The 1st edition of Research.com ranking of the best universities in the field
of Materials Science is based on data consolidated from
multiple data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The bibliometric data for
evaluating the citation-based metrics were gathered on 06-12-2021.
Position in the ranking is based on a sum of D-indexes (Discipline H-index) of all ranking
scientist's affiliated with a given institution. D-index
only includes papers and citation
values for an examined discipline.
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The scope of our Materials Science research
Our best universities ranking is a credible list of
leading scientists from the area of Materials Science ,
created using a thorough study
of 166,880 scholars discovered from
various bibliometric data sources. For the area of
Materials Science, more than 11166 researchers were
examined.
What is D-index acceptance threshold for Materials Science
The D-index threshold for including a researcher to be
considered is set to 40 if
most of their publications are in the field of Materials Science. The
acceptance factors for researchers to be
considered into the ranking of top researchers are based on the D-index,
ratio of the publications made within the given
field of study plus the awards and achievements of the
researchers. The D-index threshold for including leading
scientists is set as an increment of 10 depending on the total number of
scholars projected for each
scientific field whilst guaranteeing that the top 1% of
leading scholars are considered into the ranking.
There should be a proximity of 30% or less between a
scholar’s general H-index and their D-index.
Additional verification practices
Because our primary mission is to make sure that only
genuine scholars are mentioned in
our ranking we realize that numbers are never
supposed to be a full tool to evaluate the
work of scholars. For that reason
we manually check every profile and cross-correlate it against publications in a
varied range of reliable sources. While it’s not a
factor impacting a researcher’s position in
the ranking, the number of papers published in
major journals and conference proceedings should form a
reliable secondary indication of their contribution to research in a
given discipline. Position in the ranking is
established using every scientist’s D-index
with the help of information compiled from OpenAlex and
CrossRef, which are the most prominent and well-established bibliometric
databases of this type open to the research community. A
comprehensive definition of our research process
can be found on our
methodology page.
Our mission
Our goal is to inspire scholars,
businessmen and administrative bodies
around the world to examine where prominent experts are heading
and to offer an opportunity for the entire scientific community to
get to know who the leading experts in specific
areas of study, in various countries, or even within research
institutions are.
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Key findings for Materials Science
With 3 scientific affiliations Singapore ranks in spot 37
in the world.
As far as scientific affiliations are concerned, the affiliation with the highest number of top researchers in Singapore is Nanyang Technological University with 73 researchers affiliated with it being present in Research.com Materials Science ranking. It is followed by National University of Singapore with 62 researchers and Singapore University of Technology and Design with 3 scholars.
The most prominent scholars in the discipline of Materials Science in Singapore are affiliated with National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. Nanyang Technological University is highlighted as the best university in the Singapore in our ranking with a total D-index of its ranking scholars at 4964. Ranking second is National University of Singapore with a total D-index of 4357. The third spot is occupied by Singapore University of Technology and Design with a total D-index of 193.
The average total D-index for the top 3% universities is 4964 against an average of 3171 for all 3 institutions featured in the ranking.
The average number of published articles in the discipline of Materials Science by scholars affiliated with the top 1% of scholars in the ranking is 18319 against an average of 12537 for all 3 universities.
The average number of citations of scholars affiliated with the top 10% universities is 1462062 against an average of 1037596 for all 3 universities.
