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Livestock and Poultry Management

Livestock and Poultry Management is a research topic within Animal Science and Zoology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the origins and domestication of chickens, focusing on genetic diversity, mitochondrial DNA analysis, indigenous and family poultry breeds, their role in rural economies, and contribution to food security and gender equality. The research also delves into the use of ancient DNA to study ancestral Polynesian chickens and the impact of chicken production on poverty alleviation in Africa.

  • Chicken Domestication
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Village Poultry
  • Mitochondrial DNA
  • Indigenous Breeds
  • Family Poultry
  • Rural Economy
  • Gender Equality
  • Ancient DNA
  • Food Security
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Livestock and Poultry Management

Which countries lead Livestock and Poultry Management research?

By volume, Indonesia and Nigeria publish the most (508 and 367 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 508 works
  2. 2 Nigeria 367 works
  3. 3 India 354 works
  4. 4 United States 247 works
  5. 5 China 187 works
  6. 6 Ethiopia 114 works
  7. 7 Egypt 111 works
  8. 8 Iraq 99 works
  9. 9 Brazil 90 works
  10. 10 France 88 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.

Indonesia: 23.5%Nigeria: 16.9%India: 16.3%United States: 11.4%6 others listed: 31.9%23%largest
Indonesia508 · 23.5%Nigeria367 · 16.9%India354 · 16.3%United States247 · 11.4%6 others listed690 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Livestock and Poultry Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Livestock and Poultry Management research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 50 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 36 works
  3. 3 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 31 works
  4. 4 Federal University of AgricultureNigeria 29 works
  5. 5 IPB UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  6. 6 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  7. 7 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 25 works
  8. 8 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 21 works
  9. 9 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 20 works
  10. 10 Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Livestock and Poultry Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Livestock and Poultry Management include Simon Iain Hay, Jun Wang and Yuming Guo.

  1. 1 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  4. 4 Peter W. Gething United Kingdom 171k citations
  5. 5 Peter W.F. Wilson United States 161k 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 Livestock and Poultry Management?

The most cited paper in Livestock and Poultry Management is "Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication" (Carl‐Johan Rubin, Michael C. Zody, Jonas K Eriksson et al., 2010), with 1,233 citations. Next come "PRACTICAL METHODS OF ESTIMATING VOLUME AND FRESH WEIGHT OF BIRD EGGS" (1,178) and "The ears of the hippopotamus: manifestations, determinants, and estimates of the malaria burden" (940).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication Carl‐Johan Rubin, Michael C. Zody, Jonas K Eriksson et al. · Nature Open access Mar 2010 1,233
2 PRACTICAL METHODS OF ESTIMATING VOLUME AND FRESH WEIGHT OF BIRD EGGS Donald F. Hoyt · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) 1979 1,178
3 The ears of the hippopotamus: manifestations, determinants, and estimates of the malaria burden JG Breman · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2001 940
4 Growth, efficiency, and yield of commercial broilers from 1957, 1978, and 2005 Martin J. Zuidhof, B.L. Schneider, V.L. Carney et al. · Poultry Science Open access 27 Sep 2014 882
5 Effects of dietary inclusion of probiotic and synbiotic on growth performance, organ weights, and intestinal histomorphology of broiler chickens Wageha A. Awad, Khaled Ghareeb, Sherief Mohamed Abdel-Raheem et al. · Poultry Science Open access 18 Dec 2008 875
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Where is Livestock and Poultry Management research done?

The largest centres of Livestock and Poultry Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Abeokuta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 50 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 42 works
  3. 3 Addis AbabaEthiopia 40 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 33 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 32 works
  6. 6 BogorIndonesia 32 works
  7. 7 DhakaBangladesh 30 works
  8. 8 NairobiKenya 30 works
  9. 9 AbeokutaNigeria 30 works
  10. 10 DenpasarIndonesia 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AbeokutaNG · 29.7 works57×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Livestock and Poultry Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Livestock and Poultry Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, China Agricultural University and University of Georgia 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 19.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Wageningen Universit…University of GeorgiaEthiopian Institute …
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 82.540.8%13.9×16 +6.2%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 71.343.7%7.6×13 +24.3%
3University of GeorgiaUnited States 65.934.7%10.1×14 +67.9%
4Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 60.611.1%67.6×25 +59.7%
5IPB UniversityIndonesia 52.02.8%14.7×26 +30.2%
6Federal University of AgricultureNigeria 51.99.3%112.9×29 -41.0%
7University of LoméTogo 48.714.3%57.3×10 +143.9%
8Udayana UniversityIndonesia 47.60.0%10.9×26 +71.0%
9University of Veterinary and Animal SciencesPakistan 46.817.9%67.2×14 -22.9%
10Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 45.516.7%53.9×16 -24.0%

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 Livestock and Poultry Management, country by country

Is Livestock and Poultry Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Livestock and Poultry Management.

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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 Livestock and Poultry Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Livestock and Poultry Management0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Livestock and Poultry Management 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%Livestock and Poultry Management10.8% 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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