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Wood Treatment and Properties

Wood Treatment and Properties is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to advancements in wood science and technology, including wood chemistry, FTIR analysis, heat treatment effects, timber construction, microstructure analysis, wood modification techniques, mechanical properties of wood, thermal modification processes, fungal decay of wood, and nanomechanical studies.

  • Wood Chemistry
  • FTIR Analysis
  • Heat Treatment
  • Timber Construction
  • Microstructure
  • Wood Modification
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Thermal Modification
  • Fungal Decay
  • Nanomechanics
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wood Treatment and Properties

Which countries lead Wood Treatment and Properties research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (952 and 242 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 952 works
  2. 2 United States 242 works
  3. 3 Brazil 238 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 195 works
  5. 5 Japan 171 works
  6. 6 Canada 170 works
  7. 7 Germany 145 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 134 works
  9. 9 France 132 works
  10. 10 India 122 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: 38.1%United States: 9.7%Brazil: 9.5%Türkiye: 7.8%6 others listed: 35.0%38%largest
China952 · 38.1%United States242 · 9.7%Brazil238 · 9.5%Türkiye195 · 7.8%6 others listed875 · 35.0%

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

Which institutions lead Wood Treatment and Properties research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing Forestry University publishes the most Wood Treatment and Properties research, followed by Northeast Forestry University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 134 works
  2. 2 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 49 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 41 works
  4. 4 Tongji UniversityChina 34 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Forestry Research and EducationIndia 33 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of ForestryChina 33 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 31 works
  8. 8 Research Institute of Wood IndustryChina 31 works
  9. 9 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 30 works
  10. 10 Technická univerzita vo ZvoleneSlovakia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wood Treatment and Properties?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wood Treatment and Properties include Robert B. Jackson, Liangbing Hu and İbrahim Dinçer.

  1. 1 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k citations
  2. 2 Liangbing Hu United States 123k citations
  3. 3 İbrahim Dinçer Canada 111k 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 Wood Treatment and Properties?

The most cited paper in Wood Treatment and Properties is "Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material" (Jianwei Song et al., 2018), with 1,629 citations. Next come "Trends in wood density and structure are linked to prevention of xylem implosion by negative pressure" (1,611) and "A review on the degradability of polymeric composites based on natural fibres" (1,516).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material Jianwei Song et al. · Nature Feb 2018 1,629
2 Trends in wood density and structure are linked to prevention of xylem implosion by negative pressure Uwe G. Hacke, John S. Sperry, William T. Pockman et al. · Oecologia Feb 2001 1,611
3 A review on the degradability of polymeric composites based on natural fibres Z. N. Azwa, Belal F. Yousif, Allan C. Manalo et al. · Materials & Design (1980-2015) 19 Dec 2012 1,516
4 The wood from the trees: The use of timber in construction Michael H. Ramage, Henry C. Burridge, Marta Busse‐Wicher et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Open access 14 Oct 2016 1,384
5 Effects of short-time vibratory ball milling on the shape of FT-IR spectra of wood and cellulose Manfred Schwanninger, José Carlos Rodrígues, Helena Pereira et al. · Vibrational Spectroscopy 26 Apr 2004 1,377
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wood Treatment and Properties research done?

The largest centres of Wood Treatment and Properties research in 2022-now are Nanjing (China), Beijing (China), Harbin (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zvolen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NanjingChina 197 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 185 works
  3. 3 HarbinChina 57 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 56 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 45 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 45 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 33 works
  8. 8 ZvolenSlovakia 32 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 31 works
  10. 10 VancouverCanada 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZvolenSK · 32.3 works222×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wood Treatment and Properties than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wood Treatment and Properties?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, University of British Columbia and Xi'an University of Architecture 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%mean 21.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an University of …Nanjing Forestry Uni…University of Britis…Tongji 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
1Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 83.925.1%81.3×134 +93.7%
2University of British ColumbiaCanada 71.224.6%7.1×31 +14.0%
3Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 68.629.0%16.4×18 +51.4%
4Tongji UniversityChina 65.818.2%6.0×34 +41.6%
5Chongqing UniversityChina 63.624.1%3.4×14 +150.2%
6University of Northern British ColumbiaCanada 62.517.1%123.3×17 +47.2%
7Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 62.020.5%30.6×17 +131.2%
8KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 61.919.1%9.4×13 +139.3%
9Aalto UniversityFinland 61.317.3%13.2×14 +14.4%
10Tampere UniversityFinland 61.220.1%9.0×10 +453.4%

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 Wood Treatment and Properties, country by country

Is Wood Treatment and Properties research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wood Treatment and Properties.

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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 Wood Treatment and Properties as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Wood Treatment and Properties 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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