Surface Science

34.9k papers and 944.4k indexed citations i.

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The 34.9k papers published in Surface Science in the last decades have received a total of 944.4k indexed citations. Papers published in Surface Science usually cover Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (21.8k papers), Materials Chemistry (14.6k papers) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (10.3k papers) specifically the topics of Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (11.3k papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (7.6k papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (5.8k papers). The most active scholars publishing in Surface Science are G. Ertl, R. J. Madix, Gábor A. Somorjai, H. Ibach, Jens K. Nørskov, Theodore E. Madey, David A. King, D. Menzel, John T. Yates and H.P. Bonzel.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Surface Science

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Surface Science. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Surface Science.

Countries where authors publish in Surface Science

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Surface Science. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Surface Science with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Surface Science more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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