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Seed Germination and Physiology

Seed Germination and Physiology is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 regulation of seed dormancy and germination, covering topics such as the role of hormones like abscisic acid, genetic and environmental regulation, the impact of reactive oxygen species, and the physiological processes in model plant species like Arabidopsis. It also explores the molecular mechanisms, metabolic switches, and ecological aspects related to seed dormancy and germination.

  • Seed Dormancy
  • Germination
  • Abscisic Acid
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Hormone Signaling
  • Arabidopsis
  • Genetic Regulation
  • Seed Longevity
  • Environmental Cues
  • Plant Physiology
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Seed Germination and Physiology

Which countries lead Seed Germination and Physiology research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (645 and 631 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 645 works
  2. 2 India 631 works
  3. 3 Brazil 614 works
  4. 4 United States 239 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 182 works
  6. 6 Iran 140 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 136 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 101 works
  9. 9 Mexico 92 works
  10. 10 Egypt 78 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: 22.6%India: 22.1%Brazil: 21.5%United States: 8.3%6 others listed: 25.5%23%largest
China645 · 22.6%India631 · 22.1%Brazil614 · 21.5%United States239 · 8.3%6 others listed730 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Seed Germination and Physiology research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 89 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 65 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 44 works
  4. 4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 40 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil 30 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 27 works
  7. 7 Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationBrazil 26 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 26 works
  10. 10 Indian Council of Forestry Research and EducationIndia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Seed Germination and Physiology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Seed Germination and Physiology include Guangming Zeng, Ejaz Ahmad Khan and Kazuo Shinozaki.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  3. 3 Kazuo Shinozaki Japan 170k citations
  4. 4 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Jian‐Kang Zhu China 164k citations
  6. 6 Anil K. Sood United States 152k 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 Germination and Physiology?

The most cited paper in Seed Germination and Physiology is "Roles of glycine betaine and proline in improving plant abiotic stress resistance" (Muhammad Ashraf, Majid R. Foolad, 2006), with 4,833 citations. Next come "Speed of Germination—Aid In Selection And Evaluation for Seedling Emergence And Vigor 1" (4,541) and "Plant responses to drought, salinity and extreme temperatures: towards genetic engineering for stress tolerance" (3,717).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Roles of glycine betaine and proline in improving plant abiotic stress resistance Muhammad Ashraf, Majid R. Foolad · Environmental and Experimental Botany 5 Apr 2006 4,833
2 Speed of Germination—Aid In Selection And Evaluation for Seedling Emergence And Vigor 1 James D. Maguire · Crop Science Mar 1962 4,541
3 Plant responses to drought, salinity and extreme temperatures: towards genetic engineering for stress tolerance Wang‐Xia Wang, Basia Vinocur, Arie Altman · Planta Nov 2003 3,717
4 Seed dormancy and the control of germination William E. Finch‐Savage, Gerhard Leubner‐Metzger · New Phytologist 14 Jul 2006 3,221
5 Seed Germination and Dormancy. J. Derek Bewley · The Plant Cell Open access Jul 1997 3,189
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Seed Germination and Physiology research done?

The largest centres of Seed Germination and Physiology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), New Delhi (India) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lavras and Viçosa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 129 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 57 works
  3. 3 New DelhiIndia 56 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 49 works
  5. 5 CoimbatoreIndia 47 works
  6. 6 BrasíliaBrazil 36 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 35 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 33 works
  9. 9 LavrasBrazil 30 works
  10. 10 FaisalabadPakistan 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LavrasBR · 30.5 works46×
  2. ViçosaBR · 25.6 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Seed Germination and Physiology?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Agricultural 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 22.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…King Saud UniversityUniversity 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
1Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 73.329.9%10.2×14 +42.9%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 69.132.0%7.0×14 +56.8%
3University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 64.212.1%23.5×14 +1.8%
4King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.224.3%3.3×12 +104.1%
5Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 59.037.1%9.1×9 +180.8%
6Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 55.44.5%48.8×40 +32.6%
7Yangzhou UniversityChina 54.624.0%5.1×10 +33.1%
8South China Agricultural UniversityChina 54.622.2%8.1×10 +95.3%
9Northwest A&F UniversityChina 54.425.0%7.1×10 +4.4%
10Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 48.816.8%11.2×11 +4.0%

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 Germination and Physiology, country by country

Is Seed Germination and Physiology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Seed Germination and Physiology.

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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 Germination and Physiology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Seed Germination and Physiology0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Seed Germination and Physiology 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 Germination and Physiology10.5% 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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