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Material Properties and Applications

Material Properties and Applications is a research topic within General Materials Science. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses advancements in materials science and technology, focusing on polymer composite materials, carbon fiber reinforced plastics, metal nanoparticles, and their applications in aerospace engineering. The research also delves into synthesis techniques, structural properties, and the use of adhesive joints in various material compositions.

  • Polymer Composite Materials
  • Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics
  • Metal Nanoparticles
  • Aerospace Applications
  • Adhesive Joints
  • High-Temperature Composite Materials
  • Epoxy Binders
  • Synthesis Techniques
  • Structural Properties
  • Catalytic Conversions
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Material Properties and Applications

Which countries lead Material Properties and Applications research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (2.7k and 876 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 876 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 696 works
  4. 4 United States 591 works
  5. 5 India 338 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 204 works
  7. 7 Poland 197 works
  8. 8 Japan 160 works
  9. 9 Germany 155 works
  10. 10 Belarus 132 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.

Russia: 44.2%China: 14.6%Ukraine: 11.6%United States: 9.9%6 others listed: 19.8%44%largest
Russia2,651 · 44.2%China876 · 14.6%Ukraine696 · 11.6%United States591 · 9.9%6 others listed1,186 · 19.8%

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

Which institutions lead Material Properties and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Material Properties and Applications research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 409 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 122 works
  3. 3 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 85 works
  4. 4 Volgograd State Technical UniversityRussia 81 works
  5. 5 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 77 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58 works
  7. 7 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 52 works
  8. 8 Kurchatov InstituteRussia 51 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 50 works
  10. 10 Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical UniversityRussia 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Material Properties and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Material Properties and Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, Yury G. Gogotsi and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  6. 6 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  10. 10 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k 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 Material Properties and Applications?

The most cited paper in Material Properties and Applications is "Elements of X-Ray Diffraction" (B. D. Cullity, John W. Weymouth, 1957), with 16,537 citations. Next come "Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials" (3,670) and "Mechanics of Composite Materials" (3,214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Elements of X-Ray Diffraction B. D. Cullity, John W. Weymouth · American Journal of Physics Sep 1957 16,537
2 Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials Richard W. Hertzberg, Frank E. Hauser · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology Open access 1977 3,670
3 Mechanics of Composite Materials Robert Morris Jones, C. W. Bert · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Sep 1975 3,214
4 Stability of a Planar Interface During Solidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy William W. Mullins, Robert F. Sekerka · Journal of Applied Physics Feb 1964 3,148
5 A Simple Method of Increasing the Adhesion of Acrylic Filling Materials to Enamel Surfaces Michael G. Buonocore · Journal of Dental Research Dec 1955 2,617
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Material Properties and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Material Properties and Applications research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Komsomol'skiy, Tomsk and Volgograd.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 872 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 243 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 240 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 142 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 116 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 113 works
  7. 7 Kazan’Russia 111 works
  8. 8 MinskBelarus 94 works
  9. 9 VolgogradRussia 91 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Komsomol'skiyRU · 37.0 works81×
  2. TomskRU · 22.4 works71×
  3. VolgogradRU · 90.6 works52×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Material Properties and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Material Properties and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State Transport University, Lublin University of Technology and National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute 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 19.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Saveetha UniversityLublin University of…Tashkent State Trans…National Aerospace U…
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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
1Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 71.928.4%66.1×27 +267.4%
2Lublin University of TechnologyPoland 65.230.2%31.5×19 -15.7%
3National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation InstituteUkraine 59.217.4%67.2×24 +66.1%
4Saveetha UniversityIndia 59.034.8%1.6×10 +359.0%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 56.47.5%6.6×58 +26.3%
6Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 56.113.9%75.0×77 -36.3%
7Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 53.226.3%2.4×18 +191.3%
8National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 52.19.4%52.0×35 +12.4%
9Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 51.86.8%70.4×85 -54.7%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 51.519.1%1.9×21 +189.5%

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 Material Properties and Applications, country by country

Is Material Properties and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Material Properties and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Material Properties and Applications0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Material Properties and Applications 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%Material Properties and Applications10.2% 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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