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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. 16.8% 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%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+35%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Lubricants and Their Additives research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.6k and 643 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 India 643 works
  3. 3 United States 244 works
  4. 4 Japan 142 works
  5. 5 Russia 140 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 132 works
  7. 7 Germany 129 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 112 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 95 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 95 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: 47.8%India: 19.4%United States: 7.4%Japan: 4.3%6 others listed: 21.2%48%largest
China1,585 · 47.8%India643 · 19.4%United States244 · 7.4%Japan142 · 4.3%6 others listed702 · 21.2%

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

Which institutions lead Lubricants and Their Additives research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Lubricants and Their Additives research, followed by Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics and Tsinghua University.

Who are the leading researchers in Lubricants and Their Additives?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lubricants and Their Additives include Xinliang Feng and Hong Li.

  1. 1 Xinliang Feng Germany 3k citations
  2. 2 Hong Li China 3k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Lubricants and Their Additives research done?

The largest centres of Lubricants and Their Additives research in 2022–2025 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 Lanzhou and Johor Bahru.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 308 works
  2. 2 Xi'an China 114 works
  3. 3 Lanzhou China 92 works
  4. 4 Chennai India 86 works
  5. 5 Wuhan China 84 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 71 works
  7. 7 Qingdao China 63 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 60 works
  9. 9 Moscow Russia 55 works
  10. 10 Nanjing China 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LanzhouCN · 92.2 works9.8×
  2. Johor BahruMY · 22.0 works9.5×
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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, Wuhan University of Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University and Tsinghua 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 25.23%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Wuhan University of Technology: 42, 22.1%Southwest Jiaotong University: 27, 33.7%Tsinghua University: 59, 28.4%Northwestern Polytechnical University: 28, 40.1%Yantai University: 13, 31.4%Luleå University of Technology: 9, 27.8%Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad: 9, 21.8%Qingdao University of Technology: 14, 25.0%Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah: 15, 10.9%University of Technology Malaysia: 22, 11.1%Northwestern Polytec…Southwest Jiaotong U…Tsinghua UniversityWuhan University of …
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 64.722.1%11.4×42 +69.4%
2 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 63.733.7%7.7×27 +73.5%
3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 62.928.4%6.7×59 +36.8%
4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 62.040.1%5.4×28 +60.3%
5 Yantai UniversityChina 60.231.4%14.0×13
6 Luleå University of TechnologySweden 59.527.8%16.4×9 +23.9%
7 Indian Institute of Technology DhanbadIndia 57.121.8%9.6×9 +768.8%
8 Qingdao University of TechnologyChina 55.525.0%18.8×14 +40.0%
9 Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan AbdullahMalaysia 54.610.9%16.0×15 +138.6%
10 University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia 51.911.1%10.1×22 +19.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Lubricants and Their Additives research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.