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Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis is a research topic within Environmental Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 8.2k research works in it since 1951. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the evaluation of environmental impact and sustainability of agricultural systems at the farm level. It includes the development and comparison of indicator-based methods, assessment frameworks, and tools for measuring sustainability in agri-environmental systems. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as multi-criteria assessment, livestock farming, sustainable development, and integrated assessment for rural planning.

  • Agricultural Sustainability
  • Environmental Impact
  • Farm Level Assessment
  • Sustainability Indicators
  • Agri-environmental Systems
  • Multi-criteria Assessment
  • Livestock Farming
  • Sustainable Development
  • Integrated Assessment
  • Rural Planning
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
896
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+59%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

Which countries lead Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (259 and 216 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 259 works
  2. 2 China 216 works
  3. 3 France 162 works
  4. 4 Brazil 159 works
  5. 5 United States 149 works
  6. 6 Italy 106 works
  7. 7 Spain 105 works
  8. 8 Mexico 94 works
  9. 9 Germany 84 works
  10. 10 Colombia 65 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: 18.5%China: 15.4%France: 11.6%Brazil: 11.4%6 others listed: 43.1%19%largest
India259 · 18.5%China216 · 15.4%France162 · 11.6%Brazil159 · 11.4%6 others listed604 · 43.1%

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

Which institutions lead Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement publishes the most Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 70 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 32 works
  3. 3 Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development AuthorityIreland 28 works
  4. 4 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 25 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  6. 6 Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 15 works
  7. 7 CGIARFrance 14 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 13 works
  9. 9 Agricultural University of AthensGreece 13 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis include Carl Folke, Ian J. Deary and Josep Peñuelas.

  1. 1 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  2. 2 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  3. 3 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  4. 4 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k 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 Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis?

The most cited paper in Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis is "Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming" (P. Maeder, Andreas Fließbach, David Dubois et al., 2002), with 2,945 citations. Next come "Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data" (2,089) and "Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence" (1,931).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming P. Maeder, Andreas Fließbach, David Dubois et al. · Science 31 May 2002 2,945
2 Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data Jan Lepš, Petr Šmilauer · Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America Jul 2006 2,089
3 Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence Jules Pretty · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 25 Jul 2007 1,931
4 A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Brian Walker, Lance Gunderson, Ann P. Kinzig et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2006 1,371
5 Challenges in the development and use of ecological indicators Virginia H. Dale, Suzanne C. Beyeler · Ecological Indicators Aug 2001 1,361
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Carlow (Ireland) and Wageningen (Netherlands). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Carlow and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 58 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 51 works
  3. 3 CarlowIreland 28 works
  4. 4 WageningenNetherlands 27 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  6. 6 BucharestRomania 24 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 22 works
  8. 8 BogotáColombia 20 works
  9. 9 MontpellierFrance 19 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CarlowIE · 28.0 works159×
  2. WageningenNL · 27.3 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis than the world average.

See Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis on the map

Where is the best place to study Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural University of Athens 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 10.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Swedish University o…Wageningen Universit…Agricultural Univers…Ghent University
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 93.818.5%29.2×25 +34.6%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 69.729.3%23.4×9 +15.0%
3Agricultural University of AthensGreece 45.57.9%64.4×13 +876.8%
4Ghent UniversityBelgium 41.45.3%4.5×8 +180.2%
5Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 38.98.4%4.7×11 +10.3%
6Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 38.30.0%48.2×16 +27.0%
7Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece 37.37.3%7.3×8 +36.3%
8Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 36.910.5%10.0×8 +42.9%
9Universidade de São PauloBrazil 31.611.3%1.7×8 +156.8%
10Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 30.72.8%25.4×10 +92.6%

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 Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis, country by country

Is Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis.

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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 Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis 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%Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis10.4% 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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