Research on the global development trend of biological breeding

[Objective] Through the study of the global development trend of bio-breeding, we can find global research hotspots, major research institutions, collaborations, etc., and provide decision-making support for organizations in the field of bio-breeding. [Methods] International high-level papers are an important source of information to characterize basic research, and the papers in the core database of Web of Science were used as the data source, and the analysis was conducted using the CiteSpace bibliometric analysis tool. [Results] The analysis results show that the global biological breeding research shows a year-on-year growth trend; China, the United States, India, France, and Germany are the main issuing countries, of which China and the United States are the fastest-growing countries, and the advantage of issuing papers relative to other countries is constantly expanding. The major issuing organizations of global biological breeding are the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the University of California (UC), and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Although the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences ranked first and third in terms of the number of publications among the world’s major publishers, there is still a big gap between their influence and that of the major publishers in the United States and France.