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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. 10.0% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transgenic Plants and Applications

Which countries lead Transgenic Plants and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (634 and 621 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 634 works
  2. 2 China 621 works
  3. 3 India 593 works
  4. 4 Germany 142 works
  5. 5 South Korea 116 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 109 works
  7. 7 Japan 108 works
  8. 8 Russia 103 works
  9. 9 Iran 94 works
  10. 10 Brazil 94 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: 24.3%China: 23.7%India: 22.7%Germany: 5.4%6 others listed: 23.9%24%largest
United States634 · 24.3%China621 · 23.7%India593 · 22.7%Germany142 · 5.4%6 others listed624 · 23.9%

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

Which institutions lead Transgenic Plants and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Transgenic Plants and Applications research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 64 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 46 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 40 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  5. 5 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 19 works
  6. 6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 18 works
  7. 7 BOKU UniversityAustria 18 works
  8. 8 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  10. 10 China Agricultural UniversityChina 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transgenic Plants and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transgenic Plants and Applications include Guido Kroemer, Shizuo Akira and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  2. 2 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k 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 Transgenic Plants and Applications?

The most cited paper in Transgenic Plants and Applications is "The Unfolded Protein Response: From Stress Pathway to Homeostatic Regulation" (Peter Walter, David Ron, 2011), with 6,131 citations. Next come "Characteristics of the Microplate Method of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Plant Viruses" (4,838) and "KEGG: integrating viruses and cellular organisms" (4,784).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Unfolded Protein Response: From Stress Pathway to Homeostatic Regulation Peter Walter, David Ron · Science 24 Nov 2011 6,131
2 Characteristics of the Microplate Method of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Plant Viruses M. F. Clark, A.N. Adams · Journal of General Virology Mar 1977 4,838
3 KEGG: integrating viruses and cellular organisms Minoru I. Kanehisa, Miho Furumichi, Yoko Sato et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 9 Oct 2020 4,784
4 A Simple and General Method for Transferring Genes into Plants R. Horsch, Joyce E. Fry, Nancy L. Hoffmann et al. · Science 8 Mar 1985 4,784
5 Somatic generation of antibody diversity Susumu Tonegawa · Nature Apr 1983 4,012
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Where is Transgenic Plants and Applications research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 130 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 61 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 50 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 40 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 40 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 39 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 32 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 29 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 28 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 28 works
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Where is the best place to study Transgenic Plants and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, BOKU University, Jiangnan University and China 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%20%40%mean 18.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangnan UniversityChina Agricultural U…BOKU UniversityUniversity of Califo…
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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
1BOKU UniversityAustria 92.815.6%51.0×18 +59.0%
2Jiangnan UniversityChina 68.730.9%5.3×11 +106.3%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 67.621.0%7.3×14 +65.0%
4University of California San DiegoUnited States 64.710.7%4.1×14 +22.5%
5Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 61.013.1%7.5×12 +220.0%
6Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 53.520.8%7.6×10 +7.2%
7North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 53.421.3%4.6×9 +61.1%
8Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 52.312.2%6.9×9 +10.8%
9University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 47.619.0%1.7×8 +3.3%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 45.417.5%1.2×11 +69.4%

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 Transgenic Plants and Applications, country by country

Is Transgenic Plants and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Transgenic Plants and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Transgenic Plants and Applications0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transgenic Plants and Applications 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%Transgenic Plants and Applications10.6% 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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