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Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the molecular responses of plants to abiotic stress, particularly related to reactive oxygen species, antioxidants, salt tolerance, and drought resistance. It explores the mechanisms of signal transduction, gene expression, and stress signaling pathways in plants under various environmental stresses.

  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Antioxidants
  • Abiotic Stress
  • Signal Transduction
  • Oxidative Stress
  • Salt Tolerance
  • Drought Resistance
  • Plant Responses
  • Gene Expression
  • Stress Signaling
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

Which countries lead Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5.3k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5.3k works
  2. 2 India 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 547 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 400 works
  5. 5 Iran 376 works
  6. 6 Brazil 312 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 283 works
  8. 8 Japan 230 works
  9. 9 Spain 216 works
  10. 10 South Korea 209 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: 57.8%India: 14.3%United States: 5.9%Pakistan: 4.3%6 others listed: 17.6%58%largest
China5,335 · 57.8%India1,320 · 14.3%United States547 · 5.9%Pakistan400 · 4.3%6 others listed1,627 · 17.6%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 579 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 264 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 166 works
  4. 4 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 143 works
  5. 5 Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 133 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 121 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 117 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 110 works
  9. 9 Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 110 works
  10. 10 China Agricultural UniversityChina 91 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance include Jun Wang, Kai You Wang and Lewis C. Cantley.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lewis C. Cantley United States 209k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  5. 5 David P. Bartel United States 200k citations
  6. 6 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  7. 7 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Barry B. Halliwell United Kingdom 179k 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 Stress Responses and Tolerance?

The most cited paper in Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance is "Rapid determination of free proline for water-stress studies" (Lynn S. Bates, R. P. Waldren, Iwan D. Teare, 1973), with 21,112 citations. Next come "Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance" (13,850) and "Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants" (11,846).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rapid determination of free proline for water-stress studies Lynn S. Bates, R. P. Waldren, Iwan D. Teare · Plant and Soil Aug 1973 21,112
2 Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance Rana Munns, Mark A. Tester · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 7 Feb 2008 13,850
3 Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja · Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 16 Sep 2010 11,846
4 REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction Klaus Apel, Heribert Hirt · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 29 Apr 2004 11,793
5 Oxidative stress, antioxidants and stress tolerance Ron Mittler · Trends in Plant Science Review Sep 2002 10,890
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance research done?

The largest centres of Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Hangzhou (China) and Lanzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ya'an, Xiaodian and Tai’an.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 819 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 296 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 208 works
  4. 4 LanzhouChina 195 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 189 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 186 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 158 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 158 works
  9. 9 ZhengzhouChina 125 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 117 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ya'anCN · 110.1 works33×
  2. XiaodianCN · 49.7 works32×
  3. Tai’anCN · 89.3 works29×
  4. YanglingCN · 116.8 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance?

Among universities, judged by research, China Agricultural University, King Saud University and Huazhong Agricultural 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%mean 16.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sanya UniversityChina Agricultural U…Huazhong Agricultura…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
1China Agricultural UniversityChina 78.519.9%15.7×91 +32.9%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 77.616.5%5.6×58 +57.9%
3Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 71.816.6%22.1×77 +3.3%
4Sanya UniversityChina 69.922.1%27.1×35 -
5The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 68.818.4%6.9×31 +33.8%
6Islamia University of BahawalpurPakistan 66.916.8%14.6×25 +140.8%
7University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 66.815.6%27.7×48 -2.6%
8Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 66.119.8%44.7×16 +2.1%
9Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 66.011.2%35.5×143 +5.1%
10Northwest A&F UniversityChina 65.912.5%28.7×117 +3.5%

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 Stress Responses and Tolerance, country by country

Is Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance.

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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 Stress Responses and Tolerance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.043% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 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 Stress Responses and Tolerance9.7% 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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