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Weed Control and Herbicide Applications

Weed Control and Herbicide Applications is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on weed management, herbicide resistance, and the impact of herbicides on crop losses. It covers topics such as glyphosate, integrated pest management, non-chemical weed management, and the effects of agricultural intensification on weed ecology. The papers also explore dose-response analysis, crop rotation, and the physiological effects of herbicides on plants.

  • Herbicide Resistance
  • Weed Control
  • Crop Losses
  • Glyphosate
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Dose-Response Analysis
  • Non-Chemical Weed Management
  • Crop Rotation
  • Agricultural Intensification
  • Plant Physiology
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Weed Control and Herbicide Applications

Which countries lead Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (586 and 445 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 586 works
  2. 2 China 445 works
  3. 3 India 392 works
  4. 4 Brazil 335 works
  5. 5 Australia 80 works
  6. 6 Germany 79 works
  7. 7 Canada 67 works
  8. 8 France 65 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 64 works
  10. 10 Spain 60 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: 27.0%China: 20.5%India: 18.0%Brazil: 15.4%6 others listed: 19.1%27%largest
United States586 · 27.0%China445 · 20.5%India392 · 18.0%Brazil335 · 15.4%6 others listed416 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 79 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 46 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 27 works
  5. 5 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 26 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 25 works
  8. 8 University of FloridaUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 Kansas State UniversityUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Weed Control and Herbicide Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Weed Control and Herbicide Applications include David Tilman, Ejaz Ahmad Khan and Peter B. Reich.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 Ejaz Ahmad Khan United States 190k citations
  3. 3 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  4. 4 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 Weed Control and Herbicide Applications?

The most cited paper in Weed Control and Herbicide Applications is "Speed of Germination—Aid In Selection And Evaluation for Seedling Emergence And Vigor 1" (James D. Maguire, 1962), with 4,541 citations. Next come "Growth–Defense Tradeoffs in Plants: A Balancing Act to Optimize Fitness" (1,911) and "Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally" (1,906).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Speed of Germination—Aid In Selection And Evaluation for Seedling Emergence And Vigor 1 James D. Maguire · Crop Science Mar 1962 4,541
2 Growth–Defense Tradeoffs in Plants: A Balancing Act to Optimize Fitness Bethany Huot, Jian Yao, Beronda L. Montgomery et al. · Molecular Plant Open access 28 Apr 2014 1,911
3 Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally Charles Benbrook · Environmental Sciences Europe Open access 2 Feb 2016 1,906
4 Glyphosate: a once‐in‐a‐century herbicide Stephen Oscar Duke, Stephen B. Powles · Pest Management Science 13 Feb 2008 1,761
5 Evolution in Action: Plants Resistant to Herbicides Stephen B. Powles, Qin Ping Yu · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 4 May 2010 1,746
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research done?

The largest centres of Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Coimbatore (India) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manhattan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 89 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 52 works
  3. 3 CoimbatoreIndia 33 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 33 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 27 works
  6. 6 RaleighUnited States 22 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 22 works
  8. 8 GainesvilleUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 ManhattanUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 BrisbaneAustralia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManhattanUS · 21.9 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Weed Control and Herbicide Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Weed Control and Herbicide Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Agricultural University and Northeast 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 22.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Agricultur…China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…Anhui Agricultural U…
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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
1Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 74.427.1%17.3×18 +19.7%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 66.935.5%8.3×13 +118.0%
3Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 61.844.8%16.1×12 -9.1%
4Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 58.223.4%25.6×12 +362.9%
5Hunan Agricultural UniversityChina 57.238.2%20.3×8 +286.9%
6Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 52.52.8%42.0×26 +66.3%
7Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 49.29.5%10.8×25 -59.1%
8Guizhou UniversityChina 49.128.3%5.8×8 +222.6%
9Czech University of Life Sciences PragueCzechia 48.012.7%36.3×10 +66.6%
10North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 47.31.9%14.0×21 -7.1%

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 Weed Control and Herbicide Applications, country by country

Is Weed Control and Herbicide Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Weed Control and Herbicide Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Weed Control and Herbicide Applications0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Weed Control and Herbicide 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%Weed Control and Herbicide 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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