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Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects

Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 biofortification, the process of enhancing the nutritional value of staple crops by increasing the content of essential mineral elements such as iron, zinc, and other micronutrients. The papers cover various approaches including agronomic and genetic strategies, as well as the physiological functions, uptake mechanisms, and regulation of mineral elements in plants. The goal is to address micronutrient malnutrition and improve human nutrition through biofortified crops.

  • Biofortification
  • Mineral Elements
  • Plant Nutrition
  • Micronutrient Malnutrition
  • Iron Uptake
  • Zinc Biofortification
  • Crop Genetics
  • Agronomic Strategies
  • Nutrient Interactions
  • Food Security
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects

Which countries lead Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 309 works
  4. 4 Brazil 284 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 279 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 235 works
  7. 7 Iran 178 works
  8. 8 Egypt 130 works
  9. 9 Japan 96 works
  10. 10 Iraq 96 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: 31.0%India: 28.2%United States: 7.8%Brazil: 7.2%6 others listed: 25.7%31%largest
China1,222 · 31.0%India1,112 · 28.2%United States309 · 7.8%Brazil284 · 7.2%6 others listed1,013 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 191 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 138 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 75 works
  4. 4 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 43 works
  5. 5 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 42 works
  6. 6 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 38 works
  7. 7 University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 38 works
  8. 8 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 36 works
  9. 9 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 35 works
  10. 10 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects include Walter Churchill Willett, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  5. 5 Michael Karin United States 276k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k 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 Micronutrient Interactions and Effects?

The most cited paper in Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects is "Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper" (W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell, 1978), with 10,001 citations. Next come "Superoxide Dismutases" (6,421) and "Calculation of protein extinction coefficients from amino acid sequence data" (5,331).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell · Soil Science Society of America Journal May 1978 10,001
2 Superoxide Dismutases Constantine N. Giannopolitis, Stanley K. Ries · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Open access Feb 1977 6,421
3 Calculation of protein extinction coefficients from amino acid sequence data Stanley C. Gill, Peter H. von Hippel · Analytical Biochemistry Nov 1989 5,331
4 Salt tolerance and salinity effects on plants: a review Asish Kumar Parida, Anath Bandhu Das · Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 10 Aug 2004 4,212
5 Phosphorus acquisition and use: critical adaptations by plants for securing a nonrenewable resource Carroll P. Vance, Claudia Uhde‐Stone, Deborah L. Allan · New Phytologist Open access Mar 2003 3,053
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Where is Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research done?

The largest centres of Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Nanjing (China) and Faisalabad (Pakistan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 200 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 112 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 75 works
  4. 4 FaisalabadPakistan 72 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 59 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 58 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 54 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 53 works
  9. 9 AllahabadIndia 52 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 47 works
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Where is the best place to study Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects?

Among universities, judged by research, King Saud University, Government College University, Faisalabad and University of Agriculture Faisalabad 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.

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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
1King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 85.826.8%5.3×25 +79.9%
2Government College University, FaisalabadPakistan 81.023.8%22.6×17 +54.8%
3University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 74.614.7%47.7×38 +6.4%
4Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 73.822.0%22.1×36 +7.9%
5Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 72.315.2%20.7×38 +42.2%
6China Agricultural UniversityChina 68.016.4%11.4×30 +16.3%
7Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 68.017.7%19.4×22 +60.4%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 66.022.9%2.2×28 +7.8%
9Islamia University of BahawalpurPakistan 65.322.4%12.4×10 +141.9%
10South China Agricultural UniversityChina 63.021.0%10.6×18 +30.1%

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 Micronutrient Interactions and Effects, country by country

Is Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects.

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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 Micronutrient Interactions and Effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects 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.

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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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