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Article

Peer-Reviewed Literature on Grain Legume Species in the WoS (1980–2018): A Comparative Analysis of Soybean and Pulses

by
Marie-Benoît Magrini
1,*,
Guillaume Cabanac
2,
Matteo Lascialfari
1,
Gael Plumecocq
1,
Marie-Josephe Amiot
3,
Marc Anton
4,
Gaelle Arvisenet
5,
Alain Baranger
6,
Laurent Bedoussac
7,
Jean-Michel Chardigny
8,
Gérard Duc
9,
Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy
10,
Etienne-Pascal Journet
1,11,
Hervé Juin
12,
Colette Larré
4,
Hugues Leiser
13,
Valérie Micard
14,
Dominique Millot
9,
Marie-Laure Pilet-Nayel
6,
Christophe Nguyen-Thé
15,
Tristan Salord
1,
Anne-Sophie Voisin
9,
Stéphane Walrand
16 and
Jacques Wery
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1
AGIR, INRA, Université de Toulouse, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
2
IRIT, Université de Toulouse, 31062 Toulouse, France
3
MOISA, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAAM, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Université Montpellier, 34060 Montpellier, France
4
BIA, INRA, 44000 Nantes, France
5
CSGA, AgroSup Dijon, CNRS, INRA, Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
6
IGEPP, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université Rennes 1, 35653 Le Rheu, France
7
AGIR, INRA, ENSFEA, Université de Toulouse, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
8
DPTI, INRA, 75338 Paris, France
9
Agroecologie, INRA, AgroSup Dijon, Université Bourgogne France-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
10
Agronomie, INRA, AgroparisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
11
LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
12
EASM, INRA, 17700 Surgères, France
13
IST, INRA, 84140 Avignon, France
14
IATE, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, CIRAD, Université Montpellier, 34060 Montpellier, France
15
SQPOV, INRA, 84140 Avignon, France
16
INRA, UNH, Unité de Nutrition Humaine, CRNH Auvergne, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand, France
17
ICARDA, Ismail El-Shaaer Building, Maadi 11728, Egypt
 
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Sustainability 2019, 11(23), 6833; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236833
Submission received: 25 September 2019 / Revised: 22 November 2019 / Accepted: 22 November 2019 / Published: 2 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agricultural Diversity)
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Abstract

Grain-legume crops are important for ensuring the sustainability of agrofood systems. Among them, pulse production is subject to strong lock-in compared to soya, the leading worldwide crop. To unlock the situation and foster more grain-legume crop diversity, scientific research is essential for providing new knowledge that may lead to new development. Our study aimed to evaluate whether research activity on grain-legumes is also locked in favor of soya. Considering more than 80 names grouped into 19 main grain-legume species, we built a dataset of 107,823 scholarly publications (articles, book, and book chapters) between 1980 and 2018 retrieved from the Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) reflecting the research activity on grain-legumes. We delineated 10 scientific themes of interest running the gamut of agrofood research (e.g., genetics, agronomy, and nutrition). We indexed grain-legume species, calculated the percentage of records for each one, and conducted several analyses longitudinally and by country. Globally, we found an unbalanced research output: soya remains the main crop studied, even in the promising field of food sciences advanced by FAO as the “future of pulses”. Our results raise questions about how to align research priorities with societal demand for more crop diversity.
Keywords: knowledge dynamics; science and technology studies (STS); research trajectories; scientometrics; bibliometric data; agricultural sciences; food sciences; sustainability knowledge dynamics; science and technology studies (STS); research trajectories; scientometrics; bibliometric data; agricultural sciences; food sciences; sustainability

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Magrini, M.-B.; Cabanac, G.; Lascialfari, M.; Plumecocq, G.; Amiot, M.-J.; Anton, M.; Arvisenet, G.; Baranger, A.; Bedoussac, L.; Chardigny, J.-M.; et al. Peer-Reviewed Literature on Grain Legume Species in the WoS (1980–2018): A Comparative Analysis of Soybean and Pulses. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236833

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Magrini M-B, Cabanac G, Lascialfari M, Plumecocq G, Amiot M-J, Anton M, Arvisenet G, Baranger A, Bedoussac L, Chardigny J-M, et al. Peer-Reviewed Literature on Grain Legume Species in the WoS (1980–2018): A Comparative Analysis of Soybean and Pulses. Sustainability. 2019; 11(23):6833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236833

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Magrini, Marie-Benoît, Guillaume Cabanac, Matteo Lascialfari, Gael Plumecocq, Marie-Josephe Amiot, Marc Anton, Gaelle Arvisenet, Alain Baranger, Laurent Bedoussac, Jean-Michel Chardigny, and et al. 2019. "Peer-Reviewed Literature on Grain Legume Species in the WoS (1980–2018): A Comparative Analysis of Soybean and Pulses" Sustainability 11, no. 23: 6833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236833

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Magrini, M.-B., Cabanac, G., Lascialfari, M., Plumecocq, G., Amiot, M.-J., Anton, M., Arvisenet, G., Baranger, A., Bedoussac, L., Chardigny, J.-M., Duc, G., Jeuffroy, M.-H., Journet, E.-P., Juin, H., Larré, C., Leiser, H., Micard, V., Millot, D., Pilet-Nayel, M.-L., ... Wery, J. (2019). Peer-Reviewed Literature on Grain Legume Species in the WoS (1980–2018): A Comparative Analysis of Soybean and Pulses. Sustainability, 11(23), 6833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236833

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