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Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Radioactive element chemistry and processing is a research topic within Inorganic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 63k 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 chemistry of actinide and lanthanide elements, particularly uranium, and their interactions with various materials and compounds. The topics covered include extraction, sorption, bioremediation, complexation, adsorption, and coordination chemistry related to actinides and lanthanides. The research also explores the environmental implications and practical applications of these chemical processes, especially in the context of nuclear waste management.

  • Actinides
  • Uranium
  • Lanthanides
  • Extraction
  • Sorption
  • Bioremediation
  • Complexation
  • Adsorption
  • Nuclear Waste
  • Coordination Chemistry
Research works
63k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Which countries lead Radioactive element chemistry and processing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.9k and 994 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.9k works
  2. 2 United States 994 works
  3. 3 Russia 614 works
  4. 4 India 429 works
  5. 5 France 364 works
  6. 6 Japan 339 works
  7. 7 Germany 279 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 197 works
  9. 9 Egypt 152 works
  10. 10 South Korea 152 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: 45.5%United States: 15.4%Russia: 9.5%India: 6.6%6 others listed: 22.9%46%largest
China2,944 · 45.5%United States994 · 15.4%Russia614 · 9.5%India429 · 6.6%6 others listed1,483 · 22.9%

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

Which institutions lead Radioactive element chemistry and processing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Radioactive element chemistry and processing research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 322 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 254 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 145 works
  4. 4 East China University of TechnologyChina 142 works
  5. 5 University of South ChinaChina 140 works
  6. 6 Department of Atomic EnergyIndia 117 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 83 works
  8. 8 Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 79 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 69 works
  10. 10 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radioactive element chemistry and processing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radioactive element chemistry and processing include Michaël Grätzel, Kostya S. Novoselov and George M. Whitesides.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Omar M. Yaghi United States 254k citations
  7. 7 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  8. 8 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k 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 Radioactive element chemistry and processing?

The most cited paper in Radioactive element chemistry and processing is "Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper" (W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell, 1978), with 10,001 citations. Next come "Fully optimized contracted Gaussian basis sets of triple zeta valence quality for atoms Li to Kr" (9,253) and "THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES" (6,331).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell · Soil Science Society of America Journal May 1978 10,001
2 Fully optimized contracted Gaussian basis sets of triple zeta valence quality for atoms Li to Kr Ansgar Schäfer, Christian Huber, Reinhart Ahlrichs · The Journal of Chemical Physics 15 Apr 1994 9,253
3 THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al. · Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Apr 1995 6,331
4 The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology Simon E. Jackson, Norman J. Pearson, William L. Griffin et al. · Chemical Geology 21 Sep 2004 5,266
5 Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0 Frank Neese · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science Open access 7 Mar 2022 4,944
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radioactive element chemistry and processing research done?

The largest centres of Radioactive element chemistry and processing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Nanchang (China) and Hengyang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kālpākkam, Aiken and Tōkai Mura.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 669 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 319 works
  3. 3 NanchangChina 178 works
  4. 4 HengyangChina 146 works
  5. 5 MumbaiIndia 137 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 129 works
  7. 7 MianyangChina 128 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 119 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 109 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 98 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KālpākkamIN · 31.4 works102×
  2. AikenUS · 24.5 works90×
  3. Tōkai MuraJP · 50.5 works81×
  4. HengyangCN · 146.4 works53×
  5. Idaho FallsUS · 35.0 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radioactive element chemistry and processing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radioactive element chemistry and processing?

Among universities, judged by research, Hainan University, North China Electric Power University and East China University of Technology 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 25.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeast Normal Uni…Hainan UniversityNorth China Electric…East China Universit…
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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
1Hainan UniversityChina 72.735.3%10.3×30 +138.8%
2North China Electric Power UniversityChina 67.329.6%8.6×39 +39.2%
3East China University of TechnologyChina 66.617.8%231.8×142 +112.9%
4Northeast Normal UniversityChina 61.846.1%6.3×9 +99.4%
5Nanchang UniversityChina 61.334.7%3.9×20 +146.1%
6University of South ChinaChina 61.215.8%76.5×140 +113.0%
7Shaoxing UniversityChina 61.224.1%28.6×26 +59.7%
8Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.519.8%51.0×78 +60.3%
9Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 57.015.1%11.5×41 +95.4%
10Sichuan UniversityChina 56.017.6%4.5×69 +125.2%

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 Radioactive element chemistry and processing, country by country

Is Radioactive element chemistry and processing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009. The fastest-growing topics are Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

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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 Radioactive element chemistry and processing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Radioactive element chemistry and processing 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%Radioactive element chemistry and processing9.8% 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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