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Energetic Materials and Combustion

Energetic Materials and Combustion is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development, characterization, and applications of energetic materials, including energetic salts, nanoenergetic materials, high-energy density materials, and metal nanoparticles. It also covers the use of reactive force fields such as ReaxFF and molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior and properties of these materials.

  • ReaxFF
  • Energetic Salts
  • Nanoenergetic Materials
  • High-Energy Density Materials
  • Metal Nanoparticles
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Crystal Packing
  • Thermal Decomposition
  • High-Performance Explosives
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Energetic Materials and Combustion

Which countries lead Energetic Materials and Combustion research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3k and 753 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 United States 753 works
  3. 3 Russia 380 works
  4. 4 India 373 works
  5. 5 Germany 121 works
  6. 6 France 111 works
  7. 7 Poland 99 works
  8. 8 Japan 99 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 91 works
  10. 10 Italy 78 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: 58.7%United States: 14.8%Russia: 7.4%India: 7.3%6 others listed: 11.7%59%largest
China2,996 · 58.7%United States753 · 14.8%Russia380 · 7.4%India373 · 7.3%6 others listed599 · 11.7%

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

Which institutions lead Energetic Materials and Combustion research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing University of Science and Technology publishes the most Energetic Materials and Combustion research, followed by Beijing Institute of Technology and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 415 works
  2. 2 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 332 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 212 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 125 works
  5. 5 North University of ChinaChina 123 works
  6. 6 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 121 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 108 works
  8. 8 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 54 works
  9. 9 Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 53 works
  10. 10 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Energetic Materials and Combustion?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Energetic Materials and Combustion include Yury G. Gogotsi, Wei Huang and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  7. 7 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Energetic Materials and Combustion?

The most cited paper in Energetic Materials and Combustion is "ICTAC Kinetics Committee recommendations for performing kinetic computations on thermal analysis data" (Sergey Vyazovkin, Alan K. Burnham, José Manuel Criado et al., 2011), with 5,944 citations. Next come "Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) as an Aromaticity Criterion" (3,864) and "CALYPSO: A method for crystal structure prediction" (2,911).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ICTAC Kinetics Committee recommendations for performing kinetic computations on thermal analysis data Sergey Vyazovkin, Alan K. Burnham, José Manuel Criado et al. · Thermochimica Acta Open access 9 May 2011 5,944
2 Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts (NICS) as an Aromaticity Criterion Zhongfang Chen, Chaitanya S. Wannere, Clémence Corminbœuf et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 29 Sep 2005 3,864
3 CALYPSO: A method for crystal structure prediction Yanchao Wang, Jian Yi Lv, Li Zhu et al. · Computer Physics Communications Open access 15 May 2012 2,911
4 Solid-State Kinetic Models: Basics and Mathematical Fundamentals Ammar Khawam, Douglas R. Flanagan · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 15 Aug 2006 2,021
5 The determination of activation energy from linear heating rate experiments: a comparison of the accuracy of isoconversion methods Marco Jan Starink · Thermochimica Acta 25 Apr 2003 1,945
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Energetic Materials and Combustion research done?

The largest centres of Energetic Materials and Combustion research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Mianyang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chernogolovka, Bothell and Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 707 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 527 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 315 works
  4. 4 MianyangChina 179 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 143 works
  6. 6 TaiyuanChina 139 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 85 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 81 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 68 works
  10. 10 Los AlamosUnited States 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChernogolovkaRU · 44.6 works79×
  2. BothellUS · 20.8 works79×
  3. MianyangCN · 179.0 works56×
  4. Los AlamosUS · 65.2 works43×
  5. LivermoreUS · 44.3 works31×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Energetic Materials and Combustion than the world average.

See Energetic Materials and Combustion on the map

Where is the best place to study Energetic Materials and Combustion?

Among universities, judged by research, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Polytechnic School of Algiers and University of Idaho 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%60%mean 27.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Indian Institute of …University of IdahoPolytechnic School o…Nanjing University o…
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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
1Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 60.949.2%6.5×15 +239.4%
2Polytechnic School of AlgiersAlgeria 60.526.1%98.3×25 +84.3%
3University of IdahoUnited States 60.037.6%19.3×11 -1.7%
4Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.99.2%100.3×415 +72.2%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 59.812.3%55.4×332 +49.4%
6Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 58.620.5%21.6×124 +112.4%
7Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndia 53.127.5%12.7×21 +423.2%
8Dalian UniversityChina 53.029.6%11.8×14 +222.5%
9National Institute of Technology KurukshetraIndia 48.633.9%22.5×12 +71.4%
10Chongqing University of TechnologyChina 47.424.5%16.1×17 +295.1%

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 Energetic Materials and Combustion, country by country

Is Energetic Materials and Combustion research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Energetic Materials and Combustion.

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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 Energetic Materials and Combustion as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Energetic Materials and Combustion0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Energetic Materials and Combustion 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%Energetic Materials and Combustion9.7% 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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