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Bauxite Residue and Utilization

Bauxite Residue and Utilization is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management, utilization, and environmental impact of bauxite residue, also known as red mud. It covers topics such as recovery of valuable metals, recycling, alkalinity transformation, and the use of red mud in various applications including cement production and environmental remediation.

  • Bauxite Residue
  • Red Mud
  • Utilization
  • Management
  • Recovery
  • Recycling
  • Environmental
  • Alkalinity
  • Rare Earths
  • Catalytic Applications
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+59%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bauxite Residue and Utilization

Which countries lead Bauxite Residue and Utilization research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 223 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 223 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 165 works
  4. 4 United States 137 works
  5. 5 Russia 111 works
  6. 6 Brazil 84 works
  7. 7 Japan 61 works
  8. 8 Germany 54 works
  9. 9 Australia 48 works
  10. 10 Canada 47 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: 56.6%India: 10.4%Indonesia: 7.7%United States: 6.4%6 others listed: 18.8%57%largest
China1,215 · 56.6%India223 · 10.4%Indonesia165 · 7.7%United States137 · 6.4%6 others listed404 · 18.8%

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

Which institutions lead Bauxite Residue and Utilization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Central South University publishes the most Bauxite Residue and Utilization research, followed by Northeastern University and University of Science and Technology Beijing.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Central South UniversityChina 89 works
  2. 2 Northeastern UniversityChina 72 works
  3. 3 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 60 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  5. 5 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 43 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 42 works
  7. 7 Guizhou UniversityChina 27 works
  8. 8 Guangxi UniversityChina 25 works
  9. 9 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 21 works
  10. 10 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bauxite Residue and Utilization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bauxite Residue and Utilization include Guangming Zeng, Qiang Zhang and Han Zhang.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  3. 3 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  4. 4 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  5. 5 Paul K. Chu China 130k citations
  6. 6 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  7. 7 Dierk Raabe Germany 125k citations
  8. 8 Shaobin Wang Australia 124k citations
  9. 9 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Bauxite Residue and Utilization?

The most cited paper in Bauxite Residue and Utilization is "Idealized powder diffraction patterns for cellulose polymorphs" (Alfred Dexter French, 2013), with 3,286 citations. Next come "Metal matrix composites: production by the stir casting method" (1,361) and "Development and applications of aluminum alloys for aerospace industry" (1,022).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Idealized powder diffraction patterns for cellulose polymorphs Alfred Dexter French · Cellulose 24 Aug 2013 3,286
2 Metal matrix composites: production by the stir casting method J. Hashim, Lisa Looney, M.S.J. Hashmi · Journal of Materials Processing Technology Aug 1999 1,361
3 Development and applications of aluminum alloys for aerospace industry Shuangshuang Li, Xin Yan Yue, Q. Li et al. · Journal of Materials Research and Technology Open access 29 Sep 2023 1,022
4 The production and application of metal matrix composite materials Jacek W. Kaczmar, K. Pietrzak, Władysław Włosiński · Journal of Materials Processing Technology Oct 2000 986
5 Removal of dyes from aqueous solution using fly ash and red mud Shaobin Wang, Y. Boyjoo, A. Choueib et al. · Water Research 26 Oct 2004 923
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Bauxite Residue and Utilization research done?

The largest centres of Bauxite Residue and Utilization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Changsha (China), Shenyang (China) and Kunming (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Trondheim, Guiyang and Shenyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 208 works
  2. 2 ChangshaChina 105 works
  3. 3 ShenyangChina 87 works
  4. 4 KunmingChina 61 works
  5. 5 GuiyangChina 45 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 44 works
  7. 7 TaiyuanChina 39 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 37 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 35 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TrondheimNO · 28.9 works13×
  2. GuiyangCN · 45.0 works12×
  3. ShenyangCN · 87.0 works11×
  4. KunmingCN · 60.8 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bauxite Residue and Utilization than the world average.

See Bauxite Residue and Utilization on the map

Where is the best place to study Bauxite Residue and Utilization?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Central South University and Northeastern 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 16.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southeast UniversityUniversity of Scienc…Northeastern Univers…Central South Univer…
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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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 65.017.9%30.8×60 +113.4%
2Central South UniversityChina 64.510.8%18.5×89 +57.8%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 62.315.9%32.0×72 +62.0%
4Southeast UniversityChina 58.142.0%2.4×9 +368.0%
5Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.617.0%30.2×43 +106.6%
6Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 50.58.0%13.8×20 +98.5%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 50.113.3%16.7×25 +135.2%
8Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 49.518.8%20.0×21 +494.9%
9Guizhou UniversityChina 47.614.5%20.7×27 +199.2%
10KU LeuvenBelgium 47.06.3%4.6×11 +23.2%

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 Bauxite Residue and Utilization, country by country

Is Bauxite Residue and Utilization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bauxite Residue and Utilization.

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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 Bauxite Residue and Utilization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bauxite Residue and Utilization 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.

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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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