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Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies

Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 42k 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 advancements in desulfurization technologies for producing ultra-clean gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. It covers topics such as catalytic hydrodeoxygenation, oxidative desulfurization, use of ionic liquids, bio-oils upgrading, and the development of novel heterogeneous catalysts.

  • Desulfurization
  • Hydrodeoxygenation
  • Catalytic
  • Ultra-clean fuels
  • Ionic liquids
  • Bio-oils upgrading
  • Heterogeneous catalysts
  • Oxidative processes
  • Metal phosphides
  • Adsorptive selectivity
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies

Which countries lead Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.9k and 605 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 India 605 works
  3. 3 United States 466 works
  4. 4 Russia 373 works
  5. 5 Iran 256 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 245 works
  7. 7 South Korea 225 works
  8. 8 Japan 192 works
  9. 9 France 179 works
  10. 10 Spain 172 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: 59.0%India: 9.1%United States: 7.0%Russia: 5.6%6 others listed: 19.2%59%largest
China3,908 · 59.0%India605 · 9.1%United States466 · 7.0%Russia373 · 5.6%6 others listed1,268 · 19.2%

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

Which institutions lead Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 287 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 183 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 99 works
  4. 4 Tianjin UniversityChina 83 works
  5. 5 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 79 works
  6. 6 Sinopec (China)China 72 works
  7. 7 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 69 works
  8. 8 Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 66 works
  9. 9 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 61 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies include Michaël Grätzel, Georg Kresse and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  9. 9 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  10. 10 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k 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 Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies?

The most cited paper in Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies is "Synthesis of Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Chemistry, Catalysts, and Engineering" (George W. Huber, Sara Iborra, Avelino Corma, 2006), with 7,671 citations. Next come "Review of fast pyrolysis of biomass and product upgrading" (4,808) and "The Catalytic Valorization of Lignin for the Production of Renewable Chemicals" (4,459).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Synthesis of Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Chemistry, Catalysts, and Engineering George W. Huber, Sara Iborra, Avelino Corma · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 27 Jun 2006 7,671
2 Review of fast pyrolysis of biomass and product upgrading A.V. Bridgwater · Biomass and Bioenergy 7 Mar 2011 4,808
3 The Catalytic Valorization of Lignin for the Production of Renewable Chemicals Joseph Zakzeski, Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx, Anna L. Jongerius et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 10 Mar 2010 4,459
4 Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution Jeff Greeley, Thomas Francisco Jaramillo, Jacob Bonde et al. · Nature Materials 15 Oct 2006 4,126
5 Size- and support-dependency in the catalysis of gold Masatake Haruta · Catalysis Today Apr 1997 4,121
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Where is Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research done?

The largest centres of Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Tianjin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Novosibirsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 655 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 216 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 201 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 183 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 146 works
  6. 6 QingdaoChina 144 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 136 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 134 works
  9. 9 DalianChina 131 works
  10. 10 TaiyuanChina 126 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NovosibirskRU · 84.3 works8.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, National Institute Of Technology Silchar, Jiangsu University and Saveetha 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 18.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National Institute O…Saveetha UniversityJiangsu UniversityTianjin 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
1National Institute Of Technology SilcharIndia 71.738.6%14.2×18 +515.8%
2Jiangsu UniversityChina 64.819.2%7.9×49 +35.6%
3Saveetha UniversityIndia 61.732.2%2.2×17 +716.6%
4Tianjin UniversityChina 59.310.4%8.7×83 +5.7%
5King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 59.221.6%9.6×26 +15.4%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59.015.0%4.4×56 +12.4%
7China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 58.29.8%25.7×79 +16.5%
8East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.98.1%17.8×69 +48.7%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.212.8%2.7×57 +43.1%
10Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 57.214.0%10.4×37 +133.2%

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 Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies, country by country

Is Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies.

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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 Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies 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%Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies9.9% 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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