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High Temperature Alloys and Creep

High Temperature Alloys and Creep is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 focuses on the development, properties, and behavior of nickel-based superalloys and high-temperature steels. It covers topics such as microstructure, phase stability, creep resistance, materials design, physical metallurgy, and ratcheting simulation.

  • Superalloys
  • High-Temperature Alloys
  • Creep Resistance
  • Microstructure
  • Phase Stability
  • Materials Design
  • Creep Deformation
  • Physical Metallurgy
  • Ratcheting Simulation
  • CALPHAD Modeling
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
High Temperature Alloys and Creep

Which countries lead High Temperature Alloys and Creep research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 414 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 414 works
  3. 3 India 305 works
  4. 4 Japan 212 works
  5. 5 Germany 198 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 140 works
  7. 7 Russia 131 works
  8. 8 France 127 works
  9. 9 South Korea 108 works
  10. 10 Iran 75 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: 58.6%United States: 10.0%India: 7.4%Japan: 5.1%6 others listed: 18.8%59%largest
China2,423 · 58.6%United States414 · 10.0%India305 · 7.4%Japan212 · 5.1%6 others listed779 · 18.8%

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

Which institutions lead High Temperature Alloys and Creep research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most High Temperature Alloys and Creep research, followed by University of Science and Technology Beijing and Northwestern Polytechnical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 155 works
  2. 2 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 122 works
  3. 3 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 106 works
  4. 4 Northeastern UniversityChina 80 works
  5. 5 Central South UniversityChina 72 works
  6. 6 Beihang UniversityChina 58 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 55 works
  8. 8 Aviation Industry Corporation of China (China)China 53 works
  9. 9 China Iron and Steel Research Institute GroupChina 50 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in High Temperature Alloys and Creep?

The most-cited researchers publishing on High Temperature Alloys and Creep include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Masayuki P. Yamamoto Japan 162k citations
  7. 7 Lin Gu China 159k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 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 Temperature Alloys and Creep?

The most cited paper in High Temperature Alloys and Creep is "The deformation of plastically non-homogeneous materials" (Michael Farries Ashby, 1970), with 4,309 citations. Next come "A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening" (3,836) and "The Superalloys: Fundamentals and Applications" (3,762).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The deformation of plastically non-homogeneous materials Michael Farries Ashby · Philosophical magazine Feb 1970 4,309
2 A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening Samuel M. Allen, John W. Cahn · Acta Metallurgica Jun 1979 3,836
3 The Superalloys: Fundamentals and Applications Roger C. Reed 31 Jul 2008 3,762
4 The influences of temperature and microstructure on the tensile properties of a CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy Frederik Otto, Antonin Dlouhý, Christoph Somsen et al. · Acta Materialia 28 Jun 2013 3,386
5 Nickel-Based Superalloys for Advanced Turbine Engines: Chemistry, Microstructure and Properties Tresa M. Pollock, Sammy Tin · Journal of Propulsion and Power Open access Mar 2006 2,594
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is High Temperature Alloys and Creep research done?

The largest centres of High Temperature Alloys and Creep 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 Kālpākkam and Oak Ridge.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 644 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 216 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 182 works
  4. 4 ShenyangChina 131 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 98 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 81 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 72 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 65 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 64 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KālpākkamIN · 21.6 works116×
  2. Oak RidgeUS · 25.5 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in High Temperature Alloys and Creep than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study High Temperature Alloys and Creep?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur 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%20%40%mean 19.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Indian Institute of …Northwestern Polytec…Central South Univer…University of Scienc…
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 65.920.2%22.6×106 +41.6%
2Indian Institute of Technology JodhpurIndia 63.743.1%18.9×10 +74.7%
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 62.512.7%38.1×122 +50.2%
4Central South UniversityChina 59.312.9%9.0×72 +32.7%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 59.114.8%21.8×80 +117.7%
6University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 58.818.9%9.8×48 +37.4%
7City University of Hong KongChina 54.930.2%3.9×9 +82.5%
8Beihang UniversityChina 54.513.6%12.9×58 +21.5%
9Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 49.914.5%6.2×44 +81.9%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 49.118.8%3.0×33 +175.7%

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 Temperature Alloys and Creep, country by country

Is High Temperature Alloys and Creep research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are High Temperature Alloys and Creep.

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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 Temperature Alloys and Creep as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of High Temperature Alloys and Creep 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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