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Fullerene Chemistry and Applications

Fullerene Chemistry and Applications is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the chemistry, properties, and diverse applications of fullerenes, including endohedral fullerenes, photosensitization, nanoscience, photovoltaic devices, electron transfer processes, biomedical applications, and supramolecular chemistry. The research covers topics such as excited-state properties, functionalization in water, organic photovoltaic devices, and the potential use of fullerenes in artificial photosynthetic systems.

  • Fullerenes
  • Endohedral Fullerenes
  • Photosensitization
  • Nanoscience
  • Photovoltaic Devices
  • Molecular Systems
  • Electron Transfer
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Carbon Nanotubes
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fullerene Chemistry and Applications

Which countries lead Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (549 and 209 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 549 works
  2. 2 Russia 209 works
  3. 3 United States 198 works
  4. 4 Japan 154 works
  5. 5 India 141 works
  6. 6 Germany 94 works
  7. 7 Iran 73 works
  8. 8 Spain 66 works
  9. 9 France 52 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 42 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: 34.8%Russia: 13.3%United States: 12.6%Japan: 9.7%6 others listed: 29.7%35%largest
China549 · 34.8%Russia209 · 13.3%United States198 · 12.6%Japan154 · 9.7%6 others listed468 · 29.7%

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

Which institutions lead Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 88 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  4. 4 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 21 works
  5. 5 Kyoto UniversityJapan 19 works
  6. 6 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 17 works
  7. 7 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 17 works
  8. 8 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 15 works
  9. 9 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 13 works
  10. 10 Xiamen UniversityChina 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fullerene Chemistry and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fullerene Chemistry and Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and John P. Perdew.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  4. 4 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  5. 5 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  6. 6 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  7. 7 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  8. 8 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  9. 9 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  10. 10 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k 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 Fullerene Chemistry and Applications?

The most cited paper in Fullerene Chemistry and Applications is "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films" (Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim, С. В. Морозов et al., 2004), with 66,991 citations. Next come "Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon" (43,125) and "C60: Buckminsterfullerene" (16,047).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim, С. В. Морозов et al. · Science Open access 21 Oct 2004 66,991
2 Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon Sumio Iijima · Nature Nov 1991 43,125
3 C60: Buckminsterfullerene Harold Walter Kroto, J. R. Heath, Sean C. O’Brien et al. · Nature Nov 1985 16,047
4 Solid C60: a new form of carbon Wolfgang Krätschmer, Lowell D. Lamb, K. Fostiropoulos et al. · Nature 27 Sep 1990 7,643
5 Superconductivity at 39 K in magnesium diboride Jun Nagamatsu, Norimasa Nakagawa, Takahiro Muranaka et al. · Nature Mar 2001 6,487
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Where is Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 91 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 72 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 32 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 30 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  6. 6 HefeiChina 29 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 29 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 28 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 28 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Fullerene Chemistry and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Kyoto University, National University of Singapore and The University of Osaka 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 13.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Nanjing University o…The University of Os…Kyoto 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
1Kyoto UniversityJapan 58.08.7%12.9×19 +1.4%
2National University of SingaporeSingapore 53.334.6%3.7×8 -18.3%
3The University of OsakaJapan 52.511.1%10.8×12 +21.6%
4Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 50.915.1%8.6×13 +114.5%
5Universitat de GironaSpain 50.47.9%49.5×11 +16.2%
6Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 50.211.8%6.7×21 -49.4%
7Xiamen UniversityChina 49.510.6%8.1×13 +8.1%
8University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 45.910.6%6.8×15 +0.1%
9Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 41.425.4%3.9×9 +59.9%
10Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 39.90.4%10.4×17 -18.1%

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 Fullerene Chemistry and Applications, country by country

Is Fullerene Chemistry and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008.

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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 Fullerene Chemistry and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0088% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Fullerene Chemistry and Applications0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fullerene Chemistry and Applications 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%Fullerene Chemistry and Applications9.8% 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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