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Fiber-reinforced polymer composites

Fiber-reinforced polymer composites is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 28k 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 recycling technologies, methods, and environmental impact assessment of carbon fiber composites. It covers topics such as heat treatment, interfacial properties, mechanical and thermal behavior, as well as the use of graphene oxide and pyrolysis in the recycling process.

  • Carbon Fiber
  • Recycling
  • Composite Materials
  • Polymer Composites
  • Interfacial Properties
  • Thermal Treatment
  • Graphene Oxide
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Environmental Impact
  • Pyrolysis
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+44%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites

Which countries lead Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 513 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 513 works
  3. 3 India 468 works
  4. 4 Japan 235 works
  5. 5 South Korea 233 works
  6. 6 Germany 216 works
  7. 7 Russia 185 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 165 works
  9. 9 France 159 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 148 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: 51.6%United States: 10.7%India: 9.7%Japan: 4.9%6 others listed: 23.0%52%largest
China2,480 · 51.6%United States513 · 10.7%India468 · 9.7%Japan235 · 4.9%6 others listed1,106 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Donghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 130 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  3. 3 Donghua UniversityChina 69 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 66 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 56 works
  6. 6 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 50 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 45 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 44 works
  9. 9 Shandong UniversityChina 31 works
  10. 10 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fiber-reinforced polymer composites?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fiber-reinforced polymer composites include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 Fiber-reinforced polymer composites?

The most cited paper in Fiber-reinforced polymer composites is "Raman Spectrum of Graphite" (Fokke Tuinstra, Jack L. Koenig, 1970), with 10,728 citations. Next come "Advances in the science and technology of carbon nanotubes and their composites: a review" (5,002) and "Raman Spectra of Graphite Oxide and Functionalized Graphene Sheets" (4,489).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Raman Spectrum of Graphite Fokke Tuinstra, Jack L. Koenig · The Journal of Chemical Physics Aug 1970 10,728
2 Advances in the science and technology of carbon nanotubes and their composites: a review Erik T. Thostenson, Zhifeng Ren, Tsu−Wei Chou · Composites Science and Technology Oct 2001 5,002
3 Raman Spectra of Graphite Oxide and Functionalized Graphene Sheets Konstantin N. Kudin, Bulent Ozbas, Hannes C. Schniepp et al. · Nano Letters 22 Dec 2007 4,489
4 Small but strong: A review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–polymer composites Jonathan N. Coleman, Umar Khan, Werner Josef Blau et al. · Carbon 9 May 2006 4,071
5 Single Sheet Functionalized Graphene by Oxidation and Thermal Expansion of Graphite Michael J. McAllister, Je-Luen Li, Douglas H. Adamson et al. · Chemistry of Materials 25 May 2007 3,558
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research done?

The largest centres of Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oak Ridge.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 412 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 196 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 140 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 103 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 101 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 93 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 82 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 80 works
  9. 9 QingdaoChina 78 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Oak RidgeUS · 22.6 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fiber-reinforced polymer composites than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fiber-reinforced polymer composites?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Harbin Institute of Technology 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 17.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Sichuan UniversityHarbin Institute of …Donghua University
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 73.821.6%8.2×50 +52.0%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 71.216.9%5.1×45 +16.1%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 65.717.9%3.6×44 +46.2%
4Donghua UniversityChina 65.312.3%34.6×69 +42.5%
5Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyChina 64.912.1%23.9×56 +33.7%
6Dalian UniversityChina 63.523.5%11.3×14 +160.4%
7Deakin UniversityAustralia 62.719.2%7.2×17 -15.7%
8Dalian University of TechnologyChina 62.617.0%5.7×29 +121.0%
9Changchun University of Technology 62.318.2%31.7×20 +64.3%
10Saveetha UniversityIndia 61.720.3%2.6×14 +412.7%

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 Fiber-reinforced polymer composites, country by country

Is Fiber-reinforced polymer composites research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fiber-reinforced polymer composites.

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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 Fiber-reinforced polymer composites as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Fiber-reinforced polymer composites0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fiber-reinforced polymer composites 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%Fiber-reinforced polymer composites10.0% 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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