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Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications is a research topic within Inorganic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 focuses on the chemistry, applications, and properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). It covers topics such as gas adsorption, catalysis, methane storage, crystal engineering, chemical sensors, drug delivery, CO2 capture, and heterogeneous catalysis. The research explores the synthesis, structure, and potential industrial and biomedical applications of MOFs.

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Porous Materials
  • Gas Adsorption
  • Catalysis
  • Methane Storage
  • Crystal Engineering
  • Chemical Sensors
  • Drug Delivery
  • CO2 Capture
  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Which countries lead Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (9.8k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 9.8k works
  2. 2 India 1.5k works
  3. 3 United States 1.1k works
  4. 4 Iran 613 works
  5. 5 Japan 471 works
  6. 6 South Korea 425 works
  7. 7 Germany 406 works
  8. 8 France 365 works
  9. 9 Russia 332 works
  10. 10 Spain 321 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: 64.2%India: 9.6%United States: 7.1%Iran: 4.0%6 others listed: 15.1%64%largest
China9,843 · 64.2%India1,475 · 9.6%United States1,085 · 7.1%Iran613 · 4.0%6 others listed2,320 · 15.1%

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

Which institutions lead Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 609 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 198 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 182 works
  4. 4 Jilin UniversityChina 161 works
  5. 5 Nankai UniversityChina 131 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 119 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 109 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 109 works
  9. 9 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 107 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 105 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications include Michaël Grätzel, Georg Kresse and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications?

The most cited paper in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications is "The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks" (Hiroyasu Furukawa, Kyle E. Cordova, Michael O'Keeffe et al., 2013), with 17,052 citations. Next come "Functional Porous Coordination Polymers" (11,069) and "Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials" (9,123).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks Hiroyasu Furukawa, Kyle E. Cordova, Michael O'Keeffe et al. · Science 29 Aug 2013 17,052
2 Functional Porous Coordination Polymers Susumu Kitagawa, Ryo Kitaura, Shin‐ichiro Noro · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 22 Apr 2004 11,069
3 Reticular synthesis and the design of new materials Omar M. Yaghi, Michael O'Keeffe, Nathan W. Ockwig et al. · Nature Jun 2003 9,123
4 Selective gas adsorption and separation in metal–organic frameworks Jian‐Rong Li, Ryan J. Kuppler, Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2009 8,940
5 Design and synthesis of an exceptionally stable and highly porous metal-organic framework Hailian Li, Mohamed Eddaoudi, M. O’Keeffe et al. · Nature Open access Nov 1999 8,545
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Where is Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Tianjin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changchun, Siping and Fushun.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.2k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 494 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 481 works
  4. 4 TianjinChina 434 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 370 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 317 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 307 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 305 works
  9. 9 FuzhouChina 281 works
  10. 10 ChangchunChina 277 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Changchun48.7 works30×
  2. SipingCN · 24.2 works23×
  3. FushunCN · 22.5 works17×
  4. ShanxiCN · 24.9 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Nankai University and National University of Singapore 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 19.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Shangh…City University of H…National University …Nankai University
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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 Shanghai for Science and TechnologyChina 67.232.2%3.6×25 +133.7%
2Nankai UniversityChina 66.616.6%11.9×131 +17.0%
3National University of SingaporeSingapore 65.521.7%3.5×66 +2.5%
4City University of Hong KongChina 63.528.4%2.8×26 +70.7%
5Jilin UniversityChina 63.314.1%8.7×161 +11.1%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.814.9%4.2×109 +25.4%
7Fuzhou UniversityChina 61.612.6%11.5×102 +35.3%
8Yangzhou UniversityChina 61.519.2%6.5×57 +46.9%
9Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 61.314.7%3.0×101 +31.0%
10University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61.319.0%3.4×65 +49.8%

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 Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, country by country

Is Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications.

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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 Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.078% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications0.074% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis 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%Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications9.6% 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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