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Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena

Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1953. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of research on dusty plasmas, including topics such as quantum plasma physics, complex ionized gas systems, nonlinear solitary waves, space plasmas, strongly coupled plasma, electron-acoustic waves, ion-acoustic solitons, and their applications in nuclear fusion research.

  • Dusty Plasmas
  • Quantum Plasma Physics
  • Complex Ionized Gas Systems
  • Plasma Crystal Experiments
  • Nonlinear Solitary Waves
  • Space Plasmas
  • Electron-Acoustic Waves
  • Strongly Coupled Plasma
  • Ion-Acoustic Solitons
  • Nuclear Fusion Research
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena

Which countries lead Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (269 and 249 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 269 works
  2. 2 China 249 works
  3. 3 United States 238 works
  4. 4 Russia 150 works
  5. 5 Pakistan 87 works
  6. 6 Germany 77 works
  7. 7 France 63 works
  8. 8 Iran 47 works
  9. 9 Japan 46 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 38 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.

India: 21.2%China: 19.7%United States: 18.8%Russia: 11.9%6 others listed: 28.3%21%largest
India269 · 21.2%China249 · 19.7%United States238 · 18.8%Russia150 · 11.9%6 others listed358 · 28.3%

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

Which institutions lead Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 83 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 26 works
  4. 4 Department of Atomic EnergyIndia 21 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 16 works
  6. 6 Northwest Normal UniversityChina 15 works
  7. 7 Guru Nanak Dev UniversityIndia 14 works
  8. 8 Princeton UniversityUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Jahangirnagar UniversityBangladesh 13 works
  10. 10 Chittagong University of Engineering & TechnologyBangladesh 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena include M. Shoji, Xiaogang Wang and Kenji Watanabe.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  4. 4 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  5. 5 G. Mitselmakher France 223k citations
  6. 6 M. Costa France 207k citations
  7. 7 Daniel A. Bloch France 190k citations
  8. 8 V. Sharma France 178k citations
  9. 9 Andrei V. Gritsan France 174k citations
  10. 10 A. Stahl Germany 170k 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 Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena?

The most cited paper in Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena is "Dust-acoustic waves in dusty plasmas" (N. Nagesha Rao, P. K. Shukla, M. Y. Yu, 1990), with 2,262 citations. Next come "Plasma Crystal: Coulomb Crystallization in a Dusty Plasma" (1,650) and "Exact Nonlinear Plasma Oscillations" (1,412).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dust-acoustic waves in dusty plasmas N. Nagesha Rao, P. K. Shukla, M. Y. Yu · Planetary and Space Science Apr 1990 2,262
2 Plasma Crystal: Coulomb Crystallization in a Dusty Plasma Hubertus M. Thomas, G. E. Morfill, V. Demmel et al. · Physical Review Letters Aug 1994 1,650
3 Exact Nonlinear Plasma Oscillations Ira B. Bernstein, J. M. Greene, Martin David Kruskal · Physical Review Nov 1957 1,412
4 Principles of Plasma Physics N. A. Krall, A. W. Trivelpiece, Keith R. Symon · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Sep 1974 1,383
5 Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Ulrich Heinz, Raimond Snellings · Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science ReviewOpen access 14 Jun 2013 1,350
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Where is Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena research done?

The largest centres of Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Islamabad (Pakistan) and Kolkata (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gandhinagar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 88 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 47 works
  3. 3 IslamabadPakistan 39 works
  4. 4 KolkataIndia 26 works
  5. 5 LanzhouChina 23 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 23 works
  7. 7 HefeiChina 21 works
  8. 8 GandhinagarIndia 20 works
  9. 9 LahorePakistan 20 works
  10. 10 DhakaBangladesh 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GandhinagarIN · 20.1 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena?

Among universities, judged by research, Princeton University, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and Chittagong University of Engineering & 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 12.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Princess Nourah bint…Chittagong Universit…Princeton UniversityHomi Bhabha National…
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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
1Princeton UniversityUnited States 67.413.8%22.2×14 -31.4%
2Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 65.629.0%22.6×8 -
3Chittagong University of Engineering & TechnologyBangladesh 62.616.1%106.8×12 +158.7%
4Homi Bhabha National InstituteIndia 54.811.0%31.6×11 +113.1%
5Northwest Normal UniversityChina 52.81.5%43.1×15 +76.3%
6Guru Nanak Dev UniversityIndia 50.32.9%85.7×14 -24.4%
7Jahangirnagar UniversityBangladesh 50.28.7%113.7×13 -56.6%
8Visva-Bharati UniversityIndia 47.514.1%82.6×10 +21.6%
9Ruhr University BochumGermany 46.215.4%17.6×10 -21.9%
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 41.111.4%7.8×10 +11.1%

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 Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena, country by country

Is Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena0.0066% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dust and Plasma Wave 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%Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena10.2% 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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