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Multiferroics and related materials

Multiferroics and related materials is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials, particularly their thin film heterostructures, ferroelectric polarization control, perovskite oxides, spin current, photovoltaic effects, domain walls, and room temperature behavior.

  • Multiferroic
  • Magnetoelectric
  • Thin Films
  • Ferroelectricity
  • Perovskite Oxides
  • Spin Current
  • Magnetic Control
  • Photovoltaic Effect
  • Domain Walls
  • Room Temperature
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Multiferroics and related materials

Which countries lead Multiferroics and related materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 United States 419 works
  4. 4 Japan 347 works
  5. 5 Russia 317 works
  6. 6 France 185 works
  7. 7 Germany 171 works
  8. 8 South Korea 170 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 158 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 149 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: 42.8%India: 24.5%United States: 7.2%Japan: 5.9%6 others listed: 19.7%43%largest
China2,503 · 42.8%India1,430 · 24.5%United States419 · 7.2%Japan347 · 5.9%6 others listed1,150 · 19.7%

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

Which institutions lead Multiferroics and related materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Multiferroics and related materials research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 252 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 128 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 85 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 76 works
  5. 5 Siksha O Anusandhan UniversityIndia 59 works
  6. 6 Tohoku UniversityJapan 58 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 49 works
  8. 8 Shandong UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
  10. 10 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Multiferroics and related materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Multiferroics and related materials include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 Lei Jiang China 214k 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 Multiferroics and related materials?

The most cited paper in Multiferroics and related materials is "Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials" (Wilma Eerenstein, N. D. Mathur, James Floyd Scott, 2006), with 8,024 citations. Next come "Interaction between the d -Shells in the Transition Metals. II. Ferromagnetic Compounds of Manganese with Perovskite Structure" (6,740) and "A thermodynamic theory of “weak” ferromagnetism of antiferromagnetics" (6,337).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials Wilma Eerenstein, N. D. Mathur, James Floyd Scott · Nature Aug 2006 8,024
2 Interaction between the d -Shells in the Transition Metals. II. Ferromagnetic Compounds of Manganese with Perovskite Structure Clarence Zener · Physical Review May 1951 6,740
3 A thermodynamic theory of “weak” ferromagnetism of antiferromagnetics I. Dzyaloshinsky · Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 1958 6,337
4 Epitaxial BiFeO 3 Multiferroic Thin Film Heterostructures Junling Wang, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Haimei Zheng et al. · Science Open access 13 Mar 2003 6,245
5 Lead-free piezoceramics Yasuyoshi Saito, Hisaaki Takao, Toshihiko Tani et al. · Nature 31 Oct 2004 5,517
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Multiferroics and related materials research done?

The largest centres of Multiferroics and related materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Indore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 362 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 202 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 165 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 148 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 126 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 101 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 98 works
  8. 8 HefeiChina 94 works
  9. 9 BhubaneswarIndia 89 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 89 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IndoreIN · 51.4 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Multiferroics and related materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Multiferroics and related materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Damghan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Islamia University of Bahawalpur 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 19.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Damghan UniversityIslamia University o…King Khalid UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Damghan UniversityIran 62.842.4%42.2×8 +120.0%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.316.8%6.8×76 +17.1%
3Islamia University of BahawalpurPakistan 58.629.9%13.5×14 +18.5%
4King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 56.521.6%8.0×19 +158.2%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 56.417.7%4.5×28 +62.7%
6Siksha O Anusandhan UniversityIndia 55.812.7%45.6×59 +15.0%
7Tohoku UniversityJapan 52.42.6%13.7×58 +125.3%
8Shandong UniversityChina 51.913.5%5.2×43 +115.1%
9Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 51.221.2%11.1×24 +37.5%
10Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 50.620.1%6.8×11 +451.1%

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 Multiferroics and related materials, country by country

Is Multiferroics and related materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Multiferroics and related materials.

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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 Multiferroics and related materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Multiferroics and related materials0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Multiferroics and related materials 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%Multiferroics and related materials9.7% 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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