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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. 18.2% 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%
8.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
18.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+40%
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Which countries lead Insect Pest Control Strategies research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.3k and 814 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 814 works
  3. 3 Brazil 678 works
  4. 4 United States 619 works
  5. 5 Egypt 448 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 353 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 245 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 233 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 232 works
  10. 10 Mexico 203 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: 25.4%China: 15.9%Brazil: 13.2%United States: 12.1%6 others listed: 33.4%25%largest
India1,302 · 25.4%China814 · 15.9%Brazil678 · 13.2%United States619 · 12.1%6 others listed1,714 · 33.4%

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

Which institutions lead Insect Pest Control Strategies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Agricultural Research Center publishes the most Insect Pest Control Strategies research, followed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Institute of Plant Protection.

Who are the leading researchers in Insect Pest Control Strategies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect Pest Control Strategies include Marimuthu Palaniswami, Ahmadali Enayati and Daniel H. Janzen.

  1. 1 Marimuthu Palaniswami Australia 3.8k citations
  2. 2 Ahmadali Enayati Iran 2.3k citations
  3. 3 Daniel H. Janzen United States 2.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Insect Pest Control Strategies research done?

The largest centres of Insect Pest Control Strategies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Giza Egypt 194 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 178 works
  3. 3 New Delhi India 101 works
  4. 4 Coimbatore India 94 works
  5. 5 Cairo Egypt 88 works
  6. 6 São Paulo Brazil 80 works
  7. 7 Tehran Iran 59 works
  8. 8 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 55 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C. United States 52 works
  10. 10 Bengaluru India 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JorhatIN · 27.0 works31×
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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, Agricultural University of Athens, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and University of Thessaly 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 25.14%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Agricultural University of Athens: 14, 41.4%Tamil Nadu Agricultural University: 75, 7.7%University of Thessaly: 29, 30.4%Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology: 14, 23.6%Al-Azhar University: 30, 23.5%University of Agriculture Faisalabad: 26, 16.7%Bharathidasan University: 12, 29.0%University of Carthage: 10, 17.0%Universidade Federal de Viçosa: 24, 25.8%South China Agricultural University: 24, 36.3%Agricultural Univers…University of ThessalyGovind Ballabh Pant …Tamil Nadu Agricultu…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Agricultural University of AthensGreece 65.641.4%21.6×14 +128.5%
2 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 60.67.7%41.6×75 +175.8%
3 University of ThessalyGreece 60.330.4%17.9×29 +51.6%
4 Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and TechnologyIndia 58.423.6%20.2×14 +261.9%
5 Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 58.223.5%9.9×30 +59.9%
6 University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 58.116.7%21.1×26 +116.9%
7 Bharathidasan UniversityIndia 57.729.0%8.8×12 +280.0%
8 University of CarthageTunisia 55.217.0%12.2×10 +254.2%
9 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 54.825.8%11.8×24 +42.7%
10 South China Agricultural UniversityChina 53.936.3%8.5×24 +2.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Insect Pest Control Strategies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 40% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Insect Pest Control Strategies.

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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.