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Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization

Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. 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 the advances in living radical polymerization techniques, including atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT), and nitroxide-mediated polymerization. It also explores the application of click chemistry, self-assembly of block copolymers, and the synthesis of functional polymers such as vesicles and micelles.

  • Living Radical Polymerization
  • Click Chemistry
  • Block Copolymers
  • Self-Assembly
  • Thiol-Ene Chemistry
  • Vesicles
  • RAFT Process
  • Controlled Polymerization
  • Micelles
  • Functional Polymers
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
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization

Which countries lead Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 670 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 670 works
  3. 3 Japan 375 works
  4. 4 India 250 works
  5. 5 France 245 works
  6. 6 Germany 244 works
  7. 7 Russia 184 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 139 works
  9. 9 South Korea 122 works
  10. 10 Australia 99 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: 39.5%United States: 17.4%Japan: 9.7%India: 6.5%6 others listed: 26.8%40%largest
China1,522 · 39.5%United States670 · 17.4%Japan375 · 9.7%India250 · 6.5%6 others listed1,033 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 128 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 100 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 82 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 44 works
  5. 5 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 44 works
  6. 6 Fudan UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 37 works
  8. 8 Soochow UniversityChina 37 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization include Róbert Langer, George M. Whitesides and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  8. 8 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  9. 9 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  10. 10 Zhenan Bao United States 187k 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 Polymer Synthesis and Characterization?

The most cited paper in Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization is "Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites" (Gero Decher, 1997), with 10,041 citations. Next come "Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" (7,622) and "Mechanisms of solute release from porous hydrophilic polymers" (5,233).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites Gero Decher · Science 29 Aug 1997 10,041
2 Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Jianhui Xia · Chemical Reviews Review Sep 2001 7,622
3 Mechanisms of solute release from porous hydrophilic polymers Richard W. Korsmeyer, Robert Gurny, Éric Doelker et al. · International Journal of Pharmaceutics May 1983 5,233
4 Living Free-Radical Polymerization by Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer: The RAFT Process John Chiefari, Yu Chong, Frances Ercole et al. · Macromolecules 22 Jul 1998 5,109
5 Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry Charles E. Hoyle, Christopher N. Bowman · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 17 Feb 2010 4,186
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Where is Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 250 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 190 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 91 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 91 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 83 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 79 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 77 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 63 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 60 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 52 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization?

Among universities, judged by research, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich and Monash 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 21.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of FloridaETH ZurichCarnegie Mellon Univ…Monash University
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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
1Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 73.033.8%13.1×24 -18.8%
2ETH ZurichSwitzerland 71.837.7%6.2×19 +12.9%
3Monash UniversityAustralia 62.220.8%6.0×25 -33.2%
4University of FloridaUnited States 61.439.3%3.1×14 +38.8%
5Soochow UniversityChina 57.19.3%8.6×36 +26.1%
6Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 57.07.6%23.6×44 +18.9%
7Fudan UniversityChina 56.112.4%6.0×41 -3.2%
8University of MinnesotaUnited States 56.014.3%6.3×20 +13.1%
9University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 56.032.6%3.8×14 -1.8%
10South China University of TechnologyChina 55.17.9%7.8×37 +39.8%

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 Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, country by country

Is Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010.

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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 Polymer Synthesis and Characterization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization 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 Polymer Synthesis and Characterization9.8% 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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