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Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques

Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques is a research topic within Soil Science. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 focuses on the composting of organic wastes, including animal manures and municipal solid waste, and the assessment of compost maturity. It covers topics such as microbial activity, the influence of additives like biochar, vermicomposting, greenhouse gases emissions, and sustainability of composting technologies.

  • Composting
  • Maturity Assessment
  • Organic Waste
  • Microbial Activity
  • Biochar
  • Vermicomposting
  • Aerobic Composting
  • Humic Acids
  • Greenhouse Gases Emissions
  • Sustainability
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques

Which countries lead Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 601 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 601 works
  3. 3 United States 221 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 177 works
  5. 5 Brazil 133 works
  6. 6 Italy 120 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 118 works
  8. 8 Spain 109 works
  9. 9 Poland 88 works
  10. 10 Mexico 73 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: 41.1%India: 21.6%United States: 7.9%Indonesia: 6.4%6 others listed: 23.0%41%largest
China1,147 · 41.1%India601 · 21.6%United States221 · 7.9%Indonesia177 · 6.4%6 others listed641 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 98 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71 works
  3. 3 China Agricultural UniversityChina 65 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 42 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 41 works
  6. 6 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 35 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 29 works
  8. 8 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 22 works
  9. 9 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 22 works
  10. 10 Guangxi UniversityChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques include Guangming Zeng, Josep Peñuelas and Francisco Herrera.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  3. 3 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k 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 Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques?

The most cited paper in Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques is "An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C" (Eric D. Vance, Philip Charles Brookes, David Stewart Jenkinson, 1987), with 13,020 citations. Next come "Composting of animal manures and chemical criteria for compost maturity assessment. A review" (2,523) and "Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants" (2,308).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C Eric D. Vance, Philip Charles Brookes, David Stewart Jenkinson · Soil Biology and Biochemistry 1987 13,020
2 Composting of animal manures and chemical criteria for compost maturity assessment. A review M.P. Bernal, José Antonio Alburquerque, Raúl Moral · Bioresource Technology 2 Jan 2009 2,523
3 Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants Pamela Calvo, Louise M. Nelson, Joseph W. Kloepper · Plant and Soil Open access 6 May 2014 2,308
4 Seaweed Extracts as Biostimulants of Plant Growth and Development Wajahatullah Khan, Usha P. Rayirath, Sowmyalakshmi Subramanian et al. · Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 7 May 2009 1,734
5 Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation? Zacharias Steinmetz, Claudia Wollmann, Miriam R. Schaefer et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 2 Feb 2016 1,563
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Where is Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Harbin (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yangling and Ludhiana.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 293 works
  2. 2 HarbinChina 62 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 55 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 37 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 35 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 32 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 32 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 31 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 31 works
  10. 10 YanglingChina 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YanglingCN · 28.6 works18×
  2. LudhianaIN · 23.0 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Northeast Agricultural University and Northwest A&F 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 25.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi UniversityChina Agricultural U…Northeast Agricultur…Northwest A&F 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
1China Agricultural UniversityChina 80.124.5%32.0×65 +69.0%
2Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 66.821.9%36.6×35 +57.6%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 65.021.4%20.1×29 +4.7%
4Guangxi UniversityChina 63.926.2%8.9×20 +84.3%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 62.742.1%1.4×14 +112.3%
6Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 58.720.0%20.7×22 +55.2%
7Tianjin Normal UniversityChina 54.434.5%26.4×10 -
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51.826.4%2.1×12 +50.1%
9Tongji UniversityChina 51.422.3%3.0×17 +144.1%
10University of Naples Federico IIItaly 50.419.6%4.4×12 +63.9%

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 Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques, country by country

Is Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques.

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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 Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques 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%Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques10.2% 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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