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Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 58k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of research on upconversion nanoparticles, including their synthesis, applications in biological imaging and theranostics, enhancement of solar cell efficiency, temperature sensing capabilities, utilization of rare earth ions, and their role in photon upconversion for solid-state lighting.

  • Upconversion Nanoparticles
  • Luminescent Materials
  • Nanocrystal Synthesis
  • Biological Imaging
  • Theranostics
  • Solar Cell Efficiency
  • Temperature Sensing
  • Rare Earth Ions
  • Photon Upconversion
  • Solid-State Lighting
Research works
58k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Which countries lead Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 Russia 662 works
  4. 4 United States 468 works
  5. 5 Japan 417 works
  6. 6 France 242 works
  7. 7 South Korea 234 works
  8. 8 Poland 223 works
  9. 9 Brazil 200 works
  10. 10 Germany 187 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: 55.3%India: 15.5%Russia: 7.3%United States: 5.2%6 others listed: 16.7%55%largest
China4,983 · 55.3%India1,397 · 15.5%Russia662 · 7.3%United States468 · 5.2%6 others listed1,502 · 16.7%

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

Which institutions lead Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 416 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 306 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 125 works
  4. 4 China Jiliang UniversityChina 93 works
  5. 5 Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 90 works
  6. 6 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 86 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 85 works
  8. 8 Guangxi UniversityChina 72 works
  9. 9 Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityIndia 66 works
  10. 10 Jilin UniversityChina 65 works

Who are the leading researchers in Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  5. 5 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  8. 8 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k 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 Properties of Advanced Materials?

The most cited paper in Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials is "A Theory of Sensitized Luminescence in Solids" (David L. Dexter, 1953), with 9,011 citations. Next come "Semiconducting Tin and Lead Iodide Perovskites with Organic Cations: Phase Transitions, High Mobilities, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescent Properties" (5,440) and "How To Correctly Determine the Band Gap Energy of Modified Semiconductor Photocatalysts Based on UV–Vis Spectra" (5,185).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Theory of Sensitized Luminescence in Solids David L. Dexter · The Journal of Chemical Physics May 1953 9,011
2 Semiconducting Tin and Lead Iodide Perovskites with Organic Cations: Phase Transitions, High Mobilities, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescent Properties Constantinos C. Stoumpos, Christos D. Malliakas, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis · Inorganic Chemistry 8 Jul 2013 5,440
3 How To Correctly Determine the Band Gap Energy of Modified Semiconductor Photocatalysts Based on UV–Vis Spectra Patrycja Makuła, Michał Pacia, Wojciech Macyk · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Open access 6 Dec 2018 5,185
4 Upconversion and Anti-Stokes Processes with f and d Ions in Solids Francois E. Auzel · Chemical Reviews Review 18 Nov 2003 5,085
5 Mechanisms behind green photoluminescence in ZnO phosphor powders K. Vanheusden, William L. Warren, Carl H. Seager et al. · Journal of Applied Physics 15 May 1996 3,691
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Where is Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 577 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 282 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 254 works
  4. 4 ChangchunChina 240 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 216 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 191 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 179 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 147 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 135 works
  10. 10 DalianChina 131 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nakhon PathomTH · 25.9 works89×
  2. IkomaJP · 63.2 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, South China University of Technology, Zhejiang Normal University and Sun Yat-sen University score highest, combining citation 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 25.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →South China Universi…University of Scienc…Sun Yat-sen UniversityZhejiang Normal Univ…
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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.

Citation 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
1South China University of TechnologyChina 88.836.0%8.0×84 +21.7%
2Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 74.124.9%13.2×36 +122.4%
3Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 73.430.2%2.8×57 +33.6%
4University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 71.230.8%4.8×36 +18.0%
5Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 66.622.2%10.3×56 +91.4%
6Guizhou UniversityChina 66.120.6%10.0×50 +446.5%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 65.715.1%12.3×72 +277.2%
8Fudan UniversityChina 65.523.9%1.9×28 +41.4%
9Chongqing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 64.625.8%10.8×30 +47.2%
10Maharshi Dayanand UniversityIndia 64.521.6%36.3×40 +28.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Properties of Advanced Materials, country by country

Is Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Luminescence Properties of Advanced 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 Properties of Advanced Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.048% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Luminescence Properties of Advanced 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%15%Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials9.7% 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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