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Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques

Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 study of nanobubbles and their applications in water treatment, particularly in flotation processes. It covers topics such as the generation, stability, and properties of nanobubbles, their interactions with hydrophobic surfaces, and their role in mineral flotation and other water treatment techniques.

  • Nanobubbles
  • Water Treatment
  • Flotation
  • Hydrophobic Interactions
  • Microbubble Technology
  • Surface Nanobubbles
  • Force Measurements
  • Mineral Flotation
  • Gas-Water Interface
  • Electrical Properties
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques

Which countries lead Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.9k and 383 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 United States 383 works
  3. 3 Russia 341 works
  4. 4 India 253 works
  5. 5 Brazil 217 works
  6. 6 Australia 197 works
  7. 7 Canada 179 works
  8. 8 Japan 169 works
  9. 9 Germany 166 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 137 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: 58.9%United States: 7.7%Russia: 6.9%India: 5.1%6 others listed: 21.4%59%largest
China2,925 · 58.9%United States383 · 7.7%Russia341 · 6.9%India253 · 5.1%6 others listed1,064 · 21.4%

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

Which institutions lead Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Central South University publishes the most Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research, followed by Kunming University of Science and Technology and China University of Mining and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Central South UniversityChina 314 works
  2. 2 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 228 works
  3. 3 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 163 works
  4. 4 Northeastern UniversityChina 160 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 141 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 95 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 89 works
  8. 8 Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and MetallurgyChina 73 works
  9. 9 Jiangxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 56 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques include Michaël Grätzel, George M. Whitesides and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Kenneth W. Kinzler United States 253k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  8. 8 Guangming Zeng China 204k 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 Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques?

The most cited paper in Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques is "ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)" (Louis J. Farrugia, 1997), with 19,952 citations. Next come "Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly" (3,624) and "Hysteresis properties of titanomagnetites: Grain-size and compositional dependence" (2,895).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Louis J. Farrugia · Journal of Applied Crystallography Oct 1997 19,952
2 Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly David Chandler · Nature Sep 2005 3,624
3 Hysteresis properties of titanomagnetites: Grain-size and compositional dependence Richard Osborne Day, Maggie Fuller, Victor A. Schmidt · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors 1977 2,895
4 Preparation of aqueous magnetic liquids in alkaline and acidic media R. Massart · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics Mar 1981 2,801
5 Surface complexation modeling: Hydrous ferric oxide James J. Morgan · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Feb 1991 2,350
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Where is Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Changsha (China), Kunming (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 Ganzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 482 works
  2. 2 ChangshaChina 353 works
  3. 3 KunmingChina 267 works
  4. 4 ShenyangChina 183 works
  5. 5 XuzhouChina 166 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 115 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 110 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 79 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 72 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 70 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FreibergDE · 24.3 works43×
  2. XuzhouCN · 166.4 works27×
  3. GanzhouCN · 58.0 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Kunming University of Science and Technology 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%20%40%mean 23.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chengdu University o…Kunming University o…Northeastern Univers…Central South Univer…
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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 75.418.7%27.7×314 +41.9%
2Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 74.724.4%68.9×228 +153.8%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 73.323.0%30.4×160 +20.9%
4Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 70.927.5%18.9×42 +244.6%
5Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 68.325.6%23.0×12 +425.7%
6China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 65.415.2%35.2×163 +19.7%
7Jiangxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.224.7%52.5×56 +117.1%
8Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.325.1%17.6×23 +12.6%
9Zhengzhou UniversityChina 58.319.8%5.3×37 +102.9%
10Shenyang Ligong UniversityChina 58.233.7%17.6×9 +178.5%

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 Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques, country by country

Is Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques.

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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 Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques 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%Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques10.2% 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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