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Coal and Coke Industries Research

Coal and Coke Industries Research is a research topic within Fuel Technology. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the quantitative analysis and future development of China's coal industry, including topics such as oxidative desulphurisation, coke production, neural network applications, coking conditions, coal quality parameters, and sulfur content. It also discusses the influence of mineral components of coal on coke quality and the prediction of coke yield based on coal characteristics.

  • Coal Industry
  • Oxidative Desulphurisation
  • Coke Production
  • Neural Networks
  • Coking Conditions
  • Coal Quality
  • Coke Yield Prediction
  • Coke Quality Parameters
  • Mineral Components
  • Sulfur Content
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Coal and Coke Industries Research research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (751 and 383 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 751 works
  2. 2 China 383 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 144 works
  4. 4 United States 106 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 61 works
  6. 6 Poland 43 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 42 works
  8. 8 India 36 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 33 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan 16 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.

Russia: 46.5%China: 23.7%Ukraine: 8.9%United States: 6.6%6 others listed: 14.3%46%largest
Russia751 · 46.5%China383 · 23.7%Ukraine144 · 8.9%United States106 · 6.6%6 others listed232 · 14.3%

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

Which institutions lead Coal and Coke Industries Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Coal and Coke Industries Research research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Who are the leading researchers in Coal and Coke Industries Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coal and Coke Industries Research include M. Titov, Richard J. Davidson and Hao Chen.

  1. 1 M. Titov France 153k citations
  2. 2 Richard J. Davidson United States 125k citations
  3. 3 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Coal and Coke Industries Research?

The most cited paper in Coal and Coke Industries Research is "Volatile Fatty Acid Analyses of Blood and Rumen Fluid by Gas Chromatography" (Erica Erwin, Gino J. Marco, E. M. Emery, 1961), with 1,904 citations. Next come "Stach's Textbook of Coal Petrology" (1,282) and "FTIR study of the evolution of coal structure during the coalification process" (927).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Volatile Fatty Acid Analyses of Blood and Rumen Fluid by Gas Chromatography Erica Erwin, Gino J. Marco, E. M. Emery · Journal of Dairy Science Open access Sep 1961 1,904
2 Stach's Textbook of Coal Petrology Peter Albertus Hacquebard · Geoscience Canada Sep 1976 1,282
3 FTIR study of the evolution of coal structure during the coalification process JoséV. Ibarra, Edgar Muñoz, R. Moliner · Organic Geochemistry Jun 1996 927
4 The molecular representations of coal – A review Jonathan P. Mathews, Alan Loyd Chaffee · Fuel 30 Dec 2011 758
5 Coal devolatilization at high temperatures H. Kobayashi, Jack B. Howard, Adel F. Sarofim · Symposium (International) on Combustion Conference paper 1977 710
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Coal and Coke Industries Research research done?

The largest centres of Coal and Coke Industries Research research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Yekaterinburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kemerovo and Irkutsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 227 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 78 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 44 works
  4. 4 YekaterinburgRussia 44 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 42 works
  6. 6 KemerovoRussia 38 works
  7. 7 KharkivUkraine 38 works
  8. 8 IrkutskRussia 37 works
  9. 9 XuzhouChina 36 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KemerovoRU · 38.5 works162×
  2. IrkutskRU · 36.7 works58×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Coal and Coke Industries Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Coal and Coke Industries Research?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Mining and Technology, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Taiyuan University of Technology score highest, combining citation 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 21.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liaoning Technical U…Xi'an University of …Taiyuan University o…China University of …
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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.

Citation 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
1China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 86.531.6%29.1×36 +17.8%
2Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 67.237.5%33.9×12 +339.6%
3Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 66.735.3%21.9×14 +190.8%
4Liaoning Technical UniversityChina 60.837.8%31.0×8 +603.2%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 48.28.0%9.5×20 +19.8%
6Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 47.925.9%135.6×12 -44.1%
7National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 41.411.2%91.2×15 +4.3%
8National University of Science and TechnologyZimbabwe 39.47.2%96.2×9 +18.8%
9Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 34.812.7%103.0×9 -8.4%
10Kemerovo State UniversityRussia 31.56.1%82.7×11 +21.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Coal and Coke Industries Research, country by country

Is Coal and Coke Industries Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Coal and Coke Industries Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0082% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Coal and Coke Industries Research0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Coal and Coke Industries Research 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%Coal and Coke Industries Research10.8% 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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