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Silkworms and Sericulture Research

Silkworms and Sericulture Research is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 7.4k 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 focuses on the artificial diet rearing system for the silkworm Bombyx mori, including the effects of vitamin deprivation, evaluation of genetic potential, and the use of biochemical markers to study genetic diversity. It also explores the impact of various supplements and environmental factors on silkworm growth, cocoon production, and overall sericulture industry.

  • Silkworm
  • Artificial Diet
  • Genetic Potential
  • Mulberry Leaves
  • Bombyx mori
  • Cocoon Production
  • Nutritional Efficiency
  • Sericulture Industry
  • Genetic Diversity
  • Biochemical Markers
Research works
7.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
756
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Silkworms and Sericulture Research

Which countries lead Silkworms and Sericulture Research research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (545 and 225 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 545 works
  2. 2 China 225 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 76 works
  4. 4 United States 67 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 43 works
  6. 6 Japan 35 works
  7. 7 Egypt 34 works
  8. 8 Mexico 30 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 29 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 25 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: 49.1%China: 20.3%Indonesia: 6.9%United States: 6.1%6 others listed: 17.7%49%largest
India545 · 49.1%China225 · 20.3%Indonesia76 · 6.9%United States67 · 6.1%6 others listed197 · 17.7%

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

Which institutions lead Silkworms and Sericulture Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Silkworms and Sericulture Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 47 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 37 works
  3. 3 University of Agricultural Sciences, BangaloreIndia 34 works
  4. 4 Southwest UniversityChina 26 works
  5. 5 Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 23 works
  6. 6 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 22 works
  7. 7 Central Silk Technological Research InstituteIndia 20 works
  8. 8 Central Sericultural Research and Training InstituteIndia 20 works
  9. 9 Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of KashmirIndia 17 works
  10. 10 Tashkent State Agrarian UniversityUzbekistan 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Silkworms and Sericulture Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Silkworms and Sericulture Research include Jun Wang, Huanming Yang and David Lee Kaplan.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  3. 3 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Silkworms and Sericulture Research?

The most cited paper in Silkworms and Sericulture Research is "Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin" (Danielle N. Rockwood, Rucsanda C. Preda, Tuna Yücel et al., 2011), with 3,106 citations. Next come "A Draft Sequence for the Genome of the Domesticated Silkworm ( Bombyx mori )" (1,188) and "Surprising strength of silkworm silk" (1,005).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin Danielle N. Rockwood, Rucsanda C. Preda, Tuna Yücel et al. · Nature Protocols Open access 22 Sep 2011 3,106
2 A Draft Sequence for the Genome of the Domesticated Silkworm ( Bombyx mori ) Biology analysis group et al. · Science 10 Dec 2004 1,188
3 Surprising strength of silkworm silk Zhengzhong Shao, Fritz W. Vollrath · Nature 15 Aug 2002 1,005
4 The Biomedical Use of Silk: Past, Present, Future Chris Holland, Keiji Numata, Jelena Rnjak‐Kovacina et al. · Advanced Healthcare Materials Open access 20 Sep 2018 819
5 Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells Anthoula Lazaris, Steven M. Arcidiacono, Yue Fei Huang et al. · Science 18 Jan 2002 750
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Where is Silkworms and Sericulture Research research done?

The largest centres of Silkworms and Sericulture Research research in 2022-now are Bengaluru (India), Mysuru (India), Chongqing (China) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jorhat, Mysuru and Srinagar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BengaluruIndia 69 works
  2. 2 MysuruIndia 33 works
  3. 3 ChongqingChina 29 works
  4. 4 TashkentUzbekistan 27 works
  5. 5 SrinagarIndia 27 works
  6. 6 CoimbatoreIndia 27 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 27 works
  8. 8 ZhenjiangChina 26 works
  9. 9 JorhatIndia 24 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JorhatIN · 23.9 works150×
  2. MysuruIN · 33.0 works65×
  3. SrinagarIN · 26.9 works42×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Silkworms and Sericulture Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Silkworms and Sericulture Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest University, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir 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 5.9625%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest UniversitySher-e-Kashmir Unive…Tamil Nadu Agricultu…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
1Southwest UniversityChina 82.336.0%37.7×26 +29.9%
2University of Agricultural Sciences, BangaloreIndia 44.91.3%471.7×34 +256.6%
3Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of KashmirIndia 41.24.9%164.2×17 +90.2%
4Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 33.31.6%75.5×22 +124.4%
5Assam Agricultural UniversityIndia 33.01.0%260.0×23 +170.8%
6Tashkent State Agrarian UniversityUzbekistan 27.20.2%383.5×16 +81.0%
7University of MysoreIndia 21.40.8%120.7×12 -5.7%
8Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of JammuIndia 18.91.9%173.1×8 +77.0%

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 Silkworms and Sericulture Research, country by country

Is Silkworms and Sericulture Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Silkworms and Sericulture 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 Silkworms and Sericulture Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0070% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Silkworms and Sericulture 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%Silkworms and Sericulture Research11.8% 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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