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Organic and Molecular Conductors Research

Organic and Molecular Conductors Research is a research topic within Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 coexistence of ferromagnetism and metallic conductivity in organic molecular metals, including topics such as tetrathiafulvalene chemistry, magnetic molecular conductors, metal dithiolene complexes, charge density wave, superconductivity, quantum spin liquid, electronic structure, molecular conductors, and ferroelectricity.

  • Organic Molecular Metals
  • Tetrathiafulvalene Chemistry
  • Magnetic Molecular Conductors
  • Metal Dithiolene Complexes
  • Charge Density Wave
  • Superconductivity
  • Quantum Spin Liquid
  • Electronic Structure
  • Molecular Conductors
  • Ferroelectricity
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organic and Molecular Conductors Research

Which countries lead Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (535 and 255 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 535 works
  2. 2 United States 255 works
  3. 3 Japan 227 works
  4. 4 India 139 works
  5. 5 Germany 120 works
  6. 6 France 92 works
  7. 7 Russia 78 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 59 works
  9. 9 Spain 50 works
  10. 10 South Korea 46 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: 33.4%United States: 15.9%Japan: 14.2%India: 8.7%6 others listed: 27.8%33%largest
China535 · 33.4%United States255 · 15.9%Japan227 · 14.2%India139 · 8.7%6 others listed445 · 27.8%

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

Which institutions lead Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Organic and Molecular Conductors Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organic and Molecular Conductors Research 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 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  6. 6 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 Organic and Molecular Conductors Research?

The most cited paper in Organic and Molecular Conductors Research is "Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS 2" (Changgu Lee, Hugen Yan, Louis E. Brus et al., 2010), with 4,872 citations. Next come "Solitons in conducting polymers" (3,845) and "Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization and Related Phenomena in Molecular Materials" (2,810).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS 2 Changgu Lee, Hugen Yan, Louis E. Brus et al. · ACS Nano Open access 14 Apr 2010 4,872
2 Solitons in conducting polymers Alan J. Heeger, Steven Allan Kivelson, J. R. Schrieffer et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics Jul 1988 3,845
3 Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization and Related Phenomena in Molecular Materials Dante Gatteschi, Roberta Sessoli · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 20 Jan 2003 2,810
4 Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets Daniel N. Woodruff, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Richard A. Layfield · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 4 Apr 2013 2,796
5 Valence bond description of antiferromagnetic coupling in transition metal dimers Louis Noodleman · The Journal of Chemical Physics 15 May 1981 2,574
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Where is Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research done?

The largest centres of Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Nanjing (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 100 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 56 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 34 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 31 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 27 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 22 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 19 works
  9. 9 SendaiJapan 19 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Organic and Molecular Conductors Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Southern University of Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo and Jilin University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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
1Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 62.823.5%9.1×8 +26.1%
2The University of TokyoJapan 60.15.6%11.2×24 -23.4%
3Jilin UniversityChina 59.919.9%6.7×13 +18.4%
4Zhengzhou UniversityChina 57.227.4%4.3×9 +22.9%
5Tohoku UniversityJapan 56.54.2%16.9×19 +9.3%
6Nankai UniversityChina 55.120.6%8.8×10 +18.3%
7Nanjing UniversityChina 46.715.4%6.7×11 +34.8%
8Kyoto UniversityJapan 42.35.9%10.3×14 -15.0%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 39.012.2%3.8×11 -8.1%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 34.99.3%3.4×9 -19.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Organic and Molecular Conductors Research, country by country

Is Organic and Molecular Conductors Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006.

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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 Organic and Molecular Conductors Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Organic and Molecular Conductors Research 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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