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Material Properties and Processing

Material Properties and Processing is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mechanics and properties of paper materials, including fiber network deformation, elastic-plastic behavior, moisture diffusion, inkjet coating, vibration analysis, and packaging technology. It explores the structural design and performance testing of corrugated board packages, as well as the influence of various factors on the mechanical behavior of paper-based materials.

  • Paper Mechanics
  • Fiber Networks
  • Elastic-Plastic Deformation
  • Corrugated Board
  • Moisture Diffusion
  • Inkjet Coating
  • Vibration Analysis
  • Porous Structures
  • Packaging Technology
  • Material Modeling
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Material Properties and Processing

Which countries lead Material Properties and Processing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (516 and 269 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 516 works
  2. 2 United States 269 works
  3. 3 India 145 works
  4. 4 Germany 128 works
  5. 5 Japan 125 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 111 works
  7. 7 France 82 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 80 works
  9. 9 South Korea 66 works
  10. 10 Poland 65 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: 32.5%United States: 17.0%India: 9.1%Germany: 8.1%6 others listed: 33.3%33%largest
China516 · 32.5%United States269 · 17.0%India145 · 9.1%Germany128 · 8.1%6 others listed529 · 33.3%

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

Which institutions lead Material Properties and Processing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Material Properties and Processing research, followed by Technische Universität Darmstadt and University of Zagreb.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  2. 2 Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 17 works
  3. 3 University of ZagrebCroatia 16 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 14 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 14 works
  6. 6 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 14 works
  7. 7 University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 12 works
  8. 8 South China University of TechnologyChina 11 works
  9. 9 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  10. 10 KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Material Properties and Processing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Material Properties and Processing include Harry Eugene Stanley, Seeram Ramakrishna and David Julian McClements.

  1. 1 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  2. 2 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  3. 3 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  4. 4 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k 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 Processing?

The most cited paper in Material Properties and Processing is "The elasticity and strength of paper and other fibrous materials" (Henry L. Cox, 1952), with 3,588 citations. Next come "Crystal Structure and Hydrogen-Bonding System in Cellulose Iβ from Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction" (3,029) and "Random Heterogeneous Materials: Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties" (1,906).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The elasticity and strength of paper and other fibrous materials Henry L. Cox · British Journal of Applied Physics Mar 1952 3,588
2 Crystal Structure and Hydrogen-Bonding System in Cellulose Iβ from Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Paul A. Langan, Henri Chanzy · Journal of the American Chemical Society 10 Jul 2002 3,029
3 Random Heterogeneous Materials: Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties HW Haslach · Applied Mechanics Reviews Jul 2002 1,906
4 Surfactants and interfacial phenomena Alex Silberberg · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Feb 1990 1,439
5 Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids Aleksandar Donev, Ibrahim Cisse, David Sachs et al. · Science 12 Feb 2004 1,265
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Material Properties and Processing research done?

The largest centres of Material Properties and Processing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Poznań.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 75 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 55 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 41 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 39 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 31 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 31 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 27 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 23 works
  9. 9 PoznańPoland 21 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PoznańPL · 21.0 works8.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Material Properties and Processing on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Life Sciences in Poznań, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Nanjing Forestry 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 16.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Life S…Nanjing Forestry Uni…KTH Royal Institute …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 76.926.8%52.4×12 +115.9%
2KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 70.818.3%12.7×10 -13.6%
3Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 70.524.7%13.9×14 +55.2%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.917.3%3.7×14 +119.1%
5Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 62.15.5%24.5×17 +147.3%
6North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 60.917.0%8.8×10 +38.7%
7South China University of TechnologyChina 52.126.7%4.7×11 +3.8%
8University of ZagrebCroatia 49.50.5%10.7×16 +55.3%
9Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 47.616.5%44.2×10 -17.4%
10Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 38.513.8%13.5×9 +112.3%

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 Processing, country by country

Is Material Properties and Processing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Material Properties and Processing.

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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 Processing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Material Properties and Processing0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Material Properties and Processing 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 Processing10.6% 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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