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Plant Reproductive Biology

Plant Reproductive Biology is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 43k 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 molecular mechanisms underlying pollen development, including pollen tube growth, self-incompatibility, pollen wall development, male gametophyte function, receptor kinases, tapetum development, pollen germination, S-RNase interactions, fertilization mechanisms, and pectin dynamics in flowering plants.

  • Pollen Tube Growth
  • Self-Incompatibility
  • Pollen Wall Development
  • Male Gametophyte
  • Receptor Kinases
  • Tapetum Development
  • Pollen Germination
  • S-RNase
  • Fertilization Mechanisms
  • Pectin Dynamics
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Reproductive Biology

Which countries lead Plant Reproductive Biology research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 550 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 550 works
  3. 3 India 424 works
  4. 4 Japan 272 works
  5. 5 Germany 180 works
  6. 6 France 169 works
  7. 7 Russia 144 works
  8. 8 Spain 134 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 130 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 122 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: 50.6%United States: 12.8%India: 9.9%Japan: 6.3%6 others listed: 20.4%51%largest
China2,178 · 50.6%United States550 · 12.8%India424 · 9.9%Japan272 · 6.3%6 others listed879 · 20.4%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Reproductive Biology research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 246 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 117 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 95 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 70 works
  5. 5 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 61 works
  6. 6 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 55 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 52 works
  8. 8 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 50 works
  9. 9 China Agricultural UniversityChina 50 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Reproductive Biology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Reproductive Biology include Jun Wang, Matthias Egger and Gregory Y.H. Lip.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  3. 3 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  4. 4 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  5. 5 Jeffrey I. Gordon United States 250k 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 Reproductive Biology?

The most cited paper in Plant Reproductive Biology is "Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana" (Steven John Clough, Andrew F. Bent, 1998), with 22,756 citations. Next come "Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana" (9,449) and "PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences" (8,702).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana Steven John Clough, Andrew F. Bent · The Plant Journal Open access Dec 1998 22,756
2 Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana Arabidopsis Genome Initiative · Nature Open access Dec 2000 9,449
3 PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences Magali Lescot · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 2002 8,702
4 NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES ALBERT LEVAN, Karl Fredga, Avery A. Sandberg · Hereditas Open access 2 Sep 2009 5,927
5 Assaying chimeric genes in plants: The GUS gene fusion system Richard Jefferson · Plant Molecular Biology Reporter Dec 1987 4,508
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Where is Plant Reproductive Biology research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 443 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 121 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 97 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 91 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 72 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 69 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 59 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 58 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 58 works
  10. 10 FuzhouChina 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Lin’an ShiCN · 23.3 works27×
  2. YanglingCN · 50.0 works24×
  3. Tai’anCN · 31.7 works22×
  4. Ya'anCN · 26.8 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Reproductive Biology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant Reproductive Biology?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, Huazhong Agricultural University and Fujian Agriculture and Forestry 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 18.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Huazhong Agricultura…Fujian Agriculture a…Nanjing Agricultural…
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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 75.919.3%18.7×50 +31.5%
2Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 75.518.7%34.2×55 +9.9%
3Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 65.913.2%37.8×42 +59.9%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 64.412.1%32.9×61 +9.2%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 64.210.6%26.8×50 +14.8%
6Shanghai Normal UniversityChina 62.725.7%11.8×10 +14.4%
7Sanya UniversityChina 62.120.3%29.5×17 -
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.320.8%3.1×24 +2.1%
9South China Agricultural UniversityChina 61.214.2%20.4×34 +38.4%
10Peking UniversityChina 59.727.2%1.7×16 +6.2%

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 Reproductive Biology, country by country

Is Plant Reproductive Biology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Reproductive Biology.

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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 Reproductive Biology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Plant Reproductive Biology0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Reproductive Biology 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 Reproductive Biology10.0% 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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