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Mining and Gasification Technologies

Mining and Gasification Technologies is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the fundamentals, applications, and environmental impact of underground coal gasification (UCG), including topics such as gasification processes, hydrogen and syngas production, geomechanical analysis, carbon capture and storage, and economic assessments. It also covers the potential for UCG in different regions, such as India and China, as well as the technological aspects and challenges associated with UCG.

  • Gasification
  • Coal
  • Underground
  • UCG
  • Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Hydrogen Production
  • Environmental Impact
  • Geomechanical Analysis
  • Syngas Composition
  • Economic Assessment
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mining and Gasification Technologies

Which countries lead Mining and Gasification Technologies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.1k and 721 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.1k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 721 works
  3. 3 China 452 works
  4. 4 United States 213 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 206 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 140 works
  7. 7 Poland 126 works
  8. 8 India 65 works
  9. 9 Romania 41 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 38 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.

Russia: 35.7%Ukraine: 23.2%China: 14.5%United States: 6.8%6 others listed: 19.8%36%largest
Russia1,113 · 35.7%Ukraine721 · 23.2%China452 · 14.5%United States213 · 6.8%6 others listed616 · 19.8%

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

Which institutions lead Mining and Gasification Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mining and Gasification Technologies research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Dnipro University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 288 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 167 works
  3. 3 Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 69 works
  4. 4 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 55 works
  5. 5 Satbayev UniversityKazakhstan 47 works
  6. 6 Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 47 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 33 works
  9. 9 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 30 works
  10. 10 Kryvyi Rih National UniversityUkraine 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mining and Gasification Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mining and Gasification Technologies include Kostya S. Novoselov and İbrahim Dinçer.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 111k 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 Mining and Gasification Technologies?

The most cited paper in Mining and Gasification Technologies is "Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits" (C. L. Christ, 1968), with 2,041 citations. Next come "Estimation of the size of earthquake preparation zones" (1,237) and "Comprehensive utilization and environmental risks of coal gangue: A review" (944).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits C. L. Christ · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Sep 1968 2,041
2 Estimation of the size of earthquake preparation zones Igor Petrovich Dobrovolsky, S. I. Zubkov, V. I. Miachkin · Pure and Applied Geophysics Sep 1979 1,237
3 Comprehensive utilization and environmental risks of coal gangue: A review Jiayan Li, Jin Man Wang · Journal of Cleaner Production 7 Aug 2019 944
4 Physical methods in determinative mineralogy F. A. Campbell · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Mar 1968 815
5 Modelling and experimental verification of physical and chemical processes during pyrolysis of a large biomass particle Wai-Chun Ricky Chan, Marcia Kelbon, Barbara B. Krieger · Fuel Nov 1985 539
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Where is Mining and Gasification Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Mining and Gasification Technologies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Dnipro (Ukraine) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Petroşani, Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 292 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 258 works
  3. 3 DniproUkraine 124 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 111 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 97 works
  6. 6 AlmatyKazakhstan 89 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 79 works
  8. 8 TashkentUzbekistan 78 works
  9. 9 KharkivUkraine 64 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PetroşaniRO · 20.2 works200×
  2. Kryvyi RihUA · 39.0 works185×
  3. DniproUA · 123.9 works107×
  4. KemerovoRU · 49.6 works105×
  5. NavoiyUZ · 22.5 works98×
  6. KaragandaKZ · 33.7 works91×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mining and Gasification Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mining and Gasification Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Mining and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing and Xi'an University of Science and Technology 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 28.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an University of …China University of …University of Scienc…Dnipro 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.

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 Mining and TechnologyChina 88.036.0%22.3×55 +99.6%
2University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 64.834.2%8.1×20 +184.4%
3Xi'an University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.036.5%18.0×13 +261.8%
4Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 62.816.9%408.5×69 -15.1%
5Satbayev UniversityKazakhstan 61.512.6%204.8×47 +57.4%
6Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.432.7%7.1×11 +28.1%
7Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 60.227.3%263.1×46 -41.5%
8Taiyuan University of TechnologyChina 55.033.3%6.5×8 +355.3%
9Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 51.224.7%12.4×11 +109.0%
10Anhui University of Science and TechnologyChina 49.226.9%12.1×9 +258.7%

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 Mining and Gasification Technologies, country by country

Is Mining and Gasification Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Mining and Gasification Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mining and Gasification Technologies 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%Mining and Gasification Technologies10.9% 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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