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Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

Solidification and crystal growth phenomena is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 21k 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 application of phase-field models to study microstructure evolution, solidification, crystal growth, and elasticity in materials science. It covers topics such as diffuse interface methods for simulating complex fluids, modeling of multicomponent alloys, dendritic growth, and thermodynamically consistent numerical simulations.

  • Phase-Field Models
  • Solidification
  • Microstructure Evolution
  • Crystal Growth
  • Diffuse Interface Method
  • Elasticity
  • Multicomponent Alloys
  • Dendritic Growth
  • Thermodynamic Consistency
  • Numerical Simulation
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

Which countries lead Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 297 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 297 works
  3. 3 Germany 182 works
  4. 4 Russia 151 works
  5. 5 Japan 144 works
  6. 6 India 113 works
  7. 7 France 102 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 65 works
  9. 9 South Korea 60 works
  10. 10 Italy 46 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: 51.5%United States: 12.4%Germany: 7.6%Russia: 6.3%6 others listed: 22.2%51%largest
China1,230 · 51.5%United States297 · 12.4%Germany182 · 7.6%Russia151 · 6.3%6 others listed531 · 22.2%

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

Which institutions lead Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Northeastern University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 64 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 61 works
  3. 3 Northeastern UniversityChina 58 works
  4. 4 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 57 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 51 works
  7. 7 Shanghai UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 31 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 30 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Solidification and crystal growth phenomena?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Solidification and crystal growth phenomena include Kai You Wang, Lei Jiang and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Solidification and crystal growth phenomena?

The most cited paper in Solidification and crystal growth phenomena is "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry" (Daniel Shechtman, I. A. Blech, D. Gratias et al., 1984), with 7,101 citations. Next come "A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening" (3,836) and "On spinodal decomposition" (3,597).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry Daniel Shechtman, I. A. Blech, D. Gratias et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 12 Nov 1984 7,101
2 A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening Samuel M. Allen, John W. Cahn · Acta Metallurgica Jun 1979 3,836
3 On spinodal decomposition John W. Cahn · Acta Metallurgica Sep 1961 3,597
4 Stability of a Planar Interface During Solidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy William W. Mullins, Robert F. Sekerka · Journal of Applied Physics Feb 1964 3,148
5 Phase-Field Models for Microstructure Evolution Long‐Qing Chen · Annual Review of Materials Research Review 28 Jul 2002 2,998
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research done?

The largest centres of Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Shenyang (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yekaterinburg and Shenyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 220 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 129 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 92 works
  4. 4 ShenyangChina 78 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 47 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 43 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 42 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 39 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 35 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YekaterinburgRU · 30.6 works12×
  2. ShenyangCN · 78.4 works10.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Solidification and crystal growth phenomena than the world average.

See Solidification and crystal growth phenomena on the map

Where is the best place to study Solidification and crystal growth phenomena?

Among universities, judged by research, Korea University, Northeastern University and University of Science and Technology Beijing 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 16.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Korea UniversityNortheastern Univers…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…University of Scienc…
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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
1Korea UniversitySouth Korea 76.330.0%12.8×18 +37.1%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 69.219.0%26.5×58 +23.3%
3University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 64.411.9%29.9×57 +35.4%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 60.518.3%7.2×31 +25.0%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 59.717.9%22.1×61 -10.2%
6University of South CarolinaUnited States 57.623.1%12.0×10 -38.9%
7Central South UniversityChina 56.414.9%6.3×30 +60.0%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 51.415.0%3.7×26 +35.2%
9Shanghai UniversityChina 51.15.1%20.1×35 +22.0%
10Ruhr University BochumGermany 49.29.5%10.4×10 +29.5%

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 Solidification and crystal growth phenomena, country by country

Is Solidification and crystal growth phenomena research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Solidification and crystal growth phenomena.

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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 Solidification and crystal growth phenomena as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0100% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Solidification and crystal growth phenomena0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Solidification and crystal growth phenomena 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%Solidification and crystal growth phenomena10.3% 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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