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Peanut Plant Research Studies

Peanut Plant Research Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 8.3k 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 focuses on the genomics and breeding of peanuts, with an emphasis on traits such as drought tolerance and high oleic acid content. It includes research on marker-assisted selection, QTL mapping, microsatellite markers, and transcriptome analysis to improve peanut varieties.

  • Peanut
  • Genomics
  • Breeding
  • Drought Tolerance
  • High Oleic Trait
  • Marker-Assisted Selection
  • QTL Mapping
  • Microsatellite Markers
  • Transcriptome Analysis
  • AFLP Markers
Research works
8.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
830
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peanut Plant Research Studies

Which countries lead Peanut Plant Research Studies research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (416 and 328 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 416 works
  2. 2 China 328 works
  3. 3 United States 203 works
  4. 4 Brazil 103 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 74 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 71 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 70 works
  8. 8 Egypt 34 works
  9. 9 Iran 32 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 26 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: 30.7%China: 24.2%United States: 14.9%Brazil: 7.6%6 others listed: 22.6%31%largest
India416 · 30.7%China328 · 24.2%United States203 · 14.9%Brazil103 · 7.6%6 others listed308 · 22.6%

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

Which institutions lead Peanut Plant Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Peanut Plant Research Studies research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 79 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 57 works
  3. 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 45 works
  4. 4 Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 30 works
  5. 5 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 24 works
  6. 6 University of GeorgiaUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 Junagadh Agricultural UniversityIndia 17 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 16 works
  9. 9 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 15 works
  10. 10 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peanut Plant Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peanut Plant Research Studies include Walter Churchill Willett, Frank B. Hu and Dennis W. Dickson.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  3. 3 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  4. 4 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k 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 Peanut Plant Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Peanut Plant Research Studies is "MISA-web: a web server for microsatellite prediction" (Sebastian Beier, Thomas Thiel, Thomas A. Münch et al., 2017), with 2,878 citations. Next come "The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut" (1,079) and "US prevalence of self-reported peanut, tree nut, and sesame allergy: 11-year follow-up" (934).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MISA-web: a web server for microsatellite prediction Sebastian Beier, Thomas Thiel, Thomas A. Münch et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 6 Apr 2017 2,878
2 The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut David J. Bertioli et al. · Nature Genetics Open access 22 Feb 2016 1,079
3 US prevalence of self-reported peanut, tree nut, and sesame allergy: 11-year follow-up Scott Howard Sicherer, Anne Muñoz‐Furlong, James Godbold et al. · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Open access 12 May 2010 934
4 The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea David J. Bertioli et al. · Nature Genetics Open access May 2019 850
5 The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication Weijian Zhuang et al. · Nature Genetics Open access May 2019 816
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Where is Peanut Plant Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Peanut Plant Research Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Coimbatore (India), Zhengzhou (China) and Guntur (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jūnāgadh, Guntur and Athens.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 52 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 49 works
  3. 3 ZhengzhouChina 38 works
  4. 4 GunturIndia 31 works
  5. 5 HyderabadIndia 30 works
  6. 6 JūnāgadhIndia 24 works
  7. 7 AthensUnited States 21 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 20 works
  9. 9 JinanChina 19 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JūnāgadhIN · 23.7 works415×
  2. GunturIN · 31.3 works65×
  3. AthensUS · 21.2 works28×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peanut Plant Research Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peanut Plant Research Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Henan University of Technology, Henan Agricultural University and Shenyang Agricultural 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 16.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shenyang Agricultura…Henan University of …Shandong Agricultura…Henan Agricultural U…
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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
1Henan University of TechnologyChina 69.733.7%38.7×12 +77.9%
2Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 67.830.6%52.6×13 +218.1%
3Shenyang Agricultural UniversityChina 65.637.8%63.9×12 +58.6%
4Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina 58.131.7%40.6×11 +57.9%
5Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 53.71.3%134.7×45 +38.2%
6University of GeorgiaUnited States 52.311.0%32.0×21 -22.0%
7Qingdao Agricultural UniversityChina 47.817.1%62.9×13 +63.7%
8Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 45.71.6%351.2×30 +99.5%
9North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 45.71.0%17.2×14 +17.9%
10Junagadh Agricultural UniversityIndia 37.23.1%377.4×17 +61.2%

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 Peanut Plant Research Studies, country by country

Is Peanut Plant Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Peanut Plant Research 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 Peanut Plant Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0071% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Peanut Plant Research 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%Peanut Plant Research Studies11.3% 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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