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Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 43k 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 application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for material analysis, including instrumental and methodological approaches, plasma interactions, space exploration, geochemical and environmental analysis, and remote sensing. It covers topics such as plasma dynamics, calibration-free LIBS, chemical sensor technology, and the detection and classification of various substances.

  • Spectroscopy
  • Material Analysis
  • Plasma
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic Data
  • Space Exploration
  • ChemCam Instrument
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geochemical Analysis
  • Elemental Analysis
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Which countries lead Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 798 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 798 works
  3. 3 Russia 345 works
  4. 4 Germany 271 works
  5. 5 India 261 works
  6. 6 France 234 works
  7. 7 Japan 208 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 107 works
  9. 9 Italy 92 works
  10. 10 South Korea 77 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: 34.9%United States: 21.7%Russia: 9.4%Germany: 7.4%6 others listed: 26.6%35%largest
China1,282 · 34.9%United States798 · 21.7%Russia345 · 9.4%Germany271 · 7.4%6 others listed979 · 26.6%

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

Which institutions lead Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 181 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 130 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 103 works
  4. 4 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States 55 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 42 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 36 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 33 works
  8. 8 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 33 works
  9. 9 University of BaghdadIraq 30 works
  10. 10 Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma include M. Shoji, Xiaogang Wang and Lídia Morawska.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  4. 4 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k 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 Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma?

The most cited paper in Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma is "Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects" (J. A. Baldwin, Mark M. Phillips, Roberto J. Terlevich, 1981), with 5,209 citations. Next come "Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction" (5,106) and "Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers*" (3,041).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects J. A. Baldwin, Mark M. Phillips, Roberto J. Terlevich · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access Feb 1981 5,209
2 Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction Clare F. Macrae, Ioana Şovago, Simon J. Cottrell et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography Open access 25 Nov 2019 5,106
3 Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers* M. Tabak, J. H. Hammer, Michael E. Glinsky et al. · Physics of Plasmas May 1994 3,041
4 Femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of solids Boris N. Chichkov, Carsten Momma, Stefan Nolte et al. · Applied Physics A Aug 1996 2,956
5 Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators Eric H. Esarey, Carl B. Schroeder, Wim P. Leemans · Reviews of Modern Physics 27 Aug 2009 2,578
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research done?

The largest centres of Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Livermore, Los Alamos and Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 273 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 176 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 104 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 79 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 74 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 68 works
  7. 7 LivermoreUnited States 64 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 57 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 57 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LivermoreUS · 64.0 works57×
  2. Los AlamosUS · 27.2 works23×
  3. MianyangCN · 38.7 works15×
  4. PhagwāraIN · 29.9 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology and Ocean University of China 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 17.41%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ocean University of …Huazhong University …Beijing Institute of…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…
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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
1Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 68.421.4%4.0×29 +8.9%
2Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67.220.5%5.5×26 +17.8%
3Ocean University of ChinaChina 67.230.5%5.6×11 +23.0%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66.512.2%3.1×36 +22.2%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 66.013.3%4.7×33 +9.4%
6Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 65.512.4%15.2×30 +169.5%
7Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 62.617.2%10.3×17 +95.1%
8University of AllahabadIndia 62.016.9%33.9×14 +105.7%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 59.516.3%4.0×26 +15.1%
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 59.113.4%5.8×22 +50.1%

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 Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, country by country

Is Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma 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%Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma9.8% 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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