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Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the materials, technologies, and components related to solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), including electrolytes, cathodes, anodes, proton-conducting oxides, high temperature electrolysis, oxygen ion conductors, and ionic transport membranes. The papers cover a wide range of research areas such as performance enhancement, durability, and application prospects for SOFCs.

  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Materials
  • Electrolytes
  • Cathodes
  • Anodes
  • Proton-Conducting Oxides
  • High Temperature Electrolysis
  • Oxygen Ion Conductors
  • Ionic Transport Membranes
  • Fuel Cell Technology
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Which countries lead Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 581 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 581 works
  3. 3 South Korea 301 works
  4. 4 Japan 290 works
  5. 5 Germany 290 works
  6. 6 India 282 works
  7. 7 Russia 254 works
  8. 8 France 170 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 155 works
  10. 10 Italy 117 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: 49.1%United States: 12.1%South Korea: 6.3%Japan: 6.1%6 others listed: 26.5%49%largest
China2,352 · 49.1%United States581 · 12.1%South Korea301 · 6.3%Japan290 · 6.1%6 others listed1,268 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 154 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 135 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 97 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 76 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 74 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 62 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 58 works
  8. 8 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 57 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 51 works
  10. 10 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  5. 5 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  8. 8 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  9. 9 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  10. 10 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells?

The most cited paper in Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells is "Materials for fuel-cell technologies" (Brian C. H. Steele, Angelika Heinzel, 2001), with 7,775 citations. Next come "Ceramic Fuel Cells" (3,839) and "Scientific Aspects of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability and Degradation" (3,397).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Materials for fuel-cell technologies Brian C. H. Steele, Angelika Heinzel · Nature Nov 2001 7,775
2 Ceramic Fuel Cells Nguyen Quang Minh · Journal of the American Ceramic Society Mar 1993 3,839
3 Scientific Aspects of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability and Degradation Rod L. Borup et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 13 Sep 2007 3,397
4 A review of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: Technology, applications, and needs on fundamental research Yun Wang, Ken S. Chen, Jeffrey Mishler et al. · Applied Energy Open access 30 Oct 2010 3,332
5 A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells Zongping Shao, Sossina Mariam Haile · Nature Sep 2004 3,163
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research done?

The largest centres of Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuhan (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in South Park Township, Jülich and Idaho Falls.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 348 works
  2. 2 WuhanChina 159 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 157 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 131 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 128 works
  6. 6 YekaterinburgRussia 108 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 102 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 88 works
  9. 9 DaejeonSouth Korea 85 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 79 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. South Park TownshipUS · 23.4 works100×
  2. JülichDE · 60.6 works41×
  3. Idaho FallsUS · 22.6 works32×
  4. YekaterinburgRU · 107.7 works20×
  5. GoldenUS · 29.0 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong 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 23.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong University…South China Universi…Hong Kong Polytechni…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.743.1%3.7×8 +139.0%
2South China University of TechnologyChina 63.929.3%6.5×37 +104.8%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.715.8%8.1×74 +109.7%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.122.2%4.5×20 +67.2%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.815.6%6.6×62 +36.4%
6China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 60.514.3%14.1×57 +170.9%
7University of South ChinaChina 59.720.7%23.1×32 +1168.8%
8Curtin UniversityAustralia 59.141.2%10.2×16 -26.4%
9Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 58.819.8%13.8×35 +36.7%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 55.910.3%4.8×58 +29.0%

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 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, country by country

Is Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.

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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 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 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 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells9.7% 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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