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Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions

Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions is a research topic within Geochemistry and Petrology. Science Explorer counts 5.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores piezonuclear reactions, including neutron emissions from brittle rocks, laboratory experiments on piezonuclear fission reactions, and their potential connection to the Shroud of Turin. It also covers topics such as deep learning-based pill recognition systems, low energy nuclear reactions, and deuterium gas permeation effects on elemental analysis.

  • Piezonuclear Reactions
  • Neutron Emissions
  • Shroud of Turin
  • Deep Learning
  • Nuclear Fusion
  • Correlated States
  • Pill Recognition
  • Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
  • Deuterium Permeation
  • Electromagnetic Emissions
Research works
5.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
532
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions

Which countries lead Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (191 and 80 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 191 works
  2. 2 China 80 works
  3. 3 Russia 55 works
  4. 4 India 48 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 46 works
  6. 6 Japan 36 works
  7. 7 Germany 35 works
  8. 8 Italy 35 works
  9. 9 France 28 works
  10. 10 Poland 17 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.

United States: 33.5%China: 13.9%Russia: 9.7%India: 8.4%6 others listed: 34.6%33%largest
United States191 · 33.5%China80 · 13.9%Russia55 · 9.7%India48 · 8.4%6 others listed198 · 34.6%

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

Which institutions lead Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 11 works
  4. 4 Oldham CouncilUnited Kingdom 10 works
  5. 5 George Enescu University of Arts of IașiRomania 8 works
  6. 6 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 8 works
  7. 7 Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 7 works
  8. 8 Marine Corps UniversityUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 7 works
  10. 10 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions include Donald G. Truhlar and Stephen M. Gibson.

  1. 1 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  2. 2 Stephen M. Gibson France 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 Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions?

The most cited paper in Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions is "Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction" (Clare F. Macrae, Ioana Şovago, Simon J. Cottrell et al., 2019), with 5,106 citations. Next come "Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research" (3,406) and "Sonochemistry" (2,896).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction Clare F. Macrae, Ioana Şovago, Simon J. Cottrell et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography Open access 25 Nov 2019 5,106
2 Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Stephen M. Gibson, Tadashi Sekiguchi, Karl Lackner et al. · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) 1987 3,406
3 Sonochemistry Kenneth Sanders Suslick · Science 23 Mar 1990 2,896
4 Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications John H. Nuckolls, Lowell T. Wood, A.R. Thiessen et al. · Nature Sep 1972 1,948
5 Electrochemically induced nuclear fusion of deuterium M. Fleischmann, Stanley Pons · Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Apr 1989 1,292
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Where is Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research done?

The largest centres of Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Oldham (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 30 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 23 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 12 works
  4. 4 OldhamUnited Kingdom 10 works
  5. 5 Los AlamosUnited States 9 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 9 works
  7. 7 IașiRomania 8 works
  8. 8 Quantico StationUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 BukharaUzbekistan 7 works
  10. 10 LivermoreUnited States 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 29.8 works3.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions than the world average.

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Is Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions.

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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 Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions 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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