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Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Spectroscopy. Science Explorer counts 44k 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 advancements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques, including solid-state NMR, dynamic nuclear polarization, hyperpolarization, and high-field NMR. The papers cover topics such as protein structure determination, metabolic imaging, spin dynamics, and the application of NMR in magnetic resonance imaging.

  • NMR Spectroscopy
  • Solid-State NMR
  • Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
  • Hyperpolarization
  • Chemical Shifts
  • Protein Structure Determination
  • Metabolic Imaging
  • High-Field NMR
  • Spin Dynamics
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Which countries lead Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (788 and 515 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 788 works
  2. 2 China 515 works
  3. 3 Germany 354 works
  4. 4 France 238 works
  5. 5 Japan 237 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 186 works
  7. 7 Russia 172 works
  8. 8 India 130 works
  9. 9 Italy 102 works
  10. 10 Canada 92 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 States: 28.0%China: 18.3%Germany: 12.6%France: 8.5%6 others listed: 32.7%28%largest
United States788 · 28.0%China515 · 18.3%Germany354 · 12.6%France238 · 8.5%6 others listed921 · 32.7%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 117 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 93 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 83 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 50 works
  5. 5 Max Planck SocietyGermany 38 works
  6. 6 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 32 works
  7. 7 University of FloridaUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 24 works
  10. 10 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications include Michaël Grätzel, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  10. 10 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 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 NMR Techniques and Applications?

The most cited paper in Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications is "General atomic and molecular electronic structure system" (Michael W. I. Schmidt, Kim K. Baldridge, Jerry A. Boatz et al., 1993), with 20,303 citations. Next come "Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination" (15,809) and "The SIESTA method for ab initio order- N materials simulation" (11,955).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 General atomic and molecular electronic structure system Michael W. I. Schmidt, Kim K. Baldridge, Jerry A. Boatz et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry Nov 1993 20,303
2 Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination Axel T. Brünger, Paul D. Adams, G. Marius Clore et al. · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography Sep 1998 15,809
3 The SIESTA method for ab initio order- N materials simulation José M. Soler, Emilio Artacho, Julian D. Gale et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter Open access 8 Mar 2002 11,955
4 Chemistry with ADF G. te Velde, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Evert Jan Baerends et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry 23 Apr 2001 10,169
5 P ACKMOL : A package for building initial configurations for molecular dynamics simulations Leandro Martı́nez, Ricardo Andrade, Ernesto G. Birgin et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry 19 Feb 2009 9,884
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Where is Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rehovot and Tallahassee.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 132 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 89 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 52 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 51 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  6. 6 ZurichSwitzerland 37 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 37 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 32 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  10. 10 TallahasseeUnited States 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RehovotIL · 20.3 works37×
  2. TallahasseeUS · 31.5 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 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%10%20%mean 16.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chines…École Polytechnique …Weizmann Institute o…ETH Zurich
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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
1ETH ZurichSwitzerland 78.811.9%14.7×32 -1.7%
2École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 73.119.6%13.8×18 -7.9%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 72.420.5%4.1×21 +19.4%
4Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 70.115.7%45.8×20 +3.6%
5Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 68.020.3%6.7×15 -16.0%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 64.319.1%5.9×16 +2.8%
7University of FloridaUnited States 63.010.9%7.9×27 +2.5%
8Aarhus UniversityDenmark 58.79.8%8.9×24 -8.3%
9University of FlorenceItaly 57.922.1%5.1×10 +21.9%
10Iowa State UniversityUnited States 57.610.4%17.0×21 -6.2%

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 NMR Techniques and Applications, country by country

Is Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008.

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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 NMR Techniques and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications 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 NMR Techniques and Applications9.9% 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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