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Metallurgical and Alloy Processes

Metallurgical and Alloy Processes is a research topic within General Materials Science. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in materials science and engineering, including alloys, phase diagrams, thermodynamics, nanomaterials, crystal growth, mechanical properties, thin films, solid-state phase equilibria, microstructure, and electrochemical properties.

  • Alloys
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Thermodynamics
  • Nanomaterials
  • Crystal Growth
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Thin Films
  • Solid-state Phase Equilibria
  • Microstructure
  • Electrochemical Properties
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metallurgical and Alloy Processes

Which countries lead Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (479 and 143 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 479 works
  2. 2 Russia 143 works
  3. 3 United States 139 works
  4. 4 Japan 102 works
  5. 5 India 71 works
  6. 6 Germany 63 works
  7. 7 France 44 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 35 works
  9. 9 Poland 34 works
  10. 10 South Korea 26 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: 42.1%Russia: 12.6%United States: 12.2%Japan: 9.0%6 others listed: 24.1%42%largest
China479 · 42.1%Russia143 · 12.6%United States139 · 12.2%Japan102 · 9.0%6 others listed273 · 24.1%

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

Which institutions lead Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 64 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 23 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 23 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  6. 6 Tohoku UniversityJapan 20 works
  7. 7 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 16 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 15 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 14 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metallurgical and Alloy Processes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metallurgical and Alloy Processes include Georg Kresse, Yury G. Gogotsi and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  5. 5 Daniel A. Bloch France 190k 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 Metallurgical and Alloy Processes?

The most cited paper in Metallurgical and Alloy Processes is "XCII. Relations between the elastic moduli and the plastic properties of polycrystalline pure metals" (S.F. Pugh, 1954), with 8,669 citations. Next come "The surface energy of metals" (2,755) and "Lead-free Solders in Microelectronics" (1,970).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 XCII. Relations between the elastic moduli and the plastic properties of polycrystalline pure metals S.F. Pugh · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science Aug 1954 8,669
2 The surface energy of metals Levente Vitos, Andrei V. Ruban, Hans L. Skriver et al. · Surface Science Aug 1998 2,755
3 Lead-free Solders in Microelectronics Mulugeta Abtew, Guna S Selvaduray · Materials Science and Engineering R Reports Jun 2000 1,970
4 A theory of the electrical properties of liquid metals T. E. Faber, John Michael Ziman · Philosophical magazine 1965 1,528
5 Theory of Metal Surfaces: Work Function N. D. Lang, Walter Kohn · Physical review. B, Solid state 15 Feb 1971 1,453
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research done?

The largest centres of Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), 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 Sendai, Yekaterinburg and Shenyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 79 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 47 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 29 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 28 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 26 works
  6. 6 ShenyangChina 24 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 23 works
  8. 8 YekaterinburgRussia 21 works
  9. 9 SendaiJapan 20 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SendaiJP · 20.0 works17×
  2. YekaterinburgRU · 20.8 works15×
  3. ShenyangCN · 24.4 works5.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallurgical and Alloy Processes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metallurgical and Alloy Processes?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Central South University and University of Science and Technology Beijing 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 15.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guilin University of…Northwestern Polytec…University of Scienc…Central South Univer…
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 75.023.7%10.7×16 +275.3%
2Central South UniversityChina 72.111.9%9.2×23 +123.4%
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 69.114.4%22.6×23 +12.4%
4Guilin University of Electronic TechnologyChina 66.928.1%28.5×10 +201.5%
5Northeastern UniversityChina 58.515.8%12.7×15 +88.6%
6Shanghai UniversityChina 52.717.8%10.4×10 +40.2%
7Tohoku UniversityJapan 52.17.3%22.6×20 -55.3%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 34.414.0%5.4×12 +115.4%
9Chongqing UniversityChina 29.814.3%6.0×8 -
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 18.08.6%6.7×8 +133.2%

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 Metallurgical and Alloy Processes, country by country

Is Metallurgical and Alloy Processes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006. The fastest-growing topics are Metallurgical and Alloy Processes.

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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 Metallurgical and Alloy Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Metallurgical and Alloy Processes0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Metallurgical and Alloy Processes 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%Metallurgical and Alloy Processes10.7% 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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