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Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts

Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1950. 16.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the archaeometallurgical study of ancient iron production, including the analysis of iron artifacts, slag inclusions, and smelting processes. It involves provenance research, metallographic studies, and the examination of historical ironworking techniques.

  • Iron Production
  • Archaeological Analysis
  • Metallographic Study
  • Provenance Research
  • Ancient Metallurgy
  • Smelting Processes
  • Iron Artifacts
  • Slag Inclusions
  • Historical Ironworking
  • Metallurgical Investigation
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+60%
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Which countries lead Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research?

By volume, Türkiye and France publish the most (315 and 293 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Türkiye 315 works
  2. 2 France 293 works
  3. 3 Russia 211 works
  4. 4 China 147 works
  5. 5 United States 129 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 109 works
  7. 7 Germany 54 works
  8. 8 Hungary 44 works
  9. 9 India 38 works
  10. 10 Italy 34 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.

Türkiye: 22.9%France: 21.3%Russia: 15.3%China: 10.7%6 others listed: 29.7%23%largest
Türkiye315 · 22.9%France293 · 21.3%Russia211 · 15.3%China147 · 10.7%6 others listed408 · 29.7%

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

Which institutions lead Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives publishes the most Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research, followed by University of Science and Technology Beijing and Department of Archaeology.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques PréventivesFrance 26 works
  2. 2 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 25 works
  3. 3 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 19 works
  4. 4 Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les SociétésFrance 16 works
  5. 5 Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériauxFrance 15 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  7. 7 Amt für ArchäologieSwitzerland 12 works
  8. 8 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 12 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of EngineeringChina 11 works
  10. 10 Constructing ExcellenceUnited Kingdom 9 works

Where is Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research done?

The largest centres of Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz and Yerevan.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 86 works
  2. 2 Moscow Russia 68 works
  3. 3 Paris France 64 works
  4. 4 Istanbul Türkiye 48 works
  5. 5 Ankara Türkiye 47 works
  6. 6 London United Kingdom 35 works
  7. 7 Yerevan Armenia 32 works
  8. 8 Budapest Hungary 31 works
  9. 9 Metz France 26 works
  10. 10 Saint Petersburg Russia 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MetzFR · 26.0 works193×
  2. YerevanAM · 32.1 works36×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts?

Among universities, judged by research, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Ankara 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%mean 11.6833%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University: 12, 20.5%Ankara University: 9, 13.3%University of Science and Technology Beijing: 24, 9.4%Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi: 8, 17.6%Yerevan State University: 8, 9.3%Weatherford College: 9, 0.0%Ankara Hacı Bayram V…Çanakkale Onsekiz Ma…Ankara UniversityUniversity of Scienc…
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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 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 65.920.5%43.3×12 —
2 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 61.713.3%9.9×9 +301.7%
3 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 58.99.4%15.8×24 -59.7%
4 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 56.817.6%17.2×8 —
5 Yerevan State UniversityArmenia 46.19.3%41.4×8 —
6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 9.40.0%3.3×9 —

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 Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 60% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts.

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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.