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Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 39k 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 advancements in liquid crystal research, focusing on self-organized soft materials, photoinduced motions, functional liquid crystalline assemblies, optoelectronic applications, nanoparticles in liquid crystals, colloidal crystals, polymer-stabilized blue phases, chiral nematic phases, and nanostructured materials.

  • Liquid Crystals
  • Self-Organization
  • Photoinduced Motions
  • Functional Materials
  • Optoelectronic Applications
  • Nanoparticles
  • Colloidal Crystals
  • Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phases
  • Chiral Nematic Phases
  • Nanostructured Materials
Research works
39k
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
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Which countries lead Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 391 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 391 works
  3. 3 India 380 works
  4. 4 Japan 308 works
  5. 5 Russia 151 works
  6. 6 South Korea 147 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 143 works
  8. 8 Germany 119 works
  9. 9 France 117 works
  10. 10 Poland 103 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: 36.8%United States: 13.3%India: 12.9%Japan: 10.5%6 others listed: 26.5%37%largest
China1,080 · 36.8%United States391 · 13.3%India380 · 12.9%Japan308 · 10.5%6 others listed780 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 74 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 61 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 50 works
  4. 4 Kent State UniversityUnited States 35 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 27 works
  6. 6 Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 27 works
  7. 7 Soochow UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 23 works
  9. 9 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 21 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Liquid Crystal Research Advancements?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Ben Zhong Tang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  4. 4 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  5. 5 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  8. 8 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  9. 9 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  10. 10 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k 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 Liquid Crystal Research Advancements?

The most cited paper in Liquid Crystal Research Advancements is "The Physics of Liquid Crystals" (Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Jacques Prost, Robert A. Pelcovits, 1995), with 9,805 citations. Next come "Hirshfeld surface analysis" (8,008) and "A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics" (6,965).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Physics of Liquid Crystals Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Jacques Prost, Robert A. Pelcovits · Physics Today May 1995 9,805
2 Hirshfeld surface analysis Mark A. Spackman, Dylan Jayatilaka · CrystEngComm 21 Nov 2008 8,008
3 A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics Éric Cancès, Benedetta Mennucci, J. Tomasi · The Journal of Chemical Physics 22 Aug 1997 6,965
4 Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide): experiment, theory and application Howard G. Schild · Progress in Polymer Science 1992 5,139
5 Formation of Glasses from Liquids and Biopolymers C. A. Angell · Science 31 Mar 1995 4,811
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research done?

The largest centres of Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kent and Eindhoven.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 221 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 85 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 66 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 64 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 63 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 57 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 52 works
  9. 9 HefeiChina 48 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KentUS · 35.7 works77×
  2. EindhovenNL · 22.6 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Liquid Crystal Research Advancements than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Liquid Crystal Research Advancements?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing University, Anhui Jianzhu University and University of Science and Technology Beijing 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 23.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Anhui Jianzhu Univer…Nanjing UniversitySoochow UniversityUniversity 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
1Nanjing UniversityChina 62.735.1%6.3×19 +82.8%
2Anhui Jianzhu UniversityChina 62.141.0%40.3×12 -
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 58.515.2%10.8×27 +89.7%
4Soochow UniversityChina 58.421.4%7.5×24 +78.3%
5Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 57.211.8%17.9×20 -3.9%
6Pohang University of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 57.127.5%19.2×13 +148.4%
7University of AberdeenUnited Kingdom 57.124.5%12.8×9 +15.2%
8Kent State UniversityUnited States 56.115.2%87.8×35 -20.4%
9South China University of TechnologyChina 55.724.1%5.2×18 +155.1%
10University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 54.819.6%9.1×17 +13.5%

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 Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, country by country

Is Liquid Crystal Research Advancements research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Liquid Crystal Research Advancements as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Liquid Crystal Research Advancements0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Liquid Crystal Research Advancements 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%Liquid Crystal Research Advancements9.8% 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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