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Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena is a research topic within Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the evidence, candidates, and constraints related to particle dark matter, including cosmic ray measurements, axion cosmology, WIMP detection methods, and implications for cosmology and astrophysics. It covers a wide range of experimental and theoretical approaches to understanding the nature of dark matter in the universe.

  • Dark Matter
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Axions
  • WIMPs
  • Particle Physics
  • Galactic Center
  • Direct Detection
  • Fermi Telescope
  • Cosmology
  • Neutrinos
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Which countries lead Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 663 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 663 works
  3. 3 Italy 474 works
  4. 4 Germany 376 works
  5. 5 India 368 works
  6. 6 Russia 286 works
  7. 7 Japan 282 works
  8. 8 France 272 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 217 works
  10. 10 Spain 196 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: 26.4%China: 15.6%Italy: 11.1%Germany: 8.8%6 others listed: 38.1%26%largest
United States1,126 · 26.4%China663 · 15.6%Italy474 · 11.1%Germany376 · 8.8%6 others listed1,621 · 38.1%

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

Which institutions lead Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 158 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 154 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 128 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 100 works
  5. 5 Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryUnited States 74 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 62 works
  7. 7 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareItaly 60 works
  8. 8 The University of TokyoJapan 57 works
  9. 9 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 50 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena include M. Weber, Xiaogang Wang and P. Jackson.

  1. 1 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 G. Mitselmakher France 223k citations
  8. 8 E. Rossi France 221k citations
  9. 9 L. Li France 211k citations
  10. 10 A. J. Beddall France 211k 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 Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena?

The most cited paper in Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena is "First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters" (David N. Spergel, Licia Verde, Hiranya V. Peiris et al., 2003), with 11,089 citations. Next come "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" (10,856) and "Planck 2015 results" (10,771).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters David N. Spergel, Licia Verde, Hiranya V. Peiris et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 19 Aug 2003 11,089
2 Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC G. Aad et al. · Physics Letters B Open access2,932 authors 14 Aug 2012 10,856
3 Planck 2015 results Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access261 authors 20 Jun 2016 10,771
4 Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC S. Chatrchyan et al. · Physics Letters B Open access2,891 authors 17 Aug 2012 10,126
5 A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White · The Astrophysical Journal Open access Dec 1997 9,998
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Where is Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research done?

The largest centres of Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Batavia, Paterna and Dubna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 236 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 175 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 126 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 97 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 86 works
  6. 6 BataviaUnited States 74 works
  7. 7 HamburgGermany 73 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  9. 9 GenevaSwitzerland 53 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BataviaUS · 74.4 works165×
  2. PaternaES · 29.6 works70×
  3. DubnaRU · 34.5 works67×
  4. Menlo ParkUS · 28.1 works35×
  5. L’AquilaIT · 36.1 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Padua, Stanford University and University of Chicago 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 19.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stockholm UniversityUniversity of ChicagoStanford UniversityUniversity of Padua
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1University of PaduaItaly 71.316.5%10.0×38 +57.9%
2Stanford UniversityUnited States 70.317.6%6.0×43 +2.0%
3University of ChicagoUnited States 69.718.9%7.8×32 +20.6%
4Stockholm UniversitySweden 68.419.7%10.8×18 +27.5%
5Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 66.516.2%9.7×26 +18.5%
6Universitat de ValènciaSpain 65.812.5%18.8×50 +10.8%
7New York UniversityUnited States 65.526.5%3.0×16 +49.8%
8Stony Brook UniversityUnited States 64.528.6%7.2×11 +43.7%
9University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 64.319.6%3.2×21 +39.3%
10California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 64.015.0%13.0×22 +75.1%

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 Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, country by country

Is Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena.

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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 Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena 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%Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena10.4% 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.

Questions people ask

Who studies dark matter?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.1k and 663 works in 2022-now).

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