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Lubricants and Their Additives

Lubricants and Their Additives is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the tribological properties, including friction and wear, of various lubricants and additives such as nanoparticles, ionic liquids, and graphene. It also explores the development of biodegradable and renewable resource-based lubricants for environmentally friendly applications.

  • Lubricants
  • Tribology
  • Nanoparticles
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Graphene
  • Additives
  • Friction
  • Wear
  • Biodegradable
  • Renewable Resources
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Lubricants and Their Additives

Which countries lead Lubricants and Their Additives research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.8k and 748 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 India 748 works
  3. 3 United States 286 works
  4. 4 Japan 154 works
  5. 5 Russia 153 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 151 works
  7. 7 Germany 143 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 135 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 110 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 108 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: 47.6%India: 19.7%United States: 7.5%Japan: 4.1%6 others listed: 21.1%48%largest
China1,803 · 47.6%India748 · 19.7%United States286 · 7.5%Japan154 · 4.1%6 others listed801 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Lubricants and Their Additives research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Lubricants and Their Additives research, followed by Tsinghua University and Wuhan University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 197 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 64 works
  3. 3 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 45 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 40 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 38 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 31 works
  7. 7 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 31 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 28 works
  9. 9 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 28 works
  10. 10 University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Lubricants and Their Additives?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lubricants and Their Additives include Zhong Lin Wang, Yury G. Gogotsi and Yi Ping Cui.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  7. 7 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  8. 8 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  9. 9 Avelino Corma Spain 176k citations
  10. 10 Douglas Scott Canada 172k 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 Lubricants and Their Additives?

The most cited paper in Lubricants and Their Additives is "Biodiesel production: a review1Journal Series #12109, Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.1" (Fangrui Ma, Milford A. Hanna, 1999), with 5,241 citations. Next come "Technical aspects of biodiesel production by transesterification—a review" (3,270) and "The properties and applications of nanodiamonds" (2,765).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biodiesel production: a review1Journal Series #12109, Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.1 Fangrui Ma, Milford A. Hanna · Bioresource Technology Oct 1999 5,241
2 Technical aspects of biodiesel production by transesterification—a review Lekha Charan Meher, D VIDYASAGAR, S.N. Naik · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 10 Dec 2004 3,270
3 The properties and applications of nanodiamonds Vadym N. Mochalin, Olga A. Shenderova, Dean Ho et al. · Nature Nanotechnology 18 Dec 2011 2,765
4 Dependence of biodiesel fuel properties on the structure of fatty acid alkyl esters Gerhard Knothe · Fuel Processing Technology 29 Dec 2004 2,331
5 Influence of tribology on global energy consumption, costs and emissions Kenneth Holmberg, Ali Erdemir · Friction Open access Sep 2017 2,214
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Where is Lubricants and Their Additives research done?

The largest centres of Lubricants and Their Additives research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Lanzhou (China) and Chennai (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Johor Bahru.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 345 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 130 works
  3. 3 LanzhouChina 103 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 100 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 92 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 82 works
  7. 7 QingdaoChina 71 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 66 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 61 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Johor BahruMY · 25.8 works9.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Lubricants and Their Additives than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Lubricants and Their Additives?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Tsinghua University and Saveetha University 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 21.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Saveetha UniversitySouthwest Jiaotong U…Tsinghua 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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 78.631.7%5.9×31 +109.6%
2Tsinghua UniversityChina 77.017.6%6.1×64 +21.5%
3Saveetha UniversityIndia 72.629.1%4.1×18 +171.8%
4Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 72.025.8%8.0×28 +122.4%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69.021.7%3.8×28 +22.9%
6Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 64.113.3%12.2×45 +59.6%
7National Institute Of Technology SilcharIndia 61.229.1%11.8×9 +114.5%
8Yantai UniversityChina 60.722.5%16.0×15 +540.4%
9University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia 56.09.4%11.8×25 +35.8%
10Qingdao University of TechnologyChina 55.016.1%20.6×15 +117.6%

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 Lubricants and Their Additives, country by country

Is Lubricants and Their Additives research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Lubricants and Their Additives.

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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 Lubricants and Their Additives as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Lubricants and Their Additives 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.

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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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