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Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Mineralogy and Gemology Studies is a research topic within Geochemistry and Petrology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the geochemistry and petrology of various gemstones, including the use of Raman spectroscopy, identification of nanoinclusions, behavior of water molecules, and the formation processes of opals, beryl, sapphires, and jade.

  • Gemstones
  • Geochemistry
  • Petrology
  • Raman Spectroscopy
  • Nanoinclusions
  • Water Molecules
  • Opals
  • Beryl
  • Sapphires
  • Jade
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Which countries lead Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (458 and 351 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 458 works
  2. 2 United States 351 works
  3. 3 Russia 305 works
  4. 4 France 148 works
  5. 5 Italy 102 works
  6. 6 Germany 87 works
  7. 7 Japan 79 works
  8. 8 Brazil 74 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 67 works
  10. 10 India 67 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: 26.3%United States: 20.2%Russia: 17.6%France: 8.5%6 others listed: 27.4%26%largest
China458 · 26.3%United States351 · 20.2%Russia305 · 17.6%France148 · 8.5%6 others listed477 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and China University of Geosciences (Beijing).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 186 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 76 works
  3. 3 China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 57 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 50 works
  5. 5 China University of GeosciencesChina 20 works
  6. 6 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 16 works
  7. 7 Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 16 works
  8. 8 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 15 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 13 works
  10. 10 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mineralogy and Gemology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mineralogy and Gemology Studies include Kostya S. Novoselov, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  3. 3 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 Mineralogy and Gemology Studies?

The most cited paper in Mineralogy and Gemology Studies is "Stimulated Optical Radiation in Ruby" (Theodore H. Maiman, 1960), with 5,014 citations. Next come "Nomenclature of Amphiboles; Report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names" (3,935) and "Automatic processing of rotation diffraction data from crystals of initially unknown symmetry and cell constants" (3,607).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stimulated Optical Radiation in Ruby Theodore H. Maiman · Nature Aug 1960 5,014
2 Nomenclature of Amphiboles; Report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names BERNARD ELGEY LEAKE et al. · Mineralogical Magazine Apr 1997 3,935
3 Automatic processing of rotation diffraction data from crystals of initially unknown symmetry and cell constants Wolfgang Kabsch · Journal of Applied Crystallography Dec 1993 3,607
4 Dehydration Melting of Metabasalt at 8–32 kbar: Implications for Continental Growth and Crust-Mantle Recycling Robert Paul Rapp, E. Bruce Watson · Journal of Petrology Aug 1995 3,312
5 The nitrogen-vacancy colour centre in diamond Marcus W. Doherty, Neil B. Manson, Paul Delaney et al. · Physics Reports Open access 4 Mar 2013 2,850
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Where is Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Novosibirsk and Sofia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 175 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 100 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 50 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 42 works
  5. 5 NovosibirskRussia 31 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 28 works
  7. 7 PragueCzechia 24 works
  8. 8 SofiaBulgaria 22 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 22 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NovosibirskRU · 31.0 works11×
  2. SofiaBG · 22.2 works8.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mineralogy and Gemology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mineralogy and Gemology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Geosciences 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%mean 9.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Chines…China University of …China University of …Sapienza University …
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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
1China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 80.217.7%91.3×57 +212.7%
2University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.920.9%3.6×13 +55.6%
3China University of GeosciencesChina 56.818.0%20.9×20 +136.0%
4Sapienza University of RomeItaly 43.917.0%4.0×10 +114.0%
5Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 43.28.5%19.3×16 +695.2%
6Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 30.71.3%8.8×16 -20.8%
7St Petersburg UniversityRussia 29.42.2%11.8×12 +74.7%
8Weatherford CollegeUnited States 26.69.3%3.2×9 +99.1%
9Universidad Politécnica de MadridSpain 23.90.0%15.1×10 -
10Auburn UniversityUnited States 13.92.2%12.9×9 -21.2%

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 Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, country by country

Is Mineralogy and Gemology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mineralogy and Gemology Studies.

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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 Mineralogy and Gemology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0084% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mineralogy and Gemology Studies 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%Mineralogy and Gemology Studies10.1% 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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