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Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 35k 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 genetic architecture of quantitative traits in crops such as rice and maize, covering topics such as quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, genome-wide association studies, genetic variation, crop improvement, and the genetic basis of heterosis. It also delves into the domestication of maize and rice, as well as the application of marker-assisted selection in plant breeding.

  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Genome-wide Association Studies
  • Genetic Mapping
  • Crop Improvement
  • Genetic Variation
  • QTL Mapping
  • Maize Domestication
  • Rice Genomics
  • Heterosis
  • Marker-assisted Selection
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Which countries lead Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 700 works
  4. 4 Germany 182 works
  5. 5 Japan 182 works
  6. 6 France 162 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 155 works
  8. 8 Australia 153 works
  9. 9 Brazil 145 works
  10. 10 South Korea 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.

China: 42.2%United States: 21.0%India: 14.3%Germany: 3.7%6 others listed: 18.7%42%largest
China2,066 · 42.2%United States1,029 · 21.0%India700 · 14.3%Germany182 · 3.7%6 others listed917 · 18.7%

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

Which institutions lead Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 401 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 208 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 92 works
  4. 4 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 79 works
  5. 5 China Agricultural UniversityChina 74 works
  6. 6 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 65 works
  7. 7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 60 works
  8. 8 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 55 works
  9. 9 CGIARFrance 48 works
  10. 10 Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  5. 5 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  6. 6 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  7. 7 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  8. 8 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  9. 9 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  10. 10 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k 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 Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals?

The most cited paper in Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals is "PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses" (Shaun Purcell, Benjamin M. Neale, Katherine EO Todd-Brown et al., 2007), with 36,890 citations. Next come "Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study" (22,449) and "Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools" (17,094).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses Shaun Purcell, Benjamin M. Neale, Katherine EO Todd-Brown et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics Open access 8 Aug 2007 36,890
2 Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study Guillaume Evanno, Sébastien Regnaut, Jérôme Goudet · Molecular Ecology Open access 11 May 2005 22,449
3 Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools Petr Danecek, James Bonfield, Jennifer Liddle et al. · GigaScience Open access 29 Jan 2021 17,094
4 Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows Laurent Excoffier, Heidi E. L. Lischer · Molecular Ecology Resources Mar 2010 16,765
5 Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 8 Dec 1998 16,479
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Where is Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research done?

The largest centres of Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Wuhan (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Texcoco and Karnāl.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 465 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 118 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 103 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 96 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 73 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 70 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 58 works
  8. 8 KunmingChina 54 works
  9. 9 HyderabadIndia 51 works
  10. 10 ZhengzhouChina 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TexcocoMX · 25.0 works61×
  2. KarnālIN · 24.1 works40×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Huazhong Agricultural University and The University of Western Australia score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 17.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of We…Huazhong Agricultura…China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…
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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.

Citation 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 80.219.0%23.4×74 +18.6%
2Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 78.419.8%34.2×66 +2.7%
3The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 68.526.6%4.5×11 +19.3%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 62.614.2%18.0×40 +24.4%
5Yangzhou UniversityChina 62.413.7%13.3×42 +44.3%
6Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 62.113.2%24.1×21 +27.8%
7South China Agricultural UniversityChina 61.913.0%22.1×44 +16.3%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.219.7%1.2×22 -9.9%
9Sanya UniversityChina 57.115.4%32.7×23 -
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57.018.4%2.0×18 +17.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, country by country

Is Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

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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 Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 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.

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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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