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Insect Pest Control Strategies

Insect Pest Control Strategies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 focuses on the use of botanical insecticides, particularly essential oils and plant extracts, for pest management in agriculture. It covers topics such as the efficacy of botanical insecticides against various insects, including mosquitoes and stored-product pests, as well as their potential as eco-friendly alternatives in pest control. The cluster also discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with the commercialization and application of botanical insecticides.

  • Botanical Insecticides
  • Essential Oils
  • Insect Control
  • Mosquito Repellents
  • Stored-Product Insects
  • Biopesticides
  • Neem Oil
  • Larvicidal Activity
  • Plant Extracts
  • Pest Management
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
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Largest producer
India
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect Pest Control Strategies

Which countries lead Insect Pest Control Strategies research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.4k and 892 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 892 works
  3. 3 Brazil 736 works
  4. 4 United States 685 works
  5. 5 Egypt 472 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 377 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 272 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 267 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 253 works
  10. 10 Mexico 221 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: 25.5%China: 15.9%Brazil: 13.1%United States: 12.2%6 others listed: 33.2%26%largest
India1,429 · 25.5%China892 · 15.9%Brazil736 · 13.1%United States685 · 12.2%6 others listed1,862 · 33.2%

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

Which institutions lead Insect Pest Control Strategies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Insect Pest Control Strategies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Research Center.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 178 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 132 works
  3. 3 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 109 works
  4. 4 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 86 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 79 works
  6. 6 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 41 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 37 works
  8. 8 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 36 works
  9. 9 Cairo UniversityEgypt 35 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect Pest Control Strategies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect Pest Control Strategies include Simon Iain Hay, Ted R. Miller and Koichiro Tamura.

  1. 1 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  2. 2 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  3. 3 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  4. 4 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  5. 5 Didier Raoult France 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 Insect Pest Control Strategies?

The most cited paper in Insect Pest Control Strategies is "Essential oils: their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods—a review" (Sara A. Burt, 2004), with 10,472 citations. Next come "Crop losses to pests" (5,147) and "BOTANICAL INSECTICIDES, DETERRENTS, AND REPELLENTS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY REGULATED WORLD" (3,850).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Essential oils: their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods—a review Sara A. Burt · International Journal of Food Microbiology 9 Jun 2004 10,472
2 Crop losses to pests Erich-Christian Oerke · The Journal of Agricultural Science 9 Dec 2005 5,147
3 BOTANICAL INSECTICIDES, DETERRENTS, AND REPELLENTS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY REGULATED WORLD Murray B. Isman · Annual Review of Entomology Review 11 Jul 2005 3,850
4 Antimicrobial activity of essential oils and other plant extracts Katherine A. Hammer, Christine F Carson, T. V. Riley · Journal of Applied Microbiology Jun 1999 2,574
5 Plant Immunity to Insect Herbivores Gregg A. Howe, Georg Jander · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 21 Nov 2007 2,475
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Where is Insect Pest Control Strategies research done?

The largest centres of Insect Pest Control Strategies research in 2022-now are Giza (Egypt), Beijing (China), New Delhi (India) and Coimbatore (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jorhat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GizaEgypt 202 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 192 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 109 works
  4. 4 CoimbatoreIndia 99 works
  5. 5 CairoEgypt 96 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 85 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 62 works
  8. 8 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 58 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 56 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JorhatIN · 28.6 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect Pest Control Strategies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect Pest Control Strategies?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou University, King Saud University and Saveetha 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 23.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Saveetha UniversityGuizhou UniversityChina Agricultural U…King Saud 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
1Guizhou UniversityChina 71.328.1%7.4×30 +277.0%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.719.6%5.4×41 +97.4%
3Saveetha UniversityIndia 60.528.8%1.9×14 +683.5%
4China Agricultural UniversityChina 59.520.6%5.0×21 +49.9%
5Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco 58.831.0%3.8×8 +163.7%
6Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 58.725.1%5.3×16 +154.8%
7Cairo UniversityEgypt 58.520.1%5.9×35 +23.4%
8Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 58.426.0%5.8×14 +285.1%
9University of ThessalyGreece 58.311.9%18.2×32 +34.5%
10Northwest A&F UniversityChina 57.026.7%6.0×18 +11.8%

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 Insect Pest Control Strategies, country by country

Is Insect Pest Control Strategies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Insect Pest Control Strategies.

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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 Insect Pest Control Strategies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Insect Pest Control Strategies 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%Insect Pest Control Strategies10.3% 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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