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High Entropy Alloys Studies

High Entropy Alloys Studies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1957. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the exploration, design, and properties of high-entropy alloys, including multi-component alloys with unique microstructures and mechanical properties. It delves into phase stability, solid-solution phase formation, and the development of refractory alloys for various applications, such as cryogenic environments. Additionally, it investigates the characteristics of nanocrystalline structures in these alloys.

  • High-Entropy Alloys
  • Multi-Component Alloys
  • Microstructure
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Phase Stability
  • Refractory Alloys
  • Solid-Solution Phase Formation
  • Oxides
  • Cryogenic Applications
  • Nanocrystalline Structures
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+100%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
High Entropy Alloys Studies

Which countries lead High Entropy Alloys Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (6.5k and 848 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 6.5k works
  2. 2 United States 848 works
  3. 3 India 803 works
  4. 4 Russia 424 works
  5. 5 Germany 366 works
  6. 6 Japan 299 works
  7. 7 South Korea 284 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 196 works
  9. 9 France 192 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 187 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: 64.2%United States: 8.4%India: 8.0%Russia: 4.2%6 others listed: 15.1%64%largest
China6,466 · 64.2%United States848 · 8.4%India803 · 8.0%Russia424 · 4.2%6 others listed1,525 · 15.1%

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

Which institutions lead High Entropy Alloys Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most High Entropy Alloys Studies research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 325 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 182 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 168 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 165 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 151 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 147 works
  7. 7 Northeastern UniversityChina 130 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 109 works
  9. 9 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 98 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 90 works

Who are the leading researchers in High Entropy Alloys Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on High Entropy Alloys Studies include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Lin Gu China 159k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  9. 9 Zhanhu Guo United States 148k 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 Entropy Alloys Studies?

The most cited paper in High Entropy Alloys Studies is "Nanostructured High‐Entropy Alloys with Multiple Principal Elements: Novel Alloy Design Concepts and Outcomes" (J.‐W. Yeh, Swe-Kai Chen, Sung‐Jan Lin et al., 2004), with 15,287 citations. Next come "Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys" (10,220) and "A critical review of high entropy alloys and related concepts" (9,054).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nanostructured High‐Entropy Alloys with Multiple Principal Elements: Novel Alloy Design Concepts and Outcomes J.‐W. Yeh, Swe-Kai Chen, Sung‐Jan Lin et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials May 2004 15,287
2 Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys Brian Cantor, Isaac T. H. Chang, Peter A. Knight et al. · Materials Science and Engineering A 2 Jan 2004 10,220
3 A critical review of high entropy alloys and related concepts Daniel B. Miracle, Oleg N. Senkov · Acta Materialia Open access 21 Oct 2016 9,054
4 Mechanical alloying and milling Challapalli Suryanarayana · Progress in Materials Science 2001 8,056
5 Microstructures and properties of high-entropy alloys Yong Zhang, Ting Ting Zuo, Zhi Yuan Tang et al. · Progress in Materials Science Nov 2013 7,196
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is High Entropy Alloys Studies research done?

The largest centres of High Entropy Alloys Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Shenyang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk and Changwon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 912 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 476 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 350 works
  4. 4 ShenyangChina 283 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 271 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 268 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 248 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 215 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 211 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 176 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 35.7 works72×
  2. ChangwonKR · 27.9 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in High Entropy Alloys Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study High Entropy Alloys Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Northwestern Polytechnical University and University of Science and Technology Beijing 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%10%20%30%mean 15.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Northwestern Polytec…University of Scienc…Harbin Institute of …
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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
1City University of Hong KongChina 76.023.8%8.4×50 +45.9%
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 68.914.3%15.3×182 +135.4%
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 67.513.7%18.6×151 +110.3%
4Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 64.912.2%9.8×168 +119.4%
5Central South UniversityChina 64.211.5%8.2×165 +104.7%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.825.2%2.7×24 +178.5%
7South China University of TechnologyChina 61.616.5%6.7×76 +204.0%
8Northeastern UniversityChina 61.511.6%14.0×130 +101.1%
9Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 61.315.8%5.1×42 +105.3%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60.615.0%3.6×109 +134.3%

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 High Entropy Alloys Studies, country by country

Is High Entropy Alloys Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are High Entropy Alloys Studies.

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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 Entropy Alloys Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.052% in 2024.

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Fractional works of High Entropy Alloys Studies 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 Entropy Alloys Studies9.8% 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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