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Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers

Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers is a research topic within Polymers and Plastics. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of dendrimer-encapsulated metal nanoparticles and hyperbranched polymers in various fields such as catalysis, drug delivery, biomedical applications, and molecular imaging. The research also explores the toxicity and biocompatibility of these nanomaterials.

  • Dendrimers
  • Nanoparticles
  • Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Drug Delivery
  • Catalysis
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Synthesis
  • Characterization
  • Toxicity
  • Molecular Imaging
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers

Which countries lead Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (757 and 235 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 757 works
  2. 2 India 235 works
  3. 3 United States 190 works
  4. 4 Iran 97 works
  5. 5 Japan 84 works
  6. 6 Russia 71 works
  7. 7 France 68 works
  8. 8 Germany 60 works
  9. 9 South Korea 48 works
  10. 10 Spain 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: 45.7%India: 14.2%United States: 11.5%Iran: 5.8%6 others listed: 22.8%46%largest
China757 · 45.7%India235 · 14.2%United States190 · 11.5%Iran97 · 5.8%6 others listed377 · 22.8%

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

Which institutions lead Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 38 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 26 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 17 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 16 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 16 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 14 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 13 works
  9. 9 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 11 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers include Yury G. Gogotsi, Róbert Langer and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  8. 8 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  9. 9 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k 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 Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers?

The most cited paper in Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers is "Metal–organic framework materials as catalysts" (Jeong‐Yong Lee, Omar K. Farha, John Michael Roberts et al., 2009), with 7,972 citations. Next come "Porous metal–organic-framework nanoscale carriers as a potential platform for drug delivery and imaging" (4,255) and "A New Class of Polymers: Starburst-Dendritic Macromolecules" (3,896).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metal–organic framework materials as catalysts Jeong‐Yong Lee, Omar K. Farha, John Michael Roberts et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2009 7,972
2 Porous metal–organic-framework nanoscale carriers as a potential platform for drug delivery and imaging Patricia Horcajada, Tamim Chalati, Christian Serre et al. · Nature Materials Open access 13 Dec 2009 4,255
3 A New Class of Polymers: Starburst-Dendritic Macromolecules Donald A. Tomalia, H.M. Baker, James L. Dewald et al. · Polymer Journal 1985 3,896
4 Self-assembly of block copolymers Yiyong Mai, Adi Eisenberg · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2012 3,602
5 Starburst Dendrimers: Molecular‐Level Control of Size, Shape, Surface Chemistry, Topology, and Flexibility from Atoms to Macroscopic Matter Donald A. Tomalia, Adel M. Naylor, William A. Goddard · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English Feb 1990 3,213
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Where is Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research done?

The largest centres of Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tehran.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 82 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 71 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 44 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 41 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 37 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 32 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 31 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 28 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 28 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TehranIR · 40.9 works3.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sun Yat-sen University and Sichuan 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%10%20%mean 14.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Sichuan UniversitySun Yat-sen UniversityIslamic Azad Univers…
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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
1Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 77.919.0%3.0×16 -23.6%
2Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 74.415.9%3.7×14 +45.1%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 68.816.4%3.9×17 -35.5%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 64.315.9%5.2×16 -24.2%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 55.711.4%2.7×14 -15.4%
6Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 50.816.8%5.0×11 -1.4%
7South China University of TechnologyChina 47.519.7%4.8×10 -25.3%
8Donghua UniversityChina 43.816.6%12.0×8 -28.7%
9East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 33.77.6%11.8×11 -14.2%
10Soochow UniversityChina 27.88.7%4.9×9 -24.7%

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 Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers, country by country

Is Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0097% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers 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%Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers10.2% 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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