World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Materials Science 140 194 164 47

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 244
Documents by Best Scientists*: 189
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 21.3

Top Publications

  • Polymer-based EMI shielding composites with 3D conductive networks: A mini-review

    Lei Wang;Zhonglei Ma;Yali Zhang;Lixin Chen

    (2021)
    322 Citations
  • Recent advances in vacancy engineering of metal-organic frameworks and their derivatives for electrocatalysis

    Yuhang Wu;Yuwen Li;Junkuo Gao;Qichun Zhang

    (2021)
    296 Citations
  • A perspective on sustainable energy materials for lithium batteries

    Xin-Bing Cheng;He Liu;Hong Yuan;Hong-Jie Peng

    (2021)
    246 Citations
  • Designing principles of advanced sulfur cathodes toward practical lithium‐sulfur batteries

    Unknown

    (2022)
    221 Citations
  • Mechanism understanding for stripping electrochemistry of Li metal anode

    Unknown

    (2021)
    215 Citations
  • Modulating metal–organic frameworks for catalyzing acidic oxygen evolution for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis

    (2021)
    186 Citations
  • Advances in metal phosphides for sodium-ion batteries

    Qifei Li;Dan Yang;Haoliang Chen;Xiang Lv

    (2021)
    167 Citations
  • Recent progress, mechanisms, and perspectives for crystal and interface chemistry applying to the Zn metal anodes in aqueous zinc‐ion batteries

    (2022)
    150 Citations
  • Dendrite‐accelerated thermal runaway mechanisms of lithium metal pouch batteries

    (2022)
    142 Citations
  • Progress in the sustainable recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries

    Min Fan;Xin Chang;Qinghai Meng;Li-Jun Wan

    (2021)
    131 Citations

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