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Textile materials and evaluations

Textile materials and evaluations is a research topic within Polymers and Plastics. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 science of clothing comfort and textile properties, including moisture management, thermal properties, wicking mechanisms, and the influence of fiber properties on fabric comfort. It also explores the application of artificial intelligence in fabric testing and the engineering of knitted fabrics for improved heat transfer.

  • Moisture Management
  • Thermal Properties
  • Fabric Comfort
  • Textile Engineering
  • Wicking Mechanisms
  • Fiber Properties
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knitted Fabrics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Fabric Testing
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Textile materials and evaluations

Which countries lead Textile materials and evaluations research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 660 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 660 works
  3. 3 United States 559 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 450 works
  5. 5 Japan 245 works
  6. 6 France 217 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 204 works
  8. 8 Germany 193 works
  9. 9 Egypt 179 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 170 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: 15.1%United States: 12.8%Türkiye: 10.3%6 others listed: 27.5%34%largest
China1,509 · 34.4%India660 · 15.1%United States559 · 12.8%Türkiye450 · 10.3%6 others listed1,207 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Textile materials and evaluations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Donghua University publishes the most Textile materials and evaluations research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Jiangnan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Donghua UniversityChina 126 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 74 works
  3. 3 Jiangnan UniversityChina 73 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityChina 64 works
  5. 5 Namangan Engineering Pedagogical InstituteUzbekistan 56 works
  6. 6 Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light IndustryUzbekistan 54 works
  7. 7 Bangladesh University of TextilesBangladesh 50 works
  8. 8 Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia 46 works
  9. 9 Wuhan Textile UniversityChina 45 works
  10. 10 Textile Research InstituteUnited States 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Textile materials and evaluations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Textile materials and evaluations include Róbert Langer, Wei Huang and Yi Ping Cui.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  4. 4 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  7. 7 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  8. 8 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Textile materials and evaluations?

The most cited paper in Textile materials and evaluations is "A Re-Examination of the Relative Turgidity Technique for Estimating Water Deficits in Leaves" (HD Barrs, PE Weatherley, 1962), with 3,666 citations. Next come "The elasticity and strength of paper and other fibrous materials" (3,588) and "Fabric and Mineral Analysis of Soils" (1,646).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Re-Examination of the Relative Turgidity Technique for Estimating Water Deficits in Leaves HD Barrs, PE Weatherley · Australian Journal of Biological Sciences Sep 1962 3,666
2 The elasticity and strength of paper and other fibrous materials Henry L. Cox · British Journal of Applied Physics Mar 1952 3,588
3 Fabric and Mineral Analysis of Soils ROY BREWER · Soil Science Jul 1965 1,646
4 A Progressive Damage Model for Laminated Composites Containing Stress Concentrations Fu‐Kuo Chang, Kuo-Yen Chang · Journal of Composite Materials Sep 1987 1,310
5 Review of applications for advanced three-dimensional fibre textile composites Adrian P. Mouritz, Michael Bannister, Paul J. Falzon et al. · Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing Dec 1999 1,199
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Where is Textile materials and evaluations research done?

The largest centres of Textile materials and evaluations research in 2022-now are Shanghai (China), Beijing (China), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Namangan, Liberec and Bahir Dar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ShanghaiChina 209 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 178 works
  3. 3 DhakaBangladesh 145 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 106 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 88 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 83 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 77 works
  8. 8 WuxiChina 77 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 73 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NamanganUZ · 65.2 works75×
  2. LiberecCZ · 32.9 works69×
  3. Bahir DarET · 24.7 works22×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Textile materials and evaluations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Textile materials and evaluations?

Among universities, judged by research, Donghua University, National Textile University and University of Bristol 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 19.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BristolIndian Institute of …National Textile Uni…Donghua 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
1Donghua UniversityChina 58.911.8%58.1×126 +12.1%
2National Textile UniversityPakistan 58.614.6%231.8×39 +34.1%
3University of BristolUnited Kingdom 58.434.2%2.6×9 +131.9%
4Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia 57.715.4%15.5×46 +18.7%
5Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 56.539.0%1.8×18 +75.2%
6Bangladesh University of TextilesBangladesh 55.718.0%341.5×50 +4.3%
7RMIT UniversityAustralia 52.38.0%7.3×17 +34.0%
8Khulna University of Engineering and TechnologyBangladesh 51.827.4%19.8×11 +76.3%
9Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityChina 51.611.8%36.2×64 +46.9%
10North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 51.618.8%8.8×29 +14.5%

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 Textile materials and evaluations, country by country

Is Textile materials and evaluations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Textile materials and evaluations.

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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 Textile materials and evaluations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Textile materials and evaluations0.028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Textile materials and evaluations 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%Textile materials and evaluations10.1% 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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