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Plant Diversity and Evolution

Plant Diversity and Evolution is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 35k 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 explores the evolution, classification, and biogeography of flowering plants, particularly focusing on the phylogeny, diversification, and historical biogeography of angiosperms. It covers topics such as molecular phylogenetics, taxonomic classification, plant diversity, and the evolutionary history of flowering plants.

  • Angiosperm Phylogeny
  • Flowering Plants
  • Biogeography
  • Diversification
  • Phylogenetics
  • Evolutionary History
  • Taxonomy
  • Molecular Phylogeny
  • Plant Diversity
  • Historical Biogeography
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Diversity and Evolution

Which countries lead Plant Diversity and Evolution research?

By volume, China and Brazil publish the most (1.1k and 881 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 Brazil 881 works
  3. 3 United States 635 works
  4. 4 India 594 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 261 works
  6. 6 Mexico 227 works
  7. 7 France 226 works
  8. 8 Germany 210 works
  9. 9 Argentina 159 works
  10. 10 Russia 154 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: 25.3%Brazil: 19.7%United States: 14.2%India: 13.3%6 others listed: 27.6%25%largest
China1,131 · 25.3%Brazil881 · 19.7%United States635 · 14.2%India594 · 13.3%6 others listed1,236 · 27.6%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Diversity and Evolution research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Plant Diversity and Evolution research, followed by Botanical Survey of India and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 299 works
  2. 2 Botanical Survey of IndiaIndia 170 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 112 works
  4. 4 Royal Botanic Gardens, KewUnited Kingdom 105 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 91 works
  6. 6 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 84 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 76 works
  8. 8 Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 55 works
  9. 9 Missouri Botanical GardenUnited States 46 works
  10. 10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Diversity and Evolution?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Diversity and Evolution include Jun Wang, Sudhir Kumar and Heng Li.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  3. 3 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  4. 4 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  5. 5 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  6. 6 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  7. 7 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  8. 8 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k 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 Diversity and Evolution?

The most cited paper in Plant Diversity and Evolution is "SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building" (Manolo Gouy, Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel, 2009), with 6,003 citations. Next come "W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis" (5,851) and "PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses" (5,469).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building Manolo Gouy, Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access 23 Oct 2009 6,003
2 W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis Jana Trifinopoulos, Lam-Tung Nguyen, Arndt von Haeseler et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 15 Apr 2016 5,851
3 PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses Robert Lanfear, Paul B. Frandsen, April Marie Wright et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access 28 Nov 2016 5,469
4 TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis Pablo A. Goloboff, James S. Farris, Kevin C. J. Nixon · Cladistics Open access 11 Jul 2008 5,395
5 Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist Alexis Dereeper, Valentin Guignon, Guillaume Blanc et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 19 Apr 2008 4,848
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Where is Plant Diversity and Evolution research done?

The largest centres of Plant Diversity and Evolution research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Kolkata (India), Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Meise, Mengla and Corrientes.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 301 works
  2. 2 KolkataIndia 189 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 137 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 132 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 111 works
  6. 6 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 105 works
  7. 7 Mexico CityMexico 104 works
  8. 8 KunmingChina 89 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 80 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MeiseBE · 24.9 works344×
  2. MenglaCN · 28.9 works193×
  3. CorrientesAR · 20.9 works61×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Diversity and Evolution than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant Diversity and Evolution?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and University of Florida 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 17.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chines…University of ViennaUniversity of FloridaUniversidad Nacional…
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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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 74.225.3%4.3×41 -4.3%
2Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 66.69.0%13.2×76 +48.6%
3University of FloridaUnited States 62.011.3%6.4×40 +4.7%
4University of ViennaAustria 58.622.4%5.7×17 +3.0%
5Sidho-Kanho-Birsha UniversityIndia 57.820.7%66.5×11 +243.1%
6Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 56.222.3%9.1×15 +10.9%
7University of Cape TownSouth Africa 55.58.4%10.2×20 +47.4%
8South China Agricultural UniversityChina 54.723.1%5.7×11 +33.9%
9University of BonnGermany 53.918.2%3.9×10 +10.2%
10Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 53.514.0%6.4×14 +18.3%

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 Diversity and Evolution, country by country

Is Plant Diversity and Evolution research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Diversity and Evolution.

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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 Diversity and Evolution as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant Diversity and Evolution0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Diversity and Evolution 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 Diversity and Evolution9.4% 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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