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Adsorption and Cooling Systems

Adsorption and Cooling Systems is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on thermochemical energy storage, sorption technologies, and related applications such as adsorption refrigeration, desiccant cooling, solar energy storage, and heat and mass transfer. It covers topics including solid sorption systems, membrane-based enthalpy exchangers, seasonal heat storage, liquid desiccant dehumidification, and energy recovery technologies.

  • Thermochemical Heat Storage
  • Adsorption Refrigeration
  • Desiccant Cooling
  • Solar Energy Storage
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Solid Sorption Systems
  • Membrane-based Enthalpy Exchanger
  • Seasonal Heat Storage
  • Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification
  • Energy Recovery Technologies
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Adsorption and Cooling Systems

Which countries lead Adsorption and Cooling Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.2k and 559 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 India 559 works
  3. 3 United States 363 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 203 works
  5. 5 Iran 169 works
  6. 6 South Korea 160 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 139 works
  8. 8 Italy 138 works
  9. 9 Spain 125 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 125 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: 53.1%India: 13.2%United States: 8.6%United Kingdom: 4.8%6 others listed: 20.2%53%largest
China2,244 · 53.1%India559 · 13.2%United States363 · 8.6%United Kingdom203 · 4.8%6 others listed855 · 20.2%

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

Which institutions lead Adsorption and Cooling Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Adsorption and Cooling Systems research, followed by Xi'an Jiaotong University and North China Electric Power University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 103 works
  2. 2 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 101 works
  3. 3 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 63 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 58 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 54 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 54 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 42 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 42 works
  9. 9 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 39 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Adsorption and Cooling Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Adsorption and Cooling Systems include Omar M. Yaghi, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  6. 6 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  9. 9 Zhanhu Guo United States 148k citations
  10. 10 Mietek Jaroniec United States 141k 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 Adsorption and Cooling Systems?

The most cited paper in Adsorption and Cooling Systems is "Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials and applications" (Atul Sharma, V.V. Tyagi, C.R. Chen et al., 2008), with 5,917 citations. Next come "Review on thermal energy storage with phase change: materials, heat transfer analysis and applications" (4,741) and "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of adsorption isotherm models: A review" (3,508).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review on thermal energy storage with phase change materials and applications Atul Sharma, V.V. Tyagi, C.R. Chen et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 11 Feb 2008 5,917
2 Review on thermal energy storage with phase change: materials, heat transfer analysis and applications Belén Zalba, José Ma Marı́n, Luisa F. Cabeza et al. · Applied Thermal Engineering 10 Dec 2002 4,741
3 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of adsorption isotherm models: A review Mohammad Ahmad Al-Ghouti, Dana A. Da’ana · Journal of Hazardous Materials 29 Feb 2020 3,508
4 A review on phase change energy storage: materials and applications Mohammed Mehdi Farid, Amar M. Khudhair, Siddique Ali K. Razack et al. · Energy Conversion and Management 22 Nov 2003 3,095
5 Phase change materials for thermal energy storage Kinga Pielichowska, Krzysztof Pielichowski · Progress in Materials Science 2 Apr 2014 2,110
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Where is Adsorption and Cooling Systems research done?

The largest centres of Adsorption and Cooling Systems research in 2022-now 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 Jilin City and Dhahran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 461 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 164 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 162 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 140 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 105 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 81 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 72 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 67 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jilin CityCN · 22.8 works12×
  2. DhahranSA · 29.4 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Adsorption and Cooling Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Adsorption and Cooling Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Nanyang Technological University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 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 17.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…King Fahd University…North China Electric…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 71.515.6%11.0×101 +102.4%
2Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 61.837.4%2.7×11 +0.8%
3King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 61.617.0%14.9×27 +25.0%
4North China Electric Power UniversityChina 59.916.2%18.0×63 +31.6%
5Changsha University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.422.7%9.7×13 +50.0%
6Southeast UniversityChina 54.210.6%7.0×54 +51.8%
7Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 54.013.6%4.5×42 +64.1%
8City University of Hong KongChina 53.812.4%6.4×19 +19.3%
9University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 53.712.4%8.7×28 +1.0%
10University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 53.614.6%6.2×25 +35.5%

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 Adsorption and Cooling Systems, country by country

Is Adsorption and Cooling Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Adsorption and Cooling Systems.

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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 Adsorption and Cooling Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Adsorption and Cooling Systems 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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