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Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques

Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of plant biostimulants, including seaweed extracts and humic substances, to enhance plant growth, development, and tolerance to abiotic stress in agriculture and horticulture. It covers the physiological effects, regulatory aspects, and application of biostimulants in crop management. The research explores the use of protein hydrolysates and their impact on horticultural crops under various stress conditions.

  • Biostimulants
  • Plant Growth
  • Seaweed Extracts
  • Humic Substances
  • Crop Management
  • Abiotic Stress
  • Protein Hydrolysates
  • Horticultural Crops
  • Physiological Effects
  • Regulation
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+77%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques

Which countries lead Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1k and 681 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1k works
  2. 2 China 681 works
  3. 3 Iraq 402 works
  4. 4 Egypt 380 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 373 works
  6. 6 Russia 271 works
  7. 7 Brazil 250 works
  8. 8 Iran 209 works
  9. 9 United States 205 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 200 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: 25.8%China: 17.0%Iraq: 10.0%Egypt: 9.5%6 others listed: 37.7%26%largest
India1,031 · 25.8%China681 · 17.0%Iraq402 · 10.0%Egypt380 · 9.5%6 others listed1,509 · 37.7%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 77 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 75 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 73 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 65 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 58 works
  6. 6 University of AnbarIraq 51 works
  7. 7 University of BaghdadIraq 50 works
  8. 8 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 48 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 37 works
  10. 10 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques include Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Markus Antonietti and Carlos Manuel Duarte.

  1. 1 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  2. 2 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations
  3. 3 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  4. 4 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  5. 5 Rattan Lal United States 126k citations
  6. 6 Alisdair Robert Fernie Germany 121k 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 Growth Enhancement Techniques?

The most cited paper in Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques is "Plant biostimulants: Definition, concept, main categories and regulation" (Patrick du Jardin, 2015), with 2,833 citations. Next come "Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants" (2,308) and "Encyclopedia of plant physiology, New series" (2,040).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Plant biostimulants: Definition, concept, main categories and regulation Patrick du Jardin · Scientia Horticulturae Open access Nov 2015 2,833
2 Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants Pamela Calvo, Louise M. Nelson, Joseph W. Kloepper · Plant and Soil Open access 6 May 2014 2,308
3 Encyclopedia of plant physiology, New series J.B. Harbörne · Phytochemistry 1978 2,040
4 Seaweed Extracts as Biostimulants of Plant Growth and Development Wajahatullah Khan, Usha P. Rayirath, Sowmyalakshmi Subramanian et al. · Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 7 May 2009 1,734
5 Implications of water stress‐induced changes in the levels of endogenous ascorbic acid and hydrogen peroxide in Vigna seedlings Sukhes Mukherjee, M. A. Choudhuri · Physiologia Plantarum Jun 1983 1,489
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Where is Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research in 2022-now are Giza (Egypt), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Baghdad (Iraq). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ramadi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GizaEgypt 135 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 117 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 82 works
  4. 4 BaghdadIraq 73 works
  5. 5 CoimbatoreIndia 69 works
  6. 6 CairoEgypt 63 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 58 works
  8. 8 AllahabadIndia 54 works
  9. 9 RamadiIraq 51 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RamadiIQ · 50.5 works39×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Naples Federico II, King Saud University and Università degli Studi della Tuscia 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 23.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Cadi Ayyad UniversityUniversity of Naples…Università degli Stu…King Saud 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
1University of Naples Federico IIItaly 79.136.9%6.2×24 +23.1%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 68.027.2%4.6×24 +181.0%
3Università degli Studi della TusciaItaly 64.534.1%26.8×10 +74.7%
4Cadi Ayyad UniversityMorocco 63.437.0%11.6×12 +278.6%
5Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 63.331.4%19.2×9 +250.1%
6University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 60.913.2%25.7×23 +88.5%
7Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 56.76.7%48.1×58 +222.7%
8Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 53.114.3%10.4×21 +35.1%
9Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 52.929.5%19.8×16 +316.6%
10University of BaghdadIraq 51.01.5%13.2×50 +363.1%

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 Growth Enhancement Techniques, country by country

Is Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 77% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques.

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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 Growth Enhancement Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques 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 Growth Enhancement Techniques10.8% 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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