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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 133 458 399 48

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 649
Documents by Best Scientists*: 496
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index: 86
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.735
Impact Factor: 6.6

Top Publications

  • MXene and MXene-based composites: synthesis, properties and environment-related applications

    Xiaoxue Zhan;Chen Si;Jian Zhou;Zhimei Sun

    (2020)
    1016 Citations
  • Recent advances in ruthenium-based electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction

    Seo-Yoon Bae;Javeed Mahmood;In-Yup Jeon;Jong-Beom Baek

    (2020)
    307 Citations
  • Recent advances in carbon dots for bioimaging applications

    Hongxia Li;Xu Yan;Deshuai Kong;Rui Jin

    (2020)
    289 Citations
  • A “PDMS-in-water” emulsion enables mechanochemically robust superhydrophobic surfaces with self-healing nature

    Mingzheng Ge;Chunyan Cao;Fanghua Liang;Rong Liu

    (2020)
    240 Citations
  • Nanoarchitectonics: what's coming next after nanotechnology?

    Katsuhiko Ariga

    (2021)
    237 Citations
  • Porous graphitic carbon nitride for solar photocatalytic applications

    Yang Li;Yang Li;Xin Li;Huaiwu Zhang;Quanjun Xiang;Quanjun Xiang

    (2020)
    200 Citations
  • Targeted liposomal drug delivery: a nanoscience and biophysical perspective.

    Yibo Liu;Karla M Castro Bravo;Juewen Liu

    (2021)
    180 Citations
  • Oleic acid/oleylamine ligand pair: a versatile combination in the synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles.

    (2022)
    128 Citations
  • The oxygen vacancy in Li-ion battery cathode materials.

    Zhen-Kun Tang;Yu-Feng Xue;Gilberto Teobaldi;Gilberto Teobaldi;Gilberto Teobaldi;Li-Min Liu

    (2020)
    103 Citations
  • A mixed-dimensional 1D Se–2D InSe van der Waals heterojunction for high responsivity self-powered photodetectors

    Huiming Shang;Hongyu Chen;Mingjin Dai;Yunxia Hu

    (2020)
    102 Citations

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