippel · Analytical Biochemistry Nov 1989 5,331
4 Dominant forces in protein folding Ken A. Dill · Biochemistry 7 Aug 1990 3,849
5 Clumpak : a program for identifying clustering modes and packaging population structure inferences across K Naama Meira Kopelman, Jonathan Mayzel, Mattias Jakobsson et al. · Molecular Ecology Resources Open access 13 Feb 2015 3,416
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Botanical Research and Chemistry research done?

The largest centres of Botanical Research and Chemistry research in 2022-now are Kolkata (India), New Delhi (India), Moscow (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kolkata.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KolkataIndia 96 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 39 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 33 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 28 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 26 works
  6. 6 GizaEgypt 20 works
  7. 7 Dehra DūnIndia 19 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 17 works
  9. 9 Addis AbabaEthiopia 16 works
  10. 10 HyderabadIndia 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KolkataIN · 95.8 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Botanical Research and Chemistry than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Botanical Research and Chemistry?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Ilia State University and Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research 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%60%mean 16.675%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…Jawaharlal Nehru Kri…Ilia State UniversityEthiopian Institute …
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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 55.655.2%9.7×8 +69.3%
2Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 50.42.8%70.8×13 -18.4%
3Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 31.91.9%39.3×11 -14.8%
4Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa VidyalayaIndia 29.36.8%79.5×9 +158.8%

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 Botanical Research and Chemistry, country by country

Is Botanical Research and Chemistry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Botanical Research and Chemistry.

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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 Botanical Research and Chemistry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Botanical Research and Chemistry0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Botanical Research and Chemistry 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%Botanical Research and Chemistry10.9% 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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