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Turfgrass Adaptation and Management

Turfgrass Adaptation and Management is a research topic within Environmental Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biogeochemical cycling, management practices, and physiological responses of turfgrasses, particularly in relation to nitrogen leaching, drought resistance, soil temperatures, fertilizer effects on water quality, and heat stress tolerance. It also explores the role of golf courses in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

  • Turfgrass
  • Biogeochemical Cycling
  • Nitrogen Leaching
  • Drought Resistance
  • Soil Temperatures
  • Fertilizer Management
  • Root Physiology
  • Water Quality
  • Heat Stress Tolerance
  • Biodiversity Conservation
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Turfgrass Adaptation and Management

Which countries lead Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (557 and 193 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 557 works
  2. 2 China 193 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 44 works
  4. 4 Canada 40 works
  5. 5 Japan 39 works
  6. 6 Brazil 38 works
  7. 7 India 34 works
  8. 8 Russia 33 works
  9. 9 South Korea 27 works
  10. 10 Australia 22 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: 54.2%China: 18.8%Türkiye: 4.3%Canada: 3.9%6 others listed: 18.8%54%largest
United States557 · 54.2%China193 · 18.8%Türkiye44 · 4.3%Canada40 · 3.9%6 others listed194 · 18.8%

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

Which institutions lead Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research, followed by University of Florida and University of Georgia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 University of FloridaUnited States 30 works
  3. 3 University of GeorgiaUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 Kansas State UniversityUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 14 works
  8. 8 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaCanada 12 works
  10. 10 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Turfgrass Adaptation and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Turfgrass Adaptation and Management include Rob Knight, F. Stuart Chapin and Pamela S. Soltis.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  3. 3 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k citations
  4. 4 Michael C. O’Donovan United Kingdom 158k citations
  5. 5 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 Turfgrass Adaptation and Management?

The most cited paper in Turfgrass Adaptation and Management is "Automated Simultaneous Determination of Ammonia and Total Amino Acids in Ruminal Fluid and In Vitro Media" (Glen A. Broderick, Jinhe Kang, 1980), with 2,557 citations. Next come "Measurement of soil microbial biomass C by fumigation-extraction—an automated procedure" (2,516) and "Response surface methodology" (2,130).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Automated Simultaneous Determination of Ammonia and Total Amino Acids in Ruminal Fluid and In Vitro Media Glen A. Broderick, Jinhe Kang · Journal of Dairy Science Open access 1980 2,557
2 Measurement of soil microbial biomass C by fumigation-extraction—an automated procedure Jianzhao Wu, Rainer Georg Joergensen, B. Pommerening et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry 1990 2,516
3 Response surface methodology André I. Khuri, Siuli Mukhopadhyay · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics Mar 2010 2,130
4 Control of yellow and purple nutsedge in elevated CO2 environments with glyphosate and halosulfuron Chris Marble, Stephen A. Prior, G. Brett Runion et al. · Frontiers in Plant Science Open access 20 Jan 2015 1,947
5 Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range Gemma Henderson et al. · Scientific Reports Open access147 authors 9 Oct 2015 1,785
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Where is Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research done?

The largest centres of Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Gainesville (United States) and Athens (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manhattan, Athens and Gainesville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 43 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 39 works
  3. 3 GainesvilleUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 AthensUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 ManhattanUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 RaleighUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 14 works
  8. 8 CorvallisUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 MadisonUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 New BrunswickUnited States 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManhattanUS · 20.3 works70×
  2. AthensUS · 20.5 works35×
  3. GainesvilleUS · 30.7 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Turfgrass Adaptation and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Turfgrass Adaptation and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Nanjing Agricultural University and University of Georgia 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%10%20%mean 9.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Agricultural…Purdue University We…Rutgers, The State U…University of Georgia
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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
1Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States 64.611.3%14.3×13 +14.1%
2Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 63.620.4%22.3×10 +55.3%
3University of GeorgiaUnited States 60.46.9%40.7×20 +23.6%
4Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 51.211.7%10.6×12 +17.0%
5University of FloridaUnited States 49.65.6%24.5×30 -25.3%
6North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 48.111.5%27.1×17 -26.7%
7Kansas State UniversityUnited States 45.36.4%79.1×20 -29.4%
8Oregon State UniversityUnited States 40.28.1%34.4×12 -3.7%
9Oklahoma State UniversityUnited States 36.82.3%57.9×11 +29.1%
10University of MinnesotaUnited States 35.98.9%11.1×10 -32.6%

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 Turfgrass Adaptation and Management, country by country

Is Turfgrass Adaptation and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009.

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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 Turfgrass Adaptation and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0051% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Turfgrass Adaptation and Management0.0056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Turfgrass Adaptation and Management 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%Turfgrass Adaptation and Management10.1% 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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