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Covalent Organic Framework Applications

Covalent Organic Framework Applications is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1954. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design, synthesis, and applications of porous, crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for energy storage, clean energy applications, catalysis, membrane separations, and chemical stability. These organic frameworks show potential in areas such as hydrogen storage, methane storage, carbon dioxide capture, and heterogeneous catalysis.

  • Porous
  • Crystalline
  • Organic Frameworks
  • Covalent
  • Hydrogen Storage
  • Methane Storage
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture
  • Catalysis
  • Membrane Separations
  • Chemical Stability
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+50%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
73% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Covalent Organic Framework Applications

Which countries lead Covalent Organic Framework Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (8k and 732 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8k works
  2. 2 India 732 works
  3. 3 United States 585 works
  4. 4 South Korea 317 works
  5. 5 Iran 280 works
  6. 6 Japan 272 works
  7. 7 Germany 214 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 178 works
  9. 9 France 170 works
  10. 10 Spain 161 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: 73.4%India: 6.7%United States: 5.4%South Korea: 2.9%6 others listed: 11.7%73%largest
China8,012 · 73.4%India732 · 6.7%United States585 · 5.4%South Korea317 · 2.9%6 others listed1,276 · 11.7%

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

Which institutions lead Covalent Organic Framework Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Covalent Organic Framework Applications research, followed by Jilin University and Fuzhou University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 493 works
  2. 2 Jilin UniversityChina 139 works
  3. 3 Fuzhou UniversityChina 117 works
  4. 4 Tianjin UniversityChina 101 works
  5. 5 Sichuan UniversityChina 100 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 94 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 94 works
  8. 8 Nankai UniversityChina 93 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 87 works
  10. 10 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 85 works

Who are the leading researchers in Covalent Organic Framework Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Covalent Organic Framework Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Covalent Organic Framework Applications?

The most cited paper in Covalent Organic Framework Applications is "Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores" (Dongyuan Zhao, Jianglin Feng, Qisheng Huo et al., 1998), with 11,736 citations. Next come "Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks" (8,365) and "Systematic Design of Pore Size and Functionality in Isoreticular MOFs and Their Application in Methane Storage" (8,131).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores Dongyuan Zhao, Jianglin Feng, Qisheng Huo et al. · Science 23 Jan 1998 11,736
2 Porous, Crystalline, Covalent Organic Frameworks Adrien P. Côté, Annabelle I. Benin, Nathan W. Ockwig et al. · Science 18 Nov 2005 8,365
3 Systematic Design of Pore Size and Functionality in Isoreticular MOFs and Their Application in Methane Storage Mohamed Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, Nathaniel L. Rosi et al. · Science 18 Jan 2002 8,131
4 Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks Kenji Sumida, David L. Rogow, Jarad A. Mason et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 28 Dec 2011 6,422
5 Metal–Organic Frameworks for Separations Jian‐Rong Li, Julian P. Sculley, Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou · Chemical Reviews Review 6 Oct 2011 6,331
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Where is Covalent Organic Framework Applications research done?

The largest centres of Covalent Organic Framework Applications 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 Changchun, Siping and Qiqihar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 459 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 389 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 352 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 296 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 295 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 256 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 253 works
  9. 9 FuzhouChina 232 works
  10. 10 ChangchunChina 228 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Changchun38.2 works35×
  2. SipingCN · 24.3 works35×
  3. QiqiharCN · 25.1 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Covalent Organic Framework Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Covalent Organic Framework Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and Fuzhou 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 18.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…South China Normal U…National University …Fuzhou University
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 75.325.8%5.3×33 +205.3%
2National University of SingaporeSingapore 71.019.2%4.7×60 +31.8%
3Fuzhou UniversityChina 69.313.0%19.6×117 +52.3%
4South China Normal UniversityChina 66.522.9%10.4×39 +165.7%
5Jilin UniversityChina 66.112.0%11.1×139 +41.6%
6Nankai UniversityChina 65.313.8%12.6×93 +62.2%
7University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.416.1%5.5×71 +60.8%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64.214.5%5.3×94 +43.5%
9University of North TexasUnited States 63.928.9%4.5×12 +124.4%
10King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 63.821.1%10.4×31 -3.3%

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 Covalent Organic Framework Applications, country by country

Is Covalent Organic Framework Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Covalent Organic Framework 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 Covalent Organic Framework Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.052% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Covalent Organic Framework Applications0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Covalent Organic Framework 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%Covalent Organic Framework Applications9.6% 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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