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Fuel Technology research

Fuel Technology is a subfield of Energy. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: technology used in the extraction, processing and consumption of fuel resources.

Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fuel Technology

Which countries lead Fuel Technology research?

On research quality in 2022-now, China and Russia rank highest in Fuel Technology. By volume, Russia and China publish the most (751 and 383 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 China #1 all time 2.17× excellence · 1.52× journals · 100% breadth 28.1% top 10% · 332 works
  2. 2 Russia #5 all time 0.64× excellence · 0.16× journals · 100% breadth 4.0% top 10% · 728 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 2 countries ranked in Fuel Technology. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Fuel Technology

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 751 works
  2. 2 China 383 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 144 works
  4. 4 United States 106 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 61 works
  6. 6 Poland 43 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 42 works
  8. 8 India 36 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 33 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan 16 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.

Russia: 46.5%China: 23.7%Ukraine: 8.9%United States: 6.6%6 others listed: 14.3%46%largest
Russia751 · 46.5%China383 · 23.7%Ukraine144 · 8.9%United States106 · 6.6%6 others listed232 · 14.3%

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

Which institutions lead Fuel Technology research?

Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) ranks first in Fuel Technology on research quality in 2022-now, followed by .

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of Sciences Russia · Moscow · #2 all time 5.3% top 10% · 185 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 1 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Fuel Technology.

Top 100 Fuel Technology institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 193 works
  2. 2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 36 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 24 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia 16 works
  6. 6 Eastern Research Institute of Coal ChemistryRussia 15 works
  7. 7 National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 15 works
  8. 8 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 14 works
  9. 9 Kuzbass State Technical UniversityRussia 14 works
  10. 10 Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fuel Technology?

Counting only their work in Fuel Technology, Jianglong Yu, Zhicai Wang and Hengfu Shui have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Jianglong Yu China · #163,466 worldwide overall 6.3 of 7 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Zhicai Wang China · #952,787 worldwide overall 5.7 of 10 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Hengfu Shui China · #957,169 worldwide overall 6.1 of 10 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 R. Álvarez Spain · #964,018 worldwide overall 5.3 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Pradip Kumar Banerjee India · #1,549,779 worldwide overall 6.7 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Shibiao Ren China · #1,581,822 worldwide overall 5.4 of 8 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 M.A. Dı́ez Spain · #1,135,869 worldwide overall 5.0 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Zongqing Bai China · #339,811 worldwide overall 4.2 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Carmen Barriocanal Spain · #1,611,177 worldwide overall 5.5 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Jiao Kong China · #1,029,445 worldwide overall 4.1 of 6 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Fuel Technology alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 46,515 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 Fuel Technology researchers

What are the most cited papers in Fuel Technology?

The most cited paper in Fuel Technology is "Volatile Fatty Acid Analyses of Blood and Rumen Fluid by Gas Chromatography" (Erica Erwin, Gino J. Marco, E. M. Emery, 1961), with 1,904 citations. Next come "Stach's Textbook of Coal Petrology" (1,282) and "FTIR study of the evolution of coal structure during the coalification process" (927).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Volatile Fatty Acid Analyses of Blood and Rumen Fluid by Gas Chromatography Erica Erwin, Gino J. Marco, E. M. Emery · Journal of Dairy Science Open access Sep 1961 1,904
2 Stach's Textbook of Coal Petrology Peter Albertus Hacquebard · Geoscience Canada Sep 1976 1,282
3 FTIR study of the evolution of coal structure during the coalification process JoséV. Ibarra, Edgar Muñoz, R. Moliner · Organic Geochemistry Jun 1996 927
4 The molecular representations of coal – A review Jonathan P. Mathews, Alan Loyd Chaffee · Fuel 30 Dec 2011 758
5 Coal devolatilization at high temperatures H. Kobayashi, Jack B. Howard, Adel F. Sarofim · Symposium (International) on Combustion Conference paper 1977 710
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fuel Technology research done?

The largest centres of Fuel Technology research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Yekaterinburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kemerovo and Irkutsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 227 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 78 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 44 works
  4. 4 YekaterinburgRussia 44 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 42 works
  6. 6 KemerovoRussia 38 works
  7. 7 KharkivUkraine 38 works
  8. 8 IrkutskRussia 37 works
  9. 9 XuzhouChina 36 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KemerovoRU · 38.5 works162×
  2. IrkutskRU · 36.7 works58×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fuel Technology than the world average.

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Fuel Technology research by country

The best places for Fuel Technology research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Fuel Technology?

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

0%20%40%mean 21.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liaoning Technical U…Xi'an University of …Taiyuan University o…China University of …
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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%
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
1China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 43.3- (#1)31.6%29.1×36 +17.8%
2Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 33.6-37.5%33.9×12 +339.6%
3Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 33.4-35.3%21.9×14 +190.8%
4Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 30.4-37.8%31.0×8 +603.2%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 24.1-8.0%9.5×20 +19.8%
6Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 24.0-25.9%135.6×12 -44.1%
7National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 20.7-11.2%91.2×15 +4.3%
8National University of Science and TechnologyZimbabwe 19.7-7.2%96.2×9 +18.8%
9Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 17.4-12.7%103.0×9 -8.4%
10Kemerovo State UniversityRussia 15.7-6.1%82.7×11 +21.1%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), 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 Fuel Technology, country by country

Is Fuel Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Fuel Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0082% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Fuel Technology0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fuel Technology 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%Fuel Technology10.8% 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.

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