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Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials

Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on powder metallurgy, compaction processes, and mechanical properties of metal powders. It covers topics such as sintering, cold compaction, alloying, friction and wear behavior, and numerical simulation using the finite element method.

  • Powder Metallurgy
  • Compaction
  • Sintering
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Metal Powders
  • Finite Element Method
  • Cold Compaction
  • Alloying
  • Friction and Wear
  • Simulation
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials

Which countries lead Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (484 and 126 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 484 works
  2. 2 United States 126 works
  3. 3 India 122 works
  4. 4 Germany 99 works
  5. 5 Russia 86 works
  6. 6 Japan 84 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 49 works
  8. 8 France 34 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 34 works
  10. 10 Poland 33 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: 42.1%United States: 10.9%India: 10.6%Germany: 8.6%6 others listed: 27.9%42%largest
China484 · 42.1%United States126 · 10.9%India122 · 10.6%Germany99 · 8.6%6 others listed321 · 27.9%

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

Which institutions lead Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Central South University publishes the most Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research, followed by University of Science and Technology Beijing and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials include Kai You Wang, William A. Goddard and Rajesh Sagar.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  3. 3 Rajesh Sagar India 156k citations
  4. 4 Dierk Raabe Germany 125k 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 Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials?

The most cited paper in Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials is "The kinetics of precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions" (I.M. Lifshitz, V.V. Slyozov, 1961), with 8,460 citations. Next come "The Friction and Lubrication of Solids" (5,931) and "The Journal of Materials Processing Technology 2007-17" (2,478).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The kinetics of precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions I.M. Lifshitz, V.V. Slyozov · Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids Apr 1961 8,460
2 The Friction and Lubrication of Solids Frank Philip Bowden, D. Tabor, Frederic Palmer · American Journal of Physics Oct 1951 5,931
3 The Journal of Materials Processing Technology 2007-17 Julian M. Allwood, A. Erman Tekkaya · Journal of Materials Processing Technology 7 Sep 2017 2,478
4 Materials processing by simple shear Vladimir M. Segal · Materials Science and Engineering A Jul 1995 2,099
5 Dislocation-mechanics-based constitutive relations for material dynamics calculations Frank J. Zerilli, Ronald William Armstrong · Journal of Applied Physics Open access Mar 1987 1,986
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research done?

The largest centres of Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Changsha (China), Xi'an (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changsha and Shenyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 109 works
  2. 2 ChangshaChina 45 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 28 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 25 works
  5. 5 ShenyangChina 22 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 19 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 18 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 18 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 17 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChangshaCN · 45.2 works6.0×
  2. ShenyangCN · 22.3 works5.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, University of Science and Technology Beijing and Northeastern 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 20.475%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Central South Univer…Northeastern Univers…University of Scienc…RWTH Aachen 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
1Central South UniversityChina 93.231.4%15.2×40 +93.4%
2University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 69.221.8%25.8×28 +94.0%
3Northeastern UniversityChina 62.726.1%13.4×16 +128.9%
4RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 17.12.6%9.3×10 +8.3%

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 Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials, country by country

Is Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials.

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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 Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0076% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials0.0068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials 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%Powder Metallurgy Techniques and Materials10.3% 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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