Process Chemistry and Technology research
Process Chemistry and Technology is a subfield of Chemical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 46k 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: arm of pharmaceutical chemistry concerned with the development and optimization of a synthetic scheme and pilot plant procedure to manufacture compounds for the drug development phase.
- Research works
- 46k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 4.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 9.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Topics
- 2
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +20% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Process Chemistry and Technology research?
On research quality in 2022-now, China, the United States and Germany rank highest in Process Chemistry and Technology. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.3k and 846 works in 2022-now).
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
China #1 all time
1.22× citation excellence · 1.13× journals · 100% breadth
12.6% top 10% · 3.6k works
- 2
United States #2 all time
1.14× citation excellence · 1.67× journals · 100% breadth
11.7% top 10% · 710 works
- 3
Germany #3 all time
0.86× citation excellence · 1.26× journals · 100% breadth
7.5% top 10% · 339 works
- 4
France #5 all time
0.79× citation excellence · 1.10× journals · 100% breadth
7.4% top 10% · 307 works
- 5
India #11 all time
0.86× citation excellence · 0.72× journals · 100% breadth
6.7% top 10% · 499 works
- 6
Spain #7 all time
0.91× citation excellence · 0.90× journals · 100% breadth
7.6% top 10% · 256 works
- 7
Japan #10 all time
0.51× citation excellence · 1.06× journals · 100% breadth
4.8% top 10% · 333 works
- 8
South Korea #12 all time
0.83× citation excellence · 0.66× journals · 100% breadth
8.0% top 10% · 246 works
- 9
Italy #14 all time
0.90× citation excellence · 0.45× journals · 100% breadth
7.6% top 10% · 211 works
- 10
Russia #19 all time
0.29× citation excellence · 0.17× journals · 100% breadth
2.0% top 10% · 220 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 10 countries ranked in Process Chemistry and Technology. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.
All countries ranked in Process Chemistry and TechnologyBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
China
4.3k works
- 2
United States
846 works
- 3
India
597 works
- 4
Japan
388 works
- 5
Germany
385 works
- 6
France
347 works
- 7
Spain
289 works
- 8
South Korea
286 works
- 9
Italy
244 works
- 10
Russia
241 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Process Chemistry and Technology research?
Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) ranks first in Process Chemistry and Technology on research quality in 2022-now, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
By research quality, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #1 all time
15.0% top 10% · 354 works
- 2
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #2 all time
15.8% top 10% · 74 works
- 3
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris · #4 all time
8.7% top 10% · 141 works
- 4
Tianjin University China · Tianjin · #11 all time
14.9% top 10% · 66 works
- 5
Qingdao University of Science and Technology China · Qingdao · #21 all time
8.3% top 10% · 61 works
- 6
Russian Academy of Sciences Russia · Moscow · #33 all time
2.4% top 10% · 110 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 6 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Process Chemistry and Technology.
Top 100 Process Chemistry and Technology institutionsBy volume, 2022-now
- 1
Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
417 works
- 2
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
162 works
- 3
Russian Academy of SciencesRussia
122 works
- 4
University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina
90 works
- 5
Tianjin UniversityChina
75 works
- 6
Qingdao University of Science and TechnologyChina
71 works
- 7
Zhejiang UniversityChina
68 works
- 8
Sichuan UniversityChina
65 works
- 9
East China University of Science and TechnologyChina
64 works
- 10
Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina
61 works
Who are the leading researchers in Process Chemistry and Technology?
Counting only their work in Process Chemistry and Technology, Matthias Beller, Geoffrey W. Coates and Charlotte K. Williams have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.
- 1
Matthias Beller
Germany · #34,777 worldwide overall
34.5 of 134 papers here in the top 10%
- 2
Geoffrey W. Coates
United States · #8,073 worldwide overall
25.4 of 58 papers here in the top 10%
- 3
Charlotte K. Williams
United Kingdom · #38,846 worldwide overall
21.4 of 51 papers here in the top 10%
- 4
Buxing Han
China · #44,581 worldwide overall
25.5 of 96 papers here in the top 10%
- 5
Da‐Gang Yu
China · #19,031 worldwide overall
17.4 of 39 papers here in the top 10%
- 6
David Milstein
Israel · #16,826 worldwide overall
15.3 of 34 papers here in the top 10%
- 7
Maurice Brookhart
United States · #41,860 worldwide overall
13.8 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
- 8
Henrik Junge
Germany · #35,319 worldwide overall
14.3 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
- 9
Donald J. Darensbourg
United States · #484,763 worldwide overall
18.7 of 84 papers here in the top 10%
- 10
Walter Leitner
Germany · #288,144 worldwide overall
18.6 of 84 papers here in the top 10%
Ranked on their work in Process Chemistry and Technology alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 207,548 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 Process Chemistry and Technology researchersWhere is Process Chemistry and Technology research done?
The largest centres of Process Chemistry and Technology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Tianjin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rostock.
Largest cities, 2022-now
Where it is the local speciality
- RostockDE · 30.8 works13×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Process Chemistry and Technology than the world average.
Process Chemistry and Technology research by country
The best places for Process Chemistry and Technology research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.
Where is the best place to study Process Chemistry and Technology?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nankai University 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.
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.
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 Process Chemistry and Technology, country by countryIs Process Chemistry and Technology research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis.
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 Process Chemistry and Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.
Fractional works of Process Chemistry and 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.
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.
What does Process Chemistry and Technology include?
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