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Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation

Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to the cultivation, genetic mapping, oil composition, medicinal properties, water use efficiency, nitrogen fertilization, and downy mildew resistance in safflower and sunflower. It includes research on yield response to environmental factors, medicinal uses in traditional Chinese medicine, genetic diversity, and potential applications as bioactive food ingredients.

  • Safflower
  • Sunflower
  • Cultivation
  • Genetic Mapping
  • Oil Composition
  • Medicinal Properties
  • Water Use Efficiency
  • Nitrogen Fertilization
  • Pharmacological Review
  • Downy Mildew Resistance
Research works
5.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
606
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation

Which countries lead Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (205 and 172 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 205 works
  2. 2 China 172 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 92 works
  4. 4 Iran 80 works
  5. 5 Russia 74 works
  6. 6 United States 71 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 53 works
  8. 8 Iraq 50 works
  9. 9 Brazil 50 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 43 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: 23.0%China: 19.3%Türkiye: 10.4%Iran: 8.9%6 others listed: 38.4%23%largest
India205 · 23.0%China172 · 19.3%Türkiye92 · 10.4%Iran80 · 8.9%6 others listed342 · 38.4%

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

Which institutions lead Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research, followed by All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops by V.S. Pustovoit and Marathwada Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 39 works
  2. 2 All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops by V.S. PustovoitRussia 21 works
  3. 3 Marathwada Agricultural UniversityIndia 19 works
  4. 4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 14 works
  5. 5 University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 14 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 13 works
  7. 7 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 Sindh Agriculture UniversityPakistan 11 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 10 works
  10. 10 University of MaraghehIran 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation include Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Debbie A. Lawlor and Muhammad Ashraf.

  1. 1 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  2. 2 Debbie A. Lawlor United Kingdom 133k citations
  3. 3 Muhammad Ashraf Pakistan 96k 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 Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation?

The most cited paper in Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation is "A uniform decimal code for growth stages of crops and weeds" (Peter Lancashire, H. Bleiholder, T. van den Boom et al., 1991), with 1,971 citations. Next come "Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization" (1,298) and "The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution" (861).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A uniform decimal code for growth stages of crops and weeds Peter Lancashire, H. Bleiholder, T. van den Boom et al. · Annals of Applied Biology Dec 1991 1,971
2 Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization Loren H. Rieseberg, Olivier Raymond, David M. Rosenthal et al. · Science Open access 11 Aug 2003 1,298
3 The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution Hélène Badouin et al. · Nature Open access 18 May 2017 861
4 Description of Sunflower Growth Stages1 A. A. Schneiter, Jerry F. Miller · Crop Science Nov 1981 816
5 Hybrid Zones and the Genetic Architecture of a Barrier to Gene Flow Between Two Sunflower Species Loren H. Rieseberg, Jeannette Whitton, Keith A. Gardner · Genetics Jun 1999 614
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research done?

The largest centres of Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research in 2022-now are Hyderabad (India), Tehran (Iran), Krasnodar (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krasnodar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 HyderabadIndia 32 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 24 works
  3. 3 KrasnodarRussia 23 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 22 works
  5. 5 ParbhaniIndia 19 works
  6. 6 FaisalabadPakistan 18 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 16 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 15 works
  9. 9 CoimbatoreIndia 15 works
  10. 10 Novi SadSerbia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrasnodarRU · 23.2 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research and Marathwada Agricultural 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%5%10%15%mean 3.14%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ethiopian Institute …University of Agricu…Tamil Nadu Agricultu…Marathwada Agricultu…
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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
1University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 69.74.2%74.1×14 +9.6%
2Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 61.912.2%63.0×8 +189.6%
3Marathwada Agricultural UniversityIndia 50.00.4%521.1×19 +68.8%
4Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 41.51.1%56.0×14 +113.3%
5Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 41.59.0%5.5×10 -45.4%
6Sindh Agriculture UniversityPakistan 40.90.0%339.2×12 +58.4%
7University of MaraghehIran 36.81.8%246.4×10 +89.1%
8Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 26.01.5%133.0×8 +133.9%
9University of Agricultural Sciences RaichurIndia 20.60.5%242.6×8 +50.5%
10University of Agricultural Sciences, BangaloreIndia 15.10.7%138.5×8 -12.6%

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 Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation, country by country

Is Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation.

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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 Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0052% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation0.0054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation 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%Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation11.3% 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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