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High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research is a research topic within Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Science Explorer counts 56k 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 focuses on the experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions, particularly at RHIC. It covers topics such as chiral magnetic effect, color glass condensate, hydrodynamics, lattice QCD, viscous fluid dynamics, anomalous transport, and the phase diagram of dense QCD matter.

  • Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Heavy-Ion Collisions
  • RHIC Experiments
  • Chiral Magnetic Effect
  • Color Glass Condensate
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Lattice QCD
  • Viscous Fluid Dynamics
  • Anomalous Transport
  • Phase Diagram
Research works
56k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Which countries lead High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 966 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 966 works
  3. 3 Germany 618 works
  4. 4 India 465 works
  5. 5 Russia 369 works
  6. 6 Italy 316 works
  7. 7 France 302 works
  8. 8 Japan 214 works
  9. 9 Spain 172 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 170 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: 22.0%United States: 21.0%Germany: 13.4%India: 10.1%6 others listed: 33.5%22%largest
China1,013 · 22.0%United States966 · 21.0%Germany618 · 13.4%India465 · 10.1%6 others listed1,543 · 33.5%

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

Which institutions lead High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres publishes the most High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 191 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 174 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 162 works
  4. 4 Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchRussia 86 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 79 works
  6. 6 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 78 works
  7. 7 Brookhaven National LaboratoryUnited States 72 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61 works
  9. 9 Central China Normal UniversityChina 54 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research include M. Weber, Xiaogang Wang and Florian Fischer.

  1. 1 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  4. 4 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  5. 5 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  6. 6 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  7. 7 Jerome H. Friedman United States 224k citations
  8. 8 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 G. Mitselmakher France 223k 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 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research?

The most cited paper in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research is "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" (G. Aad et al., 2012), with 10,856 citations. Next come "PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual" (9,135) and "The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations" (7,957).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC G. Aad et al. · Physics Letters B Open access2,932 authors 14 Aug 2012 10,856
2 PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Journal of High Energy Physics Open access 9 May 2006 9,135
3 The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations Johan Alwall, Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics Open access Jul 2014 7,957
4 The anti- k t jet clustering algorithm Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P Salam, Gregory Soyez · Journal of High Energy Physics Open access 16 Apr 2008 6,780
5 A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Computer Physics Communications Open access 2 Feb 2008 5,734
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research done?

The largest centres of High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Dubna (Russia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Berlin, Dubna and Upton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 275 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 144 works
  3. 3 DubnaRussia 93 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 93 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 88 works
  6. 6 LanzhouChina 85 works
  7. 7 DarmstadtGermany 83 works
  8. 8 GenevaSwitzerland 82 works
  9. 9 KrakowPoland 77 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BerlinUS · 21.0 works629×
  2. DubnaRU · 93.3 works169×
  3. UptonUS · 71.5 works127×
  4. Newport NewsUS · 29.0 works98×
  5. BataviaUS · 26.2 works54×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in High-Energy Particle Collisions Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study High-Energy Particle Collisions Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Zurich, Universitat de València and University of Bern 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 19.07%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BernUniversity of ZurichUniversitat de Valèn…University of Chines…
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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
1University of ZurichSwitzerland 76.023.9%7.2×26 +5.9%
2Universitat de ValènciaSpain 69.119.2%12.5×36 +17.4%
3University of BernSwitzerland 68.829.7%5.0×14 +4.5%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 68.612.3%7.2×61 +36.8%
5University of HelsinkiFinland 68.218.1%7.8×28 +22.9%
6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 63.522.6%7.1×26 -33.7%
7Technical University of MunichGermany 61.819.2%5.9×27 -3.7%
8Stony Brook UniversityUnited States 61.513.4%26.4×44 -14.1%
9University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 61.221.5%10.9×16 -6.7%
10Bielefeld UniversityGermany 60.610.8%25.0×30 +79.5%

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 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, country by country

Is High-Energy Particle Collisions Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%High-Energy Particle Collisions Research0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 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%High-Energy Particle Collisions Research9.9% 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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