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Nuclear materials and radiation effects

Nuclear materials and radiation effects is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 use of pyrochlore, a complex oxide, as a nuclear waste form for the immobilization of plutonium and minor actinides. The papers cover topics such as radiation tolerance, amorphization resistance, crystal chemistry, ion irradiation effects, and structural studies related to pyrochlore-based materials for high-level nuclear waste immobilization.

  • Pyrochlore
  • Nuclear Waste Disposal
  • Actinides
  • Radiation Tolerance
  • Ceramics
  • Amorphization Resistance
  • Crystal Chemistry
  • Ion Irradiation
  • Structural Study
  • High-Level Waste Immobilization
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nuclear materials and radiation effects

Which countries lead Nuclear materials and radiation effects research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (1.3k and 425 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 Russia 425 works
  3. 3 United States 357 works
  4. 4 India 321 works
  5. 5 Japan 203 works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 162 works
  7. 7 France 160 works
  8. 8 Egypt 151 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 128 works
  10. 10 Germany 121 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: 38.7%Russia: 12.9%United States: 10.8%India: 9.7%6 others listed: 27.9%39%largest
China1,282 · 38.7%Russia425 · 12.9%United States357 · 10.8%India321 · 9.7%6 others listed924 · 27.9%

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

Which institutions lead Nuclear materials and radiation effects research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 208 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 113 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 64 works
  4. 4 Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 58 works
  5. 5 Department of Atomic EnergyIndia 44 works
  6. 6 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 39 works
  7. 7 Isra UniversityJordan 33 works
  8. 8 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 32 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 32 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nuclear materials and radiation effects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nuclear materials and radiation effects include Zhong Lin Wang, Yury G. Gogotsi and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  7. 7 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  9. 9 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  10. 10 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 Nuclear materials and radiation effects?

The most cited paper in Nuclear materials and radiation effects is "A Monte Carlo computer program for the transport of energetic ions in amorphous targets" (Jochen P. Biersack, L.G. Haggmark, 1980), with 4,686 citations. Next come "Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art" (4,678) and "Oxide pyrochlores — A review" (2,805).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Monte Carlo computer program for the transport of energetic ions in amorphous targets Jochen P. Biersack, L.G. Haggmark · Nuclear Instruments and Methods Aug 1980 4,686
2 Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art Peter Duxson, A. Fernández‐Jiménez, John L. Provis et al. · Journal of Materials Science 18 Dec 2006 4,678
3 Oxide pyrochlores — A review Mas A. Subramanian, Gopalaswamiengar Aravamudan, G. V. Subba Rao · Progress in Solid State Chemistry 1983 2,805
4 Ab-initio structure determination of LiSbWO6 by X-ray powder diffraction Armel Le Bail, H. Duroy, J.L. Fourquet · Materials Research Bulletin Mar 1988 2,678
5 New thermodynamic models and revised calibrations for the Ti-in-zircon and Zr-in-rutile thermometers John M. Ferry, E. Bruce Watson · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 7 May 2007 2,290
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Where is Nuclear materials and radiation effects research done?

The largest centres of Nuclear materials and radiation effects research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Mianyang (China) and Cairo (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 253 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 134 works
  3. 3 MianyangChina 80 works
  4. 4 CairoEgypt 75 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 72 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 62 works
  7. 7 MumbaiIndia 60 works
  8. 8 YekaterinburgRussia 59 works
  9. 9 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 58 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MianyangCN · 80.2 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nuclear materials and radiation effects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nuclear materials and radiation effects?

Among universities, judged by research, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Isra University and University of Tabuk 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 27.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TabukJouf UniversityIsra UniversityPrincess Nourah bint…
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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
1Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversitySaudi Arabia 78.625.8%40.5×39 +635.7%
2Isra UniversityJordan 77.229.3%289.5×33 +275.5%
3University of TabukSaudi Arabia 71.435.8%32.4×16 -6.3%
4Jouf UniversitySaudi Arabia 66.033.6%23.3×12 +302.7%
5Sakarya UniversityTürkiye 64.032.6%16.4×17 +55.7%
6Taif UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.732.4%13.3×11 +95.7%
7King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.127.7%8.7×12 +45.2%
8Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.326.7%24.4×16 +37.9%
9Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt 61.223.0%12.6×18 +16.9%
10Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.211.8%69.2×58 +56.1%

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 Nuclear materials and radiation effects, country by country

Is Nuclear materials and radiation effects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Nuclear materials and radiation effects.

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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 Nuclear materials and radiation effects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nuclear materials and radiation effects0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nuclear materials and radiation effects 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%Nuclear materials and radiation effects9.7% 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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