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Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis

Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 friction stir welding and processing, with an emphasis on microstructure, tool design, joining techniques for different materials, heat generation, mechanical properties, intermetallic compounds, and numerical modeling.

  • Friction Stir Welding
  • Processing
  • Microstructure
  • Aluminum Alloys
  • Tool Design
  • Joining Techniques
  • Heat Generation
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Intermetallic Compounds
  • Numerical Modeling
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis

Which countries lead Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.7k works
  2. 2 India 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 311 works
  4. 4 Japan 285 works
  5. 5 Germany 257 works
  6. 6 Iran 213 works
  7. 7 Russia 171 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 150 works
  9. 9 South Korea 143 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 135 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: 48.1%India: 22.2%United States: 5.5%Japan: 5.1%6 others listed: 19.0%48%largest
China2,700 · 48.1%India1,245 · 22.2%United States311 · 5.5%Japan285 · 5.1%6 others listed1,069 · 19.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Institute of Technology publishes the most Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research, followed by Central South University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 123 works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 86 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 82 works
  4. 4 The University of OsakaJapan 70 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  6. 6 Chongqing UniversityChina 63 works
  7. 7 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 60 works
  8. 8 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 55 works
  9. 9 Shandong UniversityChina 55 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis include Sudhir Kumar, Kai You Wang and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Welding Techniques Analysis?

The most cited paper in Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis is "Friction stir welding and processing" (Rajiv Sharan Mishra, Z.Y. Ma, 2005), with 6,773 citations. Next come "Recent developments in advanced aircraft aluminium alloys" (2,830) and "Recent advances in friction-stir welding – Process, weldment structure and properties" (2,105).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Friction stir welding and processing Rajiv Sharan Mishra, Z.Y. Ma · Materials Science and Engineering R Reports Aug 2005 6,773
2 Recent developments in advanced aircraft aluminium alloys Tolga Dursun, Costas Soutis · Materials & Design (1980-2015) 13 Dec 2013 2,830
3 Recent advances in friction-stir welding – Process, weldment structure and properties Rakesh Nandan, T. DebRoy, H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia · Progress in Materials Science 5 Jun 2008 2,105
4 The Significance of Fatigue Crack Closure Wolf Elber Book chapter 1971 2,008
5 Metal matrix composites – From science to technological significance Daniel B. Miracle · Composites Science and Technology 4 Aug 2005 1,880
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Harbin (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Babol and Paderborn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 342 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 178 works
  3. 3 HarbinChina 174 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 138 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 122 works
  6. 6 ChennaiIndia 120 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 113 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 109 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 105 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 98 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BabolIR · 25.4 works24×
  2. PaderbornDE · 20.3 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Chongqing University, Shandong University and Harbin Institute of Technology 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 18.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shandong UniversityChongqing UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Harbin Institute of …
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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
1Chongqing UniversityChina 76.719.1%9.5×63 +48.4%
2Shandong UniversityChina 74.519.8%6.8×54 +38.9%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 72.314.2%12.4×123 +6.1%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 70.817.5%4.7×82 +34.8%
5Central South UniversityChina 69.814.4%7.3×86 +61.8%
6Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 66.722.5%7.9×55 -0.1%
7Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 66.223.2%6.7×31 +26.1%
8Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.218.2%4.2×46 +16.8%
9Tianjin UniversityChina 65.014.0%7.1×53 +57.5%
10University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 64.819.3%5.3×15 +54.0%

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 Welding Techniques Analysis, country by country

Is Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis.

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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 Welding Techniques Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis 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 Welding Techniques Analysis9.8% 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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