Agricultural and Biological Sciences Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Agricultural and Biological Sciences topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Agricultural and Biological Sciences currently has 78 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 290,787 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -4.5%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | China Agricultural University | China | 66.2 | 19,045 | 45,051 | -18.8% |
| #2 | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) | Brazil | 66.1 | 18,651 | 57,671 | -19.9% |
| #3 | University of Florida | United States | 65.4 | 14,980 | 86,629 | -0.5% |
| #4 | University of Milan | Italy | 64.5 | 3,872 | 216,132 | 444.4% |
| #5 | Iowa State University | United States | 62.3 | 10,344 | 24,730 | -17.9% |
| #6 | University of California, Davis | United States | 62.1 | 10,691 | 63,142 | -26.7% |
| #7 | University of Georgia | United States | 61.4 | 8,491 | 27,879 | -6.2% |
| #8 | North Carolina State University | United States | 60.9 | 7,633 | 39,511 | -2.9% |
| #9 | Wageningen University & Research | The Netherlands | 60.5 | 7,392 | 41,300 | -6.1% |
| #10 | Universidade Federal do Paraná | Brazil | 60.4 | 7,764 | 37,685 | -16.8% |
| #11 | University of California, Riverside | United States | 60.4 | 7,798 | 24,977 | -18.7% |
| #12 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 59.1 | 6,057 | 54,334 | -9.2% |
| #13 | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 59.0 | 6,328 | 253,330 | -18.7% |
| #14 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 58.9 | 6,434 | 185,542 | -23.8% |
| #15 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 58.7 | 1,615 | 102,279 | 467.0% |
| #16 | Cornell University | United States | 58.0 | 5,149 | 106,688 | -9.7% |
| #17 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | United States | 57.8 | 4,058 | 25,755 | 25.7% |
| #18 | Michigan State University | United States | 57.7 | 2,328 | 95,081 | 113.2% |
| #19 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 57.5 | 5,202 | 128,674 | -22.8% |
| #20 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 57.1 | 4,256 | 59,083 | -1.3% |
| #21 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 56.9 | 4,555 | 58,065 | -16.2% |
| #22 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 56.9 | 4,699 | 40,709 | -22.2% |
| #23 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia | 56.6 | 4,401 | 26,219 | -17.4% |
| #24 | Université de Montpellier | France | 56.6 | 4,750 | 53,953 | -32.1% |
| #25 | Washington State University | United States | 56.2 | 4,169 | 25,256 | -18.8% |
| #26 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | 56.1 | 3,988 | 73,158 | -15.6% |
| #27 | University of Liège | Belgium | 56.1 | 4,913 | 62,113 | -70.9% |
| #28 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 56.0 | 3,622 | 42,781 | -1.4% |
| #29 | University of Würzburg | Germany | 55.7 | 3,686 | 22,453 | -11.7% |
| #30 | University of Missouri | United States | 55.7 | 3,519 | 26,737 | -4.7% |
| #31 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 55.5 | 3,203 | 34,213 | 7.4% |
| #32 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico | 55.3 | 3,586 | 72,878 | -16.9% |
| #33 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 55.2 | 3,495 | 108,283 | -15.0% |
| #34 | Université de Lorraine | France | 54.6 | 3,938 | 57,825 | -49.3% |
| #35 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 54.4 | 2,267 | 108,566 | 36.6% |
| #36 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 54.4 | 3,673 | 64,840 | -43.0% |
| #37 | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | 53.8 | 3,117 | 42,691 | -31.2% |
| #38 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) | Brazil | 53.7 | 2,779 | 59,868 | -16.1% |
| #39 | Macquarie University | Australia | 53.5 | 2,709 | 31,457 | -15.7% |
| #40 | Oregon Health & Science University | United States | 53.5 | 1,863 | 38,931 | 45.7% |
| #41 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland | 53.1 | 2,486 | 35,548 | -11.9% |
| #42 | Jagiellonian University | Poland | 52.6 | 1,987 | 42,643 | 12.3% |
| #43 | Texas Tech University | United States | 52.6 | 2,117 | 27,384 | 1.5% |
| #44 | University of Minnesota | United States | 52.5 | 2,431 | 55,139 | -22.9% |
| #45 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 52.2 | 2,136 | 61,302 | -9.4% |
| #46 | Lund University | Sweden | 52.1 | 2,104 | 56,995 | -9.9% |
| #47 | University of Kansas | United States | 52.0 | 1,986 | 21,406 | -2.8% |
| #48 | Colorado State University | United States | 51.8 | 1,983 | 28,220 | -7.4% |
| #49 | Charles University | Czechia | 51.5 | 1,736 | 46,059 | 8.6% |
| #50 | Arizona State University | United States | 51.5 | 1,894 | 47,052 | -5.9% |
| #51 | University of Vienna | Austria | 51.5 | 1,792 | 43,915 | 1.2% |
| #52 | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Brazil | 51.4 | 1,910 | 46,423 | -11.5% |
| #53 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 51.1 | 1,819 | 43,898 | -11.5% |
| #54 | University of Groningen | The Netherlands | 50.7 | 1,739 | 49,355 | -14.1% |
| #55 | Lanzhou University | China | 50.3 | 1,524 | 47,191 | -0.1% |
| #56 | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | United States | 50.2 | 1,623 | 32,805 | -13.7% |
| #57 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 50.2 | 1,766 | 63,686 | -28.5% |
| #58 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | 50.1 | 1,620 | 27,286 | -16.9% |
| #59 | University of Kentucky | United States | 49.9 | 1,150 | 38,793 | 36.3% |
| #60 | University of Turin | Italy | 49.9 | 1,525 | 45,845 | -10.7% |
| #61 | Virginia Tech | United States | 49.9 | 1,525 | 39,801 | -11.5% |
| #62 | Ghent University | Belgium | 49.8 | 1,568 | 43,906 | -18.1% |
| #63 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 49.8 | 1,572 | 33,007 | -18.9% |
| #64 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States | 49.8 | 1,597 | 27,632 | -22.5% |
| #65 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway | 49.6 | 1,266 | 50,300 | 11.4% |
| #66 | Université de Bordeaux | France | 48.9 | 1,399 | 34,784 | -23.2% |
| #67 | Nantes Université | France | 48.8 | 1,561 | 36,897 | -42.5% |
| #68 | University of Belgrade | Serbia | 48.5 | 1,147 | 38,909 | -0.3% |
| #69 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 48.2 | 1,179 | 21,627 | -11.7% |
| #70 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 48.1 | 1,350 | 37,640 | -37.0% |
| #71 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 47.9 | 1,324 | 31,997 | -39.1% |
| #72 | Universidade do Porto | Portugal | 47.6 | 1,147 | 50,018 | -21.1% |
| #73 | University of Tehran | Iran | 47.6 | 1,180 | 37,689 | -25.9% |
| #74 | University of Turku | Finland | 47.5 | 1,028 | 33,313 | -5.2% |
| #75 | University of Connecticut | United States | 47.1 | 1,085 | 24,293 | -24.0% |
| #76 | University of Zagreb | Croatia | 46.1 | 905 | 32,553 | -19.3% |
| #77 | University of Manitoba | Canada | 45.6 | 822 | 27,383 | -16.3% |
| #78 | Queen's University | Canada | 45.3 | 784 | 28,079 | -15.9% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.