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Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

Advanced Chemical Physics Studies is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 136k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents advancements in density functional theory, including the development of dispersion correction methods, ab initio parametrization, wavefunction analyzers, and continuum solvation models. It also covers topics such as semiempirical methods, van der Waals interactions, hybrid density functionals, molecular simulations, and electronic structure calculations.

Density Functional Theory
Dispersion Correction
Ab Initio Parametrization
Wavefunction Analyzer
Semiempirical Methods
Van der Waals Interactions
Continuum Solvation Models
Hybrid Density Functionals
Molecular Simulations
Electronic Structure Calculations

Research works: 136k
In the world top 10%: 13k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -17%
Largest producer: United States

Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

Which countries lead Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.4k works
2 China 1.3k works
3 Germany 603 works
4 France 435 works
5 India 384 works
6 Japan 372 works
7 Russia 347 works
8 United Kingdom 250 works
9 Italy 226 works
10 Spain 206 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.

United States1,449 · 26.0%China1,301 · 23.3%Germany603 · 10.8%France435 · 7.8%6 others listed1,784 · 32.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 242 works
2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 160 works
3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 153 works
4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 82 works
5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 74 works
6 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 47 works
7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 39 works
8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 38 works
9 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 36 works
10 Jilin UniversityChina 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Chemical Physics Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies include Christopher J L Murray, Zhong Lin Wang and Michaël Grätzel.

1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
2 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
3 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
4 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
5 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
6 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
7 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
8 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
9 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
10 George M. Whitesides United States 267k 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 Chemical Physics Studies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Chemical Physics Studies is "Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple" (John P. Perdew, Kieron Burke, Matthias Ernzerhof, 1996), with 217,166 citations. Next come "Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set" (123,939) and "Density-functional thermochemistry. III. The role of exact exchange" (104,174).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple John P. Perdew, Kieron Burke, Matthias Ernzerhof · Physical Review Letters Open access	28 Oct 1996	217,166
2	Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set Georg Kresse, Jürgen Furthmüller · Physical review. B, Condensed matter	15 Oct 1996	123,939
3	Density-functional thermochemistry. III. The role of exact exchange Axel D. Becke · The Journal of Chemical Physics	Apr 1993	104,174
4	Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density Chengteh Lee, Weitao Yang, Robert G. Parr · Physical review. B, Condensed matter	15 Jan 1988	101,337
5	Projector augmented-wave method Peter E. Blöchl · Physical review. B, Condensed matter	15 Dec 1994	93,392

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Where is Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Orsay, Lemont and Los Alamos.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 252 works
2 ParisFrance 174 works
3 MoscowRussia 146 works
4 TokyoJapan 97 works
5 ShanghaiChina 93 works
6 HefeiChina 93 works
7 BerlinGermany 66 works
8 MadridSpain 63 works
9 BerkeleyUnited States 58 works
10 LondonUnited Kingdom 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

OrsayFR · 20.2 works24×
LemontUS · 21.5 works16×
Los AlamosUS · 23.2 works12×

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Chemical Physics Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, ETH Zurich, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of California, Berkeley 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	72.2	21.7%	8.3×	36	-29.0%
2	Scuola Normale SuperioreItaly	69.6	32.6%	42.5×	16	+2.8%
3	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	63.3	20.0%	4.5×	27	-18.0%
4	Princeton UniversityUnited States	62.4	26.4%	5.1×	14	+14.8%
5	Peking UniversityChina	61.9	20.5%	2.6×	34	-1.7%
6	University of ChicagoUnited States	61.1	16.7%	3.8×	20	+44.7%
7	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina	59.6	9.4%	6.2×	47	+13.9%
8	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	58.9	15.1%	4.4×	24	-11.7%
9	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland	58.6	22.0%	6.5×	17	-37.6%
10	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	58.0	14.9%	2.7×	27	-27.7%
11	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	56.8	20.0%	5.8×	15	-11.6%
12	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina	56.4	11.9%	3.2×	34	+18.9%
13	University of BonnGermany	56.1	33.2%	4.3×	13	-10.0%
14	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	55.5	20.1%	3.1×	18	+6.5%
15	University of MinnesotaUnited States	55.2	20.6%	4.0×	19	-30.5%
16	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	54.1	20.8%	2.7×	21	+4.0%
17	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	54.1	19.3%	2.2×	20	+1.2%
18	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	54.0	16.5%	4.8×	18	-9.6%
19	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States	53.8	16.8%	7.9×	18	-32.3%
20	University of California San DiegoUnited States	53.4	34.9%	1.8×	11	-38.9%
21	Stanford UniversityUnited States	53.3	18.1%	2.3×	22	-28.6%
22	University of MississippiUnited States	52.4	16.0%	12.0×	16	+25.3%
23	KU LeuvenBelgium	52.0	10.9%	2.8×	17	+31.8%
24	Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States	51.9	10.0%	4.0×	16	+86.6%
25	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	51.5	16.8%	2.4×	18	-29.6%
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	50.9	3.4%	2.7×	30	+115.3%
27	University of WashingtonUnited States	50.8	15.9%	3.1×	22	-17.6%
28	Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungary	50.8	17.3%	7.2×	10	+17.4%
29	University of ViennaAustria	50.4	18.3%	4.0×	13	-14.7%
30	Ruhr University BochumGermany	50.3	15.4%	7.4×	20	-12.4%
31	Technical University of DenmarkDenmark	50.2	11.6%	3.7×	12	-26.2%
32	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael	50.2	20.3%	13.2×	12	-22.5%
33	University of the Basque CountrySpain	48.6	10.8%	7.5×	23	-9.7%
34	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States	48.6	18.6%	3.3×	15	-38.3%
35	Yale UniversityUnited States	48.5	19.2%	2.4×	17	-25.0%
36	Tsinghua UniversityChina	48.1	13.9%	1.6×	24	+42.8%
37	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	48.0	19.1%	4.0×	14	-37.8%
38	University of FloridaUnited States	47.5	14.4%	3.1×	22	-16.7%
39	Heidelberg UniversityGermany	47.3	8.9%	4.5×	22	-27.9%
40	University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkUnited States	47.3	20.1%	3.8×	10	+18.8%
41	Jilin UniversityChina	46.5	11.8%	4.7×	35	-11.2%
42	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	45.7	2.3%	7.3×	40	-33.3%
43	The University of TokyoJapan	44.9	7.9%	4.3×	34	-27.8%
44	Kyoto UniversityJapan	44.7	7.2%	6.6×	32	-30.9%
45	Fudan UniversityChina	44.2	11.3%	2.0×	20	+41.1%
46	KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden	44.1	14.1%	4.5×	11	-2.3%
47	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina	43.7	12.0%	3.0×	10	+80.4%
48	Xiamen UniversityChina	43.1	9.2%	3.1×	17	+57.7%
49	Columbia UniversityUnited States	43.0	18.2%	1.2×	9	+20.3%
50	University of PerugiaItaly	42.7	10.3%	13.3×	19	-18.2%
51	University of SzegedHungary	42.6	5.2%	10.4×	16	+51.7%
52	University of ZurichSwitzerland	41.8	19.7%	2.3×	10	-16.9%
53	Southern Methodist UniversityUnited States	39.8	6.3%	13.9×	8	+85.2%
54	Universität InnsbruckAustria	38.4	3.0%	11.1×	20	-28.8%
55	University of BaselSwitzerland	38.4	9.4%	5.8×	14	-24.2%
56	Hefei UniversityChina	37.6	9.6%	15.4×	10	+231.4%
57	Homi Bhabha National InstituteIndia	37.1	5.9%	10.4×	16	+6.8%
58	Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchIndia	30.7	3.9%	12.6×	9	+23.8%
59	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	30.1	15.0%	1.3×	8	-42.7%

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 Chemical Physics Studies, country by country

Is Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 1997.

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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 Chemical Physics Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

Fractional works of Advanced Chemical Physics 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.

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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Which countries lead Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Chemical Physics Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Chemical Physics Studies?

Where is Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Advanced Chemical Physics Studies?

Is Advanced Chemical Physics Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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