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Cassava research and cyanide

Cassava research and cyanide is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 19.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the presence, synthesis, metabolism, and detoxification of cyanogenic glycosides, particularly in cassava plants. It explores the impact of cyanide in industrial wastewaters, biotreatment methods, plant chemical defense mechanisms, genomic sequencing of cassava, breeding opportunities and challenges, as well as the physiological effects and treatment of cyanide poisoning.

  • Cyanogenic Glycosides
  • Cassava
  • Cyanide
  • Biotreatment
  • Plant Chemical Defense
  • Cyanide Poisoning
  • Genomic Sequencing
  • Cassava Breeding
  • Cyanide Removal
  • Metabolic Pathways
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+36%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Cassava research and cyanide research?

By volume, China and Nigeria publish the most (476 and 411 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 476 works
  2. 2 Nigeria 411 works
  3. 3 Brazil 382 works
  4. 4 India 331 works
  5. 5 United States 282 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 268 works
  7. 7 Thailand 85 works
  8. 8 France 73 works
  9. 9 Mexico 70 works
  10. 10 Egypt 66 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: 19.5%Nigeria: 16.8%Brazil: 15.6%India: 13.5%6 others listed: 34.5%19%largest
China476 · 19.5%Nigeria411 · 16.8%Brazil382 · 15.6%India331 · 13.5%6 others listed845 · 34.5%

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

Which institutions lead Cassava research and cyanide research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation publishes the most Cassava research and cyanide research, followed by Hainan University and Lampung University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 29 works
  2. 2 Hainan UniversityChina 22 works
  3. 3 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 22 works
  4. 4 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 18 works
  5. 5 IPB UniversityIndonesia 17 works
  6. 6 Kasetsart UniversityThailand 16 works
  7. 7 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 16 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 16 works
  9. 9 Federal University of AgricultureNigeria 16 works
  10. 10 Federal University of TechnologyNigeria 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cassava research and cyanide?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cassava research and cyanide include Rita R. Colwell.

  1. 1 Rita R. Colwell United States 2.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Cassava research and cyanide research done?

The largest centres of Cassava research and cyanide research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Haikou (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Umuahia and Abidjan.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 66 works
  2. 2 Haikou China 49 works
  3. 3 São Paulo Brazil 45 works
  4. 4 Brasília Brazil 38 works
  5. 5 Bangkok Thailand 35 works
  6. 6 Port Harcourt Nigeria 34 works
  7. 7 Jakarta Indonesia 31 works
  8. 8 Ibadan Nigeria 28 works
  9. 9 New Delhi India 26 works
  10. 10 Giza Egypt 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UmuahiaNG · 20.1 works75×
  2. AbidjanCI · 21.8 works28×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cassava research and cyanide than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cassava research and cyanide?

Among universities, judged by research, Hainan University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Kasetsart 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%20%40%mean 13.83%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Hainan University: 22, 38.7%Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology: 10, 17.6%Kasetsart University: 16, 26.5%Khon Kaen University: 16, 17.6%Tamil Nadu Agricultural University: 13, 12.1%University of Ibadan: 16, 10.2%Lampung University: 22, 0.0%Obafemi Awolowo University: 11, 7.1%University of Port Harcourt: 18, 0.0%Ladoke Akintola University of Technology: 11, 8.5%Hainan UniversityKasetsart UniversityKwame Nkrumah Univer…Khon Kaen University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Hainan UniversityChina 71.038.7%13.3×22 -42.2%
2 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 62.017.6%13.4×10 +365.7%
3 Kasetsart UniversityThailand 59.426.5%21.4×16 -43.8%
4 Khon Kaen UniversityThailand 57.817.6%19.4×16 +52.1%
5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 57.212.1%15.5×13 +282.4%
6 University of IbadanNigeria 56.310.2%17.1×16 +100.0%
7 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 55.50.0%10.2×22 +198.2%
8 Obafemi Awolowo UniversityNigeria 54.07.1%23.2×11 +197.3%
9 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 53.70.0%27.5×18 +214.4%
10 Ladoke Akintola University of TechnologyNigeria 53.78.5%31.6×11 +245.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Cassava research and cyanide research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 36% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cassava research and cyanide.

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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.

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.