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Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds

Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds is a research topic within Inorganic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 explores the chemistry of noble gas compounds, particularly focusing on their interactions with fluoride ions, metal fluorides, Lewis acidity, and transition metal hexafluorides. It also delves into the use of solid state NMR and matrix isolation spectroscopy to study these compounds, as well as their applications in high surface area materials and fluoride ion batteries.

  • Noble Gas Compounds
  • Fluoride Ion Batteries
  • Metal Fluorides
  • Lewis Acidity
  • Xenon Chemistry
  • Solid State NMR
  • Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy
  • Transition Metal Hexafluorides
  • High Surface Area Materials
  • Ionic Conductivity
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds

Which countries lead Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 385 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 385 works
  3. 3 Russia 306 works
  4. 4 Germany 213 works
  5. 5 Japan 187 works
  6. 6 India 167 works
  7. 7 France 145 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 96 works
  9. 9 South Korea 62 works
  10. 10 Italy 56 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: 41.1%United States: 14.0%Russia: 11.1%Germany: 7.8%6 others listed: 25.9%41%largest
China1,127 · 41.1%United States385 · 14.0%Russia306 · 11.1%Germany213 · 7.8%6 others listed712 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 166 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 136 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 79 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 20 works
  6. 6 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 20 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 20 works
  8. 8 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 19 works
  9. 9 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 18 works
  10. 10 Kyoto UniversityJapan 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds include Michaël Grätzel, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  9. 9 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  10. 10 Xiaogang Wang China 260k 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 Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds?

The most cited paper in Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds is "A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu" (Stefan Grimme, Jens Antony, Stephan Ehrlich et al., 2010), with 59,482 citations. Next come "SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination" (29,598) and "Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory" (28,444).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu Stefan Grimme, Jens Antony, Stephan Ehrlich et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics 16 Apr 2010 59,482
2 SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination George M. Sheldrick · Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances Open access 23 Dec 2014 29,598
3 Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory Stefan Grimme, Stephan Ehrlich, Lars Goerigk · Journal of Computational Chemistry Mar 2011 28,444
4 A climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths Graeme Henkelman, Blas Pedro Uberuaga, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics 8 Dec 2000 21,923
5 General atomic and molecular electronic structure system Michael W. I. Schmidt, Kim K. Baldridge, Jerry A. Boatz et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry Nov 1993 20,303
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Where is Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research done?

The largest centres of Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 190 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 125 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 77 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 43 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 42 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 41 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 41 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 39 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 39 works
  10. 10 BerlinGermany 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YekaterinburgRU · 26.3 works8.8×
  2. NovosibirskRU · 32.2 works8.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China University of Technology and University of Oxford 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 21.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang UniversityUniversity of Chines…South China Universi…University of Oxford
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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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 85.728.3%8.6×41 -4.9%
2South China University of TechnologyChina 62.426.3%3.6×12 +10.0%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 60.024.8%2.9×12 +47.8%
4Zhejiang UniversityChina 54.432.8%1.1×8 +89.3%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 53.423.1%2.6×14 +192.9%
6Tianjin University of TechnologyChina 53.422.8%11.0×9 +122.0%
7Nankai UniversityChina 51.225.5%5.7×11 -14.2%
8Freie Universität BerlinGermany 49.74.2%16.5×20 +8.2%
9Zhengzhou UniversityChina 49.015.3%4.1×14 +189.0%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 49.016.1%1.8×12 +34.5%

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 Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds, country by country

Is Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds.

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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 Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds 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%Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds10.1% 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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