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Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

Particle accelerators and beam dynamics is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in accelerator technology, particularly in the development of superconducting cavities, negative ion sources, and neutral beam injection for applications in high energy density physics and magnetic fusion. It also encompasses research on RF source development, particle-in-cell simulations, plasma diagnostics, and ion beam dynamics.

  • Superconducting Cavities
  • Negative Ion Sources
  • Neutral Beam Injection
  • RF Source Development
  • Particle-in-Cell Simulations
  • High Energy Density Physics
  • Plasma Diagnostics
  • Magnetic Fusion
  • Ion Beam Dynamics
  • Accelerator Design
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

Which countries lead Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (997 and 963 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 997 works
  2. 2 United States 963 works
  3. 3 Russia 336 works
  4. 4 Germany 265 works
  5. 5 Japan 261 works
  6. 6 Italy 220 works
  7. 7 France 199 works
  8. 8 India 166 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 146 works
  10. 10 South Korea 117 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: 27.2%United States: 26.3%Russia: 9.2%Germany: 7.2%6 others listed: 30.2%27%largest
China997 · 27.2%United States963 · 26.3%Russia336 · 9.2%Germany265 · 7.2%6 others listed1,109 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 321 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 138 works
  3. 3 Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryUnited States 133 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 101 works
  5. 5 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 87 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 77 works
  7. 7 Max Planck SocietyGermany 60 works
  8. 8 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 49 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48 works
  10. 10 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Particle accelerators and beam dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Particle accelerators and beam dynamics include M. Shoji, Georg Kresse and M. Weber.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  6. 6 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 A. Meyer France 224k 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 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics?

The most cited paper in Particle accelerators and beam dynamics is "Range and stopping-power tables for heavy ions" (L. C. Northcliffe, Roland Schilling, 1970), with 2,741 citations. Next come "The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results" (2,121) and "Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A" (2,000).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Range and stopping-power tables for heavy ions L. C. Northcliffe, Roland Schilling · Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 1970 2,741
2 The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results Eric C. Bellm et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access116 authors 7 Dec 2018 2,121
3 Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A Keiko Hirata et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 6 Apr 1987 2,000
4 LHC Machine Lyndon R Evans, P J Bryant · Journal of Instrumentation Open access 14 Aug 2008 1,858
5 Effective interactions for the 1p shell S. Cohen, D. Kurath · Nuclear Physics Nov 1965 1,570
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Where is Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Hefei (China), Batavia (United States) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vinon-sur-Verdon, Batavia and Plainsboro Center.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 313 works
  2. 2 HefeiChina 148 works
  3. 3 BataviaUnited States 138 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 116 works
  5. 5 GenevaSwitzerland 90 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 83 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 61 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 58 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 57 works
  10. 10 DaejeonSouth Korea 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Vinon-sur-VerdonFR · 23.8 works474×
  2. BataviaUS · 138.0 works399×
  3. Plainsboro CenterUS · 20.5 works174×
  4. Newport NewsUS · 30.5 works144×
  5. TsukubaJP · 37.5 works144×
  6. AbingdonGB · 25.4 works122×
  7. GarchingDE · 43.7 works103×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Particle accelerators and beam dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Particle accelerators and beam dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Princeton University, Sorbonne Université and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 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 16.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Princeton UniversityNational University …École Polytechnique …Sorbonne Université
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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
1Princeton UniversityUnited States 75.529.7%16.6×27 -21.2%
2Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 73.315.7%9.8×25 +26.0%
3École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 72.916.3%18.5×28 +1.1%
4National University of Defense TechnologyChina 61.620.9%6.8×19 +25.4%
5University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61.210.6%11.2×49 +2.2%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.610.5%8.0×48 +8.0%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 53.617.5%3.2×27 -3.1%
8Michigan State UniversityUnited States 53.114.8%10.3×28 -21.4%
9University of PaduaItaly 53.118.0%6.9×20 -16.9%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 52.914.3%5.9×32 -32.5%

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 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics, country by country

Is Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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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 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Particle accelerators and beam dynamics0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Particle accelerators and beam dynamics 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%Particle accelerators and beam dynamics10.1% 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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Who leads particle accelerator research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Particle accelerators and beam dynamics research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (997 and 963 works in 2022-now).

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