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Livestock Farming and Management

Livestock Farming and Management is a research topic within Agronomy and Crop Science. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 current situation and future prospects for beef cattle production, with an emphasis on topics such as livestock production, small farming, genetic diversity, sustainable agriculture, economic efficiency, swamp buffaloes, supply chain analysis, integrated farming systems, and market structure in various regions including Indonesia.

  • Beef Cattle
  • Livestock Production
  • Small Farming
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Economic Efficiency
  • Swamp Buffaloes
  • Supply Chain Analysis
  • Integrated Farming System
  • Market Structure
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
91% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Livestock Farming and Management

Which countries lead Livestock Farming and Management research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (4.6k and 98 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 4.6k works
  2. 2 India 98 works
  3. 3 ?? 83 works
  4. 4 United States 66 works
  5. 5 Malaysia 51 works
  6. 6 China 47 works
  7. 7 Ethiopia 34 works
  8. 8 Thailand 30 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 30 works
  10. 10 Philippines 22 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: 90.9%India: 1.9%??: 1.6%United States: 1.3%6 others listed: 4.2%91%largest
Indonesia4,629 · 90.9%India98 · 1.9%??83 · 1.6%United States66 · 1.3%6 others listed214 · 4.2%

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

Which institutions lead Livestock Farming and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Livestock Farming and Management research, followed by Udayana University and Padjadjaran University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 165 works
  2. 2 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 148 works
  3. 3 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 143 works
  4. 4 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 138 works
  5. 5 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 112 works
  6. 6 Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 108 works
  7. 7 University of MataramIndonesia 106 works
  8. 8 Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia 103 works
  9. 9 University of PattimuraIndonesia 99 works
  10. 10 University of Nusa CendanaIndonesia 97 works

Who are the leading researchers in Livestock Farming and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Livestock Farming and Management include Michael Edward Goddard.

  1. 1 Michael Edward Goddard Australia 89k 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 Farming and Management?

The most cited paper in Livestock Farming and Management is "Genetic diversity in farm animals – a review" (Linn F. Groeneveld, Johannes Arjen Lenstra, H. Eding et al., 2010), with 656 citations. Next come "An intercross population study reveals genes associated with body size and plumage color in ducks" (436) and "African Origins of the Domestic Donkey" (294).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Genetic diversity in farm animals – a review Linn F. Groeneveld, Johannes Arjen Lenstra, H. Eding et al. · Animal Genetics Open access 16 Apr 2010 656
2 An intercross population study reveals genes associated with body size and plumage color in ducks Zhengkui Zhou et al. · Nature Communications Open access 3 Jul 2018 436
3 African Origins of the Domestic Donkey Albano Beja‐Pereira, Phillip R. England, Nuno Ferrand et al. · Science Open access 17 Jun 2004 294
4 Village egg and fowl meat production in Africa El Hadji Fallou Guèye · World s Poultry Science Journal Mar 1998 292
5 Classic Selective Sweeps Revealed by Massive Sequencing in Cattle Saber Qanbari, Hubert Pausch, Sandra Jansen et al. · PLoS Genetics Open access 27 Feb 2014 261
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Livestock Farming and Management research done?

The largest centres of Livestock Farming and Management research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Malang (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Makassar (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manokwari, Kefamenanu and Majene.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 316 works
  2. 2 MalangIndonesia 255 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 238 works
  4. 4 MakassarIndonesia 227 works
  5. 5 BogorIndonesia 211 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 197 works
  7. 7 DenpasarIndonesia 196 works
  8. 8 MedanIndonesia 176 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 176 works
  10. 10 PadangIndonesia 145 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManokwariID · 53.9 works160×
  2. KefamenanuID · 30.7 works87×
  3. MajeneID · 28.8 works62×
  4. KendariID · 114.9 works52×
  5. PamekasanID · 29.9 works49×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Livestock Farming and Management on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, IPB University, Airlangga University and University of Brawijaya score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 11.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →IPB UniversityAirlangga UniversityUniversity of Brawij…Universitas Jember
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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.

Citation 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
1IPB UniversityIndonesia 69.413.6%64.1×165 -3.6%
2Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 66.612.9%16.5×66 +29.4%
3University of BrawijayaIndonesia 64.610.3%34.6×138 +9.5%
4Universitas JemberIndonesia 63.610.0%24.3×63 +41.2%
5Andalas UniversityIndonesia 63.210.2%41.4×96 +22.8%
6Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 62.68.2%35.7×143 +36.5%
7Lampung UniversityIndonesia 61.910.5%37.5×94 +52.1%
8Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia 60.99.7%68.2×103 +20.6%
9Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 60.322.6%3.8×9 +10.6%
10Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 59.811.1%25.6×112 -17.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Farming and Management, country by country

Is Livestock Farming and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Livestock Farming and 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 Farming and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Livestock Farming and Management0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Livestock Farming and 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 Farming and Management9.5% 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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