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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials is a subfield of Materials Science. Science Explorer counts 604k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: substance that can occur in different amounts, all with some similar [mixture of some] characteristics, and with which objects can be made.

Research works
604k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
59k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
17
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

What is Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2021-25, its most used keywords are Graphene, Carbon-Based Materials, Electrochemical Capacitors, Thin Films, Electronic Structure, Crystal Growth. Gaining share since 2011-15: Carbon Nanotubes, Microwave Absorption, Graphene, Metamaterials, Negative Refraction. Losing share: Lanthanide Complexes, Single-Molecule Magnets, High-Temperature, Iron-Based.

▲ gaining share of this field◆ holding its share▼ losing share

Size is the world's fractional works in 2021-25 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2011-15. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Graphene36k▲ 1.90×2 topics
  2. Carbon-Based Materials28k▲ 1.82×1 topic
  3. Electrochemical Capacitors28k▲ 1.82×1 topic
  4. Thin Films18k◆ 0.88×3 topics
  5. Electronic Structure17k▼ 0.79×4 topics
  6. Crystal Growth15k◆ 0.91×3 topics
  7. Metamaterials14k▲ 1.88×1 topic
  8. Negative Refraction14k▲ 1.88×1 topic
  9. Ferroelectricity11k◆ 0.92×2 topics
  10. Gold Nanoparticles11k▼ 0.81×1 topic
  11. Plasmonic Nanoparticles11k▼ 0.81×1 topic
  12. Magnetic Nanoparticles10k▲ 1.47×2 topics
  13. Magnetocaloric Materials8,795▼ 0.75×1 topic
  14. Perovskites8,795▼ 0.75×1 topic
  15. Magnetoelectric8,647◆ 0.93×1 topic
  16. Multiferroic8,647◆ 0.93×1 topic
  17. Magnetic Materials7,765▼ 0.73×1 topic
  18. Magnetostriction7,765▼ 0.73×1 topic
  19. Carbon Nanotubes7,680▲ 2.3×1 topic
  20. Microwave Absorption7,680▲ 2.3×1 topic
  21. Gallium Oxide7,486◆ 1.00×1 topic
  22. Semiconductor7,486◆ 1.00×1 topic
  23. Nonlinear Optical Materials7,286▼ 0.83×2 topics
  24. Second Harmonic Generation7,286▼ 0.83×2 topics
  25. Lanthanide Complexes6,722▼ 0.51×1 topic
  26. Single-Molecule Magnets6,722▼ 0.51×1 topic
  27. Superconductivity4,735▼ 0.65×2 topics
  28. Liquid Crystals4,420▼ 0.65×1 topic
  29. Self-Organization4,420▼ 0.65×1 topic
  30. Crystallographic Computing3,650▼ 0.73×1 topic
  31. Deep-Ultraviolet Materials3,650▼ 0.73×1 topic
  32. Computational Chemistry3,636◆ 0.95×1 topic
  33. Electro-Optic Modulators3,636◆ 0.95×1 topic
  34. Half-Metallic2,991▲ 1.62×1 topic
  35. Heusler Compounds2,991▲ 1.62×1 topic
  36. Permanent Magnets2,782▼ 0.74×1 topic
  37. Rare-Earth2,782▼ 0.74×1 topic
  38. High-Temperature2,508▼ 0.53×1 topic
  39. Iron-Based2,508▼ 0.53×1 topic
  40. Low-k Dielectrics2,298▼ 0.55×1 topic

Which countries lead Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research?

On research quality in 2022-now, China, the United States and the United Kingdom rank highest in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. By volume, China and India publish the most (44k and 12k works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 China #2 all time 1.21× citation excellence · 1.23× journals · 100% breadth 12.9% top 10% · 39k works
  2. 2 United States #1 all time 1.07× citation excellence · 1.74× journals · 100% breadth 10.2% top 10% · 6.9k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom #5 all time 1.21× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth 11.4% top 10% · 1.7k works
  4. 4 Germany #3 all time 0.96× citation excellence · 1.44× journals · 100% breadth 8.2% top 10% · 2.5k works
  5. 5 South Korea #10 all time 0.99× citation excellence · 0.96× journals · 100% breadth 10.0% top 10% · 3.4k works
  6. 6 Singapore #8 all time 1.63× citation excellence · 1.73× journals · 100% breadth 17.6% top 10% · 460 works
  7. 7 Australia #11 all time 1.38× citation excellence · 1.22× journals · 100% breadth 14.2% top 10% · 818 works
  8. 8 Japan #6 all time 0.60× citation excellence · 1.03× journals · 100% breadth 5.1% top 10% · 4.1k works
  9. 9 France #4 all time 0.67× citation excellence · 1.25× journals · 100% breadth 6.5% top 10% · 2.3k works
  10. 10 Switzerland #7 all time 1.28× citation excellence · 1.89× journals · 100% breadth 11.5% top 10% · 356 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 45 countries ranked in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 44k works
  2. 2 India 12k works
  3. 3 United States 7.8k works
  4. 4 Japan 4.6k works
  5. 5 South Korea 3.8k works
  6. 6 Russia 3.6k works
  7. 7 Germany 2.9k works
  8. 8 France 2.5k works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 1.9k works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 1.6k works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 52.0%India: 14.4%United States: 9.1%Japan: 5.4%6 others listed: 19.1%52%largest
China44k · 52.0%India12k · 14.4%United States7,813 · 9.1%Japan4,617 · 5.4%6 others listed16k · 19.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research?

Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) ranks first in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials on research quality in 2022-now, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing University.

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #1 all time 16.4% top 10% · 3k works
  2. 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #2 all time 18.5% top 10% · 512 works
  3. 3 Nanjing University China · Nanjing · #13 all time 15.1% top 10% · 398 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology of China China · Hefei · #10 all time 15.9% top 10% · 383 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua University China · Beijing · #9 all time 17.3% top 10% · 392 works
  6. 6 Fudan University China · Shanghai · #23 all time 20.1% top 10% · 312 works
  7. 7 Max Planck Society Germany · Munich · #3 all time 14.3% top 10% · 197 works
  8. 8 Peking University China · Beijing · #17 all time 16.0% top 10% · 242 works
  9. 9 National University of Singapore Singapore · Singapore · #25 all time 19.8% top 10% · 198 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou · #32 all time 12.8% top 10% · 426 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 320 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Top 100 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 3.3k works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 1.6k works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 1.3k works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 583 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 583 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 567 works
  7. 7 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 523 works
  8. 8 Shandong UniversityChina 499 works
  9. 9 Southeast UniversityChina 495 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 472 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials?

Counting only their work in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Zhong Lin Wang, Zhanhu Guo and Guanglei Wu have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States · #5 worldwide overall 118.9 of 206 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Zhanhu Guo United States · #168 worldwide overall 96.8 of 182 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Guanglei Wu China · #557 worldwide overall 95.6 of 118 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Renchao Che China · #1,460 worldwide overall 85.9 of 144 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Tie Jun Cui China · #22,631 worldwide overall 110.7 of 394 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Luis M. Liz‐Marzán Spain · #4,472 worldwide overall 88.6 of 198 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Liqiang Mai China · #234 worldwide overall 85.6 of 171 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Younan Xia United States · #1,114 worldwide overall 84.3 of 162 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Yury G. Gogotsi United States · #76 worldwide overall 77.6 of 124 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Mao‐Sheng Cao China · #5,233 worldwide overall 77.4 of 128 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 979,238 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials researchers

What are the most cited papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials?

The most cited paper in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials is "OLEX2 : a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program" (Oleg V. Dolomanov, Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea et al., 2009), with 32,557 citations. Next come "SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination" (29,598) and "Accurate and simple analytic representation of the electron-gas correlation energy" (25,193).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 OLEX2 : a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program Oleg V. Dolomanov, Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography 23 Jan 2009 32,557
2 SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination George M. Sheldrick · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances Open access 23 Dec 2014 29,598
3 Accurate and simple analytic representation of the electron-gas correlation energy John P. Perdew, Yue Wang · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jun 1992 25,193
4 Accurate spin-dependent electron liquid correlation energies for local spin density calculations: a critical analysis S. H. Vosko, L. Wilk, Marwan Nusair · Canadian Journal of Physics Open access Aug 1980 20,860
5 Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides Qing Hua Wang, Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh, András Kis et al. · Nature Nanotechnology Open access Nov 2012 16,413
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research done?

The largest centres of Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinan, Mohali and Chernogolovka.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 6.5k works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 2.7k works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 2.7k works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 2.6k works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 1.6k works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 1.6k works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 1.5k works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 1.5k works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 1.5k works
  10. 10 HefeiChina 1.3k works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jinan81.2 works14×
  2. Mohali31.7 works11×
  3. ChernogolovkaRU · 115.4 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials than the world average.

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research by country

The best places for Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 17.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chines…Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Scienc…Nanjing University
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 87.6#2 (#2)17.7%3.8×583 +13.1%
2University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 72.1#4 (#10)15.2%3.8×428 +40.5%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 69.3#5 (#9)16.7%2.0×434 -6.4%
4Nanjing UniversityChina 68.8#3 (#13)14.7%5.0×432 +5.7%
5Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.2#11 (#15)16.2%4.3×213 +65.5%
6Fudan UniversityChina 66.1#6 (#23)19.2%2.3×340 +10.4%
7Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 65.3#12 (#45)21.5%4.9×523 +14.8%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 62.6#14 (#7)17.7%0.8×115 -30.4%
9Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 62.0#15 (#6)15.6%1.5×98 -30.0%
10Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 61.2#31 (#11)16.3%2.3×169 -28.5%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, country by country

Is Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Electromagnetic wave absorption materials, Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.44% in 2024.

still counting0.25%0.50%0.75%Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials0.42% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

  1. Electromagnetic wave absorption materials+53%
  2. Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties+42%
  3. Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications+23%
  4. Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication+16%
  5. Copper Interconnects and Reliability+12%
  6. Nonlinear Optical Materials Research+10%
  7. Magnetic Properties and Applications-6%
  8. Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications-8%
  9. Iron-based superconductors research-14%
  10. Magnetism in coordination complexes-15%
← shrinkingno changegrowing →

Growth in output from 2018-21 to 2022-25. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials include?

Supercapacitor Materials…72kSupercapacitor Materials and Fabrication: 72k fractional worksMagnetism in coordinatio…59kMagnetism in coordination complexes: 59k fractional worksMagnetic Properties and Applications: 57k fractional worksMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials: 56k fractional worksGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications: 44k fractional worksLiquid Crystal Research Advancements: 39k fractional worksMetamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications: 36k fractional worksMultiferroics and related materials: 35k fractional worksGa2O3 and related materials: 31k fractional worksCrystal Structures and Properties: 30k fractional worksCopper Interconnects and Reliability: 27k fractional worksMagnetic Properties of Alloys: 26k fractional works

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