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Insect Resistance and Genetics

Insect Resistance and Genetics is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 explores the molecular mechanisms and evolutionary ecology of insect resistance to synthetic and natural xenobiotics, with a focus on Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, RNA interference, P450 enzymes, and the environmental impact of transgenic crops. It covers topics such as mode of action, plant-insect interactions, and the development of insecticide resistance in agricultural pests.

  • Bacillus thuringiensis
  • RNA interference
  • Insecticide resistance
  • P450 enzymes
  • Transgenic crops
  • Mode of action
  • Plant-insect interactions
  • Environmental impact
  • Evolutionary ecology
  • Double-stranded RNA
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect Resistance and Genetics

Which countries lead Insect Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 851 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 851 works
  3. 3 United States 730 works
  4. 4 Brazil 328 works
  5. 5 Egypt 191 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 150 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 127 works
  8. 8 France 119 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 113 works
  10. 10 Mexico 111 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: 35.6%India: 20.2%United States: 17.3%Brazil: 7.8%6 others listed: 19.2%36%largest
China1,505 · 35.6%India851 · 20.2%United States730 · 17.3%Brazil328 · 7.8%6 others listed811 · 19.2%

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

Which institutions lead Insect Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Insect Resistance and Genetics 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 290 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 163 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 84 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 59 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 57 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 51 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 48 works
  8. 8 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 46 works
  9. 9 Southwest UniversityChina 43 works
  10. 10 Guizhou UniversityChina 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect Resistance and Genetics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect Resistance and Genetics include Richard M. Durbin, Peer Bork and Steven L. Salzberg.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  3. 3 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  6. 6 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  7. 7 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  10. 10 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k 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 Resistance and Genetics?

The most cited paper in Insect Resistance and Genetics is "Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes" (Andrea H. Brand, Norbert Perrimon, 1993), with 9,930 citations. Next come "Single-step purification of polypeptides expressed in Escherichia coli as fusions with glutathione S-transferase" (5,982) and "Crop losses to pests" (5,147).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes Andrea H. Brand, Norbert Perrimon · Development Jun 1993 9,930
2 Single-step purification of polypeptides expressed in Escherichia coli as fusions with glutathione S-transferase Donald B. Smith, Kevin Scot Johnson · Gene Jul 1988 5,982
3 Crop losses to pests Erich-Christian Oerke · The Journal of Agricultural Science 9 Dec 2005 5,147
4 Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G Eva Olsson Engvall, Peter Perlmann · Immunochemistry Sep 1971 3,774
5 The Host Defense of Drosophila melanogaster Bruno Lemaître, Jules A. Hoffmann · Annual Review of Immunology ReviewOpen access 13 Jan 2007 3,426
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Where is Insect Resistance and Genetics research done?

The largest centres of Insect Resistance and Genetics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Giza (Egypt), Nanjing (China) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 344 works
  2. 2 GizaEgypt 98 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 84 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 82 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 73 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 70 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 69 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 60 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 58 works
  10. 10 GuiyangChina 58 works
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Where is the best place to study Insect Resistance and Genetics?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Agricultural University and Guizhou 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 19.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…Guizhou UniversitySouthwest 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 79.218.5%23.1×46 +29.0%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 75.020.4%14.0×40 +23.1%
3Guizhou UniversityChina 71.818.4%15.2×41 +213.7%
4Southwest UniversityChina 67.414.1%15.3×43 +15.5%
5Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 66.721.6%31.7×28 +61.8%
6Ghent UniversityBelgium 64.124.7%3.9×16 -36.6%
7Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 63.917.6%28.1×34 +8.8%
8South China Agricultural UniversityChina 62.914.9%19.9×35 +22.9%
9Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 61.620.9%15.4×27 -2.1%
10University of KentuckyUnited States 61.628.7%7.0×17 -12.3%

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 Resistance and Genetics, country by country

Is Insect Resistance and Genetics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Insect Resistance and Genetics.

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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 Resistance and Genetics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Insect Resistance and Genetics 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 Resistance and Genetics10.4% 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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