What’s Going on in the Nanotechnology Papers’ World through the Lens of StatNano

2020-06-29
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What’s Going on in the Nanotechnology Papers’ World through the Lens of StatNano

Over the past years, the USA and China have published the largest number of highly cited nanotechnology papers, and the study of non-fullerene acceptors for solar cell applications has been one of the hot topics among the nanotechnology papers of the previous year.

According to StatNano’s statistical analysis of highly cited nanotechnology papers, China has made a marginal improvement and topped the list by leaving the USA behind for the first time during the past five years ending in 2019. Although China had taken the first spot from this country in holding the largest number of nanotechnology publications since 2008, it remained in the 2nd rank following the USA in terms of H-index until 2019. H-index is an author-level metric for measuring both the productivity and citation impact of an individual’s publications.

The table below lists the top 15 countries of the world according to their H-index in the following two 5-year periods; from 2014 to 2018 and from 2015 to 2019. What is so interesting about this list is that Singapore has scored the 4th position on this index while being ranked 23rd in terms of the total number of nanotechnology publications, which spotlights the superior quality of Singaporean scientists’ research, working at the frontiers of nanotechnology and nanoscience. The presence of Saudi Arabia and Iran among leading industrial countries on the list is also considered a notable success.

 

Table 1. The top 15 countries in terms of their 5-year H-index score

 

Rank

Country

5-Year H-index

2015-2019

2014-2018

1

China

303

291

2

USA

290

292

3

Germany

173

170

4

Singapore

167

171

5

South Korea

163

161

<6

Australia

160

151

7

Japan

158

149

8

UK

156

159

9

Saudi Arabia

149

137

10

Canada

127

126

11

Switzerland

127

122

12

Iran

122

108

13

India

121

111

14

France

118

112

15

Spain

118

117

 

Table 2 shows the 10 highly cited nanotechnology papers of the last year; the top three have been published in the journals of Joule, Science China-Chemistry, and Nature Communications, respectively; receiving 789, 359, and 352 citations over the year.

A review of the hot nanotechnology papers of 2019 reveals that organic solar cells and enhancing their efficiency using non-fullerene acceptors have been the most widely studied topics of the year. This innovative type of acceptors has lately become the major focus of research in the development of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells as a better alternative to fullerene acceptors. Furthermore, subjects such as 2D photocatalysts designed based on WO3/g-C3N4 composite and the theoretical studies of nanofluids have been other hot topics of 2019.

 

Table 2. The top 10 highly cited nanotechnology papers of 2019

 

Title

Publication date

Journal

Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

Apr. 2019

Joule

Achieving over 16% efficiency for single-junction organic solar cells

Jun. 2019

Science China-Chemistry

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

Jun 2019

Nature Communication

Ultrathin 2D/2D WO3/g-C3N4 step-scheme H-2-production photocatalyst

Apr. 2019

Applied Catalysis B-Environmental

New computational approach for exergy and entropy analysis of nanofluid under the impact of Lorentz force through a porous media

Feb. 2019

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Numerical approach for MHD Al2O3-water nanofluid transportation inside a permeable medium using innovative computer method

Feb. 2019

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Heat transfer behavior of nanoparticle enhanced PCM solidification through an enclosure with V shaped fins

Mar. 2019

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

Mar. 2019

Science

Single-Junction Polymer Solar Cells with 16.35% Efficiency Enabled by a Platinum(II) Complexation Strategy

Jul. 2019

Advanced Materials

Heat transfer simulation of heat storage unit with nanoparticles and fins through a heat exchanger

Jun. 2019

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

 

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