Question 1

Which countries lead Rare-earth and actinide compounds research?

Accepted Answer

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (759 and 473 works in 2022-now).

Question 2

Which institutions lead Rare-earth and actinide compounds research?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Rare-earth and actinide compounds research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Question 3

Who are the leading researchers in Rare-earth and actinide compounds?

Accepted Answer

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rare-earth and actinide compounds include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

Question 4

Where is Rare-earth and actinide compounds research done?

Accepted Answer

The largest centres of Rare-earth and actinide compounds research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Los Alamos and Ames.

Question 5

Where is the best place to study Rare-earth and actinide compounds?

Accepted Answer

Among universities, judged by research, Jilin University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Renmin University of China 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.

Question 6

Is Rare-earth and actinide compounds research growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2006.

Question 7

What are the most cited papers in Rare-earth and actinide compounds?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper in Rare-earth and actinide compounds is "Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism" (David Vanderbilt, 1990), with 23,211 citations. Next come "Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O 1- x F x ]FeAs ( x = 0.05−0.12) with T c = 26 K" (7,903) and "Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires" (4,840).