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Potato Plant Research

Potato Plant Research is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the formation, health effects, metabolism, and mitigation strategies of acrylamide in food, particularly in relation to heated foodstuffs such as potatoes. It covers topics such as the Maillard reaction, carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, antioxidants, and the role of glycoalkaloids.

  • Acrylamide
  • Maillard Reaction
  • Carcinogen
  • Potato
  • Glycoalkaloids
  • Toxicity
  • Neurotoxicity
  • Antioxidants
  • Metabolism
  • Mitigation Strategies
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Potato Plant Research

Which countries lead Potato Plant Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (767 and 617 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 767 works
  2. 2 India 617 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 268 works
  4. 4 United States 264 works
  5. 5 Egypt 226 works
  6. 6 Russia 211 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 165 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 158 works
  9. 9 Brazil 136 works
  10. 10 Iran 117 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: 26.2%India: 21.1%Indonesia: 9.1%United States: 9.0%6 others listed: 34.6%26%largest
China767 · 26.2%India617 · 21.1%Indonesia268 · 9.1%United States264 · 9.0%6 others listed1,014 · 34.6%

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

Which institutions lead Potato Plant Research research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 96 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 78 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 63 works
  4. 4 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 34 works
  5. 5 Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 34 works
  6. 6 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 32 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 31 works
  8. 8 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 28 works
  9. 9 Potato Research InstituteCzechia 26 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Potato Plant Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Potato Plant Research include Walter Churchill Willett, Jun Wang and Frank B. Hu.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Frank B. Hu United States 281k citations
  4. 4 JoAnn E. Manson United States 263k citations
  5. 5 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  6. 6 Elisabete Weiderpass France 221k citations
  7. 7 Edward L. Giovannucci United States 219k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas J. Wareham United Kingdom 218k citations
  9. 9 Meir J. Stampfer United States 212k 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 Potato Plant Research?

The most cited paper in Potato Plant Research 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 "Rapid colorimetric determination of nitrate in plant tissue by nitration of salicylic acid" (3,371) and "Acrylamide is formed in the Maillard reaction" (2,271).

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 Rapid colorimetric determination of nitrate in plant tissue by nitration of salicylic acid D.A. Cataldo, M. Maroon, LARRY E. SCHRADER et al. · Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 1975 3,371
3 Acrylamide is formed in the Maillard reaction Donald S. Mottram, Bronislaw L. Wedzicha, Andrew T. Dodson · Nature Oct 2002 2,271
4 Analysis of Acrylamide, a Carcinogen Formed in Heated Foodstuffs Eden Tareke, Per Rydberg, Patrik G. Karlsson et al. · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 17 Jul 2002 2,217
5 Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato X X Xu et al. · Nature Open access Jul 2011 2,140
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Where is Potato Plant Research research done?

The largest centres of Potato Plant Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Giza (Egypt), Moscow (Russia) and Lanzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Havlíčkův Brod, Shimla and Bharatpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 124 works
  2. 2 GizaEgypt 77 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 55 works
  4. 4 LanzhouChina 45 works
  5. 5 CairoEgypt 44 works
  6. 6 DhakaBangladesh 41 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 40 works
  8. 8 ShimlaIndia 40 works
  9. 9 Addis AbabaEthiopia 39 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Havlíčkův BrodCZ · 25.9 works465×
  2. ShimlaIN · 39.9 works66×
  3. BharatpurNP · 23.7 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Potato Plant Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Gansu Agricultural University and 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%20%40%mean 29.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Nanchang UniversityGansu Agricultural U…Wageningen Universit…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 77.918.4%17.7×28 +49.1%
2Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 71.525.5%52.6×34 +231.1%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 70.434.9%7.2×18 +136.9%
4Nanchang UniversityChina 67.534.7%4.1×13 +27.1%
5Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 66.829.6%6.4×14 +86.6%
6Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 63.426.9%8.1×14 +83.8%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 61.428.9%1.4×16 +41.2%
8Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 57.834.8%6.9×11 +117.8%
9Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina 57.130.6%14.0×11 +106.3%
10Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 55.430.7%3.9×9 +158.4%

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 Potato Plant Research, country by country

Is Potato Plant Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Potato Plant Research.

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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 Potato Plant Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Potato Plant Research0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Potato Plant Research 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%Potato Plant Research10.9% 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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