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Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 explores the diversity, phylogeny, medicinal properties, and commercial applications of Cyperus species. It covers topics such as phylogenetic relationships, antioxidant properties, essential oil composition, chromosome evolution, phytochemical analysis, and the use of Cyperus species in traditional medicine and food applications.

  • Cyperus
  • phylogeny
  • antioxidant
  • essential oil
  • tigernut
  • chromosome evolution
  • phytochemical analysis
  • medicinal plants
  • biogeography
  • sedge flora
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Which countries lead Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (646 and 331 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 646 works
  2. 2 India 331 works
  3. 3 China 188 works
  4. 4 Brazil 169 works
  5. 5 Mexico 147 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 96 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 91 works
  8. 8 Germany 84 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 76 works
  10. 10 Australia 63 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.

United States: 34.2%India: 17.5%China: 10.0%Brazil: 8.9%6 others listed: 29.5%34%largest
United States646 · 34.2%India331 · 17.5%China188 · 10.0%Brazil169 · 8.9%6 others listed558 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Botanical Survey of India publishes the most Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Ilia State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 95 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 40 works
  3. 3 Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 39 works
  4. 4 State Museum of Natural History KarlsruheGermany 37 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 31 works
  6. 6 Royal Botanic Gardens, KewUnited Kingdom 30 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 29 works
  8. 8 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Frank B. Hu.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  4. 4 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  5. 5 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k citations
  6. 6 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 218k citations
  7. 7 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  8. 8 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k 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 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies?

The most cited paper in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies is "Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions" (David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Marcel Rejmánek et al., 2000), with 4,066 citations. Next come "Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States" (2,710) and "Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in endangered fern Adiantum reniforme var. sinense" (2,606).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Marcel Rejmánek et al. · Diversity and Distributions Open access Mar 2000 4,066
2 Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States James M. Omernik · Annals of the Association of American Geographers Mar 1987 2,710
3 Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in endangered fern Adiantum reniforme var. sinense Ming Kang, Pan Li, Xiaohong Yao et al. · Conservation Genetics 17 Feb 2006 2,606
4 Competitive Exclusion in Herbaceous Vegetation J. Philip Grime · Nature Mar 1973 2,551
5 The Use of Distance Measures in Phytosociological Sampling Grant Cottam, John T. Curtis · Ecology Jul 1956 2,184
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research done?

The largest centres of Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research in 2022-now are Kolkata (India), Mexico City (Mexico), Washington D.C. (United States) and Tbilisi (Georgia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tbilisi, Xalapa and Karlsruhe.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KolkataIndia 102 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 59 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 41 works
  4. 4 TbilisiGeorgia 41 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  6. 6 KarlsruheGermany 38 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 37 works
  8. 8 XalapaMexico 24 works
  9. 9 GainesvilleUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TbilisiGE · 40.5 works35×
  2. XalapaMX · 24.2 works24×
  3. KarlsruheDE · 38.4 works18×
  4. KolkataIN · 101.8 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Henan University of Technology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 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.

0%25%50%75%mean 11.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Henan University of …Freie Universität Be…Universidad Nacional…Ilia State University
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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
1Henan University of TechnologyChina 60.563.9%18.4×9 +661.9%
2Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 55.95.4%15.8×40 +78.5%
3Ilia State UniversityGeorgia 49.70.6%200.9×39 -27.5%
4Freie Universität BerlinGermany 37.48.6%14.1×15 +311.7%
5Universidade Federal de UberlândiaBrazil 30.82.3%20.3×14 +913.3%
6Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 23.73.0%13.0×10 +118.0%
7Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 23.53.7%10.4×9 +337.0%
8University of FloridaUnited States 22.65.7%8.4×23 -55.9%

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 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, country by country

Is Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

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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 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies 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%Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies9.8% 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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