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Plant responses to water stress

Plant responses to water stress is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 various physiological, molecular, and genetic responses of plants to flooding stress, including submergence tolerance, aerenchyma formation, ethylene response factors, hypoxia adaptation, oxygen sensing, anaerobic metabolism, root aeration, and waterlogging tolerance. It covers a wide range of plant species and provides insights into the mechanisms by which plants cope with complete submergence and low-oxygen environments.

  • Flooding Stress
  • Submergence Tolerance
  • Ethylene Response Factors
  • Aerenchyma Formation
  • Hypoxia Adaptation
  • Oxygen Sensing
  • Anaerobic Metabolism
  • Root Aeration
  • Waterlogging Tolerance
  • Plant Hormone Regulation
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant responses to water stress

Which countries lead Plant responses to water stress research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 584 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 584 works
  3. 3 United States 416 works
  4. 4 Japan 175 works
  5. 5 Brazil 169 works
  6. 6 Germany 110 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 108 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 108 works
  9. 9 Australia 97 works
  10. 10 Iran 83 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: 53.3%India: 14.7%United States: 10.5%Japan: 4.4%6 others listed: 17.0%53%largest
China2,111 · 53.3%India584 · 14.7%United States416 · 10.5%Japan175 · 4.4%6 others listed675 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Plant responses to water stress research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 205 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 148 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 113 works
  4. 4 Yangzhou UniversityChina 50 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 48 works
  6. 6 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 37 works
  8. 8 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 35 works
  9. 9 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 31 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant responses to water stress?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant responses to water stress include Jun Wang, Philippe Ciais and Guangming Zeng.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  4. 4 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  5. 5 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  6. 6 Barry B. Halliwell United Kingdom 179k citations
  7. 7 Kazuo Shinozaki Japan 170k 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 responses to water stress?

The most cited paper in Plant responses to water stress is "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)" (Daniel J. Klionsky et al., 2016), with 6,023 citations. Next come "Photosynthesis under drought and salt stress: regulation mechanisms from whole plant to cell" (4,214) and "Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management" (4,130).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy Open access2,467 authors 2 Jan 2016 6,023
2 Photosynthesis under drought and salt stress: regulation mechanisms from whole plant to cell M. M. Chaves, Jaume Flexas, Carla Pinheiro · Annals of Botany Open access 28 Jul 2008 4,214
3 Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management Muhammad Farooq, Abdul Wahid, Norihiro Kobayashi et al. · Agronomy for Sustainable Development 10 Jun 2008 4,130
4 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy Open access1,270 authors Apr 2012 4,068
5 Reactive oxygen species homeostasis and signalling during drought and salinity stresses Gad Miller, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Sultan Ciftci-Yilmaz et al. · Plant Cell & Environment 27 Aug 2009 4,059
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plant responses to water stress research done?

The largest centres of Plant responses to water stress 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 Tai’an, Yangling and Ya'an.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 369 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 110 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 82 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 79 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 74 works
  6. 6 LanzhouChina 62 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 60 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 60 works
  9. 9 KunmingChina 53 works
  10. 10 YangzhouChina 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai’anCN · 25.7 works19×
  2. YanglingCN · 36.8 works19×
  3. Ya'anCN · 26.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant responses to water stress than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant responses to water stress?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong Agricultural University, Yangzhou University and China Agricultural University score highest, combining citation 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 20.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…King Saud UniversityHuazhong Agricultura…Yangzhou 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.

Citation 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
1Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 73.017.4%22.6×35 +16.9%
2Yangzhou UniversityChina 72.915.2%19.8×50 +57.3%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 70.222.2%10.9×28 +21.1%
4King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 66.821.7%3.0×14 +110.0%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 66.722.6%20.6×37 -9.6%
6The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 62.719.1%8.8×17 +3.5%
7Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina 61.918.6%30.9×25 +30.0%
8Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 61.932.1%2.9×9 +13.8%
9Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 61.715.7%23.1×41 -6.5%
10Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 59.817.5%61.7×10 +21.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 responses to water stress, country by country

Is Plant responses to water stress research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant responses to water stress.

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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 responses to water stress as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Plant responses to water stress0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant responses to water stress 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 responses to water stress10.2% 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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