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Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties

Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 9.8k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the electronic and magnetic properties of half-metallic alloys, particularly Heusler compounds. It explores topics such as band gaps, spin polarization, thermodynamic properties, and their potential applications in spintronics.

  • Half-Metallic
  • Heusler Compounds
  • Electronic Structure
  • Spintronics
  • Semilocal Exchange-Correlation Potential
  • Band Gaps
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Generalized Gradient Approximation
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Spin Polarization
Research works
9.8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
976
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+41%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties

Which countries lead Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (773 and 482 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 773 works
  2. 2 India 482 works
  3. 3 Pakistan 188 works
  4. 4 Saudi Arabia 186 works
  5. 5 Algeria 166 works
  6. 6 Japan 161 works
  7. 7 United States 157 works
  8. 8 Morocco 135 works
  9. 9 Russia 90 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 81 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: 31.9%India: 19.9%Pakistan: 7.8%Saudi Arabia: 7.7%6 others listed: 32.7%32%largest
China773 · 31.9%India482 · 19.9%Pakistan188 · 7.8%Saudi Arabia186 · 7.7%6 others listed791 · 32.7%

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

Which institutions lead Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 38 works
  3. 3 Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco 30 works
  4. 4 Mohammed V UniversityMorocco 30 works
  5. 5 King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 30 works
  6. 6 National Institute for Materials ScienceJapan 27 works
  7. 7 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 26 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  9. 9 Tohoku UniversityJapan 22 works
  10. 10 Riphah International UniversityPakistan 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties include Georg Kresse, Kostya S. Novoselov and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  5. 5 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  6. 6 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  7. 7 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  8. 8 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations
  9. 9 M. S. Dresselhaus United States 169k 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 Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties?

The most cited paper in Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties is "The mathematical theory of non-uniform gases" (New York, 1953), with 7,693 citations. Next come "New Class of Materials: Half-Metallic Ferromagnets" (4,749) and "A perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB–MgO magnetic tunnel junction" (3,645).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The mathematical theory of non-uniform gases New York · Journal of the Franklin Institute Apr 1953 7,693
2 New Class of Materials: Half-Metallic Ferromagnets R. A. de Groot, F. M. Mueller, P.G. van Engen et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 20 Jun 1983 4,749
3 A perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB–MgO magnetic tunnel junction Shoji Ikeda, K. Miura, Hirotsugu Yamamoto et al. · Nature Materials 11 Jul 2010 3,645
4 Band gaps and electronic structure of transition-metal compounds J. Zaanen, G. A. Sawatzky, J. W. Allen · Physical Review Letters Open access 22 Jul 1985 3,071
5 Efficient hybrid density functional calculations in solids: Assessment of the Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof screened Coulomb hybrid functional Jochen Heyd, Gustavo E. Scuseria · The Journal of Chemical Physics 6 Jul 2004 2,598
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Where is Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research done?

The largest centres of Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 118 works
  2. 2 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 67 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 44 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 43 works
  5. 5 TsukubaJapan 42 works
  6. 6 LahorePakistan 41 works
  7. 7 ChennaiIndia 40 works
  8. 8 RabatMorocco 39 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 35 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 34 works
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Where is the best place to study Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties?

Among universities, judged by research, King Khalid University, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and King Saud University 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%20%40%mean 25.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Khalid UniversityPrincess Nourah bint…Mohammed V 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.

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
1King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 85.026.5%28.8×30 +543.8%
2Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 77.325.2%30.1×21 +704.1%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 72.720.0%9.8×26 +68.3%
4Mohammed V UniversityMorocco 71.520.6%28.4×30 +176.0%
5Riphah International UniversityPakistan 71.325.3%57.1×22 +523.9%
6Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco 66.716.1%40.7×30 +303.3%
7University of Management and TechnologyPakistan 66.442.1%32.0×8 +422.7%
8Taif UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.525.5%21.3×13 -
9University of Hassan II CasablancaMorocco 55.020.8%22.1×16 +188.7%
10Government College University, LahorePakistan 54.928.7%37.2×10 +61.1%

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 Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties, country by country

Is Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties.

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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 Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties 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.

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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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