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Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the phenomenon of aggregation-induced emission in fluorescent materials, exploring its applications in chemical sensors, organic nanoparticles, room-temperature phosphorescence, BODIPY dyes, mechanochromic luminescence, photodynamic therapy, triplet excited states, and bioimaging.

  • Aggregation-Induced Emission
  • Fluorescent Materials
  • Chemical Sensors
  • Organic Nanoparticles
  • Room-Temperature Phosphorescence
  • BODIPY Dyes
  • Mechanochromic Luminescence
  • Photodynamic Therapy
  • Triplet Excited States
  • Bioimaging
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Which countries lead Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (8.1k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8.1k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 United States 710 works
  4. 4 Japan 700 works
  5. 5 South Korea 381 works
  6. 6 Germany 325 works
  7. 7 France 274 works
  8. 8 Russia 264 works
  9. 9 ?? 237 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 222 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: 64.5%India: 10.8%United States: 5.6%Japan: 5.6%6 others listed: 13.5%64%largest
China8,133 · 64.5%India1,367 · 10.8%United States710 · 5.6%Japan700 · 5.6%6 others listed1,703 · 13.5%

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

Which institutions lead Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research, followed by Jilin University and South China University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 507 works
  2. 2 Jilin UniversityChina 214 works
  3. 3 South China University of TechnologyChina 168 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 152 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 125 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 105 works
  7. 7 Nankai UniversityChina 105 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 103 works
  9. 9 Soochow UniversityChina 101 works
  10. 10 Shenzhen UniversityChina 98 works

Who are the leading researchers in Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Heng Li.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials?

The most cited paper in Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials is "Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole" (Jingdong Luo, Zhiliang Xie, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al., 2001), with 8,370 citations. Next come "Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar!" (8,309) and "Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence" (8,278).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole Jingdong Luo, Zhiliang Xie, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. · Chemical Communications 2001 8,370
2 Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, United We Soar! Ju Mei, Nelson L. C. Leung, Ryan T. K. Kwok et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 22 Oct 2015 8,309
3 Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence H. Uoyama, Kenichi Goushi, Katsuyuki Shizu et al. · Nature Open access Dec 2012 8,278
4 Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Jianhui Xia · Chemical Reviews Review Sep 2001 7,622
5 Highly efficient phosphorescent emission from organic electroluminescent devices Marc A. Baldo, Diarmuid F. O’Brien, Yujian You et al. · Nature Sep 1998 7,240
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Where is Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research done?

The largest centres of Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changchun, Ivanovo and Guangzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 484 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 445 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 413 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 309 works
  6. 6 ShenzhenChina 287 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 278 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 270 works
  9. 9 ChangchunChina 267 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 243 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Changchun69.6 works56×
  2. IvanovoRU · 25.5 works20×
  3. Guangzhou28.8 works19×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen University and Beijing Normal 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%10%20%30%mean 20.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beijing Normal Unive…Chinese University o…Shenzhen UniversitySouth China Universi…
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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
1Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenChina 81.522.9%36.1×82 +621.8%
2Shenzhen UniversityChina 78.022.0%10.8×98 +56.5%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 75.825.1%7.1×70 +70.7%
4South China University of TechnologyChina 75.017.5%12.4×168 +25.8%
5Jilin UniversityChina 73.516.3%15.0×214 +14.9%
6City University of Hong KongChina 73.523.6%4.6×33 +22.7%
7Zhengzhou UniversityChina 71.520.6%6.4×96 +55.6%
8University of MacauChina 70.627.7%3.8×15 +38.1%
9Nankai UniversityChina 69.416.1%12.3×104 +25.2%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 68.616.7%5.1×103 +24.0%

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 Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, country by country

Is Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

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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 Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.060% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials 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%Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials9.6% 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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