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Advancements in Materials Engineering

Advancements in Materials Engineering is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.2k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the monitoring, analysis, and control of vibration propagation in vehicles, particularly related to welding techniques, steel structures, micro-jet cooling, laser welding, surface tension effects, electromagnetoelastic transducers, fatigue analysis, vehicle suspension systems, and applications of nanotechnology. The research covers a wide range of topics related to the impact of material properties, welding methods, and cooling techniques on vibration modes and propagation in automotive and mechanical systems.

  • Vibration Propagation
  • Welding
  • Steel Structures
  • Micro-Jet Cooling
  • Laser Welding
  • Surface Tension
  • Electromagnetoelastic Transducer
  • Fatigue Analysis
  • Vehicle Suspension
  • Nanotechnology
Research works
7.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
709
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-40%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advancements in Materials Engineering

Which countries lead Advancements in Materials Engineering research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (137 and 74 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 137 works
  2. 2 Russia 74 works
  3. 3 China 72 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 29 works
  5. 5 India 22 works
  6. 6 United States 22 works
  7. 7 Germany 14 works
  8. 8 Japan 12 works
  9. 9 Czechia 11 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 10 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.

Poland: 33.9%Russia: 18.3%China: 17.9%Ukraine: 7.2%6 others listed: 22.8%34%largest
Poland137 · 33.9%Russia74 · 18.3%China72 · 17.9%Ukraine29 · 7.2%6 others listed92 · 22.8%

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

Which institutions lead Advancements in Materials Engineering research?

By volume in 2022-now, Silesian University of Technology publishes the most Advancements in Materials Engineering research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and National Research University of Electronic Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 15 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 11 works
  3. 3 National Research University of Electronic TechnologyRussia 9 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 9 works
  5. 5 AGH University of KrakowPoland 9 works
  6. 6 Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 8 works
  7. 7 Kielce University of TechnologyPoland 6 works
  8. 8 Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 6 works
  9. 9 Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyPoland 6 works
  10. 10 Łukasiewicz Research NetworkPoland 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advancements in Materials Engineering?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advancements in Materials Engineering include Mietek Jaroniec, A. Olszewski and Dominic P. Kwiatkowski.

  1. 1 Mietek Jaroniec United States 141k citations
  2. 2 A. Olszewski United States 121k citations
  3. 3 Dominic P. Kwiatkowski United Kingdom 109k citations
  4. 4 Bharat Bhushan United States 94k citations
  5. 5 Leopoldo Milano Italy 91k citations
  6. 6 Hong Liu China 90k 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 Materials Engineering?

The most cited paper in Advancements in Materials Engineering is "Protective coatings in the gas turbine engine" (J. T. DeMasi-Marcin, Dinesh K. Gupta, 1994), with 493 citations. Next come "Xi. The origin of fatigue fracture in copper" (432) and "THE KINETIC NATURE OF THE STRENGTH OF SOLIDS" (419).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Protective coatings in the gas turbine engine J. T. DeMasi-Marcin, Dinesh K. Gupta · Surface and Coatings Technology Dec 1994 493
2 Xi. The origin of fatigue fracture in copper N. Thompson, N. J. Wadsworth, N. Louat · Philosophical magazine Feb 1956 432
3 THE KINETIC NATURE OF THE STRENGTH OF SOLIDS V. R. Regel’, A. I. Slutsker, É E Tomashevskiĭ · Soviet Physics Uspekhi Open access 31 Jan 1972 419
4 High Nitrogen Steels. Nickel Free High Nitrogen Austenitic Steels. Peter J. Uggowitzer, Ruth Magdowski, Markus O. Speidel · ISIJ International Open access 1996 247
5 Effect of welding processes on mechanical and microstructural characteristics of high strength low alloy naval grade steel joints Seerangan Ragu Nathan, V. Balasubramanian, S. Malarvizhi et al. · Defence Technology Open access 2 Jul 2015 227
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Where is Advancements in Materials Engineering research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Materials Engineering research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Warsaw (Poland), Gliwice (Poland) and Krakow (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Warsaw and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 33 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 25 works
  3. 3 GliwicePoland 16 works
  4. 4 KrakowPoland 16 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 14 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 13 works
  7. 7 RzeszówPoland 9 works
  8. 8 WrocławPoland 8 works
  9. 9 PoznańPoland 7 works
  10. 10 KielcePoland 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WarsawPL · 25.0 works16×
  2. MoscowRU · 32.6 works6.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advancements in Materials Engineering than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, National Research University of Electronic Technology, Silesian University of Technology and AGH University of Krakow 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 20.725%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National Research Un…Rzeszów University o…AGH University of Kr…Silesian University …
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1National Research University of Electronic TechnologyRussia 46.143.3%658.6×9 -42.7%
2Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 38.86.0%130.8×14 -73.1%
3AGH University of KrakowPoland 18.216.1%50.1×9 -63.9%
4Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 7.617.5%203.6×8 -38.0%

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 Advancements in Materials Engineering, country by country

Is Advancements in Materials Engineering research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Materials Engineering as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0025% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Advancements in Materials Engineering0.0021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advancements in Materials Engineering 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 Materials Engineering10.2% 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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