Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Topic · Mechanical Engineering

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. 9.9% 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%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys

Which countries lead Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research?

By volume, China and Japan publish the most (1.6k and 206 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 Japan 206 works
  3. 3 United States 205 works
  4. 4 Russia 203 works
  5. 5 India 152 works
  6. 6 Germany 113 works
  7. 7 France 85 works
  8. 8 South Korea 66 works
  9. 9 Spain 55 works
  10. 10 Poland 50 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: 58.2%Japan: 7.6%United States: 7.5%Russia: 7.5%6 others listed: 19.2%58%largest
China1,584 · 58.2%Japan206 · 7.6%United States205 · 7.5%Russia203 · 7.5%6 others listed522 · 19.2%

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

Which institutions lead Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Tohoku University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 151 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 86 works
  3. 3 Tohoku UniversityJapan 58 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 39 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 29 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 25 works
  9. 9 Shanghai UniversityChina 25 works
  10. 10 Yanshan UniversityChina 24 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Jean‐Louis Vincent.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Jürgen Furthmüller Germany 217k citations
  7. 7 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Daniel A. Bloch France 190k citations
  10. 10 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys?

The most cited paper in Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys is "Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys" (Brian Cantor, Isaac T. H. Chang, Peter A. Knight et al., 2004), with 10,220 citations. Next come "Mechanical alloying and milling" (8,056) and "Stabilization of metallic supercooled liquid and bulk amorphous alloys" (5,897).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys Brian Cantor, Isaac T. H. Chang, Peter A. Knight et al. · Materials Science and Engineering A 2 Jan 2004 10,220
2 Mechanical alloying and milling Challapalli Suryanarayana · Progress in Materials Science 2001 8,056
3 Stabilization of metallic supercooled liquid and bulk amorphous alloys Akihisa Inoue · Acta Materialia 2000 5,897
4 Classification of Bulk Metallic Glasses by Atomic Size Difference, Heat of Mixing and Period of Constituent Elements and Its Application to Characterization of the Main Alloying Element Akira Takeuchi, Akihisa Inoue · MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS Open access 2005 4,952
5 Solid‐Solution Phase Formation Rules for Multi‐component Alloys Yong Zhang, Yuefei Zhou, Jianwei Lin et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials Jun 2008 3,491
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research done?

The largest centres of Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 284 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 101 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 86 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 73 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 63 works
  6. 6 SendaiJapan 61 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 59 works
  8. 8 ShenyangChina 52 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 50 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DongguanCN · 37.7 works34×
  2. SendaiJP · 61.1 works24×
  3. QinhuangdaoCN · 25.0 works19×
  4. YekaterinburgRU · 36.7 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys than the world average.

See Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, Hangzhou Dianzi University, University of Science and Technology Beijing and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 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 21.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hangzhou Dianzi Univ…City University of H…University of Chines…University of Scienc…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 70.437.7%15.9×15 +549.6%
2University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 57.415.2%17.7×39 +13.8%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57.225.1%4.6×22 +21.0%
4City University of Hong KongChina 56.428.4%7.8×13 -1.0%
5Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 52.819.7%4.7×23 +16.1%
6South China University of TechnologyChina 52.820.8%6.9×21 +99.9%
7Tohoku UniversityJapan 51.93.7%30.6×58 -44.2%
8Xiangtan UniversityChina 49.623.0%21.8×15 +68.6%
9Anhui University of TechnologyChina 49.223.3%24.5×13 +155.5%
10Dongguan University of TechnologyChina 48.217.9%27.4×14 +137.4%

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 Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys, country by country

Is Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2007.

still counting19801990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys 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%Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys9.8% 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.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys. Posts are plain text and can be reported.