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Mineral Processing and Grinding

Mineral Processing and Grinding is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the process of comminution in mineral processing, including topics such as mineral liberation analysis, grinding circuits, particle size distribution, DEM modelling, energy efficiency in comminution, stirred media mills, high voltage pulses for ore pre-weakening, ore sorting technologies, and machine learning applications in mineral processing.

  • Comminution
  • Mineral Liberation Analysis
  • Grinding Circuits
  • Particle Size Distribution
  • DEM Modelling
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Stirred Media Mills
  • High Voltage Pulses
  • Ore Sorting
  • Machine Learning
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mineral Processing and Grinding

Which countries lead Mineral Processing and Grinding research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 531 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 531 works
  3. 3 India 494 works
  4. 4 Russia 292 works
  5. 5 Australia 239 works
  6. 6 Brazil 237 works
  7. 7 Canada 214 works
  8. 8 Germany 213 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 172 works
  10. 10 Iran 154 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: 54.7%United States: 9.5%India: 8.8%Russia: 5.2%6 others listed: 21.9%55%largest
China3,068 · 54.7%United States531 · 9.5%India494 · 8.8%Russia292 · 5.2%6 others listed1,228 · 21.9%

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

Which institutions lead Mineral Processing and Grinding research?

By volume in 2022-now, China University of Mining and Technology publishes the most Mineral Processing and Grinding research, followed by Central South University and Northeastern University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 199 works
  2. 2 Central South UniversityChina 157 works
  3. 3 Northeastern UniversityChina 120 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 97 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 83 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 50 works
  8. 8 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 49 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 48 works
  10. 10 Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mineral Processing and Grinding?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mineral Processing and Grinding include Matthias Egger, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k 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 Mineral Processing and Grinding?

The most cited paper in Mineral Processing and Grinding is "Types of gas fluidization" (Derek Geldart, 1973), with 3,461 citations. Next come "Raman microspectroscopy of some iron oxides and oxyhydroxides" (3,152) and "A Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Techniques—Part I: Fault Diagnosis With Model-Based and Signal-Based Approaches" (3,109).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Types of gas fluidization Derek Geldart · Powder Technology May 1973 3,461
2 Raman microspectroscopy of some iron oxides and oxyhydroxides Dalva Lúcia Araújo de Faria, S. Venâncio Silva, Maiara Oliveira · Journal of Raman Spectroscopy Nov 1997 3,152
3 A Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Techniques—Part I: Fault Diagnosis With Model-Based and Signal-Based Approaches Zhiwei Gao, Carlo Cecati, Steven X. Ding · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 27 Mar 2015 3,109
4 Principal component analysis Rasmus Bro, Age K. Smilde · Analytical Methods Open access 2014 2,980
5 Direct least square fitting of ellipses Andrew W Fitzgibbon, Maurizio Pilu, Robert Bob Fisher · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence May 1999 2,768
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mineral Processing and Grinding research done?

The largest centres of Mineral Processing and Grinding research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xuzhou (China), Changsha (China) and Shenyang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Freiberg, Xuzhou and Huainan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 607 works
  2. 2 XuzhouChina 205 works
  3. 3 ChangshaChina 193 works
  4. 4 ShenyangChina 156 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 131 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 120 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 118 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 92 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 82 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FreibergDE · 23.2 works36×
  2. XuzhouCN · 204.8 works29×
  3. HuainanCN · 55.0 works24×
  4. LuleåSE · 20.4 works21×
  5. DhanbadIN · 31.9 works19×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mineral Processing and Grinding than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mineral Processing and Grinding?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, China University of Geosciences and China University of Mining and Technology 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.

0%20%40%mean 20.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China University of …Central South Univer…Northeastern Univers…China University of …
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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
1Central South UniversityChina 73.420.8%12.0×157 +71.7%
2China University of GeosciencesChina 70.327.1%12.4×38 +67.4%
3China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 67.312.1%37.4×199 +40.3%
4Northeastern UniversityChina 65.116.2%19.8×120 +40.5%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 61.438.7%2.2×12 +76.8%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 60.226.7%2.6×48 -4.9%
7University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 58.011.5%18.3×96 +33.1%
8Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.322.6%12.8×49 +375.6%
9Curtin UniversityAustralia 56.616.4%10.6×22 +13.6%
10Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.515.6%12.3×40 +41.9%

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 Mineral Processing and Grinding, country by country

Is Mineral Processing and Grinding research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mineral Processing and Grinding.

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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 Mineral Processing and Grinding as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mineral Processing and Grinding0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mineral Processing and Grinding 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%Mineral Processing and Grinding10.2% 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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