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Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications

Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1971. 9.8% 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 diverse applications of carbon quantum dots, including their use in bioimaging, nanomaterial sensors, photocatalytic energy conversion, and biomedical applications. The research covers topics such as photoluminescence mechanisms, surface functionalization, and the development of electroluminescent light-emitting diodes. Additionally, there is a strong emphasis on green synthesis methods for producing these fluorescent nanoparticles.

  • Carbon Quantum Dots
  • Fluorescent Nanoparticles
  • Photoluminescence Mechanism
  • Bioimaging
  • Nanomaterial Sensors
  • Photocatalytic Energy Conversion
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Surface Functionalization
  • Electroluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes
  • Green Synthesis
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1971
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications

Which countries lead Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.5k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 Iran 345 works
  4. 4 United States 315 works
  5. 5 South Korea 240 works
  6. 6 Egypt 175 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 165 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 161 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 116 works
  10. 10 Italy 115 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: 59.6%India: 18.7%Iran: 4.6%United States: 4.2%6 others listed: 12.9%60%largest
China4,490 · 59.6%India1,405 · 18.7%Iran345 · 4.6%United States315 · 4.2%6 others listed973 · 12.9%

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

Which institutions lead Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research, followed by Jilin University and Zhengzhou University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 184 works
  2. 2 Jilin UniversityChina 73 works
  3. 3 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 64 works
  4. 4 Jiangnan UniversityChina 52 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 48 works
  6. 6 Shanxi UniversityChina 43 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 41 works
  8. 8 Southwest UniversityChina 41 works
  9. 9 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 40 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  5. 5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  8. 8 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications?

The most cited paper in Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications is "Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics" (Xavier Michalet, Fabien F. Pinaud, Laurent A. Bentolila et al., 2005), with 7,777 citations. Next come "Quantum-Sized Carbon Dots for Bright and Colorful Photoluminescence" (5,116) and "Carbon quantum dots and their applications" (4,971).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics Xavier Michalet, Fabien F. Pinaud, Laurent A. Bentolila et al. · Science Open access 27 Jan 2005 7,777
2 Quantum-Sized Carbon Dots for Bright and Colorful Photoluminescence Ya‐Ping Sun, Bing Qin Zhou, Yi Lin et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 23 May 2006 5,116
3 Carbon quantum dots and their applications Shi Ying Lim, Wei Shen, Zhiqiang Gao · Chemical Society Reviews Review 15 Oct 2014 4,971
4 Luminescent Carbon Nanodots: Emergent Nanolights Sheila N. Baker, Gary A. Baker · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 4 Aug 2010 4,933
5 Renal clearance of quantum dots Hak Soo Choi, Wenhao Liu, Preeti G. Misra et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 23 Sep 2007 4,465
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Where is Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research done?

The largest centres of Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kottayam and Surat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 473 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 215 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 185 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 164 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 156 works
  6. 6 TaiyuanChina 136 works
  7. 7 ChangchunChina 134 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 133 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 128 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 118 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KottayamIN · 22.3 works17×
  2. SuratIN · 25.7 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Kyung Hee University, Zhengzhou University and University of Macau 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 20.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Sulaim…Kyung Hee UniversityUniversity of MacauZhengzhou 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.

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
1Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea 81.034.9%9.8×32 +488.1%
2Zhengzhou UniversityChina 73.723.2%6.7×64 +43.9%
3University of MacauChina 70.629.3%6.5×17 +104.4%
4University of SulaimaniIraq 64.335.1%9.3×10 +99.6%
5Jilin UniversityChina 61.913.9%8.0×73 -2.5%
6King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.713.3%4.9×38 +221.4%
7South China Agricultural UniversityChina 59.115.4%10.8×30 +43.8%
8Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 58.719.9%7.9×14 +58.7%
9Jiangnan UniversityChina 58.29.0%11.1×52 +73.3%
10Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 58.211.0%10.9×39 +104.3%

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 Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications, country by country

Is Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications.

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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 Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications 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%Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications9.7% in 202520102020

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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