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Transgenic Plants and Applications

Transgenic Plants and Applications is a research topic within Biotechnology. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 19.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the production of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins in plants, utilizing techniques such as transient expression and glycosylation engineering. It covers a wide range of topics including the production of biopharmaceuticals, vaccine antigens, and the use of plant bioreactors for oral immunization. The research also explores the potential of plant molecular farming as a cost-effective and efficient platform for pharmaceutical production.

  • Plant Molecular Farming
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Biopharmaceuticals
  • Vaccine Antigens
  • Glycosylation Engineering
  • Transient Expression
  • Pharmaceutical Production
  • Plant Bioreactors
  • Oral Immunization
  • Molecular Pharming
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+12%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Transgenic Plants and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (545 and 524 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 545 works
  2. 2 India 524 works
  3. 3 China 513 works
  4. 4 Germany 125 works
  5. 5 South Korea 104 works
  6. 6 Russia 97 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 93 works
  8. 8 Japan 92 works
  9. 9 Iran 85 works
  10. 10 Brazil 85 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.

United States: 24.1%India: 23.2%China: 22.7%Germany: 5.5%6 others listed: 24.5%24%largest
United States545 · 24.1%India524 · 23.2%China513 · 22.7%Germany125 · 5.5%6 others listed555 · 24.5%

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

Which institutions lead Transgenic Plants and Applications research?

By volume in 2022–2025, BOKU University publishes the most Transgenic Plants and Applications research, followed by China Agricultural University and Lovely Professional University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 BOKU UniversityAustria 18 works
  2. 2 China Agricultural UniversityChina 11 works
  3. 3 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 11 works
  4. 4 University of California San DiegoUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 10 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works
  8. 8 University of DelhiIndia 9 works
  9. 9 Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand 9 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 8 works

Where is Transgenic Plants and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Transgenic Plants and Applications research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Moscow (Russia) and Tehran (Iran).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 109 works
  2. 2 New Delhi India 54 works
  3. 3 Moscow Russia 47 works
  4. 4 Tehran Iran 38 works
  5. 5 Seoul South Korea 34 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 32 works
  7. 7 Vienna Austria 30 works
  8. 8 Guangzhou China 26 works
  9. 9 Paris France 25 works
  10. 10 London United Kingdom 24 works
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Where is the best place to study Transgenic Plants and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, BOKU University, China Agricultural University and Jiangnan 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 25.4%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →BOKU University: 18, 33.7%China Agricultural University: 11, 34.0%Jiangnan University: 8, 46.8%Nanjing Agricultural University: 8, 39.7%University of California San Diego: 10, 25.0%Lovely Professional University: 11, 16.3%Chulalongkorn University: 9, 11.0%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 10, 9.4%University of Delhi: 9, 12.7%Jiangnan UniversityNanjing Agricultural…China Agricultural U…BOKU University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 BOKU UniversityAustria 76.033.7%51.3×18 -21.1%
2 China Agricultural UniversityChina 43.434.0%5.9×11 -44.6%
3 Jiangnan UniversityChina 43.346.8%4.0×8 +14.5%
4 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 41.139.7%6.3×8 -45.2%
5 University of California San DiegoUnited States 39.325.0%3.7×10 +108.3%
6 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 38.016.3%6.7×11 —
7 Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand 37.311.0%6.8×9 +143.7%
8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 22.89.4%1.8×10 +214.2%
9 University of DelhiIndia 19.712.7%5.4×9 -28.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Transgenic Plants and Applications research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transgenic Plants and Applications.

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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.

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.