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Thermal and Kinetic Analysis

Thermal and Kinetic Analysis is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 42k 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 kinetic analysis of thermal processes in materials, with a particular emphasis on thermal decomposition, isoconversional methods, model-free kinetics, and the determination of activation energy. The research also covers the application of kinetic analysis in safety assessment and the study of solid-state reactions in polymers.

  • Kinetic Analysis
  • Thermal Decomposition
  • Isoconversional Methods
  • Model-Free Kinetics
  • Activation Energy
  • Solid-State Reactions
  • Thermoanalytical Data
  • Safety Assessment
  • Polymers
  • Reaction Mechanism
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thermal and Kinetic Analysis

Which countries lead Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (1.6k and 449 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 Russia 449 works
  3. 3 United States 401 works
  4. 4 India 384 works
  5. 5 Germany 150 works
  6. 6 Brazil 112 works
  7. 7 Japan 110 works
  8. 8 France 107 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 88 works
  10. 10 Poland 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: 46.6%Russia: 12.7%United States: 11.4%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 18.4%47%largest
China1,645 · 46.6%Russia449 · 12.7%United States401 · 11.4%India384 · 10.9%6 others listed651 · 18.4%

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

Which institutions lead Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research, followed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Beijing Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 230 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 145 works
  3. 3 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 111 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 76 works
  5. 5 North University of ChinaChina 51 works
  6. 6 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 47 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  8. 8 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 38 works
  9. 9 Nanjing Tech UniversityChina 35 works
  10. 10 Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thermal and Kinetic Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thermal and Kinetic Analysis include Michaël Grätzel, Georg Kresse and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  7. 7 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  8. 8 Stefan Grimme Germany 224k citations
  9. 9 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  10. 10 Axel D. Becke Canada 222k 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 Thermal and Kinetic Analysis?

The most cited paper in Thermal and Kinetic Analysis is "From molecules to solids with the DMol3 approach" (B. Delley, 2000), with 11,112 citations. Next come "The kinetics of precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions" (8,460) and "Kinetic Parameters from Thermogravimetric Data" (6,927).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 From molecules to solids with the DMol3 approach B. Delley · The Journal of Chemical Physics Open access 8 Nov 2000 11,112
2 The kinetics of precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions I.M. Lifshitz, V.V. Slyozov · Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids Apr 1961 8,460
3 Kinetic Parameters from Thermogravimetric Data A. W. Coats, John P. Redfern · Nature 1964 6,927
4 A New Method of Analyzing Thermogravimetric Data Takeo Ozawa · Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan Open access Nov 1965 6,912
5 Harmonic Vibrational Frequencies: An Evaluation of Hartree−Fock, Møller−Plesset, Quadratic Configuration Interaction, Density Functional Theory, and Semiempirical Scale Factors Anthony P. Scott, Leo Radom · The Journal of Physical Chemistry 1996 6,735
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Where is Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chernogolovka, Mianyang and Los Alamos.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 321 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 216 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 166 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 123 works
  5. 5 MianyangChina 77 works
  6. 6 TaiyuanChina 70 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 60 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 58 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 56 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChernogolovkaRU · 23.3 works51×
  2. MianyangCN · 77.2 works30×
  3. Los AlamosUS · 21.4 works17×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Thermal and Kinetic Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Thermal and Kinetic Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Polytechnic School of Algiers, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Nanjing University of Science and 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%60%mean 28.49%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwestern Polytec…Polytechnic School o…Beijing Institute of…Nanjing University o…
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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
1Polytechnic School of AlgiersAlgeria 71.426.6%110.7×23 +112.6%
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 66.929.3%8.1×38 +101.1%
3Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.711.0%43.2×145 +40.5%
4Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 62.913.5%22.9×111 +50.8%
5Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 62.154.1%5.5×10 +88.8%
6National Institute of Technology KurukshetraIndia 60.346.0%18.2×8 +72.4%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 58.329.2%3.1×22 +62.8%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54.532.4%2.0×14 +44.3%
9Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 54.48.5%6.9×25 +10.1%
10Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndia 53.034.3%8.3×11 +285.4%

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 Thermal and Kinetic Analysis, country by country

Is Thermal and Kinetic Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Thermal and Kinetic Analysis.

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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 Thermal and Kinetic Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thermal and Kinetic Analysis 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.

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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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