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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design is a subfield of Computer Science. Science Explorer counts 98k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: sub-field of computer science.

Research works
98k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
9.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
4
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

What is Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research about, and what is growing?

By the world's output in 2021-25, its most used keywords are Digital Media Technology, Visual Communication Design, Computer Graphics, Visualization, Delaunay Triangulations, Mesh Generation. Gaining share since 2011-15: Digital Media Technology, Visual Communication Design. Losing share: Artificial Neural Network, Reliability Assessment, Delaunay Triangulations, Mesh Generation.

▲ gaining share of this field◆ holding its share▼ losing share

Size is the world's fractional works in 2021-25 in the topics tagged with each word; colour compares the word's share of this field with 2011-15. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 8 words, with their numbers
  1. Digital Media Technology11k▲ 1.49×1 topic
  2. Visual Communication Design11k▲ 1.49×1 topic
  3. Computer Graphics6,811◆ 0.91×1 topic
  4. Visualization6,811◆ 0.91×1 topic
  5. Delaunay Triangulations3,162▼ 0.63×1 topic
  6. Mesh Generation3,162▼ 0.63×1 topic
  7. Artificial Neural Network893▼ 0.44×1 topic
  8. Reliability Assessment893▼ 0.44×1 topic

Which countries lead Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research?

On research quality in 2022-now, China, the United States and Germany rank highest in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (8.1k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 China #2 all time 1.03× citation excellence · 0.90× journals · 100% breadth 10.9% top 10% · 7.6k works
  2. 2 United States #1 all time 1.22× citation excellence · 1.55× journals · 100% breadth 12.8% top 10% · 1.7k works
  3. 3 Germany #3 all time 1.12× citation excellence · 1.23× journals · 100% breadth 10.2% top 10% · 542 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom #5 all time 1.11× citation excellence · 1.43× journals · 100% breadth 10.6% top 10% · 414 works
  5. 5 South Korea #7 all time 1.00× citation excellence · 1.03× journals · 100% breadth 11.3% top 10% · 468 works
  6. 6 France #6 all time 0.98× citation excellence · 1.02× journals · 100% breadth 7.1% top 10% · 357 works
  7. 7 Canada #9 all time 1.06× citation excellence · 1.01× journals · 100% breadth 11.3% top 10% · 254 works
  8. 8 Italy #14 all time 1.24× citation excellence · 0.81× journals · 100% breadth 13.2% top 10% · 211 works
  9. 9 Japan #16 all time 0.53× citation excellence · 1.08× journals · 100% breadth 5.3% top 10% · 445 works
  10. 10 Poland #13 all time 1.46× citation excellence · 0.52× journals · 100% breadth 10.6% top 10% · 274 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 16 countries ranked in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8.1k works
  2. 2 United States 2k works
  3. 3 India 633 works
  4. 4 Germany 600 works
  5. 5 Russia 530 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 526 works
  7. 7 South Korea 510 works
  8. 8 Japan 496 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 462 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 429 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 57.0%United States: 13.7%India: 4.4%Germany: 4.2%6 others listed: 20.7%57%largest
China8,144 · 57.0%United States1,953 · 13.7%India633 · 4.4%Germany600 · 4.2%6 others listed2,952 · 20.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research?

Tsinghua University (China) ranks first in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tsinghua University China · Beijing · #7 all time 20.1% top 10% · 108 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing · #20 all time 13.0% top 10% · 134 works
  3. 3 Peking University China · Beijing · #31 all time 18.2% top 10% · 72 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou · #12 all time 18.5% top 10% · 97 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China · Shanghai · #37 all time 12.9% top 10% · 87 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris · #19 all time 5.6% top 10% · 131 works
  7. 7 Wuhan Textile University China · Wuhan · #86 all time 5.6% top 10% · 144 works
  8. 8 Hubei University of Technology China · Wuhan · #95 all time 8.4% top 10% · 89 works
  9. 9 Anhui University of Finance and Economics China · Bengbu 3.1% top 10% · 103 works
  10. 10 Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute China · Jingdezhen 3.8% top 10% · 66 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 12 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

Top 100 Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 149 works
  2. 2 Wuhan Textile UniversityChina 144 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 143 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 117 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 106 works
  6. 6 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 104 works
  7. 7 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 97 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 96 works
  9. 9 Hubei University of TechnologyChina 92 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 80 works

Who are the leading researchers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design?

Counting only their work in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Daniel Cohen‐Or, Markus H. Groß and Ravi Ramamoorthi have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Daniel Cohen‐Or Israel · #1,313 worldwide overall 54.7 of 86 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Markus H. Groß Switzerland · #20,019 worldwide overall 50.1 of 94 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Ravi Ramamoorthi United States · #9,489 worldwide overall 48.7 of 85 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Leif P. Kobbelt Germany · #43,658 worldwide overall 39.5 of 87 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Mathieu Desbrun United States · #19,711 worldwide overall 35.5 of 58 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Leonidas Guibas United States · #5,590 worldwide overall 38.8 of 95 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Hugues Hoppe United Kingdom · #4,742 worldwide overall 33.4 of 46 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Dinesh Manocha United States · #52,386 worldwide overall 38.1 of 114 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Baining Guo China · #18,136 worldwide overall 33.9 of 76 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Kun Zhou China · #43,141 worldwide overall 32.4 of 66 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 227,861 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design researchers

What are the most cited papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design?

The most cited paper in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design is "Snakes: Active contour models" (Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos, 1988), with 17,142 citations. Next come "High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models" (15,702) and "The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies" (11,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Snakes: Active contour models Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, Demetri Terzopoulos · International Journal of Computer Vision 1988 17,142
2 High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz et al. · 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference paper Jun 2022 15,702
3 The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies Denis G. Pelli · Spatial Vision 1997 11,776
4 Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm William E. Lorensen, H. E. Cline Conference paperOpen access Aug 1987 10,249
5 UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection Leland McInnes, John Healy, Nathaniel Saul et al. · The Journal of Open Source Software Open access 2 Sep 2018 10,200
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research done?

The largest centres of Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuhan (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jingdezhen and Bengbu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.1k works
  2. 2 WuhanChina 561 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 490 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 351 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 335 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 327 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 295 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 224 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 212 works
  10. 10 ShenyangChina 207 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JingdezhenCN · 71.5 works58×
  2. BengbuCN · 106.8 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design than the world average.

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research by country

The best places for Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design?

Among universities, judged by research, ETH Zurich, Tsinghua University and Stanford University score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 21.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityCarnegie Mellon Univ…ETH ZurichTsinghua University
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1ETH ZurichSwitzerland 85.0- (#1)20.5%3.5×40 +28.6%
2Tsinghua UniversityChina 81.5#1 (#7)19.1%3.1×117 +152.0%
3Stanford UniversityUnited States 79.3- (#2)29.9%1.5×36 +29.4%
4Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 70.1- (#5)27.8%7.8×53 +10.6%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 64.3#4 (#12)17.9%2.4×106 +106.4%
6New York UniversityUnited States 61.2- (#4)12.4%1.4×26 +25.6%
7University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 58.3- (#9)23.8%1.7×26 +22.2%
8Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 57.9- (#6)13.8%2.7×31 +2.7%
9University of Hong KongChina 56.4- (#18)29.7%2.4×37 +152.2%
10Peking UniversityChina 55.2#3 (#31)17.2%2.4×80 +118.1%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, country by country

Is Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Media and Visual Art, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.092% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design0.078% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

  1. Digital Media and Visual Art+86%
  2. Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques+52%
  3. Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation+9%
  4. Transportation Systems and Safety-38%
← shrinkingno changegrowing →

Growth in output from 2018-21 to 2022-25. Every topic is a page of its own.

What does Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design include?

Computer Graphics and Vi…36kComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 36k fractional worksDigital Media and Visual…31kDigital Media and Visual Art: 31k fractional worksComputational Geometry a…25kComputational Geometry and Mesh Generation: 25k fractional worksTransportation Systems and Safety: 5,939 fractional works

Area is fractional works in that topic. Every name below is a page of its own.

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Who leads computer graphics research?

Tsinghua University (China) ranks first in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design on research quality in 2022-now, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University. On research quality in 2022-now, China, the United States and Germany rank highest in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (8.1k and 2k works in 2022-now).

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