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Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 46k 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 lanthanide luminescence in biomedical applications, particularly in the development of MRI contrast agents, bioimaging probes, and chemical exchange saturation transfer techniques. It also explores the association between gadolinium deposition and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. The research covers a wide range of topics including the design of luminescent hybrid materials, europium complexes, and molecular imaging.

  • Lanthanide Luminescence
  • MRI Contrast Agents
  • Gadolinium Deposition
  • Bioimaging Probes
  • Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer
  • Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
  • Luminescent Hybrid Materials
  • Europium Complexes
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Lanthanide Coordination Complexes
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Which countries lead Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 749 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 United States 749 works
  3. 3 India 562 works
  4. 4 Russia 448 works
  5. 5 Germany 300 works
  6. 6 France 279 works
  7. 7 Japan 243 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 153 works
  9. 9 Italy 137 works
  10. 10 Spain 130 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: 35.0%United States: 16.2%India: 12.2%Russia: 9.7%6 others listed: 26.9%35%largest
China1,614 · 35.0%United States749 · 16.2%India562 · 12.2%Russia448 · 9.7%6 others listed1,241 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 262 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 144 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 111 works
  4. 4 University of RajasthanIndia 64 works
  5. 5 Central University of RajasthanIndia 63 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 41 works
  7. 7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 37 works
  8. 8 Maharshi Dayanand UniversityIndia 31 works
  9. 9 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 29 works
  10. 10 Nankai UniversityChina 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes include Michaël Grätzel, Bert Vogelstein and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Valentı́n Fuster United States 257k 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 Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes?

The most cited paper in Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes is "A Theory of Sensitized Luminescence in Solids" (David L. Dexter, 1953), with 9,011 citations. Next come "A Film Detection Method for Tritium‐Labelled Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Polyacrylamide Gels" (8,651) and "Intensities of Crystal Spectra of Rare-Earth Ions" (7,517).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Theory of Sensitized Luminescence in Solids David L. Dexter · The Journal of Chemical Physics May 1953 9,011
2 A Film Detection Method for Tritium‐Labelled Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Polyacrylamide Gels William M. Bonner, Ronald Alfred Laskey · European Journal of Biochemistry Open access Jul 1974 8,651
3 Intensities of Crystal Spectra of Rare-Earth Ions G. S. Ofelt · The Journal of Chemical Physics Aug 1962 7,517
4 Brain magnetic resonance imaging with contrast dependent on blood oxygenation. Satoshi Ogawa, T M Lee, A R Kay et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Dec 1990 6,587
5 Luminescent Functional Metal–Organic Frameworks Yuanjing Cui, Yan‐Feng Yue, Guodong Qian et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 21 Jun 2011 5,689
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research done?

The largest centres of Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ajmer, Rohtak and Novosibirsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 196 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 180 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 94 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 89 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 88 works
  6. 6 NovosibirskRussia 86 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 76 works
  8. 8 JaipurIndia 67 works
  9. 9 AjmerIndia 63 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AjmerIN · 62.8 works45×
  2. RohtakIN · 32.2 works24×
  3. NovosibirskRU · 86.0 works13×
  4. JaipurIN · 66.7 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes?

Among universities, judged by research, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Maharshi Dayanand University and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 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 18.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Deenbandhu Chhotu Ra…Nanjing University o…Maharshi Dayanand Un…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…
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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
1Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and TechnologyIndia 64.546.9%41.5×11 +612.3%
2Maharshi Dayanand UniversityIndia 61.228.5%54.7×31 +252.9%
3Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 54.736.7%6.2×13 +149.5%
4Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 51.23.4%8.7×37 +26.2%
5Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 50.221.3%5.4×14 +101.7%
6University of RajasthanIndia 49.80.0%94.4×64 +17.9%
7Central University of RajasthanIndia 49.20.0%118.9×63 +16.5%
8Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 49.223.0%2.8×29 +0.4%
9Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 49.011.4%2.9×23 +10.4%
10University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 48.317.2%4.5×19 +0.4%

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 Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, country by country

Is Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes 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%Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes9.8% 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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