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Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques

Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in atom probe tomography, a technique for three-dimensional nanoscale characterization of materials. The research covers topics such as specimen preparation, field evaporation behavior, spatial resolution, crystallographic mapping, and the application of correlative microscopy in materials science.

  • Atom Probe Tomography
  • Three-Dimensional Analysis
  • Nanoscale Characterization
  • Specimen Preparation
  • Field Evaporation Behavior
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Spatial Resolution
  • Crystallographic Mapping
  • Correlative Microscopy
  • Materials Science
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques

Which countries lead Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (550 and 400 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 550 works
  2. 2 United States 400 works
  3. 3 Russia 190 works
  4. 4 Germany 153 works
  5. 5 Japan 122 works
  6. 6 France 114 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 77 works
  8. 8 India 74 works
  9. 9 South Korea 42 works
  10. 10 Australia 39 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: 31.2%United States: 22.7%Russia: 10.8%Germany: 8.7%6 others listed: 26.6%31%largest
China550 · 31.2%United States400 · 22.7%Russia190 · 10.8%Germany153 · 8.7%6 others listed467 · 26.6%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 80 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 56 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 49 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 29 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 28 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 19 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 18 works
  8. 8 Sandia National LaboratoriesUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  8. 8 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Materials Characterization Techniques?

The most cited paper in Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques is "Nanostructured High‐Entropy Alloys with Multiple Principal Elements: Novel Alloy Design Concepts and Outcomes" (J.‐W. Yeh, Swe-Kai Chen, Sung‐Jan Lin et al., 2004), with 15,287 citations. Next come "A critical review of high entropy alloys and related concepts" (9,054) and "Microstructures and properties of high-entropy alloys" (7,196).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nanostructured High‐Entropy Alloys with Multiple Principal Elements: Novel Alloy Design Concepts and Outcomes J.‐W. Yeh, Swe-Kai Chen, Sung‐Jan Lin et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials May 2004 15,287
2 A critical review of high entropy alloys and related concepts Daniel B. Miracle, Oleg N. Senkov · Acta Materialia Open access 21 Oct 2016 9,054
3 Microstructures and properties of high-entropy alloys Yong Zhang, Ting Ting Zuo, Zhi Yuan Tang et al. · Progress in Materials Science Nov 2013 7,196
4 Materials science and engineering: An introduction Clive R. Clayton · Materials Science and Engineering Oct 1987 5,968
5 THE STOPPING AND RANGE OF IONS IN SOLIDS J. F. Ziegler · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1984 5,870
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Where is Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Düsseldorf.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 134 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 60 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 39 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 35 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 29 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 28 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  9. 9 DüsseldorfGermany 21 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DüsseldorfDE · 20.9 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Imperial College London and Zhejiang 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 21.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityUniversity of Scienc…University of Scienc…Imperial College Lon…
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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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 75.918.6%20.2×29 +22.6%
2Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 65.217.8%7.1×13 +28.9%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 60.729.6%2.2×11 +135.3%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 59.024.6%5.5×12 +33.3%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 58.617.4%7.4×16 +51.3%
6Central South UniversityChina 58.317.1%5.3×19 +50.9%
7Ruhr University BochumGermany 55.624.3%12.3×9 +5.2%
8The University of SydneyAustralia 51.021.0%3.7×8 -10.4%
9Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 47.420.2%2.9×9 +67.8%
10Northeastern UniversityChina 43.722.0%5.2×9 +14.0%

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 Materials Characterization Techniques, country by country

Is Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques.

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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 Materials Characterization Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques0.0086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques 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 Materials Characterization Techniques10.4% 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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