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Advancements in Battery Materials

Advancements in Battery Materials is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 106k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in lithium-ion battery technology, including research on battery materials, nanostructured anodes, cathode materials, and electrode materials. It also covers topics related to energy storage, electrochemical performance, and rechargeable batteries.

  • Lithium-ion Batteries
  • Battery Materials
  • Energy Storage
  • Nanostructured Anodes
  • Cathode Materials
  • Electrochemical Performance
  • Rechargeable Batteries
  • Anode Materials
  • Battery Technology
  • Electrode Materials
Research works
106k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
10k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+44%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advancements in Battery Materials

Which countries lead Advancements in Battery Materials research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (22k and 3.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 22k works
  2. 2 United States 3.1k works
  3. 3 India 2.5k works
  4. 4 South Korea 2.3k works
  5. 5 Germany 1.3k works
  6. 6 Japan 944 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 784 works
  8. 8 France 583 works
  9. 9 Australia 515 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 476 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: 63.5%United States: 9.1%India: 7.3%South Korea: 6.7%6 others listed: 13.4%63%largest
China22k · 63.5%United States3,126 · 9.1%India2,511 · 7.3%South Korea2,321 · 6.7%6 others listed4,615 · 13.4%

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

Which institutions lead Advancements in Battery Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advancements in Battery Materials research, followed by Central South University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.3k works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 551 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 374 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 355 works
  5. 5 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 302 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 288 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 273 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 267 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 250 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 249 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advancements in Battery Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advancements in Battery Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  9. 9 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k 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 Advancements in Battery Materials?

The most cited paper in Advancements in Battery Materials is "The electronic properties of graphene" (Antonio H. Castro Neto, Francisco Javier Esteban Guinea, Nuno M. R. Peres et al., 2009), with 24,968 citations. Next come "Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries" (21,115) and "Building better batteries" (19,614).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The electronic properties of graphene Antonio H. Castro Neto, Francisco Javier Esteban Guinea, Nuno M. R. Peres et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 14 Jan 2009 24,968
2 Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries J. M. Tarascon, Michel B. Armand · Nature Nov 2001 21,115
3 Building better batteries Michel B. Armand, J.-M. Tarascon · Nature Feb 2008 19,614
4 Materials for electrochemical capacitors Patrice Simon, Yury G. Gogotsi · Nature Materials Open access 28 Oct 2008 16,410
5 Graphene-based composite materials Sasha Stankovich, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Geoffrey Dommett et al. · Nature Jul 2006 12,907
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Where is Advancements in Battery Materials research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Battery Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Didcot, Rayong and Lemont.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 3k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 1.4k works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 1k works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 931 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 869 works
  6. 6 ChangshaChina 867 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 849 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 824 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 756 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 619 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DidcotGB · 75.8 works24×
  2. RayongTH · 20.9 works23×
  3. LemontUS · 151.5 works21×
  4. SipingCN · 30.1 works14×
  5. Changchun43.8 works13×
  6. YueyangCN · 23.1 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advancements in Battery Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advancements in Battery Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, City University of Hong Kong and Beijing Institute of Technology 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.

0%20%40%mean 20.15%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Ad…City University of H…Tsinghua UniversityBeijing 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.

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
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 72.522.0%4.5×355 +26.2%
2City University of Hong KongChina 72.425.3%5.7×112 +63.1%
3Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67.217.1%7.4×302 +32.5%
4The University of AdelaideAustralia 66.231.6%2.6×38 +145.2%
5University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.716.8%6.1×250 +40.3%
6Nankai UniversityChina 63.816.3%8.3×197 +24.6%
7Central South UniversityChina 63.711.4%8.3×551 +42.2%
8Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.316.4%4.4×273 +70.1%
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 62.323.1%2.9×96 +23.3%
10Wenzhou UniversityChina 61.921.5%12.1×88 +352.8%

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 Advancements in Battery Materials, country by country

Is Advancements in Battery Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advancements in Battery Materials.

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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 Advancements in Battery Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.17% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advancements in Battery Materials 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%Advancements in Battery Materials9.6% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads battery research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advancements in Battery Materials research, followed by Central South University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (22k and 3.1k works in 2022-now).

Which countries lead battery research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (22k and 3.1k works in 2022-now).

Which countries lead Advancements in Battery Materials research?
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