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Bryophyte Studies and Records

Bryophyte Studies and Records is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 12k 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, evolution, and ecological significance of bryophytes, including mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. It delves into topics such as phylogeny, cryptic speciation, biogeography, chemical diversity, and the role of bryophytes as indicators of climate change and habitat fragmentation.

  • Bryophyte
  • Phylogeny
  • Mosses
  • Liverworts
  • Hornworts
  • Cryptic Speciation
  • Biogeography
  • Chemical Diversity
  • Climate Change Indicators
  • Habitat Fragmentation
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bryophyte Studies and Records

Which countries lead Bryophyte Studies and Records research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (473 and 274 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 473 works
  2. 2 China 274 works
  3. 3 United States 220 works
  4. 4 India 145 works
  5. 5 Philippines 113 works
  6. 6 Germany 94 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 92 works
  8. 8 France 75 works
  9. 9 Brazil 74 works
  10. 10 Poland 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.

Russia: 29.1%China: 16.9%United States: 13.5%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 31.5%29%largest
Russia473 · 29.1%China274 · 16.9%United States220 · 13.5%India145 · 8.9%6 others listed511 · 31.5%

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

Which institutions lead Bryophyte Studies and Records research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Bryophyte Studies and Records research, followed by Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 244 works
  2. 2 Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 83 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 47 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 39 works
  6. 6 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 34 works
  7. 7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 26 works
  8. 8 University of the Philippines VisayasPhilippines 23 works
  9. 9 Missouri Botanical GardenUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 University of MonsBelgium 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bryophyte Studies and Records?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bryophyte Studies and Records include Huanming Yang, Pamela S. Soltis and Josep Peñuelas.

  1. 1 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  2. 2 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  4. 4 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  5. 5 Jonathan Edward Shaw Australia 132k 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 Bryophyte Studies and Records?

The most cited paper in Bryophyte Studies and Records is "Glossary of pollen and spore terminology" (W. Punt, P.P. Hoen, Stephen Blackmore et al., 2006), with 2,574 citations. Next come "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase" (2,164) and "The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants" (1,887).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Glossary of pollen and spore terminology W. Punt, P.P. Hoen, Stephen Blackmore et al. · Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 29 Nov 2006 2,574
2 The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, James W. Byng · Phytotaxa Open access 20 May 2016 2,164
3 The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants Stefan Andreas Rensing et al. · Science 13 Dec 2007 1,887
4 Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities Ladislav Mucina et al. · Applied Vegetation Science Open access Nov 2016 1,545
5 Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome John L. Bowman et al. · Cell Open access113 authors Oct 2017 1,314
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Where is Bryophyte Studies and Records research done?

The largest centres of Bryophyte Studies and Records research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Iligan City (Philippines), Beijing (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Miagao and Iligan City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 133 works
  2. 2 Iligan CityPhilippines 83 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 51 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 42 works
  5. 5 VladivostokRussia 42 works
  6. 6 KolkataIndia 41 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 39 works
  8. 8 KunmingChina 30 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 29 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MiagaoPH · 23.4 works394×
  2. Iligan CityPH · 83.1 works265×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bryophyte Studies and Records than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bryophyte Studies and Records?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State University, University of Belgrade and Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology 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.

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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
1Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 61.714.5%13.6×8 +27.8%
2University of BelgradeSerbia 59.217.6%6.8×11 +5.7%
3Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 59.05.2%850.1×83 -
4University of PisaItaly 53.712.0%8.3×9 -4.7%
5Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 45.85.1%12.8×26 +4.5%
6University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaUnited States 43.67.3%140.6×17 -
7University of TyumenRussia 43.05.4%101.0×18 +107.1%
8University of HelsinkiFinland 41.010.8%7.1×12 -35.4%
9University of CreteGreece 40.54.9%63.1×18 -
10University of Cape TownSouth Africa 39.66.5%10.9×9 -

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 Bryophyte Studies and Records, country by country

Is Bryophyte Studies and Records research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bryophyte Studies and Records.

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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 Bryophyte Studies and Records as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bryophyte Studies and Records 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%Bryophyte Studies and Records9.4% 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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