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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 129 229 211 49

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 281
Documents by Best Scientists*: 235
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 21
SCIMAGO H-index: 43
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.725
Impact Factor: 12.8

Top Publications

  • Recent advances of carbon dots as new antimicrobial agents

    Unknown

    (2022)
    227 Citations
  • Advanced energy materials for flexible batteries in energy storage: A review

    Long Kong;Long Kong;Cheng Tang;Hong-Jie Peng;Jia-Qi Huang

    (2020)
    225 Citations
  • A fundamental comprehension and recent progress in advanced Pt-based ORR nanocatalysts

    Yao Wang;Dingsheng Wang;Yadong Li

    (2021)
    195 Citations
  • Organic materials‐based cathode for zinc ion battery

    Unknown

    (2022)
    193 Citations
  • Dual‐metal single‐atomic catalyst: The challenge in synthesis, characterization, and mechanistic investigation for electrocatalysis

    Unknown

    (2022)
    171 Citations
  • Flexible conductive polymer composites for smart wearable strain sensors

    Kangkang Zhou;Kun Dai;Chuntai Liu;Changyu Shen

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Organic photodetectors based on supramolecular nanostructures

    Yifan Yao;Yusheng Chen;Hanlin Wang;Paolo Samorì

    (2020)
    121 Citations
  • Application of intrinsically conducting polymers in flexible electronics

    Jianyong Ouyang

    (2021)
    120 Citations
  • Host–guest materials with room temperature phosphorescence: Tunable emission color and thermal printing patterns

    Yunsheng Wang;Jie Yang;Yanxiang Gong;Manman Fang

    (2020)
    111 Citations
  • Aggregation-induced emission: Red and near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes

    Liangjing Tu;Yujun Xie;Yujun Xie;Zhen Li;Benzhong Tang;Benzhong Tang

    (2021)
    110 Citations

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