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Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies

Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 diversity, systematics, and ecological roles of yeasts, including their phylogenetic relationships, molecular mapping, biogeography, and epidemiology. It also covers the taxonomy and fungal pathogens associated with yeasts.

  • Yeast
  • Diversity
  • Systematics
  • Phylogenetic Analysis
  • Fungal Pathogens
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Mapping
  • Biogeography
  • Epidemiology
  • Taxonomy
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies

Which countries lead Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (434 and 221 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 434 works
  2. 2 United States 221 works
  3. 3 Brazil 124 works
  4. 4 India 103 works
  5. 5 Russia 69 works
  6. 6 Japan 58 works
  7. 7 South Korea 53 works
  8. 8 Germany 53 works
  9. 9 Canada 49 works
  10. 10 Australia 48 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: 35.8%United States: 18.2%Brazil: 10.2%India: 8.5%6 others listed: 27.2%36%largest
China434 · 35.8%United States221 · 18.2%Brazil124 · 10.2%India103 · 8.5%6 others listed330 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 45 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 36 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 23 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 21 works
  6. 6 Nanyang Normal UniversityChina 19 works
  7. 7 Mae Fah Luang UniversityThailand 16 works
  8. 8 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 14 works
  9. 9 Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaCanada 14 works
  10. 10 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies include Richard M. Durbin, Steven L. Salzberg and Ted R. Miller.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  3. 3 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  4. 4 Marco A. Marra Canada 245k citations
  5. 5 Aviv Regev United States 236k citations
  6. 6 Robert S. Fulton United States 228k citations
  7. 7 David Botstein United States 221k citations
  8. 8 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k 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 Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies?

The most cited paper in Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies is "ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts" (Monique Gardes, Thomas D. Bruns, 1993), with 10,561 citations. Next come "Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi" (5,240) and "The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology" (4,822).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts Monique Gardes, Thomas D. Bruns · Molecular Ecology Apr 1993 10,561
2 Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi Conrad L. Schoch et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access156 authors 27 Mar 2012 5,240
3 The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology Ralph A. Dean, Jan A. L. van Kan, Z. A. Pretorius et al. · Molecular Plant Pathology Open access 4 Apr 2012 4,822
4 Development of primer sets designed for use with the PCR to amplify conserved genes from filamentous ascomycetes N. Louise Glass, Gavin C. Donaldson · Applied and Environmental Microbiology Open access Apr 1995 4,752
5 Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetes: evidence from an RNA polymerse II subunit Y J Liu, Sally Whelen, Bradley D Hall · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access Dec 1999 3,798
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Where is Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research done?

The largest centres of Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guiyang (China), Moscow (Russia) and Washington D.C. (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 99 works
  2. 2 GuiyangChina 24 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 22 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 20 works
  5. 5 NanyangChina 19 works
  6. 6 KunmingChina 19 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 17 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 17 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 16 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 16 works
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Where is the best place to study Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Mae Fah Luang University, Northwest A&F University and Nanjing Forestry 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%10%20%mean 10%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry Uni…Northwest A&F Univer…Mae Fah Luang Univer…University of Pretoria
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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
1Mae Fah Luang UniversityThailand 73.312.1%198.2×16 -18.6%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 64.416.7%20.0×13 +40.9%
3Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 62.120.7%14.9×12 +19.7%
4University of PretoriaSouth Africa 57.611.4%16.5×12 -8.4%
5Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 54.515.7%28.3×14 -16.9%
6Guizhou UniversityChina 45.58.0%13.6×12 +127.4%
7Nanyang Normal UniversityChina 40.01.4%251.3×19 +137.4%
8Qujing Normal UniversityChina 24.86.7%149.4×9 -
9Jiangxi Agricultural UniversityChina 23.01.8%55.9×11 +98.2%
10Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 20.55.5%18.3×9 +44.7%

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 Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, country by country

Is Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0082% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies 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%Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies9.7% 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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