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Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies

Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. 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 development, assessment, and application of various technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide. It covers a wide range of topics including adsorbent materials, amine scrubbing, solid sorbents, negative emissions, and global warming mitigation.

  • Carbon Dioxide Capture
  • CO2 Capture Technology
  • Adsorbent Materials
  • Amine Scrubbing
  • CO2 Separation
  • Solid Sorbents
  • Negative Emissions
  • Flue Gas Treatment
  • Porous Carbons
  • Global Warming Mitigation
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies

Which countries lead Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.9k and 987 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 United States 987 works
  3. 3 India 428 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 351 works
  5. 5 Iran 319 works
  6. 6 South Korea 304 works
  7. 7 Germany 244 works
  8. 8 Canada 223 works
  9. 9 Japan 220 works
  10. 10 France 195 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: 47.0%United States: 16.0%India: 6.9%United Kingdom: 5.7%6 others listed: 24.4%47%largest
China2,897 · 47.0%United States987 · 16.0%India428 · 6.9%United Kingdom351 · 5.7%6 others listed1,506 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research, followed by North China Electric Power University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 146 works
  2. 2 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 78 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 72 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 68 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 64 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 63 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 57 works
  8. 8 Tianjin UniversityChina 54 works
  9. 9 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 47 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 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 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  5. 5 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  6. 6 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  10. 10 Guangming Zeng China 204k 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 Dioxide Capture Technologies?

The most cited paper in Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies is "Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks" (Kenji Sumida, David L. Rogow, Jarad A. Mason et al., 2011), with 6,422 citations. Next come "A New Equation of State for Carbon Dioxide Covering the Fluid Region from the Triple-Point Temperature to 1100 K at Pressures up to 800 MPa" (5,041) and "Seven chemical separations to change the world" (4,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks Kenji Sumida, David L. Rogow, Jarad A. Mason et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 28 Dec 2011 6,422
2 A New Equation of State for Carbon Dioxide Covering the Fluid Region from the Triple-Point Temperature to 1100 K at Pressures up to 800 MPa Roland Span, Wolfgang Wagner · Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data Nov 1996 5,041
3 Seven chemical separations to change the world David S. Sholl, Ryan P. Lively · Nature 22 Apr 2016 4,776
4 Amine Scrubbing for CO 2 Capture Gary Thomas Rochelle · Science 25 Sep 2009 4,448
5 Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward Mai Bui et al. · Energy & Environmental Science Open access 2018 4,386
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Where is Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in South Park Township, Ipoh and Dhahran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 613 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 180 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 147 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 145 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 131 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 128 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 122 works
  8. 8 QingdaoChina 116 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 113 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 109 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. South Park TownshipUS · 29.0 works83×
  2. IpohMY · 37.4 works25×
  3. DhahranSA · 55.0 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, ETH Zurich, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and North China Electric Power 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 18.18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →ETH ZurichKing Fahd University…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…North China Electric…
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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
1ETH ZurichSwitzerland 65.819.7%5.8×31 +38.8%
2King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 64.616.5%15.0×40 +141.3%
3North China Electric Power UniversityChina 61.811.5%15.1×78 +78.6%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 61.513.3%5.0×68 +124.8%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 61.117.3%3.5×63 +36.7%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 60.315.3%3.1×64 +95.5%
7Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 60.123.0%6.2×30 +2.7%
8Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 59.434.7%3.6×9 +219.8%
9Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 59.212.5%5.3×41 +15.9%
10Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran 58.418.0%17.6×37 +32.1%

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 Dioxide Capture Technologies, country by country

Is Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies.

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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 Dioxide Capture Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 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 Dioxide Capture Technologies9.8% 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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