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Glass properties and applications

Glass properties and applications is a research topic within Ceramics and Composites. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 in glass science and technology, including structural analysis, optical properties, rare-earth doped materials, nuclear waste immobilization, spectroscopic studies, amorphous materials, crystal nucleation, high-resolution NMR, and fiber lasers.

  • Glass Science
  • Structural Analysis
  • Optical Properties
  • Rare-Earth Doped Materials
  • Nuclear Waste Immobilization
  • Spectroscopic Studies
  • Amorphous Materials
  • Crystal Nucleation
  • High-Resolution NMR
  • Fiber Lasers
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Glass properties and applications

Which countries lead Glass properties and applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 635 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 635 works
  3. 3 Russia 393 works
  4. 4 United States 390 works
  5. 5 France 251 works
  6. 6 Egypt 243 works
  7. 7 Japan 238 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 187 works
  9. 9 Germany 164 works
  10. 10 Poland 118 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: 37.1%India: 15.2%Russia: 9.4%United States: 9.4%6 others listed: 28.8%37%largest
China1,547 · 37.1%India635 · 15.2%Russia393 · 9.4%United States390 · 9.4%6 others listed1,201 · 28.8%

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

Which institutions lead Glass properties and applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Glass properties 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 181 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 161 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 126 works
  4. 4 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 51 works
  5. 5 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 46 works
  6. 6 National Research CentreEgypt 45 works
  7. 7 Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 44 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
  9. 9 Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 34 works
  10. 10 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Glass properties and applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Glass properties and applications include Michaël Grätzel, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  9. 9 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  10. 10 L. Li France 211k 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 Glass properties and applications?

The most cited paper in Glass properties and applications is "Ab initio molecular-dynamics simulation of the liquid-metal–amorphous-semiconductor transition in germanium" (Georg Kresse, J. Häfner, 1994), with 23,146 citations. Next come "On the Temperature Dependence of Cooperative Relaxation Properties in Glass-Forming Liquids" (5,842) and "The ‘universal’ dielectric response" (5,602).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ab initio molecular-dynamics simulation of the liquid-metal–amorphous-semiconductor transition in germanium Georg Kresse, J. Häfner · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 May 1994 23,146
2 On the Temperature Dependence of Cooperative Relaxation Properties in Glass-Forming Liquids Gerold Adam, Julian H. Gibbs · The Journal of Chemical Physics Jul 1965 5,842
3 The ‘universal’ dielectric response A.K. Jonscher · Nature Jun 1977 5,602
4 Dielectric relaxation in solids A.K. Jonscher · Journal of Physics D Applied Physics 1999 5,333
5 Surface Studies of Solids by Total Reflection of X-Rays L. G. Parratt · Physical Review 15 Jul 1954 5,195
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Where is Glass properties and applications research done?

The largest centres of Glass properties and applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Cairo (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nakhon Pathom and Shibīn al Kawm.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 249 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 116 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 114 works
  4. 4 CairoEgypt 96 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 91 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 81 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 71 works
  8. 8 ChangchunChina 70 works
  9. 9 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 63 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nakhon PathomTH · 26.5 works183×
  2. Shibīn al KawmEG · 27.1 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Glass properties and applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Glass properties and applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Isra University and Sinai 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%20%40%mean 28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sinai UniversityUniversity of TabukIsra UniversityPrincess Nourah bint…
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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
1Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 79.526.2%37.4×46 +694.6%
2Isra UniversityJordan 72.329.4%204.3×30 +294.2%
3Sinai UniversityEgypt 70.445.3%128.6×11 +93.5%
4University of TabukSaudi Arabia 70.232.7%25.9×17 +46.4%
5King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.323.8%12.2×22 +26.4%
6Jouf UniversitySaudi Arabia 61.735.7%18.1×12 +91.3%
7Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 59.224.0%18.8×34 -4.4%
8Sakarya UniversityTürkiye 57.839.3%10.4×14 +89.7%
9Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 57.39.0%13.3×51 +46.0%
10Menoufia UniversityEgypt 56.914.6%24.8×27 +36.9%

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 Glass properties and applications, country by country

Is Glass properties and applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Glass properties and applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Glass properties and applications0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Glass properties 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%Glass properties 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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