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Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the additive manufacturing of metallic components, particularly through processes such as selective laser melting and electron beam melting. The research covers aspects such as microstructure, mechanical properties, process parameters, and material characterization for various metal powders used in the additive manufacturing process.

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Metallic Components
  • Selective Laser Melting
  • Microstructure
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Process Parameters
  • Metal Powders
  • Electron Beam Melting
  • Material Characterization
  • Metal 3D Printing
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+76%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Which countries lead Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (6k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6k works
  2. 2 United States 1.8k works
  3. 3 India 1.4k works
  4. 4 Germany 916 works
  5. 5 Russia 495 works
  6. 6 Italy 477 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 432 works
  8. 8 South Korea 370 works
  9. 9 Japan 362 works
  10. 10 France 332 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: 47.8%United States: 14.3%India: 11.0%Germany: 7.3%6 others listed: 19.6%48%largest
China6,017 · 47.8%United States1,807 · 14.3%India1,392 · 11.0%Germany916 · 7.3%6 others listed2,468 · 19.6%

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

Which institutions lead Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 241 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 160 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 151 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 145 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 144 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 139 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 120 works
  8. 8 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 119 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 118 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 118 works

Who are the leading researchers in Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  7. 7 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  8. 8 Masayuki P. Yamamoto Japan 162k citations
  9. 9 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes?

The most cited paper in Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes is "Additive manufacturing of metallic components – Process, structure and properties" (T. DebRoy, Huiliang Wei, James S. Zuback et al., 2017), with 8,766 citations. Next come "Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review" (5,971) and "Additive manufacturing of metals" (4,792).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Additive manufacturing of metallic components – Process, structure and properties T. DebRoy, Huiliang Wei, James S. Zuback et al. · Progress in Materials Science Open access 12 Oct 2017 8,766
2 Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review William E. Frazier · Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance Open access 7 Apr 2014 5,971
3 Additive manufacturing of metals Dirk Herzog, Vanessa Seyda, Eric Wycisk et al. · Acta Materialia 20 Jul 2016 4,792
4 High-Entropy Alloys: A Critical Review Ming‐Hung Tsai, Jien‐Wei Yeh · Materials Research Letters Open access 30 Apr 2014 3,517
5 The influences of temperature and microstructure on the tensile properties of a CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy Frederik Otto, Antonin Dlouhý, Christoph Somsen et al. · Acta Materialia 28 Jun 2013 3,386
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Where is Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes research done?

The largest centres of Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes 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 Tomsk, Trollhättan and Changwon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 911 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 436 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 374 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 321 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 269 works
  6. 6 ShenyangChina 267 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 236 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 221 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 201 works
  10. 10 SingaporeSingapore 172 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 57.5 works85×
  2. TrollhättanSE · 26.1 works52×
  3. ChangwonKR · 36.1 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nanyang Technological University and City University of Hong Kong score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 18.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…National University …Nanyang Technologica…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.

Citation 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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 74.517.6%9.9×160 +77.6%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 74.519.2%5.4×60 +35.4%
3City University of Hong KongChina 72.425.8%3.1×25 +146.7%
4National University of SingaporeSingapore 72.222.6%2.9×48 +61.9%
5University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 70.115.8%10.8×118 +132.1%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 69.515.6%6.5×151 +92.8%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 67.515.4%3.4×139 +130.4%
8Central South UniversityChina 67.213.2%5.3×145 +118.2%
9Northeastern UniversityChina 67.015.1%9.0×114 +80.9%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 66.225.8%2.2×27 +207.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, country by country

Is Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes.

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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 Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.070% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes0.074% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes 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%Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes9.7% 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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