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Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Advanced Data Storage Technologies is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on distributed storage systems, network coding, and flash memory technologies. It explores topics such as erasure coding, solid state drives, regenerating codes, NAND flash memory, and file systems for parallel computing.

  • Distributed Storage
  • Network Coding
  • Flash Memory
  • Erasure Coding
  • Solid State Drives
  • Storage Systems
  • Regenerating Codes
  • NAND Flash Memory
  • File Systems
  • Parallel Computing
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Data Storage Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 1.5k works
  3. 3 India 455 works
  4. 4 South Korea 357 works
  5. 5 Germany 326 works
  6. 6 Japan 185 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 184 works
  8. 8 France 169 works
  9. 9 Italy 137 works
  10. 10 Spain 117 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: 33.7%United States: 28.9%India: 8.8%South Korea: 6.9%6 others listed: 21.6%34%largest
China1,740 · 33.7%United States1,495 · 28.9%India455 · 8.8%South Korea357 · 6.9%6 others listed1,117 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Data Storage Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Data Storage Technologies research, followed by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 119 works
  2. 2 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 71 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 66 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
  5. 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 55 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53 works
  7. 7 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 51 works
  8. 8 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 42 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 40 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Data Storage Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Data Storage Technologies include M. Shoji, Rob Knight and John P. A. Ioannidis.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  4. 4 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  5. 5 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  6. 6 P. Jackson France 230k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Data Storage Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Data Storage Technologies is "fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor" (Shifu Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Yaru Chen et al., 2018), with 31,650 citations. Next come "SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector" (30,509) and "MapReduce" (18,671).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor Shifu Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Yaru Chen et al. · Bioinformatics Open access 7 Jul 2018 31,650
2 SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan et al. 16 Jan 2016 30,509
3 MapReduce Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · Communications of the ACM Open access 2008 18,671
4 A view of cloud computing Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith et al. · Communications of the ACM Open access 30 Mar 2010 9,132
5 Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k -mer weighting and repeat separation Sergey Koren, Brian P. Walenz, Konstantin Berlin et al. · Genome Research Open access 15 Mar 2017 8,344
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Data Storage Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Data Storage Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon, Lemont and Santa Clara.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 397 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 238 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 142 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 138 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 87 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 77 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 75 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 74 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 73 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 20.7 works31×
  2. LemontUS · 31.1 works26×
  3. Santa ClaraUS · 40.4 works25×
  4. Oak RidgeUS · 30.5 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Data Storage Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Data Storage Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zurich score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 19.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Seoul National Unive…Carnegie Mellon Univ…ETH ZurichTsinghua University
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.816.7%5.2×66 +60.8%
2Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 63.921.3%9.8×23 -68.0%
3ETH ZurichSwitzerland 62.520.5%5.9×23 -17.1%
4Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 60.722.0%6.6×42 -7.5%
5Chinese University of Hong KongChina 59.720.5%4.5×18 -6.5%
6Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.511.1%7.1×71 +8.8%
7Technical University of MunichGermany 58.125.1%4.7×23 -1.3%
8Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.517.2%5.6×13 +74.7%
9University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 55.718.7%5.8×28 -25.9%
10Peking UniversityChina 55.120.4%2.2×26 +21.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Data Storage Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Data Storage Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Advanced Data Storage Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Data Storage Technologies 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%Advanced Data Storage Technologies9.9% 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.

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