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Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research

Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to diamond nanotechnology, including quantum sensing using nitrogen-vacancy centers, applications in biomedical and quantum computing, Raman spectroscopy of diamond-like materials, and the synthesis and characterization of nanodiamonds. The research also explores the potential for nanoscale imaging, magnetometry, thermometry, and photonics using diamond-based materials.

  • Nanodiamonds
  • Quantum Sensing
  • Raman Spectroscopy
  • Quantum Computing
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Spin Qubits
  • Fluorescent Nanodiamonds
  • Magnetic Sensing
  • Room-Temperature Quantum Memory
  • Diamond Thin Films
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research

Which countries lead Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 841 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 841 works
  3. 3 Russia 576 works
  4. 4 Japan 501 works
  5. 5 India 418 works
  6. 6 Germany 389 works
  7. 7 France 239 works
  8. 8 South Korea 188 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 181 works
  10. 10 Italy 139 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: 46.9%United States: 12.9%Russia: 8.8%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 23.8%47%largest
China3,063 · 46.9%United States841 · 12.9%Russia576 · 8.8%Japan501 · 7.7%6 others listed1,553 · 23.8%

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

Which institutions lead Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 284 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 261 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 120 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 80 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 78 works
  6. 6 Jilin UniversityChina 56 works
  7. 7 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 54 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 51 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 49 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  9. 9 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research?

The most cited paper in Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research is "Interpretation of Raman spectra of disordered and amorphous carbon" (Andrea Carlo Ferrari, John D. Robertson, 2000), with 15,691 citations. Next come "Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers" (15,107) and "Measurement of hardness and elastic modulus by instrumented indentation: Advances in understanding and refinements to methodology" (8,017).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Interpretation of Raman spectra of disordered and amorphous carbon Andrea Carlo Ferrari, John D. Robertson · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 May 2000 15,691
2 Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Jannik C. Meyer, Vittorio Scardaci et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 30 Oct 2006 15,107
3 Measurement of hardness and elastic modulus by instrumented indentation: Advances in understanding and refinements to methodology W. C. Oliver, George M. Pharr · Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources 2004 8,017
4 Raman spectroscopy of graphene and graphite: Disorder, electron–phonon coupling, doping and nonadiabatic effects Andrea Carlo Ferrari · Solid State Communications 30 Apr 2007 7,656
5 Raman spectroscopy as a versatile tool for studying the properties of graphene Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Denis M. Basko · Nature Nanotechnology Open access Apr 2013 7,404
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research done?

The largest centres of Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk and Livermore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 525 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 225 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 220 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 170 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 119 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 117 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 113 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 107 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 106 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 104 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 50.0 works13×
  2. LivermoreUS · 22.0 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Southern University of Science and Technology and Dalian University of Technology 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 22.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Southern University …Dalian University of…University of Chines…
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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.

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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 75.831.2%6.6×54 -2.3%
2Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 72.429.6%4.8×18 +42.5%
3Dalian University of TechnologyChina 68.424.9%6.4×43 +56.1%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66.517.6%4.2×49 +14.6%
5Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.313.9%6.9×80 +43.4%
6Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 63.616.6%8.6×33 +43.2%
7Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.622.2%5.7×31 +36.3%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.627.7%2.1×13 +193.0%
9Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 61.320.9%8.4×19 +715.1%
10Yanshan UniversityChina 59.819.2%10.8×27 +22.7%

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 Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research, country by country

Is Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research 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%Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research9.7% 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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