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Phosphorus and nutrient management

Phosphorus and nutrient management is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 recovery and sustainable management of phosphorus, a critical nutrient for global food security. The research covers various methods such as struvite formation, adsorption, and biochar utilization to remove phosphorus from wastewater and its potential reuse as fertilizer. The aim is to address the global phosphorus scarcity and develop efficient techniques for phosphorus recovery and recycling to ensure long-term sustainability in food production.

  • Phosphorus
  • Recovery
  • Wastewater
  • Fertilizer
  • Struvite
  • Adsorption
  • Nutrient
  • Global Food Security
  • Biochar
  • Sustainability
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Phosphorus and nutrient management

Which countries lead Phosphorus and nutrient management research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.6k and 503 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.6k works
  2. 2 India 503 works
  3. 3 United States 470 works
  4. 4 Brazil 217 works
  5. 5 Japan 170 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 165 works
  7. 7 Poland 162 works
  8. 8 Spain 131 works
  9. 9 Germany 128 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 125 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: 56.1%India: 10.7%United States: 10.0%Brazil: 4.6%6 others listed: 18.7%56%largest
China2,647 · 56.1%India503 · 10.7%United States470 · 10.0%Brazil217 · 4.6%6 others listed881 · 18.7%

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

Which institutions lead Phosphorus and nutrient management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Phosphorus and nutrient management research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Tongji University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 147 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 70 works
  3. 3 Tongji UniversityChina 50 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 36 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 34 works
  6. 6 China Agricultural UniversityChina 33 works
  7. 7 Central South UniversityChina 31 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  9. 9 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 30 works
  10. 10 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phosphorus and nutrient management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phosphorus and nutrient management include Philippe Ciais, Jiaguo Yu and Guangming Zeng.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  3. 3 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  6. 6 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  7. 7 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k 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 Phosphorus and nutrient management?

The most cited paper in Phosphorus and nutrient management is "Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions" (James N. Galloway, Alan R. Townsend, Jan Willem Erisman et al., 2008), with 7,151 citations. Next come "Mehlich 3 soil test extractant: A modification of Mehlich 2 extractant" (5,643) and "The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought" (5,213).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions James N. Galloway, Alan R. Townsend, Jan Willem Erisman et al. · Science Open access 15 May 2008 7,151
2 Mehlich 3 soil test extractant: A modification of Mehlich 2 extractant Adolf Mehlich · Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis Dec 1984 5,643
3 The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought Dana Cordell, Jan-Olof Drangert, Stuart B. White · Global Environmental Change 17 Feb 2009 5,213
4 Managing nitrogen for sustainable development Xin Zhang, Eric A. Davidson, Denise L. Mauzerall et al. · Nature Open access 23 Nov 2015 3,050
5 A review of potentially low-cost sorbents for heavy metals Susan Bailey, Trudy J. Olin, R. Mark Bricka et al. · Water Research Aug 1999 3,033
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Phosphorus and nutrient management research done?

The largest centres of Phosphorus and nutrient management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Marrakesh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 470 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 182 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 130 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 110 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 96 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 81 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 70 works
  8. 8 KunmingChina 69 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 67 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MarrakeshMA · 22.9 works8.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phosphorus and nutrient management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Phosphorus and nutrient management?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique and Tongji 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%10%20%30%mean 19.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…Université Mohammed …China Agricultural U…Tongji 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
1China Agricultural UniversityChina 74.415.2%9.6×33 +37.5%
2Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 73.823.9%24.8×14 +139.6%
3Tongji UniversityChina 73.214.5%5.1×50 +28.9%
4Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 70.924.5%9.8×16 +82.2%
5Yunnan UniversityChina 69.021.7%6.5×16 +148.8%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 66.417.8%3.3×34 +54.7%
7University of Technology SydneyAustralia 65.420.3%3.5×10 +43.1%
8Northwest A&F UniversityChina 62.722.4%5.6×14 +55.4%
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61.020.5%1.0×18 +13.4%
10Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.813.4%8.4×30 +104.4%

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 Phosphorus and nutrient management, country by country

Is Phosphorus and nutrient management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Phosphorus and nutrient 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 Phosphorus and nutrient management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Phosphorus and nutrient management0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Phosphorus and nutrient 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%Phosphorus and nutrient management10.1% 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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