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Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials is a research topic within Polymers and Plastics. Science Explorer counts 37k 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 advanced materials and technologies for smart windows, including electrochromic and thermochromic properties of tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide, nanocrystal applications, energy efficiency, and the metal-insulator transition. The research covers a wide range of topics such as synthesis, properties, applications, and device integration for next-generation smart window technologies.

  • Electrochromic
  • Tungsten Oxide
  • Vanadium Oxide
  • Smart Glass
  • Nanocrystals
  • Metal-Insulator Transition
  • Thermochromic
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Nanostructured Films
  • Optoelectronic
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

Which countries lead Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 India 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 508 works
  4. 4 South Korea 493 works
  5. 5 Japan 276 works
  6. 6 Russia 208 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 177 works
  8. 8 Germany 172 works
  9. 9 France 163 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 161 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: 47.4%India: 18.6%United States: 8.0%South Korea: 7.8%6 others listed: 18.2%47%largest
China3,010 · 47.4%India1,182 · 18.6%United States508 · 8.0%South Korea493 · 7.8%6 others listed1,157 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 213 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 91 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 78 works
  4. 4 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 51 works
  5. 5 Jilin UniversityChina 39 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 38 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 33 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 33 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and John P. Perdew.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  4. 4 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  5. 5 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials?

The most cited paper in Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials is "Electron-energy-loss spectra and the structural stability of nickel oxide: An LSDA+U study" (S. L. Dudarev, Gianluigi A. Botton, Sergey Yu. Savrasov et al., 1998), with 15,337 citations. Next come "Memristor-The missing circuit element" (10,276) and "Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges" (5,097).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electron-energy-loss spectra and the structural stability of nickel oxide: An LSDA+U study S. L. Dudarev, Gianluigi A. Botton, Sergey Yu. Savrasov et al. · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Jan 1998 15,337
2 Memristor-The missing circuit element Leon Ong Chua · IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory 1971 10,276
3 Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges Rainer M. Waser, Regina Dittmann, G. Staikov et al. · Advanced Materials 6 Jul 2009 5,097
4 Phase-change materials for rewriteable data storage Matthias Wuttig, Noboru Yamada · Nature Materials Nov 2007 3,657
5 Ordered mesoporous α-MoO3 with iso-oriented nanocrystalline walls for thin-film pseudocapacitors Torsten Brezesinski, John Wang, Sarah H. Tolbert et al. · Nature Materials 10 Jan 2010 3,376
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Where is Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research done?

The largest centres of Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 389 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 215 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 210 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 154 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 152 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 123 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 112 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 110 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 102 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 99 works
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Where is the best place to study Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Yeungnam University and Southern 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%10%20%30%mean 19.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southern University …Yeungnam UniversityHarbin Institute of …King Khalid 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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 72.117.4%4.4×51 +48.8%
2Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 71.519.6%16.1×26 +80.0%
3Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 71.126.6%4.1×15 +57.3%
4King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 67.017.0%7.2×19 +100.6%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 66.115.2%4.2×29 +95.4%
6Jilin UniversityChina 66.016.4%4.7×39 +50.4%
7University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 65.818.3%3.5×30 +56.9%
8National University of SingaporeSingapore 65.328.0%2.1×18 +0.9%
9City University of Hong KongChina 65.121.5%3.4×14 +79.2%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 64.518.9%1.6×30 +47.9%

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 Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials, country by country

Is Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials.

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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 Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials 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%Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials9.8% 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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