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Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement

Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 30k 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 the management of water in rice cultivation to enhance productivity, with an emphasis on strategies for drought resistance, yield potential improvement, aerobic rice systems, QTL mapping for important traits, root characteristics, and the application of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). It also explores nitrogen use efficiency and its impact on grain yield in rice production.

  • Rice
  • Water Management
  • Drought Resistance
  • Yield Potential
  • Aerobic Rice Systems
  • QTL Mapping
  • Root Traits
  • Grain Yield
  • System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
  • Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement

Which countries lead Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.8k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 441 works
  4. 4 United States 413 works
  5. 5 Bangladesh 268 works
  6. 6 Japan 232 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 167 works
  8. 8 Brazil 152 works
  9. 9 Egypt 144 works
  10. 10 Iran 107 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.

India: 42.1%China: 28.0%Indonesia: 6.9%United States: 6.4%6 others listed: 16.7%42%largest
India2,704 · 42.1%China1,798 · 28.0%Indonesia441 · 6.9%United States413 · 6.4%6 others listed1,070 · 16.7%

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

Which institutions lead Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 481 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 276 works
  3. 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 203 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 98 works
  5. 5 Yangzhou UniversityChina 95 works
  6. 6 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 94 works
  7. 7 Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 89 works
  8. 8 Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural UniversityIndia 84 works
  9. 9 Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 72 works
  10. 10 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 64 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement include George Davey Smith, Jun Wang and Huanming Yang.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  4. 4 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  7. 7 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  8. 8 Jian‐Kang Zhu China 164k citations
  9. 9 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  10. 10 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k 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 Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement?

The most cited paper in Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement is "Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options" (Shah Fahad, Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Usman Nazir et al., 2017), with 2,658 citations. Next come "Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming" (2,463) and "Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat" (1,782).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Crop Production under Drought and Heat Stress: Plant Responses and Management Options Shah Fahad, Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Usman Nazir et al. · Frontiers in Plant Science Open access 29 Jun 2017 2,658
2 Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming Shaobing Peng, Jianliang Huang, J. E. SHEEHY et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 28 Jun 2004 2,463
3 Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat David S. Battisti, Rosamond L. Naylor · Science 8 Jan 2009 1,782
4 A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice Xuehui Huang et al. · Nature Open access 2 Oct 2012 1,731
5 Control of root system architecture by DEEPER ROOTING 1 increases rice yield under drought conditions Yusaku Uga, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Satoshi Ogawa et al. · Nature Genetics 4 Aug 2013 1,721
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Coimbatore (India), New Delhi (India) and Hyderabad (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Samāstipur, Sabaur and Krishnanagar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 337 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 236 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 204 works
  4. 4 HyderabadIndia 202 works
  5. 5 DhakaBangladesh 142 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 121 works
  7. 7 LudhianaIndia 106 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 106 works
  9. 9 BhubaneswarIndia 101 works
  10. 10 YangzhouChina 97 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SamāstipurIN · 21.6 works106×
  2. SabaurIN · 21.0 works95×
  3. KrishnanagarIN · 30.4 works87×
  4. MymensinghBD · 72.5 works70×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, China Agricultural University and Yangzhou 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 26.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F Univer…China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…Yangzhou 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
1Northwest A&F UniversityChina 75.144.8%11.1×30 +40.2%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 67.431.7%12.6×48 +38.4%
3Yangzhou UniversityChina 63.623.5%25.2×95 +94.4%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 60.127.1%17.3×46 +31.5%
5Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 58.325.8%19.8×45 -4.9%
6The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 56.433.9%3.0×9 +20.8%
7University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 54.110.4%26.3×30 +29.3%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.232.0%1.6×18 +33.9%
9Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 52.92.3%131.9×204 +34.8%
10Sanya UniversityChina 52.131.7%15.9×14 -

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 Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement, country by country

Is Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement.

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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 Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement 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%Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement10.9% 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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