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Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications

Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1953. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biomedical applications of graphene nanomaterials, including drug delivery, toxicity assessment, antibacterial activity, cancer therapy, cellular imaging, nanocarrier development, and tissue engineering. The research covers a wide range of topics related to the use of graphene in biotechnology and medicine.

  • Graphene
  • Nanomaterials
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Drug Delivery
  • Toxicity
  • Antibacterial Activity
  • Cancer Therapy
  • Cellular Imaging
  • Nanocarrier
  • Tissue Engineering
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications

Which countries lead Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.8k and 2.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 India 2.5k works
  3. 3 Iran 771 works
  4. 4 United States 762 works
  5. 5 South Korea 363 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 341 works
  7. 7 Egypt 313 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 292 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 271 works
  10. 10 Brazil 249 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: 39.2%India: 25.9%Iran: 8.0%United States: 7.9%6 others listed: 19.0%39%largest
China3,784 · 39.2%India2,497 · 25.9%Iran771 · 8.0%United States762 · 7.9%6 others listed1,829 · 19.0%

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

Which institutions lead Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 180 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 111 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 103 works
  4. 4 Saveetha UniversityIndia 90 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 83 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 71 works
  7. 7 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 61 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 60 works
  9. 9 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 58 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 54 works

Who are the leading researchers in Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications?

The most cited paper in Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications is "Graphene: Status and Prospects" (Andre K. Geim, 2009), with 13,990 citations. Next come "Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide" (13,883) and "Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide" (12,017).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Graphene: Status and Prospects Andre K. Geim · Science Open access 18 Jun 2009 13,990
2 Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide Sasha Stankovich, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Richard D. Piner et al. · Carbon 8 Mar 2007 13,883
3 Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide Daniela C. Marcano, Dmitry V. Kosynkin, Jacob M. Berlin et al. · ACS Nano 22 Jul 2010 12,017
4 The chemistry of graphene oxide Daniel R. Dreyer, Sungjin Park, Christopher W. Bielawski et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 3 Nov 2009 11,601
5 Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils Xuesong Li, Weiwei Cai, Jinho An et al. · Science Open access 7 May 2009 11,244
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Where is Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research done?

The largest centres of Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Shanghai (China) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tabriz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 447 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 337 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 293 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 245 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 199 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 183 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 155 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 145 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 144 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 144 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TabrizIR · 68.5 works7.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Yeungnam University, Saveetha University and King Saud 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 18.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yeungnam UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong U…Saveetha UniversityKing Saud 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
1Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 67.525.4%9.0×24 +79.1%
2Saveetha UniversityIndia 67.113.6%8.1×90 +831.0%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.712.0%5.3×61 +56.5%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59.015.1%2.1×71 +14.2%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 58.713.2%3.9×103 +0.6%
6King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 58.222.3%4.0×16 +53.6%
7Shandong UniversityChina 56.015.4%2.9×45 +37.4%
8China Agricultural UniversityChina 55.933.1%1.2×8 +120.5%
9University of TabrizIran 55.217.6%9.8×27 +1.9%
10Alexandria UniversityEgypt 55.016.3%4.4×23 +72.5%

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 Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications, country by country

Is Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications.

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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 Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.064% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Graphene and Nanomaterials 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%Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications9.9% in 202520102020

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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