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Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties

Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k 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 design, processing, microstructure, properties, and applications of advanced intermetallic TiAl alloys, with a particular emphasis on high-temperature structural materials for aerospace applications. The papers cover topics such as diffusion in the Ti-Al system, mechanical behavior, oxidation resistance, and processing techniques for intermetallic alloys.

  • Intermetallic Alloys
  • TiAl Alloys
  • High-Temperature Materials
  • Microstructure
  • Processing Techniques
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Aerospace Applications
  • Gamma Titanium Aluminides
  • Oxidation Resistance
  • Diffusion in Alloys
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties

Which countries lead Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (2.9k and 528 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 Russia 528 works
  3. 3 United States 359 works
  4. 4 India 302 works
  5. 5 Japan 227 works
  6. 6 Germany 197 works
  7. 7 France 115 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 98 works
  9. 9 Poland 89 works
  10. 10 South Korea 89 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: 59.2%Russia: 10.7%United States: 7.3%India: 6.1%6 others listed: 16.6%59%largest
China2,905 · 59.2%Russia528 · 10.7%United States359 · 7.3%India302 · 6.1%6 others listed815 · 16.6%

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

Which institutions lead Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research, followed by Harbin Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 259 works
  2. 2 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 154 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 144 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 137 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 110 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 104 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 56 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 51 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties include Georg Kresse, Yury G. Gogotsi and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  10. 10 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties?

The most cited paper in Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties is "Mechanical alloying and milling" (Challapalli Suryanarayana, 2001), with 8,056 citations. Next come "Necessary and sufficient elastic stability conditions in various crystal systems" (5,076) and "Deformation twinning" (3,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mechanical alloying and milling Challapalli Suryanarayana · Progress in Materials Science 2001 8,056
2 Necessary and sufficient elastic stability conditions in various crystal systems Félix Mouhat, François‐Xavier Coudert · Physical Review B Open access 5 Dec 2014 5,076
3 Deformation twinning J. W. Christian, Subhash K Mahajan · Progress in Materials Science 1995 3,596
4 Effect of valence electron concentration on stability of fcc or bcc phase in high entropy alloys Sheng Li Guo, Chun Ng, Jian Lü et al. · Journal of Applied Physics 15 May 2011 2,893
5 Large magnetic-field-induced strains in Ni2MnGa single crystals K. Ullakko, Junjie Huang, C. Kantner et al. · Applied Physics Letters 23 Sep 1996 2,651
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Where is Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research done?

The largest centres of Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Harbin (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Chernogolovka and Tomsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 514 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 310 works
  3. 3 HarbinChina 191 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 138 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 129 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 129 works
  7. 7 ShenyangChina 121 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 92 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 80 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 73 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 41.1 works170×
  2. ChernogolovkaRU · 68.4 works121×
  3. TomskRU · 42.7 works15×
  4. QinhuangdaoCN · 26.9 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University and City University of Hong Kong 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 18.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Northwestern Polytec…Harbin Institute of …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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 69.516.3%18.6×154 +17.7%
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 67.017.2%23.7×137 +11.9%
3City University of Hong KongChina 67.028.7%5.0×15 +108.5%
4University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 60.310.9%28.0×110 +61.0%
5Central South UniversityChina 59.911.4%10.7×104 +43.2%
6Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 59.422.5%4.5×40 +113.2%
7Northeastern UniversityChina 57.916.2%12.2×56 +81.1%
8University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 57.621.6%5.8×35 +58.1%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 55.317.3%8.0×38 +70.5%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 52.520.2%3.0×43 +45.0%

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 Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties, country by country

Is Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties.

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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 Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties 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%Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties9.9% 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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