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Genetics and Plant Breeding

Genetics and Plant Breeding is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 evaluation of cultivars in various environments, particularly emphasizing genotype-by-environment interaction, biplot analysis, plant breeding, drought tolerance, genetic improvement, multi-environment trials, stability analysis, GGE biplot, and heritability.

  • Cultivar Evaluation
  • Genotype-by-Environment Interaction
  • Biplot Analysis
  • Plant Breeding
  • Drought Tolerance
  • Genetic Improvement
  • Multi-Environment Trials
  • Stability Analysis
  • GGE Biplot
  • Heritability
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Genetics and Plant Breeding

Which countries lead Genetics and Plant Breeding research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.5k and 556 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 556 works
  3. 3 United States 425 works
  4. 4 Brazil 351 works
  5. 5 Iran 184 works
  6. 6 Ethiopia 173 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 151 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 148 works
  9. 9 Egypt 127 works
  10. 10 Mexico 126 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: 39.8%China: 14.9%United States: 11.4%Brazil: 9.4%6 others listed: 24.4%40%largest
India1,480 · 39.8%China556 · 14.9%United States425 · 11.4%Brazil351 · 9.4%6 others listed908 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Genetics and Plant Breeding research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Genetics and Plant Breeding research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 300 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 123 works
  3. 3 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 87 works
  4. 4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 76 works
  5. 5 CGIARFrance 70 works
  6. 6 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 50 works
  7. 7 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 49 works
  8. 8 Agricultural Research & Education OrganizationIran 45 works
  9. 9 Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 44 works
  10. 10 Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural UniversityIndia 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Genetics and Plant Breeding?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genetics and Plant Breeding include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and Mark J. Daly.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States 300k citations
  6. 6 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  7. 7 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  8. 8 Gordon K. Smyth Australia 237k citations
  9. 9 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  10. 10 Eric Boerwinkle United States 232k 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 Genetics and Plant Breeding?

The most cited paper in Genetics and Plant Breeding is "genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research" (Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse, 2005), with 16,827 citations. Next come "STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method" (12,797) and "TASSEL: software for association mapping of complex traits in diverse samples" (8,428).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Molecular Ecology Notes 29 Sep 2005 16,827
2 STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method Dent A. Earl, Bridgett M. vonHoldt · Conservation Genetics Resources 12 Oct 2011 12,797
3 TASSEL: software for association mapping of complex traits in diverse samples Peter J. Bradbury, Zhiwu S. Zhang, Dallas E. Kroon et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 22 Jun 2007 8,428
4 Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data: Linked Loci and Correlated Allele Frequencies Daniel Falush, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan K. Pritchard · Genetics Aug 2003 8,144
5 MAPMAKER: An interactive computer package for constructing primary genetic linkage maps of experimental and natural populations Eric S. Lander, Philip Green, Jeff Abrahamson et al. · Genomics Oct 1987 6,709
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Where is Genetics and Plant Breeding research done?

The largest centres of Genetics and Plant Breeding research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Hyderabad (India) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Texcoco, Faizabad and Pālampur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 150 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 117 works
  3. 3 HyderabadIndia 103 works
  4. 4 Addis AbabaEthiopia 103 works
  5. 5 CoimbatoreIndia 95 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 89 works
  7. 7 LudhianaIndia 61 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 55 works
  9. 9 DhakaBangladesh 49 works
  10. 10 FaisalabadPakistan 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TexcocoMX · 34.0 works105×
  2. FaizabadIN · 25.0 works100×
  3. PālampurIN · 27.3 works86×
  4. KarnālIN · 37.4 works79×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Genetics and Plant Breeding than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Genetics and Plant Breeding?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Huazhong 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.

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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 77.333.6%11.3×28 +40.9%
2Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 72.529.7%11.3×17 +23.4%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 61.926.3%9.0×16 +31.1%
4Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 58.824.1%17.5×12 +54.2%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 56.423.5%2.5×11 +255.3%
6Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 54.64.6%161.7×87 +11.5%
7University of HohenheimGermany 51.423.3%29.5×14 -30.1%
8Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 51.27.1%66.5×48 +30.4%
9University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 51.13.1%41.4×31 +41.2%
10Iowa State UniversityUnited States 49.325.5%9.7×17 -34.3%

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 Genetics and Plant Breeding, country by country

Is Genetics and Plant Breeding research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Genetics and Plant Breeding.

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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 Genetics and Plant Breeding as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Genetics and Plant Breeding0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Genetics and Plant Breeding 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%Genetics and Plant Breeding10.9% 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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