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Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena

Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the diverse applications of ultrasound, including sonochemistry and cavitation, in the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructured materials. It covers topics such as environmental remediation, power ultrasound in organic synthesis, acoustic bubble dynamics, and the use of ultrasound for chemical processing.

  • Ultrasound
  • Nanostructured Materials
  • Sonochemistry
  • Cavitation
  • Nanomaterials
  • Synthesis
  • Acoustic Bubbles
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Power Ultrasound
  • Chemical Processing
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena

Which countries lead Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (950 and 276 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 950 works
  2. 2 United States 276 works
  3. 3 India 155 works
  4. 4 Russia 152 works
  5. 5 Japan 118 works
  6. 6 France 113 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 88 works
  8. 8 Germany 72 works
  9. 9 South Korea 71 works
  10. 10 Iran 62 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: 46.2%United States: 13.4%India: 7.5%Russia: 7.4%6 others listed: 25.5%46%largest
China950 · 46.2%United States276 · 13.4%India155 · 7.5%Russia152 · 7.4%6 others listed523 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harbin Engineering University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 67 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  3. 3 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 44 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 35 works
  5. 5 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 23 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 22 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu UniversityChina 21 works
  8. 8 Institute of Chemical TechnologyIndia 20 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena include Róbert Langer, Wei Huang and David Julian McClements.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 David Julian McClements United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Hugo Albert Katus Germany 176k citations
  5. 5 Yadong Li China 155k 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 Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena?

The most cited paper in Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena is "Ultrasound assisted extraction of food and natural products. Mechanisms, techniques, combinations, protocols and applications. A review" (Farid Chemat, Natacha Rombaut, Anne-Gaëlle Sicaire et al., 2016), with 3,214 citations. Next come "Sonochemistry" (2,896) and "Applications of ultrasound in food technology: Processing, preservation and extraction" (2,531).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ultrasound assisted extraction of food and natural products. Mechanisms, techniques, combinations, protocols and applications. A review Farid Chemat, Natacha Rombaut, Anne-Gaëlle Sicaire et al. · Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 25 Jun 2016 3,214
2 Sonochemistry Kenneth Sanders Suslick · Science 23 Mar 1990 2,896
3 Applications of ultrasound in food technology: Processing, preservation and extraction Farid Chemat, Zill-e-Huma, Muhammad Kamran Khan · Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 17 Dec 2010 2,531
4 Applications of Ultrasound to the Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials Jin Ho Bang, Kenneth Sanders Suslick · Advanced Materials Feb 2010 1,905
5 APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASOUND TO MATERIALS CHEMISTRY Kenneth Sanders Suslick, Gareth James Price · Annual Review of Materials Science Aug 1999 1,706
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research done?

The largest centres of Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Harbin (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhenjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 175 works
  2. 2 HarbinChina 69 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 56 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 55 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 50 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 48 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 37 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 35 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhenjiangCN · 27.6 works9.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Engineering University, Institute of Chemical Technology and Jiangsu University score highest, combining citation 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 16.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Otto-von-Guericke-Un…Harbin Engineering U…Jiangsu UniversityInstitute of Chemica…
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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.

Citation 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 Engineering UniversityChina 84.222.8%37.1×44 +35.2%
2Institute of Chemical TechnologyIndia 62.35.5%95.9×20 +11.6%
3Jiangsu UniversityChina 62.114.8%11.5×21 +23.9%
4Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany 62.123.3%21.6×9 +49.6%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 60.631.5%2.6×13 +18.3%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 60.113.6%4.5×14 +34.3%
7University of LjubljanaSlovenia 59.412.0%12.6×12 +6.3%
8University of LimerickIreland 56.516.8%19.9×9 +294.9%
9North China Electric Power UniversityChina 53.17.9%15.3×23 +539.3%
10University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 53.117.0%9.6×9 +156.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena, country by country

Is Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena.

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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 Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0090% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena 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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