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Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies

Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies is a research topic within Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Science Explorer counts 37k 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 the rheological behavior of complex fluids and polymers, including topics such as viscoelasticity, thixotropy, large amplitude oscillatory shear, drag reduction, entanglement dynamics, molecular modeling, and microfluidic rheometry.

  • Rheology
  • Complex Fluids
  • Polymers
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Thixotropy
  • Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear
  • Drag Reduction
  • Entanglement Dynamics
  • Molecular Modeling
  • Microfluidic Rheometry
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies

Which countries lead Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (662 and 513 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 662 works
  2. 2 United States 513 works
  3. 3 India 427 works
  4. 4 Germany 207 works
  5. 5 France 198 works
  6. 6 Japan 168 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 166 works
  8. 8 Russia 159 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 153 works
  10. 10 Saudi Arabia 102 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: 24.0%United States: 18.6%India: 15.5%Germany: 7.5%6 others listed: 34.4%24%largest
China662 · 24.0%United States513 · 18.6%India427 · 15.5%Germany207 · 7.5%6 others listed947 · 34.4%

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

Which institutions lead Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 94 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 56 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 22 works
  5. 5 COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 18 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 17 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 17 works
  8. 8 Islamia University of BahawalpurPakistan 17 works
  9. 9 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies include Takashi Taniguchi, John Anthony Pople and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  2. 2 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  5. 5 Markus Antonietti Germany 185k 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 Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies?

The most cited paper in Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies is "Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics" (Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Thomas A. Witten, 1980), with 9,412 citations. Next come "Enhancing Thermal Conductivity of Fluids With Nanoparticles" (9,327) and "The Viscosity of Concentrated Suspensions and Solutions" (4,615).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Thomas A. Witten · Physics Today Jun 1980 9,412
2 Enhancing Thermal Conductivity of Fluids With Nanoparticles Stephen U. S. Choi Conference paperOpen access 12 Nov 1995 9,327
3 The Viscosity of Concentrated Suspensions and Solutions H. Brinkman · The Journal of Chemical Physics Apr 1952 4,615
4 HYDRODYNAMIC AND HEAT TRANSFER STUDY OF DISPERSED FLUIDS WITH SUBMICRON METALLIC OXIDE PARTICLES Bock Choon Pak, Young I. Cho · Experimental Heat Transfer Apr 1998 4,429
5 Reptation of a Polymer Chain in the Presence of Fixed Obstacles Pierre Gilles de Gennes · The Journal of Chemical Physics 15 Jul 1971 4,275
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Where is Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research done?

The largest centres of Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Islamabad (Pakistan), Paris (France) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Islamabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 127 works
  2. 2 IslamabadPakistan 69 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 59 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 57 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 44 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 43 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 38 works
  8. 8 BengaluruIndia 35 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 35 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IslamabadPK · 69.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, King Khalid University and COMSATS University Islamabad 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 23.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Islamia University o…King Khalid UniversityCOMSATS University I…Okinawa Institute of…
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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
1Islamia University of BahawalpurPakistan 93.538.4%30.0×17 +256.7%
2King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 86.830.1%11.9×16 +146.4%
3COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 75.217.8%21.9×18 +27.9%
4Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate UniversityJapan 64.214.9%66.1×12 +49.9%
5University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 61.522.3%5.5×17 -16.3%
6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 58.521.2%5.5×14 -3.1%
7Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 55.418.1%4.7×16 -0.0%
8Quaid-i-Azam UniversityPakistan 52.839.4%10.7×8 -44.8%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.614.4%1.8×17 +12.0%
10National University of Sciences and TechnologyPakistan 52.621.8%12.7×9 +86.1%

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 Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, country by country

Is Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies 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%Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies9.9% 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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