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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 56 436 383 81

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 566
Documents by Best Scientists*: 425
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 16
SCIMAGO H-index: 86
SCIMAGO SJR: 5.683
Impact Factor: 22.3

Top Publications

  • Progress in wearable electronics/photonics—Moving toward the era of artificial intelligence and internet of things

    Qiongfeng Shi;Bowei Dong;Tianyiyi He;Zhongda Sun

    (2020)
    600 Citations
  • Strain engineering of <scp>two‐dimensional</scp> materials: Methods, properties, and applications

    Unknown

    (2021)
    442 Citations
  • A review on theoretical models for lithium–sulfur battery cathodes

    Unknown

    (2022)
    432 Citations
  • Challenges and perspectives for manganese‐based oxides for advanced aqueous zinc‐ion batteries

    Yinlei Zhao;Yinlei Zhao;Yunhai Zhu;Yunhai Zhu;Xinbo Zhang;Xinbo Zhang

    (2020)
    342 Citations
  • Two‐dimensional MXenes : New frontier of wearable and flexible electronics

    Unknown

    (2022)
    305 Citations
  • A functionalized separator enables dendrite‐free Zn anode via metal‐polydopamine coordination chemistry

    Unknown

    (2022)
    304 Citations
  • Machine learning: Accelerating materials development for energy storage and conversion

    An Chen;Xu Zhang;Zhen Zhou

    (2020)
    267 Citations
  • One‐dimensional and two‐dimensional synergized nanostructures for high‐performing energy storage and conversion

    Xin Li;John Wang

    (2020)
    260 Citations
  • Mechanistic understanding of the role separators playing in advanced lithium-sulfur batteries

    Zhaohuan Wei;Yaqi Ren;Joshua Sokolowski;Xiaodong Zhu

    (2020)
    246 Citations
  • Challenges, interface engineering, and processing strategies toward practical sulfide‐based all‐solid‐state lithium batteries

    (2022)
    223 Citations

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Best Scientists Contributing to This Journal