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Advanced ceramic materials synthesis

Advanced ceramic materials synthesis is a research topic within Ceramics and Composites. Science Explorer counts 68k 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 covers advancements in ceramic materials and processing techniques, with a focus on topics such as spark plasma sintering, high-temperature applications, composite materials, nanocrystalline ceramics, oxidation resistance, porous ceramics, and ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs). The research encompasses the synthesis, consolidation, properties, and applications of ceramic materials for various industrial and aerospace uses.

  • Ceramic Materials
  • Sintering
  • Spark Plasma Sintering
  • High-Temperature Applications
  • Composite Materials
  • Nanocrystalline Ceramics
  • Oxidation Resistance
  • Porous Ceramics
  • Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs)
  • Material Properties
Research works
68k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced ceramic materials synthesis

Which countries lead Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5.5k and 940 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5.5k works
  2. 2 India 940 works
  3. 3 United States 735 works
  4. 4 Russia 502 works
  5. 5 Japan 392 works
  6. 6 Germany 321 works
  7. 7 France 250 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 241 works
  9. 9 South Korea 229 works
  10. 10 Iran 182 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: 59.3%India: 10.1%United States: 7.9%Russia: 5.4%6 others listed: 17.3%59%largest
China5,530 · 59.3%India940 · 10.1%United States735 · 7.9%Russia502 · 5.4%6 others listed1,616 · 17.3%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 343 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 223 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 217 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 206 works
  5. 5 Central South UniversityChina 153 works
  6. 6 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 136 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 119 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 117 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 115 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 91 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced ceramic materials synthesis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced ceramic materials synthesis include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 ceramic materials synthesis?

The most cited paper in Advanced ceramic materials synthesis is "High-κ gate dielectrics: Current status and materials properties considerations" (Glen D. Wilk, Robert M. Wallace, J. Mark Anthony, 2001), with 5,918 citations. Next come "A Critical Evaluation of Indentation Techniques for Measuring Fracture Toughness: I, Direct Crack Measurements" (5,576) and "Modeling solid-state chemistry: Interatomic potentials for multicomponent systems" (4,162).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-κ gate dielectrics: Current status and materials properties considerations Glen D. Wilk, Robert M. Wallace, J. Mark Anthony · Journal of Applied Physics 15 May 2001 5,918
2 A Critical Evaluation of Indentation Techniques for Measuring Fracture Toughness: I, Direct Crack Measurements G. R. Anstis, Prapaipan Chantikul, Brian R. Lawn et al. · Journal of the American Ceramic Society Sep 1981 5,576
3 Modeling solid-state chemistry: Interatomic potentials for multicomponent systems J. Tersoff · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Mar 1989 4,162
4 Nanocrystalline materials H. Gleiter · Progress in Materials Science Open access 1989 3,685
5 The Scherrer equation versus the 'Debye-Scherrer equation' Uwe Holzwarth, P.N. Gibson · Nature Nanotechnology 28 Aug 2011 3,400
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Where is Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research done?

The largest centres of Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Wuhan (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Freiberg and Jingdezhen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 933 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 523 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 359 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 281 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 271 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 266 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 206 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 158 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 150 works
  10. 10 JinanChina 145 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 20.0 works43×
  2. FreibergDE · 31.3 works34×
  3. JingdezhenCN · 20.8 works29×
  4. ChernogolovkaRU · 31.0 works28×
  5. Ma'anshan CityCN · 37.0 works18×
  6. LeobenAT · 20.1 works17×
  7. ChangwonKR · 21.5 works14×
  8. CheonanKR · 23.0 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced ceramic materials synthesis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced ceramic materials synthesis?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic 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 20.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…Northwestern Polytec…Wuhan University of …Harbin Institute of …
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 77.525.3%20.1×223 +12.1%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 68.513.8%13.0×206 +19.1%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 67.035.1%1.5×13 +150.8%
4Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 62.914.0%17.3×136 +62.0%
5Central South UniversityChina 62.711.6%8.2×153 +38.0%
6Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.713.3%36.5×119 +24.3%
7Dalian University of TechnologyChina 59.422.6%4.9×45 +41.3%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 58.324.7%1.8×51 +11.2%
9Saveetha UniversityIndia 58.218.8%3.3×30 +487.9%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 57.223.1%1.6×18 +38.3%

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 ceramic materials synthesis, country by country

Is Advanced ceramic materials synthesis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced ceramic materials synthesis.

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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 ceramic materials synthesis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced ceramic materials synthesis0.049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced ceramic materials synthesis 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 ceramic materials synthesis9.8% 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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