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Wood and Agarwood Research

Wood and Agarwood Research is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 4.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the chemical constituents, production techniques, and pharmacological activities of agarwood derived from Aquilaria species. It covers topics such as sesquiterpenes, essential oils, wood identification, fungal diversity, and sustainable use.

  • Agarwood
  • Aquilaria
  • Chemical Constituents
  • Sesquiterpenes
  • Induction Techniques
  • Pharmacological Activity
  • Essential Oils
  • Wood Identification
  • Fungal Diversity
  • Sustainable Use
Research works
4.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
443
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wood and Agarwood Research

Which countries lead Wood and Agarwood Research research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (398 and 236 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 398 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 236 works
  3. 3 India 132 works
  4. 4 United States 57 works
  5. 5 Brazil 54 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 53 works
  7. 7 Japan 40 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 39 works
  9. 9 South Korea 37 works
  10. 10 Germany 30 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.

China: 36.9%Indonesia: 22.0%India: 12.2%United States: 5.3%6 others listed: 23.6%37%largest
China398 · 36.9%Indonesia236 · 22.0%India132 · 12.2%United States57 · 5.3%6 others listed254 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Wood and Agarwood Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing Forestry University publishes the most Wood and Agarwood Research research, followed by Northeast Forestry University and IPB University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 17 works
  2. 2 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 16 works
  3. 3 IPB UniversityIndonesia 16 works
  4. 4 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 15 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Forestry Research and EducationIndia 14 works
  6. 6 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 14 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 13 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of ForestryChina 12 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 12 works
  10. 10 National Research and Innovation AgencyIndonesia 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wood and Agarwood Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wood and Agarwood Research include Anil Kumar Jain, Francisco Herrera and Xiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Anil Kumar Jain United States 160k citations
  2. 2 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  3. 3 Xiang Zhang United States 119k citations
  4. 4 Lei Zhang China 112k 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 Wood and Agarwood Research?

The most cited paper in Wood and Agarwood Research is "Wood chemistry, fundamentals and applications" (R. H. Marchessault, 1994), with 1,580 citations. Next come "Wood modification by heat treatment: A review" (860) and "The Anticancer, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of the Sesquiterpene β-Caryophyllene from the Essential Oil of Aquilaria crassna" (839).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Wood chemistry, fundamentals and applications R. H. Marchessault · Carbohydrate Research 1994 1,580
2 Wood modification by heat treatment: A review Bruno Esteves, Helena M. Pereira · BioResources Open access 4 Dec 2008 860
3 The Anticancer, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of the Sesquiterpene β-Caryophyllene from the Essential Oil of Aquilaria crassna Saad Sabbar Dahham, Yasser Tabana, Muhammad Adnan Iqbal et al. · Molecules Open access 26 Jun 2015 839
4 Leafsnap: A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Arijit Biswas et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2012 816
5 Chemical changes in hydrothermal treated wood: FTIR analysis of combined hydrothermal and dry heat-treated wood Bôke Tjeerdsma, Holger Militz · European Journal of Wood and Wood Products Open access 17 Feb 2005 694
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wood and Agarwood Research research done?

The largest centres of Wood and Agarwood Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 99 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 26 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 24 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 24 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 20 works
  6. 6 BogorIndonesia 19 works
  7. 7 KunmingChina 19 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 19 works
  9. 9 Shah AlamMalaysia 15 works
  10. 10 HaikouChina 15 works
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Where is the best place to study Wood and Agarwood Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, Northeast Forestry University and Beijing Forestry University score highest, combining citation 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 12.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry Uni…Beijing Forestry Uni…Chinese Academy of M…Northeast Forestry 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.

Citation 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 Forestry UniversityChina 97.631.8%30.4×17 +73.9%
2Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 72.217.9%42.8×16 +54.3%
3Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 70.829.4%30.6×11 +109.1%
4Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 69.522.1%8.7×12 +61.5%
5Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 53.61.8%14.7×14 +37.9%
6Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 51.31.6%12.5×15 +23.4%
7Southwest Forestry UniversityChina 50.315.1%66.4×10 +108.4%
8IPB UniversityIndonesia 48.15.3%22.0×16 -11.6%
9University of MataramIndonesia 23.10.0%9.7×10 +38.0%
10Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 14.22.8%10.5×9 -43.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Wood and Agarwood Research, country by country

Is Wood and Agarwood Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wood and Agarwood Research.

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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 Wood and Agarwood Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0051% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Wood and Agarwood Research 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%Wood and Agarwood Research10.2% 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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