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Botanical Studies and Applications

Botanical Studies and Applications is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 7.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the effects of hawthorn, particularly its antioxidant properties and its potential roles in cardiovascular disease and heart failure. The papers also cover phylogenetic analysis, pharmacological studies, and the use of hawthorn in herbal medicine.

  • Hawthorn
  • Antioxidant
  • Polyphenolic Extracts
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Pharmacology
  • Flavonoid Contents
  • Heart Failure
  • Phylogenetic Analysis
  • Herbal Medicine
  • Atherosclerosis
Research works
7.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
753
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Botanical Studies and Applications

Which countries lead Botanical Studies and Applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (232 and 112 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 232 works
  2. 2 Russia 112 works
  3. 3 India 90 works
  4. 4 United States 86 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 74 works
  6. 6 Poland 54 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 37 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 32 works
  9. 9 Germany 32 works
  10. 10 Serbia 29 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: 29.8%Russia: 14.4%India: 11.5%United States: 11.1%6 others listed: 33.2%30%largest
China232 · 29.8%Russia112 · 14.4%India90 · 11.5%United States86 · 11.1%6 others listed258 · 33.2%

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

Which institutions lead Botanical Studies and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Botanical Studies and Applications research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 17 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 12 works
  4. 4 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 12 works
  5. 5 University of BelgradeSerbia 11 works
  6. 6 Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 10 works
  7. 7 University of ZagrebCroatia 10 works
  8. 8 Royal Botanic Gardens, KewUnited Kingdom 10 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 8 works
  10. 10 State Museum of Natural History KarlsruheGermany 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Botanical Studies and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Botanical Studies and Applications include Pamela S. Soltis and Alberico Luigi Catapano.

  1. 1 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Alberico Luigi Catapano Italy 144k 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 Studies and Applications?

The most cited paper in Botanical Studies and Applications is "A Successive Approximations Approach to Character Weighting" (James S. Farris, 1969), with 1,285 citations. Next come "Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activities of buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) hulls and flour" (1,207) and "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code)" (1,140).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Successive Approximations Approach to Character Weighting James S. Farris · Systematic Zoology Dec 1969 1,285
2 Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activities of buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) hulls and flour Christel Quettier-Deleu, Bernard Gressier, Jean‐Jacques Vasseur et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Sep 2000 1,207
3 International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) John Robert McNeill, Fred R. Barrie, Will Buck et al. 2012 1,140
4 Wine, Beer, Snuff, Medicine, and Loss of Diversity - Ethnobotanical travels in the Georgian Caucasus Rainer Willi Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Shalva Sikharulidze et al. · Ethnobotany Research and Applications Open access 16 Jul 2014 1,107
5 Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 8 Dec 2004 1,098
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Where is Botanical Studies and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Botanical Studies and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Nanjing (China) and Belgrade (Serbia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 43 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 27 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 19 works
  4. 4 BelgradeSerbia 19 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 17 works
  7. 7 BakuAzerbaijan 14 works
  8. 8 KolkataIndia 13 works
  9. 9 TbilisiGeorgia 12 works
  10. 10 ZagrebCroatia 12 works
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Where is the best place to study Botanical Studies and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Belgrade, University of Zagreb and Ilia State 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.

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
1University of BelgradeSerbia 81.66.3%15.5×11 +22.9%
2University of ZagrebCroatia 28.63.5%13.7×10 +2.6%
3Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 10.00.5%120.5×10 -23.4%

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 Studies and Applications, country by country

Is Botanical Studies and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Botanical Studies and Applications.

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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 Studies and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0051% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Botanical Studies and Applications 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 Studies and Applications10.6% 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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