Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 19.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, covering a wide range of materials, methods, applications, and challenges. It includes research on fused deposition modeling, polymer composites, biomedical engineering, ceramics, sustainability, and the societal impact of additive manufacturing.
- Additive Manufacturing
- 3D Printing
- Materials
- Applications
- Challenges
- Fused Deposition Modeling
- Biomedical Engineering
- Polymer Composites
- Sustainability
- Ceramics
- Research works
- 64k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 13k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 19.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +140% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.7k and 3k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 4.7k works
- 2 United States 3k works
- 3 India 2.5k works
- 4 Germany 1.3k works
- 5 Italy 886 works
- 6 Türkiye 759 works
- 7 United Kingdom 729 works
- 8 France 625 works
- 9 South Korea 586 works
- 10 Japan 554 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 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Huazhong University of Science and Technology publishes the most Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Vellore Institute of Technology University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Huazhong University of Science and Technology China 98 works
- 2 Northwestern Polytechnical University China 91 works
- 3 Vellore Institute of Technology University India 89 works
- 4 Politecnico di Torino Italy 89 works
- 5 Xi'an Jiaotong University China 88 works
- 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China 87 works
- 7 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 86 works
- 8 Harbin Institute of Technology China 86 works
- 9 Politecnico di Milano Italy 84 works
- 10 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 81 works
Who are the leading researchers in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies include Seeram Ramakrishna, Akihisa Inoue and Dierk Raabe.
- 1 Seeram Ramakrishna 5.1k citations
- 2 Akihisa Inoue 4.7k citations
- 3 Dierk Raabe 4.5k citations
- 4 Fei–Yue Wang 4.2k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- TomskRU · 37.0 works34×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Torino, RMIT University and Hellenic Mediterranean 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politecnico di Torino Italy | 73.6 | 27.3% | 8.4× | 89 | +292.3% |
| 2 | RMIT University Australia | 68.7 | 39.8% | 5.3× | 44 | +362.5% |
| 3 | Hellenic Mediterranean University Greece | 67.3 | 51.5% | 17.8× | 16 | — |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University Singapore | 65.0 | 30.0% | 4.3× | 81 | +170.2% |
| 5 | Politecnico di Milano Italy | 62.5 | 23.8% | 5.1× | 84 | +584.6% |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur India | 59.4 | 20.4% | 20.6× | 26 | +542.4% |
| 7 | Cracow University of Technology Poland | 59.3 | 20.1% | 11.9× | 22 | +417.6% |
| 8 | Khalifa University of Science and Technology United Arab Emirates | 59.0 | 36.3% | 4.5× | 26 | +343.8% |
| 9 | ETH Zurich Switzerland | 58.9 | 26.7% | 3.7× | 57 | +487.7% |
| 10 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China | 58.5 | 23.4% | 4.2× | 87 | +246.5% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 140% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.