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Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation

Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 6.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the mechanisms and factors influencing plant growth regulation, including the effects of plant growth regulators, temperature control on flowering pathways, carbohydrate accumulation, orchid growth, bulb production, photosynthetic behavior, geophyte dormancy, and the marketing of native plants for ornamental purposes.

  • Plant Growth Regulators
  • Temperature Control
  • Flowering Pathway
  • Carbohydrate Accumulation
  • Orchid Growth
  • Bulb Production
  • Photosynthetic Behavior
  • Growth Retardants
  • Geophyte Dormancy
  • Native Plant Marketing
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
6.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+5%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (772 and 218 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 772 works
  2. 2 China 218 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 189 works
  4. 4 United States 184 works
  5. 5 Brazil 104 works
  6. 6 Egypt 93 works
  7. 7 Iran 87 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 84 works
  9. 9 Russia 83 works
  10. 10 Iraq 82 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.

India: 40.7%China: 11.5%Indonesia: 10.0%United States: 9.7%6 others listed: 28.2%41%largest
India772 · 40.7%China218 · 11.5%Indonesia189 · 10.0%United States184 · 9.7%6 others listed534 · 28.2%

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Which institutions lead Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture publishes the most Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research, followed by Punjab Agricultural University and Botanical Survey of India.

Who are the leading researchers in Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation include Ajay Singh and Rudolf Schmid.

  1. 1 Ajay Singh United States 2.4k citations
  2. 2 Rudolf Schmid United States 1.9k citations

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

Where is Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research done?

The largest centres of Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research in 2022–2025 are Allahabad (India), New Delhi (India), Beijing (China) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Solan, Allahabad and Ludhiana.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Allahabad India 50 works
  2. 2 New Delhi India 41 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 37 works
  4. 4 Giza Egypt 37 works
  5. 5 Ludhiana India 34 works
  6. 6 Coimbatore India 33 works
  7. 7 Kolkata India 33 works
  8. 8 Moscow Russia 28 works
  9. 9 Bengaluru India 25 works
  10. 10 Tehran Iran 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SolanIN · 23.5 works63×
  2. AllahabadIN · 49.6 works41×
  3. LudhianaIN · 33.7 works39×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation?

Among universities, judged by research, Punjab Agricultural University, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry and Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir 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.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 63.22.0%79.0×33 +608.5%
2 Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and ForestryIndia 62.13.5%164.9×23 +428.2%
3 Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of KashmirIndia 53.80.5%76.3×16 +412.5%
4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 52.61.8%41.1×24 +99.7%
5 Odisha University of Agriculture and TechnologyIndia 51.73.4%60.2×10 +653.3%
6 University of Horticultural Sciences BagalkoteIndia 51.50.0%421.9×17 +675.0%
7 University of TikritIraq 50.47.6%12.6×9
8 Central Agricultural UniversityIndia 50.10.0%88.3×15 +205.6%
9 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 49.82.6%11.9×15
10 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 47.73.2%43.4×10 +125.3%

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 Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation.

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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.