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Crystal Structures and Properties

Crystal Structures and Properties is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in the research of nonlinear optical materials, particularly in the domain of crystallographic computing, deep-ultraviolet materials, second harmonic generation, inorganic crystal structures, chalcogenide clusters, bond valence model, fluorooxoborates, metal chalcogenides, and crystal growth.

  • Nonlinear Optical Materials
  • Crystallographic Computing
  • Deep-Ultraviolet Materials
  • Second Harmonic Generation
  • Inorganic Crystal Structures
  • Chalcogenide Clusters
  • Bond Valence Model
  • Fluorooxoborates
  • Metal Chalcogenides
  • Crystal Growth
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Crystal Structures and Properties

Which countries lead Crystal Structures and Properties research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (1k and 434 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 Russia 434 works
  3. 3 United States 269 works
  4. 4 India 211 works
  5. 5 Germany 153 works
  6. 6 Japan 106 works
  7. 7 France 98 works
  8. 8 Italy 59 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 52 works
  10. 10 Poland 46 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: 41.9%Russia: 17.7%United States: 10.9%India: 8.6%6 others listed: 21.0%42%largest
China1,028 · 41.9%Russia434 · 17.7%United States269 · 10.9%India211 · 8.6%6 others listed515 · 21.0%

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

Which institutions lead Crystal Structures and Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Crystal Structures and Properties research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 248 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 240 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 81 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 53 works
  5. 5 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 43 works
  6. 6 Tianjin University of TechnologyChina 39 works
  7. 7 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 31 works
  8. 8 Yangzhou UniversityChina 31 works
  9. 9 Shandong UniversityChina 27 works
  10. 10 Universität InnsbruckAustria 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Crystal Structures and Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Crystal Structures and Properties include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Crystal Structures and Properties?

The most cited paper in Crystal Structures and Properties is "OLEX2 : a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program" (Oleg V. Dolomanov, Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea et al., 2009), with 32,557 citations. Next come "SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination" (29,598) and "GSAS-II : the genesis of a modern open-source all purpose crystallography software package" (6,218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 OLEX2 : a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program Oleg V. Dolomanov, Luc J. Bourhis, Richard J. Gildea et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography 23 Jan 2009 32,557
2 SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination George M. Sheldrick · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances Open access 23 Dec 2014 29,598
3 GSAS-II : the genesis of a modern open-source all purpose crystallography software package Brian H. Toby, ROBERT B. VON DREELE · Journal of Applied Crystallography 13 Mar 2013 6,218
4 First-principles calculations of the ferroelastic transition between rutile-type and CaCl 2 -type SiO 2 at high pressures Atsushi Togo, Fumiyasu Oba, Isao Tanaka · Physical Review B Open access 14 Oct 2008 5,518
5 Low trap-state density and long carrier diffusion in organolead trihalide perovskite single crystals Dong Shi, Valerio Adinolfi, Riccardo Comin et al. · Science 29 Jan 2015 5,147
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Where is Crystal Structures and Properties research done?

The largest centres of Crystal Structures and Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Fuzhou (China) and Ürümqi (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Apatity, Ürümqi and Yangzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 274 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 150 works
  3. 3 FuzhouChina 79 works
  4. 4 ÜrümqiChina 76 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 58 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 55 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 50 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 50 works
  9. 9 YangzhouChina 33 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ApatityRU · 24.9 works168×
  2. ÜrümqiCN · 76.4 works22×
  3. YangzhouCN · 32.9 works17×
  4. InnsbruckAT · 21.1 works16×
  5. NovosibirskRU · 50.4 works15×
  6. FuzhouCN · 79.0 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Crystal Structures and Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Crystal Structures and Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangzhou University and Tianjin University of Technology 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 29.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yangzhou UniversitySogang UniversityUniversity of Chines…Tianjin University o…
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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
1University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 82.231.3%18.4×81 +17.2%
2Yangzhou UniversityChina 80.341.7%21.2×31 +65.7%
3Tianjin University of TechnologyChina 69.330.6%54.0×39 +134.0%
4Sogang UniversitySouth Korea 67.035.7%77.3×17 +117.3%
5Sichuan Normal UniversityChina 65.542.0%34.8×11 +152.6%
6Hebei UniversityChina 61.933.2%30.7×19 +78.1%
7Beijing Normal UniversityChina 51.937.6%4.0×8 +4.8%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 48.331.3%3.4×21 +91.9%
9Shandong UniversityChina 48.215.1%7.6×27 +20.5%
10Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 46.80.9%19.1×43 -4.5%

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 Crystal Structures and Properties, country by country

Is Crystal Structures and Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006. The fastest-growing topics are Crystal Structures and Properties.

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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 Crystal Structures and Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Crystal Structures and Properties0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Crystal Structures and Properties 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%Crystal Structures and Properties10.0% 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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