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Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Insect-Plant Interactions and Control is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 complex interactions between insects and plants in agricultural ecosystems. It covers topics such as jasmonate signaling, herbivore-induced plant volatiles, biological control, plant defense mechanisms against insect herbivores, the effects of pesticides on arthropod pests, host plant selection by insects, and the role of predator diversity. The research aims to understand and manage these interactions to improve pest control and sustainable crop production.

  • Jasmonate Signaling
  • Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles
  • Biological Control
  • Plant Defense
  • Insect Herbivores
  • Pesticide Effects
  • Arthropod Pests
  • Host Plant Selection
  • Predator Diversity
  • Phytohormones
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
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
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Which countries lead Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 Brazil 602 works
  5. 5 Japan 298 works
  6. 6 France 292 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 262 works
  8. 8 Russia 212 works
  9. 9 Iran 200 works
  10. 10 Germany 193 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: 31.7%United States: 21.1%India: 16.5%Brazil: 9.0%6 others listed: 21.8%32%largest
China2,122 · 31.7%United States1,412 · 21.1%India1,108 · 16.5%Brazil602 · 9.0%6 others listed1,458 · 21.8%

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

Which institutions lead Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 418 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 247 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 183 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 103 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 83 works
  6. 6 Guizhou UniversityChina 78 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 75 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 75 works
  9. 9 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 69 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 68 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect-Plant Interactions and Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect-Plant Interactions and Control include Richard M. Durbin, Jun Wang and Heng Li.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  4. 4 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  5. 5 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  6. 6 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Eugene V. Koonin United States 217k citations
  9. 9 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  10. 10 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k 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-Plant Interactions and Control?

The most cited paper in Insect-Plant Interactions and Control is "BOTANICAL INSECTICIDES, DETERRENTS, AND REPELLENTS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY REGULATED WORLD" (Murray B. Isman, 2005), with 3,850 citations. Next come "The Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Beneficial Arthropods" (3,590) and "Habitat Management to Conserve Natural Enemies of Arthropod Pests in Agriculture" (3,086).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 The Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Beneficial Arthropods Nicolas Desneux, Axel Decourtye, Jean‐Marie Delpuech · Annual Review of Entomology Review 14 Jul 2006 3,590
3 Habitat Management to Conserve Natural Enemies of Arthropod Pests in Agriculture Douglas A. Landis, S. D. Wratten, Geoff M. Gurr · Annual Review of Entomology Review 2000 3,086
4 Jasmonates: biosynthesis, perception, signal transduction and action in plant stress response, growth and development. An update to the 2007 review in Annals of Botany Claus H. Wasternack, Bettina Hause · Annals of Botany Open access 4 Apr 2013 2,689
5 JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCFCOI1 complex during jasmonate signalling Bryan C. Thines, Leron Katsir, Maeli Melotto et al. · Nature 18 Jul 2007 2,597
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Where is Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research done?

The largest centres of Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Paris (France) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krishnanagar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 510 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 119 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 107 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 106 works
  5. 5 GuiyangChina 104 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 102 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 101 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 93 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 90 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 88 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrishnanagarIN · 20.1 works46×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect-Plant Interactions and Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect-Plant Interactions and Control?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wageningen University & Research and China Agricultural 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 23.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…Wageningen Universit…Guizhou 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
1Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 76.621.7%19.9×67 +34.1%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 73.620.3%10.5×33 -1.0%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 73.023.4%11.4×55 +11.3%
4Guizhou UniversityChina 68.415.2%17.4×78 +158.7%
5Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 67.832.2%9.4×27 -22.7%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 66.928.5%1.9×46 -1.1%
7Ningbo UniversityChina 66.930.4%3.1×16 +183.2%
8Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 66.419.9%22.5×45 +12.6%
9Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 63.627.9%13.8×20 +51.5%
10Southwest UniversityChina 62.918.1%8.0×38 +34.2%

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-Plant Interactions and Control, country by country

Is Insect-Plant Interactions and Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Insect-Plant Interactions and 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 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Insect-Plant Interactions and Control0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Insect-Plant Interactions and 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%Insect-Plant Interactions and Control9.8% 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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