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CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1954. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. It covers topics such as electrocatalysis, catalysts for CO2 reduction, molecular and metallic surfaces, and selective reduction processes.

  • Electrocatalysis
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Catalysts
  • Renewable Fuels
  • Electrochemical Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction
  • Metallic Surfaces
  • Molecular Catalysis
  • Selective Reduction
  • Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+87%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Which countries lead CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5.4k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5.4k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 India 466 works
  4. 4 Germany 391 works
  5. 5 South Korea 320 works
  6. 6 Japan 318 works
  7. 7 France 212 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 187 works
  9. 9 Canada 178 works
  10. 10 Spain 177 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: 62.2%United States: 11.8%India: 5.4%Germany: 4.5%6 others listed: 16.1%62%largest
China5,379 · 62.2%United States1,016 · 11.8%India466 · 5.4%Germany391 · 4.5%6 others listed1,391 · 16.1%

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

Which institutions lead CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 531 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 116 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 105 works
  4. 4 Tianjin UniversityChina 100 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 87 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 81 works
  7. 7 Nankai UniversityChina 79 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 76 works
  9. 9 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 67 works
  10. 10 Fuzhou UniversityChina 66 works

Who are the leading researchers in CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts include Michaël Grätzel, Kostya S. Novoselov and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  9. 9 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts?

The most cited paper in CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts is "Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design" (Zhi Wei Seh, Jakob Kibsgaard, Colin F. Dickens et al., 2017), with 12,130 citations. Next come "Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte" (5,177) and "Transformation of Carbon Dioxide" (3,854).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design Zhi Wei Seh, Jakob Kibsgaard, Colin F. Dickens et al. · Science Open access 12 Jan 2017 12,130
2 Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte Stephanie Anne Nitopi, Erlend Bertheussen, Søren Bertelsen Scott et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 22 May 2019 5,177
3 Transformation of Carbon Dioxide Toshiyasu Sakakura, Jun‐Chul Choi, Hiroyuki Y. Yasuda · Chemical Reviews Review Jun 2007 3,854
4 How copper catalyzes the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels Andrew A. Peterson, Frank Abild‐Pedersen, Felix Studt et al. · Energy & Environmental Science 2010 3,837
5 Recent advances in catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide Wei Wang, Shengping Wang, Xinbin Ma et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2011 3,312
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Where is CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research done?

The largest centres of CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 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 Pudong.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 868 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 353 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 296 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 272 works
  5. 5 HefeiChina 195 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 191 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 187 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 175 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 153 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 140 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PudongCN · 32.5 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong and Tianjin 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 19.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Scienc…Tianjin University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 73.518.4%8.3×87 +96.8%
2City University of Hong KongChina 71.420.7%7.4×37 +368.5%
3Tianjin UniversityChina 69.213.3%9.3×100 +40.9%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 68.619.8%3.8×76 +145.7%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67.713.7%7.3×105 +81.1%
6The University of AdelaideAustralia 67.027.0%4.9×18 +43.6%
7Rice UniversityUnited States 65.929.4%6.3×12 +174.9%
8National University of SingaporeSingapore 65.514.3%5.0×53 +155.0%
9Fuzhou UniversityChina 64.514.2%13.5×66 +159.0%
10Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.520.1%6.4×30 +155.9%

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 CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, country by country

Is CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 87% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts.

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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 CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts0.046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 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%CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts9.7% 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.

Questions people ask

Who leads research on turning CO2 into fuels?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5.4k and 1k works in 2022-now).

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