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Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research

Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. 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 synthesis, properties, and applications of boron-based materials, including boron nitride nanotubes, borophene, and superhard materials. It covers topics such as elastic properties, two-dimensional materials, chemical bonding, high-pressure experiments, and nanostructure synthesis.

  • Boron Nitride Nanotubes
  • Superhard Materials
  • Borophene
  • Elastic Properties
  • Two-Dimensional Materials
  • Chemical Bonding
  • Nanomaterial Synthesis
  • Crystal Structures
  • High-Pressure Experiments
  • Nanostructures
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
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
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research

Which countries lead Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 429 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 429 works
  3. 3 United States 422 works
  4. 4 Iran 217 works
  5. 5 Russia 209 works
  6. 6 Japan 188 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 161 works
  8. 8 Germany 117 works
  9. 9 France 108 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 84 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: 49.4%India: 11.2%United States: 11.1%Iran: 5.7%6 others listed: 22.7%49%largest
China1,886 · 49.4%India429 · 11.2%United States422 · 11.1%Iran217 · 5.7%6 others listed867 · 22.7%

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

Which institutions lead Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 121 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 99 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 58 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 56 works
  5. 5 Jilin UniversityChina 50 works
  6. 6 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 37 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 34 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 32 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 27 works
  10. 10 Yanshan UniversityChina 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k 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 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research?

The most cited paper in Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research is "From ultrasoft pseudopotentials to the projector augmented-wave method" (Georg Kresse, Daniel P. Joubert, 1999), with 85,965 citations. Next come "C60: Buckminsterfullerene" (16,047) and "Two-dimensional atomic crystals" (11,689).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 From ultrasoft pseudopotentials to the projector augmented-wave method Georg Kresse, Daniel P. Joubert · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jan 1999 85,965
2 C60: Buckminsterfullerene Harold Walter Kroto, J. R. Heath, Sean C. O’Brien et al. · Nature Nov 1985 16,047
3 Two-dimensional atomic crystals Kostya S. Novoselov, Da Jiang, Fred Schedin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 18 Jul 2005 11,689
4 Single-shell carbon nanotubes of 1-nm diameter Sumio Iijima, Toshinari Ichihashi · Nature 17 Jun 1993 9,012
5 A New Zirconium Inorganic Building Brick Forming Metal Organic Frameworks with Exceptional Stability J. Hafizovic, Søren Jakobsen, Unni Olsbye et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 26 Sep 2008 7,371
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Where is Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research done?

The largest centres of Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Qinhuangdao.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 241 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 132 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 110 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 84 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 79 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 76 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 72 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 72 works
  9. 9 ChangchunChina 55 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QinhuangdaoCN · 24.0 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Petroleum University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Jilin University 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%60%mean 19.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Petroleum …Northwestern Polytec…Nanjing University o…Jilin University
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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
1Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 69.256.9%10.7×15 +14.4%
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 54.921.9%7.3×37 +18.2%
3Jilin UniversityChina 52.07.4%9.8×50 +14.4%
4Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 47.58.6%9.3×34 +85.1%
5Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 47.316.7%9.7×24 +39.1%
6Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 46.224.6%5.2×21 +33.4%
7Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 45.69.3%7.8×58 -32.5%
8SASTRA UniversityIndia 44.033.7%17.6×10 +18.2%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 42.79.8%4.3×32 +17.2%
10Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 42.610.3%5.2×28 +29.2%

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 Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research, country by country

Is Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research.

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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 Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research 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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