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Horticultural and Viticultural Research

Horticultural and Viticultural Research is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 41k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the genetic and environmental factors influencing grapevine cultivation, including the impact of climate change on wine quality, the role of anthocyanins and water deficit in grape development, transcriptome analysis of grape berries, and the concept of terroir in viticulture.

  • Grapevine
  • Genetics
  • Climate Change
  • Wine Quality
  • Anthocyanins
  • Water Deficit
  • Transcriptome Analysis
  • Viticulture
  • Terroir
  • Grape Berry Ripening
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Horticultural and Viticultural Research

Which countries lead Horticultural and Viticultural Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 755 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 755 works
  3. 3 Italy 598 works
  4. 4 France 559 works
  5. 5 Spain 523 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 350 works
  7. 7 Russia 327 works
  8. 8 India 308 works
  9. 9 Brazil 283 works
  10. 10 Germany 207 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: 26.1%United States: 14.3%Italy: 11.3%France: 10.6%6 others listed: 37.8%26%largest
China1,384 · 26.1%United States755 · 14.3%Italy598 · 11.3%France559 · 10.6%6 others listed1,999 · 37.8%

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

Which institutions lead Horticultural and Viticultural Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement publishes the most Horticultural and Viticultural Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 195 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 163 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 87 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 86 works
  5. 5 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 77 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 66 works
  7. 7 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 62 works
  8. 8 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 57 works
  9. 9 North-Caucasian Zonal Research Institute of Horticulture and ViticultureRussia 51 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Horticultural and Viticultural Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Horticultural and Viticultural Research include Walter Churchill Willett, Jun Wang and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  5. 5 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  6. 6 David Tilman United States 209k 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 Horticultural and Viticultural Research?

The most cited paper in Horticultural and Viticultural Research is "The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla" (Olivier Jaillon et al., 2007), with 3,997 citations. Next come "The genome of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.)" (2,158) and "Antioxidant Activity of Apple Peels" (1,869).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla Olivier Jaillon et al. · Nature Open access 26 Aug 2007 3,997
2 The genome of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) Riccardo Velasco et al. · Nature Genetics 27 Aug 2010 2,158
3 Antioxidant Activity of Apple Peels Kelly L. Wolfe, Xianzhong Wu, Rui Hai Liu · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2003 1,869
4 Methods of Melissopalynology J. LOUVEAUX, Anna Rita Maurizio, G. Vorwohl · Bee World 1978 1,772
5 Apple phytochemicals and their health benefits Jeanelle Boyer, Rui Hai Liu · Nutrition Journal Open access 12 May 2004 1,586
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Horticultural and Viticultural Research research done?

The largest centres of Horticultural and Viticultural Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Montpellier (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yalta, Geisenheim and Villenave-d'Ornon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 271 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 145 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 84 works
  4. 4 MontpellierFrance 82 works
  5. 5 YanglingChina 77 works
  6. 6 KrasnodarRussia 65 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 61 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 57 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 54 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YaltaUA · 20.6 works701×
  2. GeisenheimDE · 24.4 works275×
  3. Villenave-d'OrnonFR · 36.0 works241×
  4. San Michele all'AdigeIT · 20.2 works156×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Horticultural and Viticultural Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, China Agricultural University and University of Alicante 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 25.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of AlicanteNorthwest A&F Univer…Nanjing Agricultural…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
1Northwest A&F UniversityChina 86.032.7%28.9×77 +25.7%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 72.825.4%12.2×46 +49.1%
3University of AlicanteSpain 68.435.1%6.7×14 +455.5%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 65.429.5%10.3×27 +10.6%
5University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto DouroPortugal 62.824.2%50.5×36 -19.5%
6Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 57.919.2%29.3×30 +302.7%
7Shihezi UniversityChina 57.225.6%17.5×22 +190.2%
8Hebei Agricultural UniversityChina 57.134.9%15.1×14 +115.7%
9University of California, DavisUnited States 56.814.5%8.0×44 -29.4%
10Agricultural University of AthensGreece 56.611.0%48.7×28 +47.1%

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 Horticultural and Viticultural Research, country by country

Is Horticultural and Viticultural Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Horticultural and Viticultural 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 Horticultural and Viticultural Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Horticultural and Viticultural Research0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Horticultural and Viticultural 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%Horticultural and Viticultural Research10.1% 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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