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Surface Treatment and Coatings

Surface Treatment and Coatings is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.2k 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 surface modification techniques for metal alloys, particularly titanium, using methods such as electro-spark alloying, plasma spraying, and laser treatment. The research explores the deposition of composite coatings, hydroxyapatite nanoparticles, and carbide-ceramic coatings to enhance properties such as corrosion resistance and mechanical strength.

  • Electro-Spark Alloying
  • Surface Coatings
  • Titanium Alloy
  • Composite Coatings
  • Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles
  • Plasma Spraying
  • Microstructural Morphology
  • Nanostructured Coatings
  • Laser Treatment
  • Corrosion Behavior
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
821
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Surface Treatment and Coatings

Which countries lead Surface Treatment and Coatings research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (486 and 216 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 486 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 216 works
  3. 3 China 210 works
  4. 4 Poland 141 works
  5. 5 India 106 works
  6. 6 United States 95 works
  7. 7 Kazakhstan 41 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 28 works
  9. 9 Germany 28 works
  10. 10 Belarus 26 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.

Russia: 35.3%Ukraine: 15.7%China: 15.2%Poland: 10.3%6 others listed: 23.6%35%largest
Russia486 · 35.3%Ukraine216 · 15.7%China210 · 15.2%Poland141 · 10.3%6 others listed325 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Surface Treatment and Coatings research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Surface Treatment and Coatings research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 86 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 43 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 14 works
  5. 5 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 13 works
  6. 6 Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and GasUkraine 13 works
  7. 7 South-West State UniversityRussia 12 works
  8. 8 Southwest Minnesota State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of BelarusBelarus 12 works
  10. 10 Khmelnytskyi National UniversityUkraine 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Surface Treatment and Coatings?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Surface Treatment and Coatings include Dierk Raabe, S. Němeček and Dominic P. Kwiatkowski.

  1. 1 Dierk Raabe Germany 125k citations
  2. 2 S. Němeček France 120k citations
  3. 3 Dominic P. Kwiatkowski United Kingdom 109k citations
  4. 4 Jie Liu United States 98k citations
  5. 5 Manoj Kumar Gupta Singapore 95k 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 Surface Treatment and Coatings?

The most cited paper in Surface Treatment and Coatings is "Plasma electrolysis for surface engineering" (Aleksey L. Yerokhin, Xueyuan Nie, Adrian Leyland et al., 1999), with 2,972 citations. Next come "Plasma sprayed coatings of hydroxylapatite" (1,156) and "Influence of temperature on the products from the flash pyrolysis of biomass" (397).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Plasma electrolysis for surface engineering Aleksey L. Yerokhin, Xueyuan Nie, Adrian Leyland et al. · Surface and Coatings Technology Dec 1999 2,972
2 Plasma sprayed coatings of hydroxylapatite K. de Groot, R. G. T. Geesink, Carsten Klein et al. · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Dec 1987 1,156
3 Influence of temperature on the products from the flash pyrolysis of biomass Patrick A. Horne, Paul T. Williams · Fuel Jul 1996 397
4 Fault diagnosis of single-phase induction motor based on acoustic signals Adam Głowacz · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 2 Aug 2018 353
5 On the thermodynamics and kinetics of electropulsing induced dissolution of β-Mg17Al12 phase in an aged Mg–9Al–1Zn alloy Yanbin Jiang, Guoyi Tang, C.H. Shek et al. · Acta Materialia 28 Jul 2009 278
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Where is Surface Treatment and Coatings research done?

The largest centres of Surface Treatment and Coatings research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Beijing (China) and Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 158 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 66 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 28 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 26 works
  5. 5 WeatherfordUnited States 25 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 23 works
  7. 7 MinskBelarus 21 works
  8. 8 VoronezhRussia 20 works
  9. 9 Rostov-on-DonRussia 18 works
  10. 10 WarsawPoland 17 works
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Where is the best place to study Surface Treatment and Coatings?

Among universities, judged by research, Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Weatherford College and Lublin 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 15.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lublin University of…Ivano-Frankivsk Nati…Silesian University …Weatherford College
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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
1Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and GasUkraine 63.324.4%179.8×13 +32.3%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 56.59.4%12.6×25 +126.2%
3Lublin University of TechnologyPoland 49.233.1%72.0×10 -25.1%
4Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 38.89.6%37.3×14 -66.2%
5AGH University of KrakowPoland 36.720.8%17.2×10 -42.6%
6Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 34.024.1%41.6×9 -41.1%
7Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 29.413.2%71.2×10 -27.5%
8Southwest Minnesota State UniversityUnited States 27.33.4%197.1×12 +17.6%
9Khmelnytskyi National UniversityUkraine 25.63.9%141.5×11 +2.1%
10Moscow State Agroengineering University named after V.P. GoryachkinRussia 25.38.9%113.9×9 +64.7%

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 Surface Treatment and Coatings, country by country

Is Surface Treatment and Coatings research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Surface Treatment and Coatings as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0069% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Surface Treatment and Coatings0.0063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Surface Treatment and Coatings 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%Surface Treatment and Coatings10.8% 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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