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GABA and Rice Research

GABA and Rice Research is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the metabolism, production, and physiological effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in plants, with a focus on its role as a metabolite, its involvement in plant responses to stress, and its potential health benefits. The papers cover a wide range of topics including GABA synthesis, its impact on fragrance in rice, its potential as a bioactive compound in foods, and its effects on blood pressure and stress reduction.

  • Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
  • Metabolism
  • Plant Responses
  • Fermentation
  • Stress
  • Glutamate Decarboxylase
  • Aroma Compounds
  • Neurotransmitters
  • Hypertensive Effect
  • Rice Fragrance
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+42%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
GABA and Rice Research

Which countries lead GABA and Rice Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 904 works
  4. 4 United States 377 works
  5. 5 Japan 231 works
  6. 6 South Korea 214 works
  7. 7 Thailand 175 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 133 works
  9. 9 Bangladesh 108 works
  10. 10 Brazil 99 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: 37.0%India: 21.1%Indonesia: 16.9%United States: 7.0%6 others listed: 17.9%37%largest
China1,983 · 37.0%India1,129 · 21.1%Indonesia904 · 16.9%United States377 · 7.0%6 others listed960 · 17.9%

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

Which institutions lead GABA and Rice Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most GABA and Rice Research research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 224 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 125 works
  3. 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 61 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 54 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
  6. 6 Yangzhou UniversityChina 50 works
  7. 7 IPB UniversityIndonesia 41 works
  8. 8 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 36 works
  9. 9 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 South China Agricultural UniversityChina 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in GABA and Rice Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on GABA and Rice Research include Walter Churchill Willett, Guido Kroemer and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  5. 5 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  6. 6 John Hardy United Kingdom 243k citations
  7. 7 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k 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 GABA and Rice Research?

The most cited paper in GABA and Rice Research is "Deviations from michaelis-menten behaviour of plant glutamate dehydrogenase with ammonium as variable substrate" (Edwin Pahlich, Chr. Gerlitz, 1980), with 10,703 citations. Next come "Improvement of the Oryza sativa Nipponbare reference genome using next generation sequence and optical map data" (2,525) and "Excitatory actions of gaba during development: the nature of the nurture" (2,474).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Deviations from michaelis-menten behaviour of plant glutamate dehydrogenase with ammonium as variable substrate Edwin Pahlich, Chr. Gerlitz · Phytochemistry 1980 10,703
2 Improvement of the Oryza sativa Nipponbare reference genome using next generation sequence and optical map data Yoshihiro Kawahara et al. · Rice Open access 6 Feb 2013 2,525
3 Excitatory actions of gaba during development: the nature of the nurture Yehezkel Ben‐Ari · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review Sep 2002 2,474
4 The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotherapy Pál Pacher, Sándor Bátkai, George Kunos · Pharmacological Reviews Open access Sep 2006 2,082
5 A Resource of Cre Driver Lines for Genetic Targeting of GABAergic Neurons in Cerebral Cortex Hiroki Taniguchi, Miao He, Priscilla Wu et al. · Neuron Open access Sep 2011 2,072
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is GABA and Rice Research research done?

The largest centres of GABA and Rice Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Guangzhou (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mymensingh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 275 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 124 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 112 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 103 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 84 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 80 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 78 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 77 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 68 works
  10. 10 BangkokThailand 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MymensinghBD · 22.3 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in GABA and Rice Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study GABA and Rice Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong Agricultural University, Nanchang University and Yangzhou 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 24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanchang UniversitySichuan Agricultural…Huazhong Agricultura…Yangzhou 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
1Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 81.422.3%17.7×36 +21.1%
2Nanchang UniversityChina 79.727.9%7.3×33 +156.6%
3Yangzhou UniversityChina 76.120.0%15.0×50 +55.1%
4Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 69.826.0%15.9×27 +83.0%
5Jiangnan UniversityChina 68.820.0%9.4×34 +142.5%
6Northwest A&F UniversityChina 67.430.5%5.5×13 +44.2%
7Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 66.916.0%15.2×36 +37.8%
8Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural UniversityChina 64.526.9%51.9×18 +155.6%
9Jiangsu UniversityChina 64.531.1%2.6×12 +155.0%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 63.219.3%1.6×26 +58.2%

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 GABA and Rice Research, country by country

Is GABA and Rice Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are GABA and Rice Research.

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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 GABA and Rice Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%GABA and Rice Research0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of GABA and Rice Research 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%GABA and Rice Research10.2% 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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