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Metallurgy and Material Science

Metallurgy and Material Science is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the corrosion behavior, microstructure, cavitation erosion, and tribocorrosion of nickel-aluminium bronze alloys. It also explores the effects of surface modification, friction stir processing, and the machinability of lead-free brass alloys.

  • Nickel-Aluminium Bronze
  • Corrosion
  • Microstructure
  • Cavitation Erosion
  • Friction Stir Processing
  • Machinability
  • Lead-Free Brass
  • Surface Modification
  • Tribocorrosion
  • Wear Behavior
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Metallurgy and Material Science

Which countries lead Metallurgy and Material Science research?

By volume, China and Japan publish the most (408 and 97 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 408 works
  2. 2 Japan 97 works
  3. 3 United States 92 works
  4. 4 India 69 works
  5. 5 Russia 48 works
  6. 6 Germany 40 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 37 works
  8. 8 France 30 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 26 works
  10. 10 Poland 25 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: 46.8%Japan: 11.2%United States: 10.5%India: 7.9%6 others listed: 23.6%47%largest
China408 · 46.8%Japan97 · 11.2%United States92 · 10.5%India69 · 7.9%6 others listed206 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Metallurgy and Material Science research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Science and Technology Beijing publishes the most Metallurgy and Material Science research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 19 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 14 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 12 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  6. 6 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 10 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of EngineeringChina 7 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityChina 7 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 6 works
  10. 10 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Metallurgy and Material Science?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Metallurgy and Material Science include Qiang Zhang and Grant W. Montgomery.

  1. 1 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  2. 2 Grant W. Montgomery Australia 158k 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 Science?

The most cited paper in Metallurgy and Material Science is "Overview no. 76" (Jürgen Hirsch, K. Lücke, 1988), with 593 citations. Next come "STOCHASTIC PROCESSES" (471) and "Stress-corrosion cracking" (470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overview no. 76 Jürgen Hirsch, K. Lücke · Acta Metallurgica Nov 1988 593
2 STOCHASTIC PROCESSES N. G. van Kampen · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 2007 471
3 Stress-corrosion cracking K. Sieradzki, Roger Newman · Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 1987 470
4 ALPORAS Aluminum Foam: Production Process, Properties, and Applications Tetsuji Miyoshi, M. Itoh, Shigeru Akiyama et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials Apr 2000 436
5 Application of cast Al–Si alloys in internal combustion engine components Mousa Javidani, Daniel Larouche · International Materials Reviews Open access 13 Mar 2014 404
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Metallurgy and Material Science research done?

The largest centres of Metallurgy and Material Science research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tokyo and Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 105 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 31 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 20 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 17 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 17 works
  6. 6 ChangshaChina 15 works
  7. 7 ShenyangChina 14 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 14 works
  9. 9 KunmingChina 12 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TokyoJP · 31.5 works3.4×
  2. BeijingCN · 104.8 works2.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Metallurgy and Material Science than the world average.

See Metallurgy and Material Science on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Kunming University of Science and Technology and Central South 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.

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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 89.715.8%24.6×20 +269.4%
2Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.025.0%16.6×10 -
3Central South UniversityChina 29.810.6%6.1×12 +522.3%

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 Science, country by country

Is Metallurgy and Material Science research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Metallurgy and Material Science.

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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 Science as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Metallurgy and Material Science 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%Metallurgy and Material Science10.9% 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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