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Advanced Cellulose Research Studies

Advanced Cellulose Research Studies is a research topic within Biomaterials. Science Explorer counts 33k 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 the properties, production, and applications of nanocellulose, including cellulose nanocrystals and bacterial cellulose. It covers topics such as the use of ionic liquids in cellulose dissolution, sustainable biocomposites, TEMPO-mediated oxidation, and the potential biomedical applications of nanocellulose. The research also explores nanocellulose as a sustainable and versatile material for various fields, highlighting its potential in green nanotechnology.

  • Nanocellulose
  • Cellulose Nanocrystals
  • Bacterial Cellulose
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Biocomposites
  • Sustainable Materials
  • Nanofibrils
  • TEMPO-Mediated Oxidation
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Green Nanotechnology
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Cellulose Research Studies

Which countries lead Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.1k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 India 1k works
  3. 3 United States 590 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 468 works
  5. 5 Brazil 365 works
  6. 6 Japan 331 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 320 works
  8. 8 South Korea 270 works
  9. 9 France 246 works
  10. 10 Canada 230 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: 44.8%India: 14.5%United States: 8.5%Indonesia: 6.8%6 others listed: 25.4%45%largest
China3,101 · 44.8%India1,003 · 14.5%United States590 · 8.5%Indonesia468 · 6.8%6 others listed1,762 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing Forestry University publishes the most Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and South China University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 169 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 105 works
  3. 3 South China University of TechnologyChina 103 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 100 works
  5. 5 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 72 works
  6. 6 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 69 works
  7. 7 Guangxi UniversityChina 65 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 59 works
  9. 9 KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 56 works
  10. 10 Aalto UniversityFinland 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Cellulose Research Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Cellulose Research Studies include Wei Huang, Yi Ping Cui and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Hongjie Dai United States 189k citations
  7. 7 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  8. 8 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  9. 9 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations
  10. 10 Avelino Corma Spain 176k 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 Cellulose Research Studies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Cellulose Research Studies is "An Empirical Method for Estimating the Degree of Crystallinity of Native Cellulose Using the X-Ray Diffractometer" (Leon D. Segal, Joseph J. Creely, Andrew Martin et al., 1959), with 8,675 citations. Next come "Cellulose: Fascinating Biopolymer and Sustainable Raw Material" (7,510) and "Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites" (6,746).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Empirical Method for Estimating the Degree of Crystallinity of Native Cellulose Using the X-Ray Diffractometer Leon D. Segal, Joseph J. Creely, Andrew Martin et al. · Textile Research Journal Oct 1959 8,675
2 Cellulose: Fascinating Biopolymer and Sustainable Raw Material Dieter Klemm, Brigitte Heublein, Hans‐Peter Fink et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 28 Apr 2005 7,510
3 Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites Robert J. Moon, Ashlie Martini, John A. Nairn et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2011 6,746
4 Cellulose Nanocrystals: Chemistry, Self-Assembly, and Applications Youssef Habibi, Lucian A. Lucia, Orlando José Rojas · Chemical Reviews Review 4 Mar 2010 5,952
5 Microbial Cellulose Utilization: Fundamentals and Biotechnology Lee Rybeck Lynd, Paul J. Weimer, Willem Heber van Zyl et al. · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews ReviewOpen access Sep 2002 4,736
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Where is Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Espoo, Lin’an Shi and Pekan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 396 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 274 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 185 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 138 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 134 works
  6. 6 JinanChina 117 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 116 works
  8. 8 BangkokThailand 107 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 107 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 105 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. EspooFI · 71.1 works16×
  2. Lin’an ShiCN · 22.5 works14×
  3. PekanMY · 27.7 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Cellulose Research Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Cellulose Research Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, Nanjing Forestry University and United Arab Emirates 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.56%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →United Arab Emirates…Jiangsu UniversityUniversité Mohammed …Nanjing Forestry Uni…
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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
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 69.126.6%4.0×28 +133.2%
2Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 69.014.1%41.5×169 +56.2%
3United Arab Emirates UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 68.432.3%4.7×10 +628.1%
4Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 66.822.5%20.0×16 +168.6%
5Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 62.818.1%28.0×72 +20.2%
6King Mongkut's University of Technology North BangkokThailand 61.720.1%20.6×24 +159.2%
7Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 61.416.0%25.7×70 +44.7%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 60.516.0%4.5×50 +5.9%
9Guangxi UniversityChina 59.513.3%11.9×65 +22.0%
10Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityChina 58.316.6%13.8×38 +85.8%

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 Advanced Cellulose Research Studies, country by country

Is Advanced Cellulose Research Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Cellulose Research Studies.

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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 Cellulose Research Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advanced Cellulose Research Studies0.043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Cellulose Research Studies 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 Cellulose Research Studies9.8% 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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