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activated carbon and charcoal

activated carbon and charcoal is a research topic within Management Science and Operations Research. Science Explorer counts 1.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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  • Risk Management
  • Uncertainty
  • Resilience
  • Big Data
  • Terrorism
  • Globalization
  • Decision-making
  • Carbonization
  • Supply Chain Logistics
  • Ethnic Differences
Research works
1.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
120
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
activated carbon and charcoal

Which countries lead activated carbon and charcoal research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (38 and 33 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 38 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 33 works
  3. 3 United States 23 works
  4. 4 Japan 18 works
  5. 5 India 17 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 14 works
  7. 7 Germany 9 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 9 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 7 works
  10. 10 South Korea 7 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: 21.5%Indonesia: 18.5%United States: 13.3%Japan: 10.5%6 others listed: 36.2%22%largest
China38 · 21.5%Indonesia33 · 18.5%United States23 · 13.3%Japan18 · 10.5%6 others listed64 · 36.2%

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

Which institutions lead activated carbon and charcoal research?

By volume in 2022-now, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft publishes the most activated carbon and charcoal research, followed by Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 3 works
  2. 2 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthGermany 3 works
  3. 3 Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia 2 works
  4. 4 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 2 works
  5. 5 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 1 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1 works
  7. 7 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 1 works
  8. 8 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 1 works
  9. 9 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 1 works
  10. 10 International Islamic University MalaysiaMalaysia 1 works

Who are the leading researchers in activated carbon and charcoal?

The most-cited researchers publishing on activated carbon and charcoal include Ki‐Hyun Kim, Daniel C.W. Tsang and Gordon McKay.

  1. 1 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 108k citations
  2. 2 Daniel C.W. Tsang China 87k citations
  3. 3 Gordon McKay Qatar 84k 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 activated carbon and charcoal?

The most cited paper in activated carbon and charcoal is "Research Methodology: A Step-by-step Guide for Beginners" (Alison M. Smith, 2011), with 2,276 citations. Next come "The Art, Science, and Technology of Charcoal Production" (1,609) and "Effects of pyrolysis temperature and heating time on biochar obtained from the pyrolysis of straw and lignosulfonate" (556).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research Methodology: A Step-by-step Guide for Beginners Alison M. Smith · Nurse Education in Practice 7 Dec 2011 2,276
2 The Art, Science, and Technology of Charcoal Production Michael Jerry Antal, Morten Gunnar Grønli · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 14 Mar 2003 1,609
3 Effects of pyrolysis temperature and heating time on biochar obtained from the pyrolysis of straw and lignosulfonate Jie Zhang, Jia Liu, Rongle Liu · Bioresource Technology 17 Nov 2014 556
4 Removal of nitrate-nitrogen from drinking water using bamboo powder charcoal Kei Mizuta · Bioresource Technology 3 Apr 2004 458
5 Effects of pore structure and temperature on VOC adsorption on activated carbon Yu‐Chun Chiang, Pen‐Chi Chiang, Chin‐Pao Huang · Carbon Apr 2001 405
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Where is activated carbon and charcoal research done?

The largest centres of activated carbon and charcoal research in 2022-now are Nanjing (China), Ankara (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NanjingChina 5 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 4 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 4 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 4 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 3 works
  6. 6 DortmundGermany 3 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 3 works
  8. 8 HanoverGermany 3 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 3 works
  10. 10 YogyakartaIndonesia 2 works
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Is activated carbon and charcoal research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are activated carbon and charcoal.

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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 activated carbon and charcoal as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00085% in 2024.

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Fractional works of activated carbon and charcoal 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.

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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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