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Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research

Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the advancements in acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals, focusing on topics such as sound control, wave propagation, band gaps, local resonances, negative modulus, elastic waves, subwavelength imaging, and vibration control.

  • Acoustic Metamaterials
  • Phononic Crystals
  • Sound Control
  • Wave Propagation
  • Band Gaps
  • Local Resonances
  • Negative Modulus
  • Elastic Waves
  • Subwavelength Imaging
  • Vibration Control
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research

Which countries lead Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 998 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 998 works
  3. 3 France 426 works
  4. 4 India 416 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 415 works
  6. 6 Japan 325 works
  7. 7 Germany 316 works
  8. 8 Italy 271 works
  9. 9 South Korea 223 works
  10. 10 Russia 183 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: 46.3%United States: 15.0%France: 6.4%India: 6.3%6 others listed: 26.0%46%largest
China3,081 · 46.3%United States998 · 15.0%France426 · 6.4%India416 · 6.3%6 others listed1,732 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Northwestern Polytechnical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 162 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 140 works
  3. 3 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 102 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 93 works
  5. 5 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 82 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 73 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 70 works
  8. 8 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 62 works
  9. 9 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  10. 10 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research include Wei Huang, Lei Jiang and Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research?

The most cited paper in Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research is "Locally Resonant Sonic Materials" (Zhengyou Liu, Xixiang Zhang, Yiwei Mao et al., 2000), with 5,482 citations. Next come "Mechanics of Deformation and Acoustic Propagation in Porous Media" (3,959) and "Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics" (3,777).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Locally Resonant Sonic Materials Zhengyou Liu, Xixiang Zhang, Yiwei Mao et al. · Science 8 Sep 2000 5,482
2 Mechanics of Deformation and Acoustic Propagation in Porous Media M. A. Biot · Journal of Applied Physics Open access Apr 1962 3,959
3 Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics Jont B. Allen, David A. Berkley · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Apr 1979 3,777
4 Sound generation by turbulence and surfaces in arbitrary motion John E. Ffowcs Williams, D. L. Hawkings · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 8 May 1969 3,512
5 Theoretical Acoustics Philip Μ. Morse, K. Uno Ingard, Robert T. Beyer · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Jun 1969 3,205
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Where is Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research done?

The largest centres of Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Le Mans, Écully and Hampton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 464 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 275 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 247 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 246 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 211 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 150 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 123 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 122 works
  9. 9 Hong KongChina 107 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 107 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Le MansFR · 28.2 works53×
  2. ÉcullyFR · 22.9 works51×
  3. HamptonUS · 24.7 works32×
  4. SalfordGB · 22.6 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Northwestern Polytechnical University score highest, combining 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 23.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Hong Kong Polytechni…Northwestern Polytec…
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.624.5%9.2×59 +50.9%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 78.225.5%7.2×93 +40.6%
3Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 75.021.5%12.1×102 +27.0%
4National University of Defense TechnologyChina 73.626.9%6.5×37 +68.8%
5Central South UniversityChina 72.934.7%2.5×36 +106.6%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 68.121.2%4.9×43 +65.1%
7Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 67.617.4%21.5×82 +52.1%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 67.628.0%4.0×24 +19.1%
9Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 66.315.5%11.1×73 +88.6%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 66.021.5%4.4×53 +68.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research, country by country

Is Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research.

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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 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research 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%Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research9.7% 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.

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