100 Years of Elements
Explore 100 years of research
Pick any element, hover any year and compare them with a free account. Personal adds the historical-intensity (HRI) view.
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Watch uranium spike with the bomb, silicon rise with the chip, and the rare-earths climb with modern magnets.
The scientific zeitgeist, element by element.
A heatmap of what science is paying attention to — right now. Every tile glows with real research activity, scored from live publication and citation data. A market heatmap, but for the periodic table.
What you see here is a preview. Create a free account to explore every chart live — hover any year, compare elements across a century of research, follow the papers behind each trend — and to bookmark what you find.
From the world's literature to one glowing tile.
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Every element's name, symbol, and known compounds are searched across the scientific literature on a recurring cycle.
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Matches are linked back to the elements they belong to, building a live index of research by element.
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Each element's momentum is scored from how much is being published about it, and how much of that work matters.
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A snapshot publishes on a regular cadence — what you see here is never a live query.
Most scholarly databases don't organize papers by chemical element — we do, down to reconstructing each element's own citation network, not just a paper count. That's what makes this index possible. See how Research Intensity is measured →
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