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Plant Surface Properties and Treatments

Plant Surface Properties and Treatments is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 formation, function, and regulation of plant cuticles, including the biosynthesis of cuticular wax and suberin, the role of transcription factors in drought tolerance, the mechanisms of lipid barrier formation, and the analysis of plant surface properties.

  • Cuticular Wax
  • Biosynthesis
  • Suberin
  • Transcription Factors
  • Drought Tolerance
  • Lipid Barrier
  • ABC Transporter
  • Water Loss
  • Biopolymer
  • Plant Surface Properties
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Surface Properties and Treatments

Which countries lead Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 356 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 356 works
  3. 3 India 289 works
  4. 4 Brazil 165 works
  5. 5 Germany 129 works
  6. 6 France 124 works
  7. 7 Italy 93 works
  8. 8 Japan 90 works
  9. 9 Spain 76 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 73 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: 45.0%United States: 14.0%India: 11.4%Brazil: 6.5%6 others listed: 23.0%45%largest
China1,140 · 45.0%United States356 · 14.0%India289 · 11.4%Brazil165 · 6.5%6 others listed584 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research, followed by China Agricultural University and Jiangsu University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 72 works
  2. 2 China Agricultural UniversityChina 46 works
  3. 3 Jiangsu UniversityChina 40 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 39 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 36 works
  6. 6 South China Agricultural UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 25 works
  9. 9 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 24 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Surface Properties and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Surface Properties and Treatments include Jun Wang, Lei Jiang and David Julian McClements.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Surface Properties and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Plant Surface Properties and Treatments is "Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces" (Wilhelm Barthlott, Christoph Neinhuis, 1997), with 6,882 citations. Next come "Characterization and Distribution of Water-repellent, Self-cleaning Plant Surfaces" (2,849) and "Leaf Epicuticular Waxes" (2,838).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces Wilhelm Barthlott, Christoph Neinhuis · Planta 30 Apr 1997 6,882
2 Characterization and Distribution of Water-repellent, Self-cleaning Plant Surfaces Christoph Neinhuis · Annals of Botany Open access Jun 1997 2,849
3 Leaf Epicuticular Waxes G. Eglinton, Richard Hamilton · Science 9 Jun 1967 2,838
4 Bending instability of electrically charged liquid jets of polymer solutions in electrospinning Darrell H. Reneker, Alexander L. Yarin, Hao Fong et al. · Journal of Applied Physics May 2000 2,465
5 PLANT MICROTECHNIQUE: SOME PRINCIPLES AND NEW METHODS Ned Feder, Terence P. O'Brien · American Journal of Botany 1968 2,027
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Guangzhou (China) and Zhenjiang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhenjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 216 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 66 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 53 works
  4. 4 ZhenjiangChina 44 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 39 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 37 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 35 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 27 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 27 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhenjiangCN · 43.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Surface Properties and Treatments than the world average.

See Plant Surface Properties and Treatments on the map

Where is the best place to study Plant Surface Properties and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, China Agricultural University and South China 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%30%mean 19.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversitySouth China Agricult…China Agricultural U…Northwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 86.628.4%16.6×40 +117.0%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 78.619.2%27.2×46 +55.9%
3South China Agricultural UniversityChina 75.925.5%25.0×26 +22.1%
4Northwest A&F UniversityChina 60.318.2%12.8×15 +20.2%
5Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 60.020.9%12.9×18 +184.4%
6Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina 59.818.1%29.9×16 +20.9%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.622.6%2.0×16 +40.7%
8Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 57.616.6%10.2×10 +145.0%
9Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 57.510.8%15.1×18 +82.2%
10Shandong University of TechnologyChina 54.817.3%13.2×10 +116.1%

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 Surface Properties and Treatments, country by country

Is Plant Surface Properties and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Surface Properties and Treatments.

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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 Surface Properties and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant Surface Properties and Treatments0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Surface Properties and Treatments 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 Surface Properties and Treatments10.5% 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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