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Seed and Plant Biochemistry

Seed and Plant Biochemistry is a research topic within Food Science. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 explores the nutritional value, functional potential, and health benefits of ancient Andean grains such as quinoa, buckwheat, and amaranth. It covers topics such as polyphenol composition, antioxidant activity, genetic diversity, drought stress responses, and the use of these grains as functional gluten-free ingredients. Additionally, it discusses the potential contribution of traditional leafy vegetables to human health.

  • Quinoa
  • Buckwheat
  • Amaranth
  • Nutritional Value
  • Functional Foods
  • Antioxidant Activity
  • Pseudocereals
  • Phytochemicals
  • Gluten-Free Ingredients
  • Traditional Leafy Vegetables
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+42%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Seed and Plant Biochemistry

Which countries lead Seed and Plant Biochemistry research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1k and 622 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1k works
  2. 2 China 622 works
  3. 3 Nigeria 354 works
  4. 4 United States 238 works
  5. 5 Russia 184 works
  6. 6 Brazil 155 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 143 works
  8. 8 Egypt 138 works
  9. 9 Mexico 126 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 124 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: 32.6%China: 20.1%Nigeria: 11.4%United States: 7.7%6 others listed: 28.1%33%largest
India1,009 · 32.6%China622 · 20.1%Nigeria354 · 11.4%United States238 · 7.7%6 others listed869 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Seed and Plant Biochemistry research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 106 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 61 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 38 works
  4. 4 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 29 works
  5. 5 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 26 works
  6. 6 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 24 works
  7. 7 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 24 works
  8. 8 Shanxi Agricultural UniversityChina 22 works
  9. 9 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 22 works
  10. 10 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Seed and Plant Biochemistry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Seed and Plant Biochemistry include David Julian McClements, Pamela S. Soltis and Jian‐Kang Zhu.

  1. 1 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Jian‐Kang Zhu China 164k 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 Seed and Plant Biochemistry?

The most cited paper in Seed and Plant Biochemistry is "Polyphenols: Chemistry, Dietary Sources, Metabolism, and Nutritional Significance" (Laura Bravo, 2009), with 4,020 citations. Next come "Encyclopedia of plant physiology, New series" (2,040) and "Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security" (1,466).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Polyphenols: Chemistry, Dietary Sources, Metabolism, and Nutritional Significance Laura Bravo · Nutrition Reviews 27 Apr 2009 4,020
2 Encyclopedia of plant physiology, New series J.B. Harbörne · Phytochemistry 1978 2,040
3 Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security Bekele A. Shiferaw, Mélinda Smale, Hans‐Joachim Braun et al. · Food Security Open access 28 Apr 2013 1,466
4 The contribution of wheat to human diet and health Peter R. Shewry, S. J. Hey · Food and Energy Security Open access 14 Aug 2015 1,466
5 Bitter taste, phytonutrients, and the consumer: a review Adam Drewnowski, Carmen Gomez-Carneros · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Open access Dec 2000 1,356
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Seed and Plant Biochemistry research done?

The largest centres of Seed and Plant Biochemistry research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Moscow (Russia) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xiaodian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 102 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 75 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 56 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 51 works
  5. 5 DhakaBangladesh 49 works
  6. 6 Addis AbabaEthiopia 38 works
  7. 7 CoimbatoreIndia 38 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 35 works
  9. 9 HyderabadIndia 35 works
  10. 10 LimaPeru 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XiaodianCN · 22.4 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Seed and Plant Biochemistry than the world average.

See Seed and Plant Biochemistry on the map

Where is the best place to study Seed and Plant Biochemistry?

Among universities, judged by research, Lovely Professional University, Northwest A&F University and University of Agriculture Faisalabad 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 20.15%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F Univer…Lovely Professional …Punjab Agricultural …University of Agricu…
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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
1Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 73.615.7%11.0×26 +274.5%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 66.630.6%6.7×12 +31.0%
3University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 66.210.0%25.8×20 +95.7%
4Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 61.810.8%32.0×24 +197.1%
5Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and TechnologyIndia 61.426.7%35.7×8 +103.3%
6Ştefan cel Mare University of SuceavaRomania 60.629.3%23.0×9 +319.4%
7King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.617.4%2.9×13 +124.8%
8University of AucklandNew Zealand 59.117.8%3.6×9 +195.1%
9China Agricultural UniversityChina 58.033.9%3.9×10 +144.8%
10Shanxi Agricultural UniversityChina 57.59.3%36.8×22 +649.0%

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 Seed and Plant Biochemistry, country by country

Is Seed and Plant Biochemistry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Seed and Plant Biochemistry.

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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 Seed and Plant Biochemistry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Seed and Plant Biochemistry 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%Seed and Plant Biochemistry10.6% 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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