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Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 47k research works in it since 1954. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents a collection of research on advances in organic solar cell technology, focusing on topics such as conjugated polymers, bulk heterojunction solar cells, efficiency enhancement, non-fullerene acceptors, solution processing, charge transport, morphology control, high-efficiency solar cells, and field-effect transistors.

  • Conjugated Polymers
  • Bulk Heterojunction
  • Efficiency Enhancement
  • Non-Fullerene Acceptors
  • Solution Processing
  • Polymer Blends
  • Charge Transport
  • Morphology Control
  • High-Efficiency Solar Cells
  • Field-Effect Transistors
Research works
47k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Which countries lead Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (3.8k and 640 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 South Korea 640 works
  3. 3 United States 566 works
  4. 4 India 538 works
  5. 5 Japan 441 works
  6. 6 Germany 307 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 196 works
  8. 8 Taiwan 195 works
  9. 9 France 156 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 136 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: 54.4%South Korea: 9.2%United States: 8.1%India: 7.7%6 others listed: 20.6%54%largest
China3,785 · 54.4%South Korea640 · 9.2%United States566 · 8.1%India538 · 7.7%6 others listed1,430 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research, followed by South China University of Technology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 434 works
  2. 2 South China University of TechnologyChina 168 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 93 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 82 works
  5. 5 Soochow UniversityChina 77 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 69 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 63 works
  8. 8 Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesChina 62 works
  9. 9 Jilin UniversityChina 60 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Matthias Ernzerhof.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  4. 4 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k 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 Electronics and Photovoltaics?

The most cited paper in Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics is "Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers" (J. H. Burroughes, Donal D. C. Bradley, Adam R. C. Brown et al., 1990), with 11,399 citations. Next come "Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions" (10,356) and "Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole" (8,370).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers J. H. Burroughes, Donal D. C. Bradley, Adam R. C. Brown et al. · Nature Oct 1990 11,399
2 Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions Gang Yu, Jun Gao, Jan Cornelis Hummelen et al. · Science Open access 15 Dec 1995 10,356
3 Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole Jingdong Luo, Zhiliang Xie, Jacky W. Y. Lam et al. · Chemical Communications 2001 8,370
4 Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence H. Uoyama, Kenichi Goushi, Katsuyuki Shizu et al. · Nature Open access Dec 2012 8,278
5 Solitons in Polyacetylene W. P. Su, J. R. Schrieffer, Alan J. Heeger · Physical Review Letters 18 Jun 1979 6,857
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Where is Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research done?

The largest centres of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yamagata and Pohang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 766 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 284 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 243 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 216 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 175 works
  6. 6 ShenzhenChina 161 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 158 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 158 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 132 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 116 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YamagataJP · 21.3 works25×
  2. PohangKR · 31.6 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and Shenzhen 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%20%40%mean 23.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…City University of H…Shenzhen UniversitySouthern University …
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.131.4%4.6×29 +76.9%
2City University of Hong KongChina 76.929.5%8.4×36 +49.1%
3Shenzhen UniversityChina 74.128.3%8.4×46 +30.6%
4Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 70.220.5%12.2×48 +27.8%
5South China University of TechnologyChina 68.315.4%20.9×168 -0.8%
6Nankai UniversityChina 66.920.3%8.9×45 +87.3%
7Donghua UniversityChina 65.422.4%12.2×33 +121.0%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 65.219.8%6.8×82 -3.9%
9Chinese University of Hong KongChina 64.928.4%4.0×22 +0.9%
10King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 64.821.4%14.8×30 -17.4%

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 Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, country by country

Is Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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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 Electronics and Photovoltaics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 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%Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics9.6% 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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