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Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing

Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of genetic and agricultural studies related to sugarcane, including genomics, genetic mapping, water stress response, sucrose content regulation, bioenergy production, drought tolerance, biomass accumulation, and the impact of climate change on sugarcane production.

  • Sugarcane
  • Genomics
  • Polyploid
  • Genetic Mapping
  • Water Stress
  • Sucrose Content
  • Bioenergy Production
  • Drought Tolerance
  • Biomass Accumulation
  • Climate Change Impact
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing

Which countries lead Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research?

By volume, India and Brazil publish the most (458 and 389 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 458 works
  2. 2 Brazil 389 works
  3. 3 China 255 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 133 works
  5. 5 United States 130 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 52 works
  7. 7 Egypt 50 works
  8. 8 Thailand 48 works
  9. 9 Mexico 40 works
  10. 10 Australia 34 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: 28.8%Brazil: 24.5%China: 16.0%Indonesia: 8.4%6 others listed: 22.3%29%largest
India458 · 28.8%Brazil389 · 24.5%China255 · 16.0%Indonesia133 · 8.4%6 others listed355 · 22.3%

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

Which institutions lead Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Guangxi University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 117 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 49 works
  3. 3 Guangxi UniversityChina 47 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 35 works
  5. 5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 30 works
  6. 6 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 20 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 17 works
  9. 9 Sugarcane Research Center (Brazil)Brazil 16 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing include Philippe Ciais and Ejaz Ahmad Khan.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k 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 Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing?

The most cited paper in Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing is "A comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs for the VAX" (John Devereux, Paul E. Haeberli, Oliver Smithies, 1984), with 14,432 citations. Next come "Trends in biotechnological production of fuel ethanol from different feedstocks" (1,829) and "A generalized method for predicting the minimum fluidization velocity" (1,545).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs for the VAX John Devereux, Paul E. Haeberli, Oliver Smithies · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 1984 14,432
2 Trends in biotechnological production of fuel ethanol from different feedstocks Óscar J. Sánchez, Carlos Ariel Cardona Álzate · Bioresource Technology 7 Jan 2008 1,829
3 A generalized method for predicting the minimum fluidization velocity C. Y. Wen, Yongtao Yu · AIChE Journal May 1966 1,545
4 Fuel ethanol production from lignocellulose: a challenge for metabolic engineering and process integration Josefina Zaldivar, JENS KVIST NIELSEN, Lennart Olsson · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Jul 2001 958
5 Green house gases emissions in the production and use of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil: The 2005/2006 averages and a prediction for 2020 Isaías Carvalho Macedo, Joaquim E. A. Seabra, João Eduardo Azevedo Ramos da Silva · Biomass and Bioenergy 17 Jan 2008 942
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Where is Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research done?

The largest centres of Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Coimbatore (India), Nanning (China) and Lucknow (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Piracicaba and Nanning.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 88 works
  2. 2 CoimbatoreIndia 70 works
  3. 3 NanningChina 66 works
  4. 4 LucknowIndia 35 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 30 works
  6. 6 CampinasBrazil 25 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 23 works
  8. 8 FuzhouChina 22 works
  9. 9 PiracicabaBrazil 22 works
  10. 10 GizaEgypt 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PiracicabaBR · 21.5 works287×
  2. NanningCN · 65.7 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and Chitkara 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 15.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fujian Agriculture a…Chitkara UniversityGuangxi UniversityUniversidade de São …
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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
1Guangxi UniversityChina 73.024.3%43.9×48 +110.6%
2Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 68.134.5%49.4×20 -9.3%
3Chitkara UniversityIndia 61.233.7%13.8×10 -
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 50.515.4%8.2×30 -35.1%
5Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 50.112.4%23.6×35 -31.1%
6Khon Kaen UniversityThailand 44.19.1%32.6×12 +27.3%
7Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 43.99.6%12.8×17 -47.0%
8Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 36.85.6%143.3×15 +48.3%
9University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 35.44.7%33.4×10 -2.1%
10Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture UniversityIndia 34.13.9%307.2×13 +181.2%

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 Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing, country by country

Is Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0096% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing0.0089% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing 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%Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing10.9% 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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