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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. 10.2% 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%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cassava research and cyanide

Which countries lead Cassava research and cyanide research?

By volume, China and Nigeria publish the most (568 and 463 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 568 works
  2. 2 Nigeria 463 works
  3. 3 Brazil 416 works
  4. 4 India 376 works
  5. 5 United States 318 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 298 works
  7. 7 Thailand 94 works
  8. 8 Mexico 81 works
  9. 9 France 80 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 74 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: 20.5%Nigeria: 16.7%Brazil: 15.0%India: 13.6%6 others listed: 34.1%21%largest
China568 · 20.5%Nigeria463 · 16.7%Brazil416 · 15.0%India376 · 13.6%6 others listed945 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Cassava research and cyanide research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Cassava research and cyanide research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 60 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 46 works
  3. 3 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 30 works
  4. 4 CGIARFrance 29 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 25 works
  6. 6 Hainan UniversityChina 24 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  8. 8 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 22 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  10. 10 Federal University of TechnologyNigeria 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cassava research and cyanide?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cassava research and cyanide include Guido Kroemer, Jun Wang and Dennis W. Dickson.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  4. 4 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  5. 5 David Julian McClements United States 185k 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 Cassava research and cyanide?

The most cited paper in Cassava research and cyanide is "Superoxide Dismutases" (Constantine N. Giannopolitis, Stanley K. Ries, 1977), with 6,421 citations. Next come "Brine Shrimp: A Convenient General Bioassay for Active Plant Constituents" (4,843) and "The Aerobic Pseudomonads a Taxonomic Study" (2,749).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Superoxide Dismutases Constantine N. Giannopolitis, Stanley K. Ries · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Open access Feb 1977 6,421
2 Brine Shrimp: A Convenient General Bioassay for Active Plant Constituents Brian F. Meyer, N. R. Ferrigni, J. E. Putnam et al. · Planta Medica May 1982 4,843
3 The Aerobic Pseudomonads a Taxonomic Study Roger Y. Stanier, Norberto J. Palleroni, Michael Doudoroff · Journal of General Microbiology May 1966 2,749
4 The Beclin 1 network regulates autophagy and apoptosis Raehui Kang, Herbert J. Zeh, Michael T. Lotze et al. · Cell Death and Differentiation Open access 11 Feb 2011 2,537
5 Reactive oxygen species are essential for autophagy and specifically regulate the activity of Atg4 Ruth Scherz‐Shouval, Elena Shvets, Ephraim Fass et al. · The EMBO Journal Open access 8 Mar 2007 2,106
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Where is Cassava research and cyanide research done?

The largest centres of Cassava research and cyanide research in 2022-now 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, Abidjan and Akure.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 76 works
  2. 2 HaikouChina 55 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 49 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 40 works
  5. 5 BangkokThailand 38 works
  6. 6 Port HarcourtNigeria 37 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 35 works
  8. 8 IbadanNigeria 30 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 30 works
  10. 10 GizaEgypt 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UmuahiaNG · 23.0 works73×
  2. AbidjanCI · 25.4 works29×
  3. AkureNG · 20.3 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Kasetsart University and Khon Kaen 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%10%20%mean 11.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hainan UniversityKasetsart UniversityUniversidad Nacional…Khon Kaen University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Hainan UniversityChina 92.519.1%14.4×24 +73.6%
2Kasetsart UniversityThailand 86.319.0%22.1×17 +111.6%
3Khon Kaen UniversityThailand 68.211.3%20.4×16 +15.7%
4Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 61.017.2%8.0×11 +33.5%
5Guangxi UniversityChina 60.819.7%5.1×12 +0.9%
6Delta State UniversityNigeria 60.210.5%25.0×12 +67.1%
7University of IbadanNigeria 50.84.4%16.6×18 -45.7%
8Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 49.45.4%14.5×12 +4.2%
9Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityNigeria 47.32.9%22.8×15 +50.7%
10Universidade de São PauloBrazil 46.88.1%1.9×14 -27.2%

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 Cassava research and cyanide, country by country

Is Cassava research and cyanide research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cassava research and cyanide as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Cassava research and cyanide0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cassava research and cyanide 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%Cassava research and cyanide10.8% 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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