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Surfactants and Colloidal Systems

Surfactants and Colloidal Systems is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the aggregation, self-assembly, and interfacial behavior of surfactants, including topics such as micelle formation, wormlike micelles, ionic liquids, and microemulsions. It also covers the adsorption mechanisms of surfactants at air-water interfaces and the viscoelastic properties of surfactant solutions.

  • Surfactants
  • Micelles
  • Self-assembly
  • Wormlike micelles
  • Ionic liquids
  • Microemulsions
  • Gemini surfactants
  • Adsorption
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Interfacial phenomena
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Surfactants and Colloidal Systems

Which countries lead Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (952 and 487 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 952 works
  2. 2 India 487 works
  3. 3 United States 381 works
  4. 4 Japan 198 works
  5. 5 Russia 151 works
  6. 6 Germany 150 works
  7. 7 France 147 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 123 works
  9. 9 Brazil 90 works
  10. 10 Iran 84 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: 34.4%India: 17.6%United States: 13.8%Japan: 7.2%6 others listed: 27.0%34%largest
China952 · 34.4%India487 · 17.6%United States381 · 13.8%Japan198 · 7.2%6 others listed745 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Jiangnan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 70 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  3. 3 Jiangnan UniversityChina 37 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  5. 5 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 24 works
  6. 6 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China 23 works
  7. 7 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 21 works
  8. 8 Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 17 works
  10. 10 Shandong UniversityChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Surfactants and Colloidal Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Surfactants and Colloidal Systems include Michaël Grätzel, Róbert Langer and Ben Zhong Tang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 John N. Weinstein United States 214k citations
  6. 6 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  7. 7 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  8. 8 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  9. 9 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  10. 10 John Anthony Pople United States 202k 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 Surfactants and Colloidal Systems?

The most cited paper in Surfactants and Colloidal Systems is "Insights into the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems" (Keng Yuen Foo, Bassim H. Hameed, 2009), with 8,423 citations. Next come "Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications" (7,356) and "A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics" (6,965).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Insights into the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems Keng Yuen Foo, Bassim H. Hameed · Chemical Engineering Journal 14 Sep 2009 8,423
2 Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications Emma L. Smith, Andrew P. Abbott, Karl Scott Ryder · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 10 Oct 2014 7,356
3 A new integral equation formalism for the polarizable continuum model: Theoretical background and applications to isotropic and anisotropic dielectrics Éric Cancès, Benedetta Mennucci, J. Tomasi · The Journal of Chemical Physics 22 Aug 1997 6,965
4 Molecular weight estimation of polypeptide chains by electrophoresis in SDS-polyacrylamide gels Arnold L. Shapiro, Eladio Viñuela, Jacob V. Maizel · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Sep 1967 3,779
5 Characterization and comparison of hydrophilic and hydrophobic room temperature ionic liquids incorporating the imidazolium cation Jonathan G. Huddleston, Ann E. Visser, William Matthew Reichert et al. · Green Chemistry 2001 3,699
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Where is Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research done?

The largest centres of Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wuxi and Kazan’.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 168 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 56 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 55 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 52 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 48 works
  7. 7 WuxiChina 43 works
  8. 8 MumbaiIndia 43 works
  9. 9 QingdaoChina 38 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WuxiCN · 43.1 works12×
  2. Kazan’RU · 29.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Surfactants and Colloidal Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Surfactants and Colloidal Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangnan University, King Saud University and Wageningen University & Research 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 20%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…China University of …King Saud UniversityJiangnan University
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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
1Jiangnan UniversityChina 60.69.8%18.5×37 +29.5%
2King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 54.314.4%4.6×15 +54.0%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 52.140.2%6.7×8 -25.7%
4China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 49.715.4%13.1×17 +33.3%
5University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 47.216.4%5.3×10 +23.6%
6Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"Bulgaria 46.015.4%29.1×11 +32.3%
7Nanchang UniversityChina 45.543.1%3.2×8 -23.0%
8China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 44.010.2%15.0×24 -36.6%
9Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 43.718.5%4.4×11 +35.3%
10King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 41.416.6%5.5×10 -59.7%

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 Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, country by country

Is Surfactants and Colloidal Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2007.

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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 Surfactants and Colloidal Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Surfactants and Colloidal Systems0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Surfactants and Colloidal Systems 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%Surfactants and Colloidal Systems9.9% 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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