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Ion-surface interactions and analysis

Ion-surface interactions and analysis is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 50k 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 use of ion beam techniques, such as Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) and swift heavy ions, for surface analysis, nanoscale patterning, and molecular imaging. It covers a wide range of applications including surface engineering, nanostructure fabrication, and depth profiling of biological samples.

  • Ion Beam
  • Surface Analysis
  • Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
  • Nanoscale Patterning
  • Cluster Ion
  • Time-of-Flight
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Swift Heavy Ions
  • Surface Engineering
  • Nanostructures
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ion-surface interactions and analysis

Which countries lead Ion-surface interactions and analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (702 and 611 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 702 works
  2. 2 United States 611 works
  3. 3 Russia 335 works
  4. 4 Japan 250 works
  5. 5 Germany 230 works
  6. 6 India 159 works
  7. 7 France 141 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 106 works
  9. 9 South Korea 72 works
  10. 10 Italy 57 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: 26.4%United States: 23.0%Russia: 12.6%Japan: 9.4%6 others listed: 28.7%26%largest
China702 · 26.4%United States611 · 23.0%Russia335 · 12.6%Japan250 · 9.4%6 others listed765 · 28.7%

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

Which institutions lead Ion-surface interactions and analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Ion-surface interactions and analysis research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 125 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 95 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 38 works
  5. 5 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 25 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 19 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 19 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia 18 works
  10. 10 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ion-surface interactions and analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ion-surface interactions and analysis include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k 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 Ion-surface interactions and analysis?

The most cited paper in Ion-surface interactions and analysis is "X-ray line broadening from filed aluminium and wolfram" (G.K. Williamson, W H Hall, 1953), with 10,492 citations. Next come "Electrospray Ionization for Mass Spectrometry of Large Biomolecules" (7,638) and "Analysis of XPS spectra of Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions in oxide materials" (6,712).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 X-ray line broadening from filed aluminium and wolfram G.K. Williamson, W H Hall · Acta Metallurgica 1953 10,492
2 Electrospray Ionization for Mass Spectrometry of Large Biomolecules John B. Fenn, Matthias Mann, Chin Kai Meng et al. · Science 6 Oct 1989 7,638
3 Analysis of XPS spectra of Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions in oxide materials Toru Yamashita, Peter C. Hayes · Applied Surface Science Oct 2007 6,712
4 THE STOPPING AND RANGE OF IONS IN SOLIDS J. F. Ziegler · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1984 5,870
5 Strength and Breaking Mechanism of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Under Tensile Load Min-Feng Yu, Oleg R. Lourie, Mark J. Dyer et al. · Science 28 Jan 2000 5,322
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ion-surface interactions and analysis research done?

The largest centres of Ion-surface interactions and analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Livermore and Tomsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 185 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 132 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 57 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 45 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 44 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 41 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  8. 8 TomskRussia 33 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 32 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LivermoreUS · 22.6 works28×
  2. TomskRU · 32.6 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ion-surface interactions and analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ion-surface interactions and analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Uppsala University, Purdue University West Lafayette and University of California, Berkeley 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 16.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Califo…Purdue University We…University of Illino…Uppsala University
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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
1Uppsala UniversitySweden 66.911.8%9.5×15 +21.7%
2Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 66.025.4%4.5×12 +3.2%
3University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 62.326.7%3.8×10 +38.8%
4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 62.212.6%6.2×16 +9.5%
5Nanjing UniversityChina 61.233.4%3.6×10 +23.1%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.619.3%4.0×19 +2.8%
7Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 54.84.5%10.2×25 -27.9%
8Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 54.711.4%4.9×17 +70.7%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 52.811.6%5.1×14 +79.6%
10Peking UniversityChina 51.112.4%2.6×16 +23.1%

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 Ion-surface interactions and analysis, country by country

Is Ion-surface interactions and analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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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 Ion-surface interactions and analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Ion-surface interactions and analysis0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ion-surface interactions and analysis 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%Ion-surface interactions and analysis10.2% 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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