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Catalysis for Biomass Conversion

Catalysis for Biomass Conversion is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the catalytic conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals, utilizing renewable resources and green chemistry principles. The research covers a wide range of topics including the production of platform chemicals, liquid fuels, and value-added products using heterogeneous catalysts, hydrogenolysis, and ionic liquids.

  • Biomass
  • Catalytic Conversion
  • Renewable Resources
  • Platform Chemicals
  • Green Chemistry
  • Liquid Fuels
  • Heterogeneous Catalysts
  • Hydrogenolysis
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Value-Added Products
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Catalysis for Biomass Conversion

Which countries lead Catalysis for Biomass Conversion research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.6k and 694 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.6k works
  2. 2 India 694 works
  3. 3 United States 434 works
  4. 4 Brazil 230 works
  5. 5 Spain 229 works
  6. 6 Germany 206 works
  7. 7 Japan 202 works
  8. 8 France 196 works
  9. 9 South Korea 190 works
  10. 10 Russia 178 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: 58.8%India: 11.2%United States: 7.0%Brazil: 3.7%6 others listed: 19.4%59%largest
China3,646 · 58.8%India694 · 11.2%United States434 · 7.0%Brazil230 · 3.7%6 others listed1,201 · 19.4%

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

Which institutions lead Catalysis for Biomass Conversion research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 308 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 100 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 96 works
  4. 4 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 92 works
  5. 5 Tianjin UniversityChina 75 works
  6. 6 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 62 works
  7. 7 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 61 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60 works
  9. 9 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 57 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Catalysis for Biomass Conversion?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Catalysis for Biomass Conversion include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Donald G. Truhlar.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  6. 6 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  7. 7 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  10. 10 Kläus Müllen Germany 182k 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 for Biomass Conversion?

The most cited paper in Catalysis for Biomass Conversion 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 "Features of promising technologies for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass" (6,242) and "Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review" (6,062).

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 Features of promising technologies for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass Nathan S. Mosier · Bioresource Technology 30 Sep 2004 6,242
3 Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review Ye Sun, Jay Jiayang Cheng · Bioresource Technology May 2002 6,062
4 Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals Avelino Corma, Sara Iborra, Alexandra Velty · Chemical Reviews Review 30 May 2007 5,939
5 Review of fast pyrolysis of biomass and product upgrading A.V. Bridgwater · Biomass and Bioenergy 7 Mar 2011 4,808
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Catalysis for Biomass Conversion research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 567 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 270 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 198 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 194 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 165 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 144 works
  7. 7 DalianChina 143 works
  8. 8 QingdaoChina 107 works
  9. 9 TaiyuanChina 95 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 90 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChangzhouCN · 44.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Catalysis for Biomass Conversion than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Catalysis for Biomass Conversion?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, Beijing Forestry University and National Institute Of Technology Silchar 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 19.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National Institute O…Hubei UniversityBeijing Forestry Uni…Nanjing Forestry Uni…
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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
1Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 71.315.4%28.4×92 +81.7%
2Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 67.323.5%16.3×33 +68.3%
3National Institute Of Technology SilcharIndia 61.429.4%7.8×9 +427.2%
4Hubei UniversityChina 61.127.6%10.2×14 +40.3%
5City University of Hong KongChina 61.028.3%2.2×9 +193.0%
6East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.911.0%16.1×57 +33.3%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 58.015.5%9.4×41 +150.4%
8Jiangsu UniversityChina 58.018.4%6.1×35 +80.4%
9Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 57.613.6%9.4×37 +103.4%
10University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 57.314.6%4.2×36 +24.1%

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 Catalysis for Biomass Conversion, country by country

Is Catalysis for Biomass Conversion research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Catalysis for Biomass Conversion.

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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 for Biomass Conversion as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Catalysis for Biomass Conversion 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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