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Engineering and Materials Science Studies

Engineering and Materials Science Studies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to advanced lightweight materials and engineering applications, including the development of composite structures, ultrasonic testing techniques, thermoplastic composites, additive manufacturing, structural analysis, hot-dip galvanization, machine elements, and the use of renewable resources in material design.

  • Lightweight Materials
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Composite Structures
  • Ultrasonic Testing
  • Thermoplastic Composites
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Structural Analysis
  • Hot-Dip Galvanization
  • Machine Elements
  • Renewable Resources
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Engineering and Materials Science Studies

Which countries lead Engineering and Materials Science Studies research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 106 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 106 works
  3. 3 China 76 works
  4. 4 Austria 64 works
  5. 5 Switzerland 60 works
  6. 6 Russia 39 works
  7. 7 India 31 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 31 works
  9. 9 Italy 26 works
  10. 10 Japan 21 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.

Germany: 76.0%United States: 5.6%China: 4.0%Austria: 3.4%6 others listed: 11.0%76%largest
Germany1,441 · 76.0%United States106 · 5.6%China76 · 4.0%Austria64 · 3.4%6 others listed209 · 11.0%

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

Which institutions lead Engineering and Materials Science Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, RWTH Aachen University publishes the most Engineering and Materials Science Studies research, followed by University of Stuttgart and Reutlingen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 59 works
  2. 2 University of StuttgartGermany 59 works
  3. 3 Reutlingen UniversityGermany 51 works
  4. 4 Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 38 works
  5. 5 FH MünsterGermany 37 works
  6. 6 Technical University of MunichGermany 36 works
  7. 7 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany 35 works
  8. 8 Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied SciencesGermany 35 works
  9. 9 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 31 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Engineering and Materials Science Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Engineering and Materials Science Studies include A. Meyer, Marko Sarstedt and Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  4. 4 A. Stahl Germany 170k citations
  5. 5 O. Schneider Switzerland 141k citations
  6. 6 Martin Erdmann Germany 135k 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 Engineering and Materials Science Studies?

The most cited paper in Engineering and Materials Science Studies is "Theory of Stress Concentration for Shear-Strained Prismatical Bodies With Arbitrary Nonlinear Stress-Strain Law" (H. Neuber, 1961), with 1,556 citations. Next come "Allgemeine Kontinuumstheorie der Versetzungen und Eigenspannungen" (1,230) and "Manufacturing of Lightweight Components by Metal Forming" (601).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theory of Stress Concentration for Shear-Strained Prismatical Bodies With Arbitrary Nonlinear Stress-Strain Law H. Neuber · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1961 1,556
2 Allgemeine Kontinuumstheorie der Versetzungen und Eigenspannungen Ekkehart Kröner · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 1959 1,230
3 Manufacturing of Lightweight Components by Metal Forming Matthias Kleiner, Maxwell Geiger, Alexander A. Klaus · CIRP Annals 2003 601
4 Bariumtitanat als sperrschichthalbleiter Walter Heywang · Solid-State Electronics Jul 1961 516
5 Aluminium in Innovative Light-Weight Car Design Jürgen Hirsch · MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS Open access 2011 509
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Engineering and Materials Science Studies research done?

The largest centres of Engineering and Materials Science Studies research in 2022-now are Stuttgart (Germany), Aachen (Germany), Munich (Germany) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Reutlingen and Hamm.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 StuttgartGermany 110 works
  2. 2 AachenGermany 91 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 77 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 67 works
  5. 5 ReutlingenGermany 51 works
  6. 6 DarmstadtGermany 48 works
  7. 7 MünsterGermany 48 works
  8. 8 HamburgGermany 45 works
  9. 9 MagdeburgGermany 43 works
  10. 10 HanoverGermany 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ReutlingenDE · 50.7 works668×
  2. HammDE · 35.9 works397×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engineering and Materials Science Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Engineering and Materials Science Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, Chemnitz University of Technology and Technical University of Munich 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%10%20%mean 11.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chemnitz University …Technical University…RWTH Aachen UniversityTechnische Universit…
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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
1RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 80.212.7%43.4×59 +30.7%
2Chemnitz University of TechnologyGermany 72.520.8%65.7×14 +30.7%
3Technical University of MunichGermany 64.319.3%23.2×36 -23.6%
4Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 59.86.1%68.0×38 +19.8%
5Technische Universität DresdenGermany 56.911.2%25.7×25 -19.6%
6University of StuttgartGermany 53.58.8%97.2×59 -19.4%
7Universität HamburgGermany 52.317.1%11.2×14 -46.5%
8Reutlingen UniversityGermany 51.54.3%880.7×51 +32.2%
9University of KaiserslauternGermany 47.411.1%73.9×13 +30.9%
10FH MünsterGermany 46.73.4%548.8×37 +207.7%

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 Engineering and Materials Science Studies, country by country

Is Engineering and Materials Science Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% 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 Engineering and Materials Science Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0079% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Engineering and Materials Science Studies0.0084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Engineering and Materials Science Studies 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%Engineering and Materials Science Studies9.4% 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.

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