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Environmental and Agricultural Sciences

Environmental and Agricultural Sciences is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the hydrological effects, water resource management, and environmental impact in China, particularly in relation to river basins, soil moisture, erosion control, and the influence of climate change. It also explores the use of remote sensing for monitoring and sustainability efforts.

  • Hydrological Effects
  • Water Resources
  • China
  • Climate Change
  • Soil Moisture
  • River Basins
  • Erosion Control
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sustainability
  • Environmental Impact
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
88% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental and Agricultural Sciences

Which countries lead Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (750 and 30 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 750 works
  2. 2 United States 30 works
  3. 3 India 22 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 10 works
  5. 5 ?? 9 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 9 works
  7. 7 Vietnam 8 works
  8. 8 Iran 8 works
  9. 9 Australia 6 works
  10. 10 Japan 5 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: 87.5%United States: 3.4%India: 2.6%United Kingdom: 1.2%6 others listed: 5.3%88%largest
China750 · 87.5%United States30 · 3.4%India22 · 2.6%United Kingdom10 · 1.2%6 others listed45 · 5.3%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research, followed by Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China and Hohai University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 75 works
  2. 2 Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of ChinaChina 20 works
  3. 3 Hohai UniversityChina 18 works
  4. 4 China Meteorological AdministrationChina 16 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 16 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 16 works
  7. 7 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 15 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 12 works
  9. 9 China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower ResearchChina 9 works
  10. 10 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental and Agricultural Sciences include Xiaogang Wang, Philippe Ciais and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Simin Liu United States 133k citations
  6. 6 Jin Li China 132k citations
  7. 7 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k 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 Environmental and Agricultural Sciences?

The most cited paper in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences is "The Xinanjiang model applied in China" (Zhao Ren-jun, 1992), with 1,171 citations. Next come "Mapping paddy rice agriculture in southern China using multi-temporal MODIS images" (1,074) and "A crop phenology detection method using time-series MODIS data" (941).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Xinanjiang model applied in China Zhao Ren-jun · Journal of Hydrology Jul 1992 1,171
2 Mapping paddy rice agriculture in southern China using multi-temporal MODIS images Xiangming Xiao, Stephen H Boles, Jiyuan Liu et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment 11 Mar 2005 1,074
3 A crop phenology detection method using time-series MODIS data Toshihiro Sakamoto, Masayuki Yokozawa, Hitoshi Toritani et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment 22 Jun 2005 941
4 Recent and Future Climate Change in Northwest China Yafeng Shi, Yongping Shen, Ersi Kang et al. · Climatic Change 9 Aug 2006 904
5 A gridded daily observation dataset over China region and comparison with the other datasets Gao Xue · Chinese Journal of Geophysics 2013 884
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research done?

The largest centres of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and Lanzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lanzhou, Zhengzhou and Nanjing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 210 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 64 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 30 works
  4. 4 LanzhouChina 26 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 25 works
  6. 6 ZhengzhouChina 22 works
  7. 7 HohhotChina 18 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 17 works
  9. 9 ÜrümqiChina 17 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LanzhouCN · 26.1 works14×
  2. ZhengzhouCN · 22.1 works9.1×
  3. NanjingCN · 64.5 works7.4×
  4. BeijingCN · 209.8 works7.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental and Agricultural Sciences than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Environmental and Agricultural Sciences?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University and Nanjing University of Information Science and 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.

0%10%20%mean 13.7167%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chines…Beijing Normal Unive…Nanjing University o…Hohai University
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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
1University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 81.415.9%12.4×16 +88.5%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 80.115.9%23.6×15 +67.4%
3Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 69.611.2%50.6×16 +145.0%
4Hohai UniversityChina 54.010.4%39.7×18 +18.1%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 28.618.3%27.8×8 -17.0%
6Inner Mongolia Agricultural UniversityChina 10.010.6%80.2×8 +192.1%

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 Environmental and Agricultural Sciences, country by country

Is Environmental and Agricultural Sciences research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental and Agricultural Sciences.

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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 Environmental and Agricultural Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0052% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Environmental and Agricultural Sciences0.0052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences 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%Environmental and Agricultural Sciences10.4% 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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