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Microstructure and mechanical properties

Microstructure and mechanical properties is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 48k 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 synthesis, characterization, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials, particularly nanocrystalline metals, produced through severe plastic deformation techniques. It explores the effects of grain refinement, grain boundary engineering, and size-dependent deformation mechanisms on the strength and ductility of these materials.

  • Nanocrystalline Materials
  • Severe Plastic Deformation
  • Grain Refinement
  • Strength and Ductility
  • Metal Processing
  • Crystal Plasticity
  • Grain Boundary Engineering
  • Atomistic Simulation
  • Size Effects
  • Deformation Mechanisms
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microstructure and mechanical properties

Which countries lead Microstructure and mechanical properties research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.9k and 605 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.9k works
  2. 2 United States 605 works
  3. 3 India 410 works
  4. 4 Russia 386 works
  5. 5 Japan 362 works
  6. 6 Germany 229 works
  7. 7 France 211 works
  8. 8 South Korea 165 works
  9. 9 Iran 155 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 144 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: 59.6%United States: 9.2%India: 6.2%Russia: 5.8%6 others listed: 19.2%60%largest
China3,939 · 59.6%United States605 · 9.2%India410 · 6.2%Russia386 · 5.8%6 others listed1,266 · 19.2%

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

Which institutions lead Microstructure and mechanical properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Central South University publishes the most Microstructure and mechanical properties research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Central South UniversityChina 231 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 165 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 148 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 138 works
  5. 5 Northeastern UniversityChina 123 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 99 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 98 works
  8. 8 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 94 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 93 works
  10. 10 Chongqing UniversityChina 72 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microstructure and mechanical properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microstructure and mechanical properties include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and Yi Ping Cui.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  10. 10 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k 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 Microstructure and mechanical properties?

The most cited paper in Microstructure and mechanical properties is "Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method" (Michele Parrinello, Ananda Fathur Rahman, 1981), with 20,747 citations. Next come "The Deformation and Ageing of Mild Steel: III Discussion of Results" (7,874) and "Bulk nanostructured materials from severe plastic deformation" (6,495).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Polymorphic transitions in single crystals: A new molecular dynamics method Michele Parrinello, Ananda Fathur Rahman · Journal of Applied Physics Dec 1981 20,747
2 The Deformation and Ageing of Mild Steel: III Discussion of Results E.O. Hall · Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B Open access Sep 1951 7,874
3 Bulk nanostructured materials from severe plastic deformation Ruslan Zufarovich Valiev, Rinat Kadykhanovich Islamgaliev, Igor V. Alexandrov · Progress in Materials Science Mar 2000 6,495
4 Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures Gordon R. Johnson, William H. Cook · Engineering Fracture Mechanics 1985 6,353
5 Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials Marc André Meyers, Avanish Mishra, David John Benson · Progress in Materials Science 18 Nov 2005 4,611
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Microstructure and mechanical properties research done?

The largest centres of Microstructure and mechanical properties research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Changsha (China), 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 Tomsk, Leoben and Changwon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 648 works
  2. 2 ChangshaChina 275 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 257 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 215 works
  5. 5 ShenyangChina 190 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 143 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 142 works
  8. 8 TaiyuanChina 140 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 117 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 28.3 works90×
  2. LeobenAT · 31.2 works39×
  3. ChangwonKR · 23.2 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microstructure and mechanical properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microstructure and mechanical properties?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, City University of Hong Kong and Northeastern 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 18.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Central South Univer…Northeastern Univers…University of Scienc…
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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 76.517.2%18.1×231 +17.3%
2City University of Hong KongChina 64.820.6%4.6×18 +40.0%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 63.015.3%20.7×123 +9.4%
4University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 62.214.2%26.9×138 +8.2%
5Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 62.013.8%9.2×99 +17.5%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 61.820.2%5.2×98 -0.8%
7Shandong UniversityChina 61.016.9%5.8×50 +17.1%
8University of New HampshireUnited States 60.720.6%18.3×11 +0.4%
9Chongqing UniversityChina 59.314.6%10.0×72 +5.4%
10Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.327.9%2.2×13 +16.8%

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 Microstructure and mechanical properties, country by country

Is Microstructure and mechanical properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Microstructure and mechanical properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Microstructure and mechanical properties 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%Microstructure and mechanical properties9.8% 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.

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