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Superconducting Materials and Applications

Superconducting Materials and Applications is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 44k 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 development, design, and testing of superconducting magnets for particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and fusion reactors such as the ITER project. It covers topics such as Nb3Sn conductors, cable-in-conduit conductors, high field applications, cryogenic material properties, and magnetic field simulations.

  • Superconducting Magnets
  • Nb3Sn Conductor
  • ITER Project
  • High Field Applications
  • Cable-in-Conduit Conductors
  • LHC Upgrade
  • Magnetic Field Simulation
  • Fusion Reactor
  • Critical Current Density
  • Cryogenic Material Properties
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Superconducting Materials and Applications

Which countries lead Superconducting Materials and Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 828 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 828 works
  3. 3 Japan 307 works
  4. 4 Russia 255 works
  5. 5 Italy 207 works
  6. 6 Germany 205 works
  7. 7 France 201 works
  8. 8 Switzerland 173 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 147 works
  10. 10 South Korea 130 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: 32.5%United States: 22.8%Japan: 8.4%Russia: 7.0%6 others listed: 29.3%33%largest
China1,183 · 32.5%United States828 · 22.8%Japan307 · 8.4%Russia255 · 7.0%6 others listed1,064 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Superconducting Materials and Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Superconducting Materials and Applications research, followed by European Organization for Nuclear Research and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 342 works
  2. 2 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 122 works
  3. 3 Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryUnited States 106 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 75 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 65 works
  6. 6 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 63 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 60 works
  8. 8 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 53 works
  9. 9 Max Planck SocietyGermany 51 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in Superconducting Materials and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Superconducting Materials and Applications include M. Shoji, Zhong Lin Wang and M. Weber.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  3. 3 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  6. 6 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 G. Mitselmakher France 223k 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 Superconducting Materials and Applications?

The most cited paper in Superconducting Materials and Applications is "Introduction to Superconductivity" (M. Tinkham, Victor J. Emery, 1996), with 6,682 citations. Next come "Magnetization of High-Field Superconductors" (4,348) and "The principles of nuclear magnetism" (4,059).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Introduction to Superconductivity M. Tinkham, Victor J. Emery · Physics Today Oct 1996 6,682
2 Magnetization of High-Field Superconductors Charles P. Bean · Reviews of Modern Physics 1964 4,348
3 The principles of nuclear magnetism A. Abragam · Nuclear Physics Nov 1961 4,059
4 A New High-Tc Oxide Superconductor without a Rare Earth Element Hiroshi Maeda, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Masao Fukutomi et al. · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Feb 1988 3,631
5 Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance Chongming Yang, Randell L Mills · Physical Review Open access Oct 1954 3,260
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Superconducting Materials and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Superconducting Materials and Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Hefei (China), Geneva (Switzerland) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vinon-sur-Verdon, Batavia and Abingdon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 357 works
  2. 2 HefeiChina 179 works
  3. 3 GenevaSwitzerland 126 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 113 works
  5. 5 BataviaUnited States 107 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 79 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 73 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 71 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 70 works
  10. 10 LanzhouChina 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Vinon-sur-VerdonFR · 37.9 works749×
  2. BataviaUS · 106.9 works307×
  3. AbingdonGB · 37.1 works178×
  4. TsukubaJP · 26.0 works99×
  5. Newport NewsUS · 20.7 works97×
  6. GarchingDE · 32.2 works76×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Superconducting Materials and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Superconducting Materials and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Victoria University of Wellington, Lanzhou University and Sorbonne Université 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 19.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lanzhou UniversityVictoria University …Princeton UniversitySorbonne Université
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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
1Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 72.731.8%18.4×14 +4.7%
2Lanzhou UniversityChina 71.732.6%11.1×28 +28.9%
3Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 66.711.0%16.5×42 +16.8%
4Princeton UniversityUnited States 59.529.2%14.1×23 -33.4%
5Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.27.5%7.9×53 +23.7%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 57.019.4%2.8×30 +19.6%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 56.912.3%6.8×41 +56.8%
8University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 53.418.2%7.7×26 -2.8%
9University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.37.3%11.3×50 +1.7%
10Beihang UniversityChina 50.923.3%3.8×15 +261.6%

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 Superconducting Materials and Applications, country by country

Is Superconducting Materials and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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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 Superconducting Materials and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Superconducting Materials and Applications0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Superconducting Materials and Applications 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%Superconducting Materials and Applications10.1% 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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