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Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis

Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 36k 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 biosynthesis and engineering of terpenoids, including the isoprenoid pathway, metabolic engineering for plant volatile production, sesquiterpene and triterpene biosynthesis, MEP pathway optimization, cyclization enzymes, and the production of specific terpenoids like artemisinin. The research spans across various organisms and aims to understand, manipulate, and optimize the biosynthetic pathways for the production of valuable terpenoid compounds.

  • Terpenoid Biosynthesis
  • Isoprenoid Pathway
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Plant Volatiles
  • Sesquiterpene Synthases
  • Artemisinin Production
  • Triterpene Biosynthesis
  • MEP Pathway
  • Cyclization Enzymes
  • Phytoalexin Biosynthesis
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis

Which countries lead Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.2k and 508 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 India 508 works
  3. 3 United States 492 works
  4. 4 Germany 230 works
  5. 5 Japan 190 works
  6. 6 Brazil 185 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 176 works
  8. 8 France 143 works
  9. 9 Italy 127 works
  10. 10 South Korea 123 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: 59.6%India: 9.4%United States: 9.1%Germany: 4.3%6 others listed: 17.5%60%largest
China3,210 · 59.6%India508 · 9.4%United States492 · 9.1%Germany230 · 4.3%6 others listed944 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 243 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 179 works
  3. 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 75 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 66 works
  5. 5 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 55 works
  6. 6 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 53 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 46 works
  8. 8 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 45 works
  9. 9 Jiangnan UniversityChina 45 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis include Guido Kroemer, Jun Wang and Richard A. Gibbs.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  4. 4 Michael Karin United States 276k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  7. 7 Scott M. Grundy United States 257k citations
  8. 8 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  9. 9 Lorenzo Monasta Italy 235k 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 Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis?

The most cited paper in Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis is "Extended-Connectivity Fingerprints" (David O. Williams Rogers, Mathew Hahn, 2010), with 7,989 citations. Next come "An integrated procedure for the extraction of bacterial isoprenoid quinones and polar lipids" (5,534) and "Regulation of the mevalonate pathway" (5,449).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Extended-Connectivity Fingerprints David O. Williams Rogers, Mathew Hahn · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 28 Apr 2010 7,989
2 An integrated procedure for the extraction of bacterial isoprenoid quinones and polar lipids David E. Minnikin, Anthony G. O’Donnell, Michael Goodfellow et al. · Journal of Microbiological Methods Jul 1984 5,534
3 Regulation of the mevalonate pathway Joseph L. Goldstein, Michael S. Brown · Nature Feb 1990 5,449
4 Direct activation of calcium-activated, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase by tumor-promoting phorbol esters. Marco T. Castagna, Yoshimi Takai, Kozo Kaibuchi et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Jul 1982 4,765
5 ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery Anna Gaulton, Louisa J. Bellis, A. Patrícia Bento et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 23 Sep 2011 4,581
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Where is Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research done?

The largest centres of Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Guangzhou (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lin’an Shi, Xiaodian and Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 577 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 167 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 148 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 132 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 113 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 111 works
  7. 7 KunmingChina 102 works
  8. 8 HaikouChina 88 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 71 works
  10. 10 GuiyangChina 70 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Lin’an ShiCN · 31.2 works28×
  2. XiaodianCN · 21.0 works23×
  3. YanglingCN · 54.7 works21×
  4. Ya'anCN · 29.9 works15×
  5. HaikouCN · 87.9 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangnan University, Northwest A&F University and Huazhong 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 18.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangnan UniversityZhejiang UniversityHuazhong Agricultura…Northwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Jiangnan UniversityChina 88.731.1%12.3×45 +137.3%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 75.817.6%22.9×55 +19.9%
3Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 73.919.5%19.4×40 +17.4%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 70.326.0%2.1×35 +35.5%
5Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 69.416.4%17.2×41 +16.9%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66.320.6%1.8×33 +10.3%
7Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 64.618.5%26.4×28 +63.1%
8Yangzhou UniversityChina 63.015.5%8.9×30 +170.4%
9China Agricultural UniversityChina 60.416.7%7.6×26 +27.0%
10Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 58.15.7%19.1×53 +48.2%

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 Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, country by country

Is Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis.

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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 Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis 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%Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis9.9% 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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