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Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 covers a wide range of analytical techniques and scientific methods used in the conservation and analysis of art, archaeological artifacts, and historical materials. The topics include spectroscopic analysis such as Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, and hyperspectral imaging, as well as the application of proteomic analysis and synchrotron radiation in the study of pigments, glass production, and cultural heritage materials.

  • Raman Spectroscopy
  • X-Ray Fluorescence
  • Hyperspectral Imaging
  • Archaeological Science
  • Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
  • Pigment Analysis
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Synchrotron Radiation
  • Proteomic Analysis
  • Glass Production
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Which countries lead Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research?

By volume, China and Italy publish the most (955 and 497 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 955 works
  2. 2 Italy 497 works
  3. 3 United States 389 works
  4. 4 France 336 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 219 works
  6. 6 Spain 216 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 176 works
  8. 8 Russia 166 works
  9. 9 Germany 165 works
  10. 10 India 148 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: 29.2%Italy: 15.2%United States: 11.9%France: 10.3%6 others listed: 33.4%29%largest
China955 · 29.2%Italy497 · 15.2%United States389 · 11.9%France336 · 10.3%6 others listed1,089 · 33.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research, followed by National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 164 works
  2. 2 National Research CouncilItaly 69 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 59 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 35 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina 30 works
  7. 7 State Administration of Cultural HeritageChina 27 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 26 works
  9. 9 Cairo UniversityEgypt 24 works
  10. 10 University of FlorenceItaly 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis include Luc Van Gool.

  1. 1 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k 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 Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis?

The most cited paper in Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis is "Mercury : visualization and analysis of crystal structures" (Clare F. Macrae, Paul R. Edgington, Patrick McCabe et al., 2006), with 7,127 citations. Next come "Introduction to Ceramics" (5,733) and "Surface Studies of Solids by Total Reflection of X-Rays" (5,195).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mercury : visualization and analysis of crystal structures Clare F. Macrae, Paul R. Edgington, Patrick McCabe et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography 10 May 2006 7,127
2 Introduction to Ceramics WILLIAM DAVID KINGERY, H. Kent Bowen, DONALD R. UHLMANN et al. · Journal of The Electrochemical Society Mar 1977 5,733
3 Surface Studies of Solids by Total Reflection of X-Rays L. G. Parratt · Physical Review 15 Jul 1954 5,195
4 Idealized powder diffraction patterns for cellulose polymorphs Alfred Dexter French · Cellulose 24 Aug 2013 3,286
5 Mechanochemistry: opportunities for new and cleaner synthesis Stuart L. James, Christopher J. Adams, Carsten Bolm et al. · Chemical Society Reviews ReviewOpen access 5 Sep 2011 3,075
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Where is Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Rome (Italy) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 273 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 149 works
  3. 3 RomeItaly 105 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 64 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 56 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 54 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 48 works
  9. 9 LisbonPortugal 45 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 45 works
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Where is the best place to study Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, University of Florence and Sapienza University of Rome 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 16.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry Uni…University of FlorenceUniversidad de GranadaSapienza 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
1Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 80.434.3%9.7×19 +84.5%
2University of FlorenceItaly 66.515.5%9.2×24 +16.2%
3Sapienza University of RomeItaly 64.813.0%7.0×35 +22.8%
4Universidad de GranadaSpain 61.615.4%8.7×21 +28.3%
5Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 56.511.7%5.4×16 +44.9%
6University of PaduaItaly 56.417.6%4.4×15 +29.3%
7University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 54.615.4%6.1×21 +140.6%
8Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 54.516.3%13.6×14 +29.0%
9University of MilanItaly 53.59.9%7.0×20 +43.7%
10Shaanxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 51.420.1%9.8×10 +44.4%

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 Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis, country by country

Is Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis.

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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 Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis 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%Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis10.0% 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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