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Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control

Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the dynamic modeling and simulation of plant architecture, growth, and environmental control in greenhouses. It covers topics such as functional–structural plant modelling, computational fluid dynamics for greenhouse climate control, virtual plants, solar energy utilization in greenhouses, crop photosynthesis, L-systems modeling for plant architecture, microclimate simulation, and the use of renewable energy in agriculture.

  • Plant Architecture
  • Functional–Structural Plant Modelling
  • Greenhouse Climate Control
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Virtual Plants
  • Solar Energy in Greenhouses
  • Crop Photosynthesis
  • L-systems Modeling
  • Microclimate Simulation
  • Renewable Energy in Agriculture
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+41%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control

Which countries lead Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 766 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 766 works
  3. 3 United States 440 works
  4. 4 Japan 182 works
  5. 5 Italy 165 works
  6. 6 South Korea 163 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 158 works
  8. 8 Russia 148 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 129 works
  10. 10 Brazil 117 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: 32.1%India: 22.9%United States: 13.2%Japan: 5.4%6 others listed: 26.4%32%largest
China1,072 · 32.1%India766 · 22.9%United States440 · 13.2%Japan182 · 5.4%6 others listed881 · 26.4%

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

Which institutions lead Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and China Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 65 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 55 works
  3. 3 China Agricultural UniversityChina 55 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 38 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
  6. 6 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 34 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 30 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 29 works
  9. 9 National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationJapan 26 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control include Jun Wang, Philippe Ciais and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  5. 5 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  6. 6 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  7. 7 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k 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 Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control?

The most cited paper in Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control is "ON THE VALIDATION OF MODELS" (Cort J. Willmott, 1981), with 4,865 citations. Next come "The DSSAT cropping system model" (4,428) and "Some Comments on the Evaluation of Model Performance" (3,783).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ON THE VALIDATION OF MODELS Cort J. Willmott · Physical Geography Jul 1981 4,865
2 The DSSAT cropping system model Jim W. Jones, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Cheryl H. Porter et al. · European Journal of Agronomy 28 Dec 2002 4,428
3 Some Comments on the Evaluation of Model Performance Cort J. Willmott · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Nov 1982 3,783
4 Climate and the efficiency of crop production in Britain John Lennox Monteith · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 25 Nov 1977 3,521
5 The interpretation of the variations in leaf water potential and stomatal conductance found in canopies in the field Paul Gordon Jarvis · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 26 Feb 1976 3,380
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research done?

The largest centres of Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chennai (India) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wageningen and Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 251 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 56 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 54 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 49 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 47 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 46 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 44 works
  8. 8 CoimbatoreIndia 42 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  10. 10 WageningenNetherlands 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WageningenNL · 38.3 works18×
  2. YanglingCN · 29.7 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, China 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.

0%20%40%mean 23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Cornell UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…Wageningen Universit…China Agricultural U…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 87.822.7%20.2×34 +31.0%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 75.815.7%21.2×55 +46.1%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 75.225.4%16.3×30 +129.0%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 71.631.2%2.9×18 +182.1%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 68.831.5%5.0×19 +108.7%
6Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 68.125.4%3.5×16 +94.8%
7Agricultural University of AthensGreece 64.325.3%29.5×11 +27.2%
8Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 55.316.6%11.1×20 +195.1%
9University of TehranIran 54.822.4%3.7×10 -10.1%
10Hamad bin Khalifa UniversityQatar 53.013.8%15.4×8 +604.8%

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 Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control, country by country

Is Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control.

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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 Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control 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%Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control10.3% 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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