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Advanced battery technologies research

Advanced battery technologies research is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and advancement of aqueous zinc-ion battery technology for energy storage, with an emphasis on rechargeable batteries, zinc anode, electrolyte design, cathode materials, high energy density, and its application in grid storage.

  • Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries
  • Energy Storage
  • Rechargeable Batteries
  • Zinc Anode
  • Redox Flow Batteries
  • Electrolyte Design
  • Cathode Materials
  • High Energy Density
  • Metal Ion Batteries
  • Grid Storage
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
5.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+43%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced battery technologies research

Which countries lead Advanced battery technologies research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (14k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 14k works
  2. 2 India 1.5k works
  3. 3 United States 1.4k works
  4. 4 South Korea 1.3k works
  5. 5 Germany 509 works
  6. 6 Japan 407 works
  7. 7 Australia 372 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 345 works
  9. 9 Canada 286 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 277 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: 69.2%India: 7.4%United States: 6.7%South Korea: 6.1%6 others listed: 10.5%69%largest
China14k · 69.2%India1,547 · 7.4%United States1,413 · 6.7%South Korea1,285 · 6.1%6 others listed2,196 · 10.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced battery technologies research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced battery technologies research research, followed by Central South University and University of Science and Technology of China.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 926 works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 235 works
  3. 3 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 176 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 175 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 174 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 174 works
  7. 7 Jilin UniversityChina 173 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 165 works
  9. 9 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 159 works
  10. 10 Nankai UniversityChina 156 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced battery technologies research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced battery technologies research include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  9. 9 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Advanced battery technologies research?

The most cited paper in Advanced battery technologies research is "Building better batteries" (Michel B. Armand, J.-M. Tarascon, 2008), with 19,614 citations. Next come "Materials for electrochemical capacitors" (16,410) and "Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices" (15,086).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Building better batteries Michel B. Armand, J.-M. Tarascon · Nature Feb 2008 19,614
2 Materials for electrochemical capacitors Patrice Simon, Yury G. Gogotsi · Nature Materials Open access 28 Oct 2008 16,410
3 Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices Bruce Dunn, Haresh Kamath, Jean‐Marie Tarascon · Science 17 Nov 2011 15,086
4 Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future Steven Chu, Arun K. Majumdar · Nature Aug 2012 12,573
5 The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A Perspective John Bannister Goodenough, Kyu‐Sung Park · Journal of the American Chemical Society 8 Jan 2013 9,990
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced battery technologies research research done?

The largest centres of Advanced battery technologies research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Siping, Changchun and Karaikudi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.7k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 830 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 618 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 606 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 563 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 533 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 530 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 522 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 443 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 438 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SipingCN · 33.3 works25×
  2. Changchun37.1 works18×
  3. KaraikudiIN · 36.8 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced battery technologies research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced battery technologies research?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, The University of Adelaide and Nankai University 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.

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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 79.225.0%9.6×115 +88.7%
2The University of AdelaideAustralia 77.133.7%5.4×47 +173.1%
3Nankai UniversityChina 69.619.3%11.0×156 +26.6%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 66.515.7%7.2×176 +60.9%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 66.318.3%3.6×174 +38.4%
6Hunan UniversityChina 66.018.4%8.6×127 +47.6%
7Central South UniversityChina 64.713.9%5.9×235 +43.9%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 64.516.4%4.8×87 +70.8%
9Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.216.5%3.6×136 +37.3%
10Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 61.111.4%19.4×174 +36.6%

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 Advanced battery technologies research, country by country

Is Advanced battery technologies research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced battery technologies 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 Advanced battery technologies research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.098% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced battery technologies 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%Advanced battery technologies research9.6% 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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