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Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020

Seed traits (ST) influence seedling establishment, population dynamics, community composition and ecosystem function and reflect the adaptability of plants and the environmental conditions they experienced. There has been a historical and global accumulation of studies on ST, but with few pertaining...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhaogang, Zhao, Ming, Lu, Zhengkuan, Zhang, Hongxiang
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9370117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35956484
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11152006
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Zhao, Ming
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Zhang, Hongxiang
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description Seed traits (ST) influence seedling establishment, population dynamics, community composition and ecosystem function and reflect the adaptability of plants and the environmental conditions they experienced. There has been a historical and global accumulation of studies on ST, but with few pertaining to visual and quantitative analyses. To understand the trends in the field of ST research in the past 30 years, we conducted a bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) database. The analysis provided annual publications, time trends for keywords, the most productive journals, authors, institutions and countries, and a comprehensive overview of the ST field. Our results showed that in the past 30 years, the number of publications in ST research has increased at an average annual growth rate of 9.1%, while the average number of citations per paper per year showed a rapid increase–slow increase–decrease trend. Keyword analysis showed that “germination” was the most popular research section. Crop Science ranked first among the top journals and Theoretical and Applied Genetics had greater influence in this area and more citations than other journals. The 10 most productive institutions were mostly located in the United States, China and Australia. Furthermore, the three countries also had the largest number of publications and citations. Our analysis showed that the research interests in ST have evolved from genetics and agricultural science to ecological research over the last thirty years; as more fields embrace ST research, there are opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaborations, cooperative institutions and new advances in the field.
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spelling pubmed-93701172022-08-12 Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020 Liu, Zhaogang Zhao, Ming Lu, Zhengkuan Zhang, Hongxiang Plants (Basel) Review Seed traits (ST) influence seedling establishment, population dynamics, community composition and ecosystem function and reflect the adaptability of plants and the environmental conditions they experienced. There has been a historical and global accumulation of studies on ST, but with few pertaining to visual and quantitative analyses. To understand the trends in the field of ST research in the past 30 years, we conducted a bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) database. The analysis provided annual publications, time trends for keywords, the most productive journals, authors, institutions and countries, and a comprehensive overview of the ST field. Our results showed that in the past 30 years, the number of publications in ST research has increased at an average annual growth rate of 9.1%, while the average number of citations per paper per year showed a rapid increase–slow increase–decrease trend. Keyword analysis showed that “germination” was the most popular research section. Crop Science ranked first among the top journals and Theoretical and Applied Genetics had greater influence in this area and more citations than other journals. The 10 most productive institutions were mostly located in the United States, China and Australia. Furthermore, the three countries also had the largest number of publications and citations. Our analysis showed that the research interests in ST have evolved from genetics and agricultural science to ecological research over the last thirty years; as more fields embrace ST research, there are opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaborations, cooperative institutions and new advances in the field. MDPI 2022-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9370117/ /pubmed/35956484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11152006 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Zhao, Ming
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Zhang, Hongxiang
Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title_full Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title_fullStr Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title_full_unstemmed Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title_short Seed Traits Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991–2020
title_sort seed traits research is on the rise: a bibliometric analysis from 1991–2020
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9370117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35956484
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11152006
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