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Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions

Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions is a research topic within Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 covers a wide range of topics in computational chemistry, molecular simulation, and polymer physics. It includes research on density-functional theory, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, chemical kinetics, and the application of computational methods to study the properties and behavior of polymers at the molecular level.

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Molecular Simulation
  • Density-Functional Theory
  • Polymer Science
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Quantum Chemistry
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
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 Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions

Which countries lead Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (311 and 184 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 311 works
  2. 2 China 184 works
  3. 3 Germany 121 works
  4. 4 Japan 107 works
  5. 5 India 105 works
  6. 6 Russia 79 works
  7. 7 France 69 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 62 works
  9. 9 Italy 47 works
  10. 10 Canada 33 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: 27.8%China: 16.5%Germany: 10.8%Japan: 9.6%6 others listed: 35.4%28%largest
United States311 · 27.8%China184 · 16.5%Germany121 · 10.8%Japan107 · 9.6%6 others listed396 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 32 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 17 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 11 works
  6. 6 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 9 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 8 works
  8. 8 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 7 works
  9. 9 Tohoku UniversityJapan 7 works
  10. 10 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions 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 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  7. 7 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  8. 8 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  9. 9 George M. Whitesides United States 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 Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions?

The most cited paper in Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions is "Projector augmented-wave method" (Peter E. Blöchl, 1994), with 93,392 citations. Next come "Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set" (76,620) and "Introduction to Solid State Physics" (22,408).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Projector augmented-wave method Peter E. Blöchl · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Dec 1994 93,392
2 Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set Georg Kresse, Jürgen Furthmüller · Computational Materials Science Jul 1996 76,620
3 Introduction to Solid State Physics CHARLES KITTEL, Heng Fan · American Journal of Physics May 1957 22,408
4 Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes Jean-Paul Ryckaert, Giovanni Ciccotti, Herman J. C. Berendsen · Journal of Computational Physics Mar 1977 21,804
5 First principles methods using CASTEP Stewart J. Clark, Matthew Segall, Chris J. Pickard et al. · Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials Open access May 2005 14,735
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Where is Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 39 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 28 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 28 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Mexico CityMexico 17 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 16 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 10 works
  10. 10 TsukubaJapan 10 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Tokyo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and RWTH Aachen University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Citation 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
1The University of TokyoJapan 66.59.1%6.1×11 -27.0%
2University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 48.28.9%3.4×8 +13.0%
3RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 34.53.4%8.0×9 +182.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions, country by country

Is Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026.

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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 Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions 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.

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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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