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Plant Virus Research Studies

Plant Virus Research Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 explores the mechanisms of viral RNA silencing, gene silencing, and plant immunity in response to virus infections. It delves into topics such as small RNAs, recombination analysis, virus transmission, and the role of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in antiviral defense. The cluster also investigates the use of virus-induced gene silencing as a tool for studying gene function in plants.

  • Viral RNA Silencing
  • Plant Immunity
  • Gene Silencing
  • Virus-Host Interactions
  • Geminiviruses
  • Small RNAs
  • Recombination Analysis
  • Virus Transmission
  • RNA-dependent RNA Polymerases
  • Virus-induced Gene Silencing
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Virus Research Studies

Which countries lead Plant Virus Research Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 France 266 works
  5. 5 Japan 248 works
  6. 6 Brazil 236 works
  7. 7 South Korea 215 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 210 works
  9. 9 Spain 184 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 180 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: 36.1%United States: 20.9%India: 18.1%France: 4.3%6 others listed: 20.6%36%largest
China2,231 · 36.1%United States1,292 · 20.9%India1,119 · 18.1%France266 · 4.3%6 others listed1,272 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Virus Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Virus Research Studies research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 388 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 246 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 109 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 91 works
  5. 5 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 69 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 65 works
  7. 7 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 65 works
  8. 8 Guizhou UniversityChina 62 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 61 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 61 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Virus Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Virus Research Studies include Rob Knight, Peer Bork and Guido Kroemer.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  3. 3 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  4. 4 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 Robert A. Weinberg United States 301k citations
  7. 7 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  8. 8 Heng Li United States 270k 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 Virus Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Plant Virus Research Studies is "MicroRNAs" (David P. Bartel, 2004), with 35,138 citations. Next come "Quantitative Monitoring of Gene Expression Patterns with a Complementary DNA Microarray" (9,654) and "Improved metagenomic analysis with Kraken 2" (7,602).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MicroRNAs David P. Bartel · Cell Open access 2004 35,138
2 Quantitative Monitoring of Gene Expression Patterns with a Complementary DNA Microarray Mark Schena, Dari Shalon, Ronald W. Davis et al. · Science 20 Oct 1995 9,654
3 Improved metagenomic analysis with Kraken 2 Derrick E. Wood, Jennifer Lu, Ben Langmead · Genome biology Open access 28 Nov 2019 7,602
4 Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation Nuala A. O’Leary et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 8 Nov 2015 7,253
5 Improved vectors and genome-wide libraries for CRISPR screening Neville E. Sanjana, Ophir Shalem, Feng Zhang · Nature Methods Open access 30 Jul 2014 5,675
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plant Virus Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Plant Virus Research Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Wuhan (China) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 464 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 155 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 98 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 97 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 90 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 87 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 85 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 79 works
  9. 9 GuiyangChina 77 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 72 works
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Where is the best place to study Plant Virus Research Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou University, China Agricultural 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 17.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guizhou UniversityChina Agricultural U…Huazhong Agricultura…Ningbo 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
1Guizhou UniversityChina 81.723.0%15.8×62 +72.5%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 79.921.2%14.5×60 +35.7%
3Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 74.416.8%21.5×54 +18.7%
4Ningbo UniversityChina 66.313.6%8.9×41 +165.6%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 65.622.2%1.7×21 +36.6%
6Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 63.712.1%28.3×49 +17.0%
7Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 63.717.0%15.4×44 +1.1%
8Chitkara UniversityIndia 61.118.6%5.8×17 +1588.2%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.019.2%2.0×40 +4.2%
10South China Agricultural UniversityChina 59.210.8%13.8×36 +100.8%

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 Virus Research Studies, country by country

Is Plant Virus Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Virus Research Studies.

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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 Virus Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Plant Virus Research Studies 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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