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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advancements in high-strength steel materials, particularly related to microstructure, martensite transformation, austenite stability, strain hardening, TRIP/TWIP steels, dislocation density, nanoprecipitation, bainite formation, and grain refinement.

  • High-Strength Steels
  • Microstructure
  • Martensite Transformation
  • Austenite Stability
  • Strain Hardening
  • TRIP/TWIP Steels
  • Dislocation Density
  • Nanoprecipitation
  • Bainite Formation
  • Grain Refinement
Research works
51k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels

Which countries lead Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.5k and 538 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.5k works
  2. 2 India 538 works
  3. 3 Japan 468 works
  4. 4 Russia 403 works
  5. 5 United States 363 works
  6. 6 Germany 310 works
  7. 7 South Korea 235 works
  8. 8 France 169 works
  9. 9 Brazil 161 works
  10. 10 Poland 153 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: 55.4%India: 8.6%Japan: 7.5%Russia: 6.4%6 others listed: 22.2%55%largest
China3,473 · 55.4%India538 · 8.6%Japan468 · 7.5%Russia403 · 6.4%6 others listed1,390 · 22.2%

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

Which institutions lead Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Science and Technology Beijing publishes the most Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research, followed by Northeastern University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 317 works
  2. 2 Northeastern UniversityChina 260 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 135 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 106 works
  5. 5 Yanshan UniversityChina 87 works
  6. 6 Shanghai UniversityChina 85 works
  7. 7 Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 84 works
  8. 8 China Iron and Steel Research Institute GroupChina 82 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 68 works
  10. 10 Central South UniversityChina 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels 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 Jürgen Furthmüller Germany 217k citations
  6. 6 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  7. 7 Masayuki P. Yamamoto Japan 162k citations
  8. 8 Han Zhang China 161k 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 of Steels?

The most cited paper in Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels is "The Deformation and Ageing of Mild Steel: III Discussion of Results" (E.O. Hall, 1951), with 7,874 citations. Next come "Physical metallurgy of Ti–Ni-based shape memory alloys" (4,640) and "New Fe-based soft magnetic alloys composed of ultrafine grain structure" (3,439).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Physical metallurgy of Ti–Ni-based shape memory alloys Kazuhiro Otsuka, Xiaobing Ren · Progress in Materials Science 13 Jan 2005 4,640
3 New Fe-based soft magnetic alloys composed of ultrafine grain structure Yoshihito Yoshizawa, S Oguma, Kenta Yamauchi · Journal of Applied Physics 15 Nov 1988 3,439
4 Physics and phenomenology of strain hardening: the FCC case U.F. Kocks, Heinrich Mecking · Progress in Materials Science 28 Dec 2002 3,293
5 Dynamic and post-dynamic recrystallization under hot, cold and severe plastic deformation conditions Taku Sakai, Andrey N. Belyakov, Rustam O. Kaibyshev et al. · Progress in Materials Science Open access Oct 2013 2,801
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Where is Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research done?

The largest centres of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shenyang (China), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Anshan, Baotou and Leoben.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 834 works
  2. 2 ShenyangChina 326 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 255 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 144 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 141 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 138 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 111 works
  8. 8 TaiyuanChina 102 works
  9. 9 MumbaiIndia 92 works
  10. 10 QinhuangdaoChina 86 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AnshanCN · 66.8 works53×
  2. BaotouCN · 47.8 works31×
  3. LeobenAT · 25.1 works31×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeastern University, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and University of Science and Technology Beijing score highest, combining citation 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.

Citation 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
1Northeastern UniversityChina 66.017.4%42.5×260 +18.6%
2Indian Institute of Technology JodhpurIndia 65.138.5%13.4×12 +50.0%
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 61.413.1%59.5×317 +15.3%
4Yanshan UniversityChina 55.516.4%36.6×87 +42.9%
5University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.221.7%4.1×33 +53.0%
6Wuhan University of Science and TechnologyChina 51.313.5%36.5×84 +27.7%
7Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 51.321.4%8.3×28 +18.5%
8Shanghai UniversityChina 49.98.9%17.4×86 +40.7%
9Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 48.318.1%5.6×44 +52.5%
10Central South UniversityChina 47.511.8%4.5×59 +81.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 of Steels, country by country

Is Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels.

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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 of Steels as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels 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 Properties of Steels9.7% 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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