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Nematode management and characterization studies

Nematode management and characterization studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of plant-parasitic nematodes, including their molecular pathology, genome sequences, control strategies, resistance mechanisms in plants, phylogenetic relationships, and biological control methods. The research covers a wide range of topics related to the interactions between nematodes and plants, with a particular emphasis on soil food webs and the impact of nematodes on plant health.

  • Nematodes
  • Plant-Parasitic
  • Molecular Pathology
  • Soil Food Web
  • Genome Sequence
  • Nematode Control
  • Root-Knot Resistance
  • RNAi Silencing
  • Phylogenetic Relationships
  • Biological Control
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nematode management and characterization studies

Which countries lead Nematode management and characterization studies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 692 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 692 works
  3. 3 United States 626 works
  4. 4 Brazil 320 works
  5. 5 Egypt 159 works
  6. 6 Spain 126 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 116 works
  8. 8 France 113 works
  9. 9 Mexico 112 works
  10. 10 Germany 107 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: 32.6%India: 19.7%United States: 17.8%Brazil: 9.1%6 others listed: 20.8%33%largest
China1,148 · 32.6%India692 · 19.7%United States626 · 17.8%Brazil320 · 9.1%6 others listed733 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Nematode management and characterization studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Nematode management and characterization studies research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 160 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 133 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 85 works
  4. 4 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 58 works
  6. 6 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 47 works
  7. 7 Aligarh Muslim UniversityIndia 40 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 40 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 35 works
  10. 10 University of LimpopoSouth Africa 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nematode management and characterization studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nematode management and characterization studies include Jun Wang, Jean‐Louis Vincent and Richard K. Wilson.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  3. 3 Richard K. Wilson United States 244k citations
  4. 4 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  5. 5 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  6. 6 Eugene V. Koonin United States 217k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k 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 Nematode management and characterization studies?

The most cited paper in Nematode management and characterization studies is "Crop losses to pests" (Erich-Christian Oerke, 2005), with 5,147 citations. Next come "THE ROLE OF ROOT EXUDATES IN RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS WITH PLANTS AND OTHER ORGANISMS" (4,713) and "Identification of markers linked to disease-resistance genes by bulked segregant analysis: a rapid method to detect markers in specific genomic regions by using segregating populations." (4,670).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Crop losses to pests Erich-Christian Oerke · The Journal of Agricultural Science 9 Dec 2005 5,147
2 THE ROLE OF ROOT EXUDATES IN RHIZOSPHERE INTERACTIONS WITH PLANTS AND OTHER ORGANISMS HARSH PAL BAIS, Tiffany L. Weir, Laura G. Perry et al. · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 31 Jan 2006 4,713
3 Identification of markers linked to disease-resistance genes by bulked segregant analysis: a rapid method to detect markers in specific genomic regions by using segregating populations. Richard W. Michelmore, Ilan Paran, Rick Kesseli · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Nov 1991 4,670
4 The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops Serge Savary, Laetitia Willocquet, Sarah Jane Pethybridge et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution Open access 4 Feb 2019 4,298
5 Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Ben J. J. Lugtenberg, Faina D. Kamilova · Annual Review of Microbiology Review 8 Sep 2009 4,018
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Where is Nematode management and characterization studies research done?

The largest centres of Nematode management and characterization studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Nanjing (China) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Polokwane, Jorhat and Aligarh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 243 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 82 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 74 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 60 works
  5. 5 KunmingChina 58 works
  6. 6 CoimbatoreIndia 53 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 46 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 46 works
  9. 9 BrasíliaBrazil 43 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PolokwaneZA · 34.7 works61×
  2. JorhatIN · 29.6 works51×
  3. AligarhIN · 40.6 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nematode management and characterization studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nematode management and characterization studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong Agricultural University, China Agricultural University and King Saud 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 20.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Huazhong Agricultura…King Saud UniversityChina Agricultural U…Yunnan 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
1Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 75.624.8%11.9×19 +41.4%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 74.022.4%9.9×26 +26.1%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 72.223.6%3.5×16 +65.1%
4Yunnan UniversityChina 70.514.3%17.3×32 +133.7%
5Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 70.122.7%13.6×25 +4.6%
6Northwest A&F UniversityChina 67.819.5%10.5×19 +39.4%
7Guizhou UniversityChina 67.118.8%7.6×18 +196.4%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.430.6%1.1×14 +14.8%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.421.5%1.8×14 +23.1%
10Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 60.16.6%44.9×47 +18.9%

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 Nematode management and characterization studies, country by country

Is Nematode management and characterization studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Nematode management and characterization studies.

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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 Nematode management and characterization studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nematode management and characterization studies0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nematode management and characterization studies 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%Nematode management and characterization studies10.1% 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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