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Thallium and Germanium Studies

Thallium and Germanium Studies is a research topic within Pollution. Science Explorer counts 3.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the environmental pollution and public health concerns related to thallium contamination. It covers various aspects such as sources of contamination, distribution, monitoring methods, uptake by plants, removal technologies, toxicity in humans, and its impact on ecosystems. The research is particularly concentrated in China and highlights the significance of thallium pollution in soils, water, and its potential health risks.

  • Thallium
  • Pollution
  • Health
  • Contamination
  • Environmental Concerns
  • Soils
  • Water
  • China
  • Removal Technologies
  • Toxicity
Research works
3.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
345
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thallium and Germanium Studies

Which countries lead Thallium and Germanium Studies research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (173 and 64 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 173 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 64 works
  3. 3 Russia 50 works
  4. 4 United States 48 works
  5. 5 India 32 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 28 works
  7. 7 Germany 21 works
  8. 8 Spain 18 works
  9. 9 Egypt 16 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 15 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: 37.3%Indonesia: 13.8%Russia: 10.8%United States: 10.3%6 others listed: 27.8%37%largest
China173 · 37.3%Indonesia64 · 13.8%Russia50 · 10.8%United States48 · 10.3%6 others listed129 · 27.8%

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

Which institutions lead Thallium and Germanium Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Thallium and Germanium Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guangzhou University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 19 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 12 works
  3. 3 Guangzhou UniversityChina 12 works
  4. 4 State University of PadangIndonesia 9 works
  5. 5 Chongqing UniversityChina 5 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  7. 7 Central South UniversityChina 4 works
  8. 8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 4 works
  9. 9 Southern Federal UniversityRussia 4 works
  10. 10 Robert Bosch (Germany)Germany 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thallium and Germanium Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thallium and Germanium Studies include Robert O. Bonow.

  1. 1 Robert O. Bonow United States 146k 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 Thallium and Germanium Studies?

The most cited paper in Thallium and Germanium Studies is "Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds" (Norio Miyaura, Akira Suzuki, 1995), with 12,838 citations. Next come "Thallium: a review of public health and environmental concerns" (793) and "Decreased incidence of prostate cancer with selenium supplementation: results of a double‐blind cancer prevention trial" (675).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds Norio Miyaura, Akira Suzuki · Chemical Reviews Open access Nov 1995 12,838
2 Thallium: a review of public health and environmental concerns A.L. John Peter, T. Viraraghavan · Environment International 28 Oct 2004 793
3 Decreased incidence of prostate cancer with selenium supplementation: results of a double‐blind cancer prevention trial Clark, Clark, Dalkin et al. · British Journal of Urology May 1998 675
4 Kinetics and equilibrium adsorption study of lead(II) onto activated carbon prepared from coconut shell M. Sekar, V. Sakthi, S. Rengaraj · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 30 Sep 2004 656
5 Glutathione peroxidase family – an evolutionary overview Rogério Margis, Christophe Dunand, Felipe Karam Teixeira et al. · FEBS Journal 5 Jul 2008 616
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Thallium and Germanium Studies research done?

The largest centres of Thallium and Germanium Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Moscow (Russia) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guangzhou and Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 28 works
  2. 2 GuangzhouChina 24 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 17 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 11 works
  5. 5 PadangIndonesia 10 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 9 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 8 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 7 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 6 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuangzhouCN · 24.2 works4.3×
  2. BeijingCN · 28.3 works1.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Thallium and Germanium Studies than the world average.

See Thallium and Germanium Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Thallium and Germanium Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangzhou University and State University of Padang 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.

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
1Guangzhou UniversityChina 83.020.6%56.7×12 -8.0%
2State University of PadangIndonesia 10.00.0%14.3×9 +410.0%

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 Thallium and Germanium Studies, country by country

Is Thallium and Germanium Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Thallium and Germanium Studies.

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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 Thallium and Germanium Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thallium and Germanium Studies 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%Thallium and Germanium Studies10.4% 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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