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Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies

Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on passive radiative cooling technologies, including daytime radiative cooling, near-field heat transfer, thermal emission control, photonic structures, thermophotovoltaic systems, nanoporous materials, metamaterials, and their applications in personal thermal management and energy conversion.

  • Radiative Cooling
  • Daytime Radiative Cooling
  • Near-Field Heat Transfer
  • Thermal Emission
  • Photonic Structures
  • Thermophotovoltaic
  • Nanoporous Materials
  • Metamaterials
  • Personal Thermal Management
  • Energy Conversion
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies

Which countries lead Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3k and 675 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 United States 675 works
  3. 3 India 281 works
  4. 4 South Korea 209 works
  5. 5 Japan 200 works
  6. 6 France 179 works
  7. 7 Germany 130 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 115 works
  9. 9 Spain 113 works
  10. 10 Russia 113 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: 59.8%United States: 13.5%India: 5.6%South Korea: 4.2%6 others listed: 17.0%60%largest
China2,994 · 59.8%United States675 · 13.5%India281 · 5.6%South Korea209 · 4.2%6 others listed849 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 206 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 101 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 90 works
  4. 4 Donghua UniversityChina 66 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 51 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 51 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 48 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 47 works
  10. 10 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  6. 6 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Radiation and Cooling Technologies?

The most cited paper in Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies is "Complex thermoelectric materials" (Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer, 2008), with 11,452 citations. Next come "Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems" (6,108) and "High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys" (5,616).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Complex thermoelectric materials Gerald Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer · Nature Materials 25 Jan 2008 11,452
2 Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems Lon E. Bell · Science 12 Sep 2008 6,108
3 High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys Bed Poudel, Qing Li Hao, Yi Ma et al. · Science 20 Mar 2008 5,616
4 Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer Gordon Ellison Book chapter 8 Nov 2010 5,429
5 Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit R. Venkatasubramanian, Edward Siivola, T.S. Colpitts et al. · Nature Oct 2001 5,210
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Where is Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Villeurbanne and Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 486 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 265 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 213 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 182 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 133 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 121 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 110 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 96 works
  9. 9 Hong KongChina 94 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VilleurbanneFR · 22.9 works7.3×
  2. MianyangCN · 21.3 works6.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Donghua University and City University of Hong Kong 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.

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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 81.523.4%8.5×39 +126.2%
2Donghua UniversityChina 75.519.9%33.7×66 +177.9%
3City University of Hong KongChina 73.318.7%10.7×33 +293.8%
4Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 67.126.6%5.4×16 +33.4%
5National University of SingaporeSingapore 65.720.4%4.1×26 +40.9%
6Central South UniversityChina 65.632.2%2.1×22 +80.3%
7Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65.517.0%3.8×59 +62.8%
8Jiangnan UniversityChina 64.421.3%9.2×29 +592.0%
9Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 63.922.0%5.0×22 +67.4%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.610.0%10.2×90 +45.7%

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 Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, country by country

Is Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies.

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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 Radiation and Cooling Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies 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%Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies9.6% 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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