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Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys

Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 20.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mechanical properties, structure-property relationships, and processing of bulk metallic glasses and amorphous alloys. It covers topics such as glass forming ability, shear bands, nanocrystallization, and the high strength and plastic deformation behavior of metallic glasses.

  • Bulk Metallic Glasses
  • Amorphous Alloys
  • Mechanical Behavior
  • Glass Forming Ability
  • Shear Bands
  • Nanocrystallization
  • Plastic Deformation
  • Structural Properties
  • High Strength Materials
  • Supercooled Liquids
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-5%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (1.3k and 185 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 Russia 185 works
  3. 3 Japan 170 works
  4. 4 United States 170 works
  5. 5 India 118 works
  6. 6 Germany 93 works
  7. 7 France 74 works
  8. 8 South Korea 57 works
  9. 9 Spain 48 works
  10. 10 Poland 43 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: 57.3%Russia: 8.2%Japan: 7.6%United States: 7.6%6 others listed: 19.3%57%largest
China1,282 · 57.3%Russia185 · 8.2%Japan170 · 7.6%United States170 · 7.6%6 others listed432 · 19.3%

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

Which institutions lead Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Tohoku University publishes the most Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Northwestern Polytechnical University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Tohoku UniversityJapan 49 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 46 works
  3. 3 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 35 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 33 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 25 works
  6. 6 Yanshan UniversityChina 22 works
  7. 7 Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 22 works
  8. 8 Shanghai UniversityChina 21 works
  9. 9 Northeastern UniversityChina 20 works
  10. 10 Shandong UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys include J. Häfner, Akihisa Inoue and Dierk Raabe.

  1. 1 J. Häfner Austria 11k citations
  2. 2 Akihisa Inoue Japan 4.7k citations
  3. 3 Dierk Raabe Germany 4.5k citations
  4. 4 Hong Li China 3k citations
  5. 5 G. Shirane United States 2.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research done?

The largest centres of Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dongguan, Sendai and Qinhuangdao.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 237 works
  2. 2 Xi'an China 83 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 71 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 64 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou China 54 works
  6. 6 Sendai Japan 53 works
  7. 7 Moscow Russia 52 works
  8. 8 Wuhan China 43 works
  9. 9 Shenyang China 42 works
  10. 10 Hefei China 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DongguanCN · 32.6 works37×
  2. SendaiJP · 52.9 works25×
  3. QinhuangdaoCN · 22.8 works21×
  4. YekaterinburgRU · 34.3 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys?

Among universities, judged by research, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Tohoku 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%20%40%mean 13.42%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Hangzhou Dianzi University: 11, 39.1%Northwestern Polytechnical University: 35, 10.7%Tohoku University: 49, 2.9%City University of Hong Kong: 11, 20.8%University of Science and Technology Beijing: 33, 10.9%Ural Federal University: 15, 1.1%National University of Science and Technology: 12, 3.8%Anhui University of Technology: 11, 24.5%Shanghai University: 21, 6.1%Dongguan University of Technology: 11, 14.3%Hangzhou Dianzi Univ…City University of H…Northwestern Polytec…Tohoku University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 65.039.1%12.2×11 —
2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 54.310.7%11.7×35 +7.5%
3 Tohoku UniversityJapan 52.12.9%29.6×49 -11.6%
4 City University of Hong KongHong Kong 51.520.8%7.4×11 +36.5%
5 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 50.110.9%16.0×33 -47.4%
6 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 49.61.1%19.6×15 +211.1%
7 National University of Science and TechnologyRussia 49.63.8%64.6×12 +230.9%
8 Anhui University of TechnologyChina 49.324.5%22.4×11 -19.3%
9 Shanghai UniversityChina 49.26.1%11.1×21 +77.4%
10 Dongguan University of TechnologyChina 46.514.3%24.9×11 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2007.

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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.

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.