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Conducting polymers and applications

Conducting polymers and applications is a research topic within Polymers and Plastics. Science Explorer counts 116k 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 represents advances in the research and applications of conducting polymers, with a focus on materials such as polyaniline and PEDOT:PSS. The topics covered include nanofiber synthesis, electrochemical sensors, organic electronics, electrochromic materials, nanocomposites, and biomedical applications in areas such as tissue engineering. These papers showcase the wide-ranging potential and growing importance of conducting polymers in various scientific and technological fields.

  • Conducting Polymers
  • Polyaniline
  • PEDOT:PSS
  • Nanofibers
  • Electrochemical Sensors
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Organic Electronics
  • Electrochromic Materials
  • Nanocomposites
  • Tissue Engineering
Research works
116k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
11k
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
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Conducting polymers and applications

Which countries lead Conducting polymers and applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (11k and 2.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 11k works
  2. 2 India 2.8k works
  3. 3 South Korea 1.7k works
  4. 4 United States 1.6k works
  5. 5 Japan 788 works
  6. 6 Germany 543 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 508 works
  8. 8 Iran 504 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 487 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 482 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: 54.5%India: 13.7%South Korea: 8.1%United States: 7.6%6 others listed: 16.1%54%largest
China11k · 54.5%India2,828 · 13.7%South Korea1,668 · 8.1%United States1,564 · 7.6%6 others listed3,312 · 16.1%

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

Which institutions lead Conducting polymers and applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Conducting polymers and applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and South China University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 921 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 220 works
  3. 3 South China University of TechnologyChina 205 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 171 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 146 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 138 works
  7. 7 Donghua UniversityChina 137 works
  8. 8 Tianjin UniversityChina 136 works
  9. 9 Soochow UniversityChina 131 works
  10. 10 Jilin UniversityChina 122 works

Who are the leading researchers in Conducting polymers and applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Conducting polymers and applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  8. 8 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  9. 9 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  10. 10 Wei Huang China 267k 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 Conducting polymers and applications?

The most cited paper in Conducting polymers and applications is "Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers" (J. H. Burroughes, Donal D. C. Bradley, Adam R. C. Brown et al., 1990), with 11,399 citations. Next come "Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites" (10,671) and "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber" (10,415).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers J. H. Burroughes, Donal D. C. Bradley, Adam R. C. Brown et al. · Nature Oct 1990 11,399
2 Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites Michael M. Lee, Joël Teuscher, Tsutomu Miyasaka et al. · Science 5 Oct 2012 10,671
3 Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber Samuel D. Stranks, Giles E. Eperon, Giulia Grancini et al. · Science 17 Oct 2013 10,415
4 Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions Gang Yu, Jun Gao, Jan Cornelis Hummelen et al. · Science Open access 15 Dec 1995 10,356
5 Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites Gero Decher · Science 29 Aug 1997 10,041
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Where is Conducting polymers and applications research done?

The largest centres of Conducting polymers and applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Karaikudi and Changchun.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.8k works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 726 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 714 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 509 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 499 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 468 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 462 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 403 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 384 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 331 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KaraikudiIN · 26.0 works9.9×
  2. Changchun20.7 works9.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Conducting polymers and applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Conducting polymers and applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and Guangxi University 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 21.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Hong Kong Polytechni…Guangxi UniversityUniversity of Chines…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 77.130.2%3.7×73 +20.9%
2City University of Hong KongChina 77.030.7%5.1×67 +49.1%
3Guangxi UniversityChina 73.225.7%7.3×102 +233.1%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 68.621.1%4.5×171 +3.4%
5Donghua UniversityChina 66.116.4%16.2×137 +21.5%
6Sichuan UniversityChina 65.320.1%2.8×146 +61.5%
7South China University of TechnologyChina 65.014.5%8.2×205 +8.7%
8Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.720.9%6.4×78 +14.4%
9Zhengzhou UniversityChina 62.020.1%3.6×100 +18.5%
10King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 61.820.2%7.5×48 -3.8%

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 Conducting polymers and applications, country by country

Is Conducting polymers and applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Conducting polymers and applications.

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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 Conducting polymers and applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.12% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Conducting polymers and applications0.10% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Conducting polymers and applications 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%Conducting polymers and applications9.7% 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.

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