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Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy

Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy is a research topic within Horticulture. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 management, conservation, and sustainable cultivation of cacao (Theobroma cacao) within agroforestry systems. It covers topics such as biodiversity conservation, climate change resilience, genetic diversity, disease resistance, and the role of shade trees in enhancing cocoa production. The research also delves into soil fertility, ecosystem services, and the impact of environmental factors on cacao cultivation.

  • Cacao
  • Agroforestry
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Climate Change Resilience
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Cocoa Production
  • Shade Trees
  • Disease Resistance
  • Soil Fertility
  • Ecosystem Services
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy

Which countries lead Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (355 and 312 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 355 works
  2. 2 China 312 works
  3. 3 United States 259 works
  4. 4 India 226 works
  5. 5 Brazil 199 works
  6. 6 France 152 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 126 works
  8. 8 Colombia 125 works
  9. 9 Mexico 121 works
  10. 10 Côte d'Ivoire 121 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.

Indonesia: 17.8%China: 15.6%United States: 13.0%India: 11.3%6 others listed: 42.3%18%largest
Indonesia355 · 17.8%China312 · 15.6%United States259 · 13.0%India226 · 11.3%6 others listed845 · 42.3%

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

Which institutions lead Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 69 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 61 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 42 works
  4. 4 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 36 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  6. 6 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 30 works
  7. 7 Université Jean Lorougnon GuédéCôte d'Ivoire 29 works
  8. 8 Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 27 works
  9. 9 Cocoa Research Institute of GhanaGhana 26 works
  10. 10 Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le DéveloppementFrance 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy include JoAnn E. Manson, Huanming Yang and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  2. 2 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 Chuan He United States 135k 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 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy?

The most cited paper in Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy is "Regeneration and molecular characterization of intergeneric somatic hybrids between Citrus reticulata and Poncirus trifoliata" (W. W. Guo, Yufeng Cheng, Xiuxin Deng, 2002), with 2,226 citations. Next come "Huanglongbing : a destructive, newly-emerging, century-old disease of citrus" (2,047) and "Phytophthora diseases worldwide" (1,690).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Regeneration and molecular characterization of intergeneric somatic hybrids between Citrus reticulata and Poncirus trifoliata W. W. Guo, Yufeng Cheng, Xiuxin Deng · Plant Cell Reports Feb 2002 2,226
2 Huanglongbing : a destructive, newly-emerging, century-old disease of citrus Joseph M. Bové · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 2006 2,047
3 Phytophthora diseases worldwide D. Michael Benson · Crop Protection Jun 1997 1,690
4 The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. Sanwen Huang et al. · Nature Genetics Open access102 authors Nov 2009 1,524
5 A negative staining method for high resolution electron microscopy of viruses Sydney Brenner, Robert W. Horne · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1959 1,515
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research done?

The largest centres of Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research in 2022-now are Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Montpellier (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tafo, Daloa and Mosquera.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire 58 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 55 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 51 works
  4. 4 MontpellierFrance 44 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 41 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 33 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 32 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 30 works
  9. 9 BogotáColombia 30 works
  10. 10 KumasiGhana 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TafoGH · 25.9 works1644×
  2. DaloaCI · 29.0 works326×
  3. MosqueraCO · 22.9 works249×
  4. QuevedoEC · 27.2 works104×
  5. AbidjanCI · 57.8 works87×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy?

Among universities, judged by research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Université de Montpellier and Wageningen University & Research 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 12.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…National University …Université de Montpe…Kwame Nkrumah Univer…
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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
1Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 78.914.6%47.2×30 +69.6%
2Université de MontpellierFrance 69.216.1%19.0×18 +34.9%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 66.830.8%9.0×9 -4.4%
4National University Toribio Rodríguez de MendozaPeru 65.017.2%222.3×20 +322.4%
5University of GhanaGhana 57.113.5%17.7×13 +78.7%
6Université Jean Lorougnon GuédéCôte d'Ivoire 54.41.5%365.1×29 +83.9%
7Universidade Estadual de Santa CruzBrazil 53.810.9%86.6×20 +14.7%
8Universidad Técnica Estatal de QuevedoEcuador 53.51.8%126.5×27 +99.8%
9Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire 53.03.7%91.8×24 +17.3%
10University of FloridaUnited States 52.317.3%6.1×19 -42.2%

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 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, country by country

Is Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy.

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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 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy 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%Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy10.3% 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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