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Research in Cotton Cultivation

Research in Cotton Cultivation is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 focuses on genomic studies related to cotton fiber development, improvement, and genetic diversity. It covers topics such as polyploidization in Gossypium species, QTL analysis for fiber quality traits, gene expression during fiber development, genetic mapping, and transcriptome profiling. The research also delves into aspects of plant cell elongation and the genetic basis of key agronomic traits in cotton.

  • Cotton Genomics
  • Fiber Development
  • Polyploidization
  • QTL Analysis
  • Gene Expression
  • Gossypium Species
  • Genetic Mapping
  • Fiber Quality
  • Transcriptome Profiling
  • Plant Cell Elongation
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Research in Cotton Cultivation

Which countries lead Research in Cotton Cultivation research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (811 and 369 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 811 works
  2. 2 India 369 works
  3. 3 United States 265 works
  4. 4 Pakistan 172 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 96 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 78 works
  7. 7 Egypt 66 works
  8. 8 Brazil 63 works
  9. 9 Iran 32 works
  10. 10 Australia 31 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: 40.9%India: 18.6%United States: 13.4%Pakistan: 8.7%6 others listed: 18.4%41%largest
China811 · 40.9%India369 · 18.6%United States265 · 13.4%Pakistan172 · 8.7%6 others listed365 · 18.4%

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

Which institutions lead Research in Cotton Cultivation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Research in Cotton Cultivation 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 208 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 58 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 48 works
  4. 4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 43 works
  5. 5 University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 39 works
  6. 6 Shihezi UniversityChina 38 works
  7. 7 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 32 works
  8. 8 Xinjiang Agricultural UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 Central Cotton Research InstitutePakistan 25 works
  10. 10 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Research in Cotton Cultivation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Research in Cotton Cultivation include Jun Wang, Xiaogang Wang and Ejaz Ahmad Khan.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  4. 4 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k citations
  5. 5 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  6. 6 John C. Reed United States 135k 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 Research in Cotton Cultivation?

The most cited paper in Research in Cotton Cultivation is "PlantTFDB 4.0: toward a central hub for transcription factors and regulatory interactions in plants" (Jinpu Jin, Feng Tian, De-Chang Yang et al., 2016), with 2,577 citations. Next come "Sequencing of allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1) provides a resource for fiber improvement" (1,922) and "Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres" (1,468).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PlantTFDB 4.0: toward a central hub for transcription factors and regulatory interactions in plants Jinpu Jin, Feng Tian, De-Chang Yang et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 12 Oct 2016 2,577
2 Sequencing of allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1) provides a resource for fiber improvement Tianzhen Zhang et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 20 Apr 2015 1,922
3 Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres Andrew H. Paterson et al. · Nature Open access Dec 2012 1,468
4 Genome sequence of cultivated Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum TM-1) provides insights into genome evolution Fuguang Li et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 20 Apr 2015 1,240
5 Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum genomes provide insights into the origin and evolution of allotetraploid cotton Yan Hu et al. · Nature Genetics Open access 18 Mar 2019 1,186
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Where is Research in Cotton Cultivation research done?

The largest centres of Research in Cotton Cultivation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Ürümqi (China), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Shihezi (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shihezi, Multan and Faisalabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 212 works
  2. 2 ÜrümqiChina 92 works
  3. 3 TashkentUzbekistan 63 works
  4. 4 ShiheziChina 54 works
  5. 5 FaisalabadPakistan 54 works
  6. 6 CoimbatoreIndia 50 works
  7. 7 MultanPakistan 45 works
  8. 8 ZhengzhouChina 41 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 39 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ShiheziCN · 54.4 works118×
  2. MultanPK · 45.1 works75×
  3. FaisalabadPK · 54.4 works50×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Research in Cotton Cultivation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Research in Cotton Cultivation?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong Agricultural University, Zhengzhou University and Henan 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 20.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Huazhong Agricultura…Nanjing Agricultural…Henan UniversityZhengzhou 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
1Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 79.032.9%39.2×25 +1.1%
2Zhengzhou UniversityChina 75.719.9%13.9×32 +92.0%
3Henan UniversityChina 68.727.2%19.7×13 +160.8%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 66.629.5%29.7×22 -7.4%
5University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 65.64.3%121.8×39 +52.4%
6Shihezi UniversityChina 63.714.3%111.1×38 +104.8%
7Sanya UniversityChina 62.325.2%59.5×14 -
8China Agricultural UniversityChina 61.424.5%13.8×15 +28.7%
9University of GeorgiaUnited States 59.810.9%21.9×18 +86.8%
10Xinjiang Agricultural UniversityChina 55.813.8%180.4×28 +148.3%

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 Research in Cotton Cultivation, country by country

Is Research in Cotton Cultivation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Research in Cotton Cultivation.

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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 Research in Cotton Cultivation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Research in Cotton Cultivation0.0094% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Research in Cotton Cultivation 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%Research in Cotton Cultivation11.1% 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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