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Hydrogen Storage and Materials

Hydrogen Storage and Materials is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 19.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the materials, methods, and technologies for hydrogen storage, including metal hydrides, chemical storage solutions like ammonia borane, nanostructured carbon materials, and various catalysts for enhancing hydrogen generation and storage. It covers a wide range of research on improving the capacity, kinetics, and stability of hydrogen storage systems for mobile and stationary applications.

  • Hydrogen Storage
  • Materials
  • Metal Hydrides
  • Chemical Hydrogen Storage
  • Nanomaterials
  • Catalysts
  • Ammonia Borane
  • Nanostructured Carbon
  • Hydrogen Generation
  • Nanoparticles
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+20%
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Which countries lead Hydrogen Storage and Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.4k and 418 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 India 418 works
  3. 3 United States 345 works
  4. 4 Japan 237 works
  5. 5 Germany 219 works
  6. 6 South Korea 193 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 183 works
  8. 8 Russia 149 works
  9. 9 France 133 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 128 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: 54.5%India: 9.5%United States: 7.8%Japan: 5.4%6 others listed: 22.8%54%largest
China2,403 · 54.5%India418 · 9.5%United States345 · 7.8%Japan237 · 5.4%6 others listed1,006 · 22.8%

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

Which institutions lead Hydrogen Storage and Materials research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Hydrogen Storage and Materials research, followed by Chongqing University and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Who are the leading researchers in Hydrogen Storage and Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hydrogen Storage and Materials include Y. Makida, İbrahim Dinçer and Huan Liu.

  1. 1 Y. Makida Japan 8.1k citations
  2. 2 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 5.9k citations
  3. 3 Huan Liu Australia 4.9k citations
  4. 4 Zhanhu Guo United States 4.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Hydrogen Storage and Materials research done?

The largest centres of Hydrogen Storage and Materials research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baotou.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 411 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 132 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 112 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 90 works
  5. 5 Chongqing China 88 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 81 works
  7. 7 Hangzhou China 75 works
  8. 8 Seoul South Korea 73 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 70 works
  10. 10 Wuhan China 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaotouCN · 34.5 works32×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hydrogen Storage and Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hydrogen Storage and Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Chongqing University, Siirt Üniversitesi and Jiangsu University of Science and Technology 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%25%50%75%mean 35.65%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Chongqing University: 59, 40.9%Siirt Üniversitesi: 16, 32.2%Jiangsu University of Science and Technology: 21, 32.6%University of Kashan: 11, 32.0%Guilin University of Electronic Technology: 24, 30.2%North China Electric Power University: 32, 35.1%King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals: 15, 37.9%Universiti Malaysia Terengganu: 9, 20.9%Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology: 9, 31.6%Southwest Petroleum University: 10, 63.1%Chongqing UniversityJiangsu University o…Siirt ÜniversitesiUniversity of Kashan
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Chongqing UniversityChina 64.240.9%9.3×59 -38.8%
2 Siirt ÜniversitesiTürkiye 62.932.2%30.4×16 +446.7%
3 Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.032.6%11.9×21 +123.6%
4 University of KashanIran 60.332.0%29.4×11 +326.2%
5 Guilin University of Electronic TechnologyChina 59.330.2%14.4×24 +106.2%
6 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 54.935.1%8.2×32 +22.0%
7 King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 54.037.9%7.7×15
8 Universiti Malaysia TerengganuMalaysia 53.920.9%10.7×9 +177.7%
9 Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 51.131.6%10.0×9 +79.7%
10 Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 51.063.1%5.6×10 +30.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Hydrogen Storage and Materials research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hydrogen Storage and Materials.

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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.

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.