Soft Matter

16.0k papers and 468.8k indexed citations i.

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The 16.0k papers published in Soft Matter in the last decades have received a total of 468.8k indexed citations. Papers published in Soft Matter usually cover Materials Chemistry (5.6k papers), Biomedical Engineering (4.3k papers) and Organic Chemistry (3.8k papers) specifically the topics of Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (2.3k papers), Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (2.2k papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (1.9k papers). The most active scholars publishing in Soft Matter are Jian Ping Gong, David Julian McClements, Xuanhe Zhao, Ian W. Hamley, Michael I. Newton, Richard P. Wool, Lei Jiang, Abraham Marmur, Bharat Bhushan and Stephen J. Eichhorn.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Soft Matter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries where authors publish in Soft Matter

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