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nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions is a research topic within Atmospheric Science. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the phenomena of ice nucleation and melting, particularly in relation to nanoparticles, molecular dynamics simulations, surface energy, and size dependence. It explores topics such as homogeneous nucleation, crystal growth, and phase diagrams of water models.

  • Ice Nucleation
  • Melting
  • Nanoparticles
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  • Surface Energy
  • Size Dependence
  • Crystal Growth
  • Homogeneous Nucleation
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Water Models
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Which countries lead nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (874 and 493 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 874 works
  2. 2 United States 493 works
  3. 3 Russia 405 works
  4. 4 Germany 182 works
  5. 5 Japan 179 works
  6. 6 India 157 works
  7. 7 France 154 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 117 works
  9. 9 Italy 62 works
  10. 10 South Korea 60 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: 32.6%United States: 18.4%Russia: 15.1%Germany: 6.8%6 others listed: 27.1%33%largest
China874 · 32.6%United States493 · 18.4%Russia405 · 15.1%Germany182 · 6.8%6 others listed727 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 186 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 80 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 27 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 26 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 22 works
  7. 7 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 21 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 20 works
  9. 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 20 works
  10. 10 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and John P. Perdew.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  4. 4 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  5. 5 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  6. 6 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  9. 9 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions?

The most cited paper in nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions is "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" (N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al., 1953), with 37,517 citations. Next come "Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces" (12,084) and "Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy" (10,487).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics Jun 1953 37,517
2 Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 4 Apr 2008 12,084
3 Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard · The Journal of Chemical Physics Feb 1958 10,487
4 Ab initio molecular dynamics for open-shell transition metals Georg Kresse, J. Häfner · Physical review. B, Condensed matter Nov 1993 8,404
5 Embedded-atom method: Derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals Murray S. Daw, Michael I. Baskes · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jun 1984 7,282
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research done?

The largest centres of nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 178 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 140 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 65 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 61 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 45 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 45 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 43 works
  8. 8 NovosibirskRussia 40 works
  9. 9 YekaterinburgRussia 39 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YekaterinburgRU · 38.6 works12×
  2. NovosibirskRU · 39.5 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China University of Petroleum, East China and Tianjin 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%10%20%30%mean 20.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China University of …Tianjin UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 70.318.1%5.2×27 +40.2%
2China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 67.427.0%7.6×11 +52.1%
3Tianjin UniversityChina 67.221.0%5.4×20 +57.6%
4Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 62.920.9%6.0×21 +31.2%
5Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.415.9%3.0×20 +43.0%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 56.317.9%2.1×19 +50.7%
7Ural Federal UniversityRussia 54.115.9%22.1×19 -41.2%
8Zhengzhou UniversityChina 53.326.2%2.6×9 +92.8%
9Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.116.7%7.9×13 +172.5%
10Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 52.123.9%20.8×8 +338.8%

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 nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, country by country

Is nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2007.

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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 nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions 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.

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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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