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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (34): 148-159.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20200300216

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Trend and Topic Analysis of Global Plant Science Research

Li Nan(), Li Xiaoman, Zhang Xuefu()   

  1. Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2020-03-17 Revised:2020-10-20 Online:2020-12-05 Published:2020-12-15
  • Contact: Zhang Xuefu E-mail:linan@caas.cn;zhangxuefu@caas.cn

Abstract:

Based on the needs of agricultural science and technology innovation, to provide support and refence for the effective allocation of agricultural science and technology resources, the research analyzed the current status and trend of global plant science research from the perspective of bibliometrics. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to construct a search strategy, based on the Web of Science database and bibliometric analysis tools, bibliometrics analysis was carried out on the number of articles published, the countries, institutions, journals, and authors influence with high publication numbers. The main results indicate that the number of articles published from 1995 to 2018 shows a steady growth trend as a whole. The United States and China are main contributors to the articles, but the number of citations per article contributed by the United States and European countries is higher than that of China. Chinese scientific research institutions have an advantage in the number of articles, while German Max Planck features highly the number of citations per article. The content analysis was carried out on Top10 articles with high citations published from 2016 to 2018, and the visual analysis of the topic clustering of high-frequency word co-occurrence was conducted. The results show that ‘plants respond to biotic and abiotic stress’, ‘gene editing technology’, ‘genomic analysis’, ‘plant reproductive development regulation’ are important research directions that have been given growing attention in recent years. The subject content is in accordance with the preliminary needs research. The research proves that these research directions will play an important role in promoting the development of agricultural innovation.

Key words: plant science, development trend, bibliometrics, topic analysis, co-occurrence analysis

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