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Livestock Management and Performance Improvement

Livestock Management and Performance Improvement is a research topic within Agronomy and Crop Science. Science Explorer counts 8.2k 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 focuses on various aspects of livestock farming, rural development practices, and their impact on public health and socioeconomic factors. It covers topics such as healthcare reform, globalization's cultural consequences, women empowerment in agriculture, and the nutritional status of livestock. The papers also discuss the challenges and opportunities in agricultural practices and the implications for rural development.

  • Livestock Farming
  • Rural Development
  • Agricultural Practices
  • Healthcare Reform
  • Globalization
  • Cultural Consequences
  • Women Empowerment
  • Nutritional Status
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Public Health Policy
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
839
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
73% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Livestock Management and Performance Improvement

Which countries lead Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 105 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 105 works
  3. 3 Pakistan 80 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 69 works
  5. 5 Bangladesh 60 works
  6. 6 Egypt 40 works
  7. 7 Iraq 38 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 37 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 34 works
  10. 10 Brazil 32 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: 72.9%United States: 5.7%Pakistan: 4.4%Türkiye: 3.8%6 others listed: 13.2%73%largest
India1,334 · 72.9%United States105 · 5.7%Pakistan80 · 4.4%Türkiye69 · 3.8%6 others listed241 · 13.2%

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

Which institutions lead Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research, followed by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed Amravati and Assam Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 193 works
  2. 2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 30 works
  3. 3 Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 25 works
  4. 4 Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences UniversityIndia 25 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences UniversityIndia 23 works
  6. 6 Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of KashmirIndia 21 works
  7. 7 Kamdhenu UniversityIndia 20 works
  8. 8 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 19 works
  9. 9 Anand Agricultural UniversityIndia 19 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Livestock Management and Performance Improvement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Livestock Management and Performance Improvement include Martin McKee, Peter M. Visscher and Arun Kumar.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Peter M. Visscher Australia 193k citations
  3. 3 Arun Kumar Germany 150k 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 Management and Performance Improvement?

The most cited paper in Livestock Management and Performance Improvement is "Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models" (Eric Vittinghoff, David V. Glidden, Stephen C. Shiboski et al., 2006), with 1,187 citations. Next come "Factors Affecting the Utilization of ‘Poor-Quality’ Forages by Ruminants Particularly Under Tropical Conditions" (617) and "Major Advances in Disease Prevention in Dairy Cattle" (583).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models Eric Vittinghoff, David V. Glidden, Stephen C. Shiboski et al. · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) 30 Mar 2006 1,187
2 Factors Affecting the Utilization of ‘Poor-Quality’ Forages by Ruminants Particularly Under Tropical Conditions R. A. Leng · Nutrition Research Reviews Open access 1990 617
3 Major Advances in Disease Prevention in Dairy Cattle S.J. LeBlanc, Kerry D. Lissemore, D.F. Kelton et al. · Journal of Dairy Science Open access Apr 2006 583
4 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Bernard Augustus Keen · Nature 8 Dec 1962 477
5 Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It's Just Regression! Robert N. Bickel 19 Mar 2007 407
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Karnāl (India), Mumbai (India) and Hisar (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Karnāl, Kalpatta and Bikaner.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 52 works
  2. 2 KarnālIndia 52 works
  3. 3 MumbaiIndia 44 works
  4. 4 HisarIndia 41 works
  5. 5 LudhianaIndia 39 works
  6. 6 BengaluruIndia 38 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 37 works
  8. 8 HyderabadIndia 34 works
  9. 9 BhubaneswarIndia 30 works
  10. 10 BikanerIndia 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KarnālIN · 51.5 works257×
  2. KalpattaIN · 24.8 works257×
  3. BikanerIN · 29.2 works165×
  4. KohimaIN · 21.9 works123×
  5. JorhatIN · 25.3 works107×
  6. HisarIN · 40.9 works99×
  7. BareillyIN · 22.2 works91×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Livestock Management and Performance Improvement than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Livestock Management and Performance Improvement?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Limpopo, Bangladesh Agricultural University and Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences 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 10.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LimpopoBangladesh Agricultu…Lala Lajpat Rai Univ…Krishi Vigyan Kendra…
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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
1University of LimpopoSouth Africa 64.934.2%46.0×9 +318.1%
2Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 56.021.2%98.2×18 -23.8%
3Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal SciencesIndia 48.37.1%397.6×17 +30.1%
4Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 47.93.0%311.2×30 -7.3%
5University of Veterinary and Animal SciencesPakistan 47.88.4%83.5×10 +48.6%
6Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of KashmirIndia 47.68.7%132.1×21 -4.3%
7Kamdhenu UniversityIndia 45.04.0%367.5×20 +504.3%
8Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences UniversityIndia 44.34.5%281.6×25 -15.3%
9Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 44.39.1%63.2×19 +7.2%
10Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences UniversityIndia 43.98.8%301.7×23 -24.1%

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 Management and Performance Improvement, country by country

Is Livestock Management and Performance Improvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Livestock Management and Performance Improvement.

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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 Management and Performance Improvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Livestock Management and Performance Improvement0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Livestock Management and Performance Improvement 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 Management and Performance Improvement12.2% 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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