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Metallurgy and Material Forming

Metallurgy and Material Forming is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 66k 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 phenomenon of dynamic recrystallization in metallic materials under hot, cold, and severe plastic deformation conditions. It includes research on constitutive modeling, flow behavior, microstructural evolution, and nucleation mechanisms at high temperatures. The use of artificial neural networks and processing maps is also explored in predicting and analyzing the dynamic recrystallization process.

  • Dynamic Recrystallization
  • Hot Deformation
  • Constitutive Modeling
  • Metallic Materials
  • Flow Behavior
  • Microstructural Evolution
  • High Temperature
  • Nucleation Mechanisms
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Processing Maps
Research works
66k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metallurgy and Material Forming

Which countries lead Metallurgy and Material Forming research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.9k and 660 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 India 660 works
  3. 3 United States 484 works
  4. 4 Russia 472 works
  5. 5 Germany 446 works
  6. 6 Japan 410 works
  7. 7 South Korea 236 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 189 works
  9. 9 Poland 182 works
  10. 10 France 181 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: 54.4%India: 9.2%United States: 6.8%Russia: 6.6%6 others listed: 23.0%54%largest
China3,896 · 54.4%India660 · 9.2%United States484 · 6.8%Russia472 · 6.6%6 others listed1,645 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Metallurgy and Material Forming research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Science and Technology Beijing publishes the most Metallurgy and Material Forming research, followed by Northeastern University and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 221 works
  2. 2 Northeastern UniversityChina 175 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 130 works
  4. 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 98 works
  5. 5 Yanshan UniversityChina 92 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 85 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 82 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 82 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 75 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 72 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metallurgy and Material Forming?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metallurgy and Material Forming include Wei Huang, Yi Ping Cui and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Metallurgy and Material Forming?

The most cited paper in Metallurgy and Material Forming is "Yielding of steel sheets containing slits" (D.S. Dugdale, 1960), with 7,746 citations. Next come "Continuum Theory of Ductile Rupture by Void Nucleation and Growth: Part I—Yield Criteria and Flow Rules for Porous Ductile Media" (6,700) and "On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗" (4,880).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Yielding of steel sheets containing slits D.S. Dugdale · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids May 1960 7,746
2 Continuum Theory of Ductile Rupture by Void Nucleation and Growth: Part I—Yield Criteria and Flow Rules for Porous Ductile Media A.L. Gurson · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology 1977 6,700
3 On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗ JAMES R. RICE, Dennis M. Tracey · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Jun 1969 4,880
4 A Continuous Damage Mechanics Model for Ductile Fracture Jean Lemaitre · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology Open access 1985 2,939
5 A Criterion for Ductile Fracture by the Growth of Holes FRANK A. McCLINTOCK · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1968 2,802
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Where is Metallurgy and Material Forming research done?

The largest centres of Metallurgy and Material Forming research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shenyang (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Qinhuangdao and Anshan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 743 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 250 works
  3. 3 ShenyangChina 248 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 229 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 170 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 167 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 151 works
  8. 8 TaiyuanChina 147 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 131 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 125 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QinhuangdaoCN · 93.9 works25×
  2. AnshanCN · 34.4 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallurgy and Material Forming than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Metallurgy and Material Forming?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Northeastern University and University of New Hampshire 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.

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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
1Central South UniversityChina 72.224.5%8.5×130 +42.8%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 67.720.7%24.6×175 +56.9%
3University of New HampshireUnited States 66.630.9%16.1×12 +28.3%
4Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 64.122.6%10.8×98 +4.2%
5University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 63.512.9%35.7×221 +67.3%
6Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 61.319.8%6.3×82 +25.1%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59.019.0%3.6×82 +17.6%
8Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 56.927.9%6.0×21 +67.3%
9Yanshan UniversityChina 56.313.6%33.1×92 +29.5%
10Chongqing UniversityChina 55.914.7%7.7×67 +58.5%

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 Metallurgy and Material Forming, country by country

Is Metallurgy and Material Forming research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Metallurgy and Material Forming.

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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 Metallurgy and Material Forming as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Metallurgy and Material Forming 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.

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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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