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Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Structural Biology. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 25.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents advancements in cryo-electron microscopy techniques, including single-particle analysis, electron tomography, and image processing for achieving atomic resolution. It covers topics such as beam-induced motion correction, high-resolution imaging of nanoparticles, and neural circuit reconstruction using advanced microscopy methods.

  • Cryo-Electron Microscopy
  • Single-Particle Analysis
  • Electron Tomography
  • Image Processing
  • Atomic Resolution
  • Structure Determination
  • Beam-Induced Motion Correction
  • High-Resolution Imaging
  • Nanoparticle Growth
  • Neural Circuit Reconstruction
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
25.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+11%
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Which countries lead Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 416 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 China 416 works
  3. 3 Germany 386 works
  4. 4 Japan 239 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 205 works
  6. 6 France 161 works
  7. 7 South Korea 77 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 75 works
  9. 9 Russia 74 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 68 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.

United States: 37.8%China: 15.2%Germany: 14.1%Japan: 8.7%6 others listed: 24.2%38%largest
United States1,032 · 37.8%China416 · 15.2%Germany386 · 14.1%Japan239 · 8.7%6 others listed661 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory publishes the most Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Argonne National Laboratory.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States 31 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  3. 3 Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States 25 works
  4. 4 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
  6. 6 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 Brookhaven National LaboratoryUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 Cornell UniversityUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications include Zhong Lin Wang, F. M. Giorgi and Yi Cui.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 11k citations
  2. 2 F. M. Giorgi Germany 5.5k citations
  3. 3 Yi Cui United States 5k citations

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

Where is Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Berkeley (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Upton, Menlo Park and Lemont.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 137 works
  2. 2 Tokyo Japan 69 works
  3. 3 Berkeley United States 57 works
  4. 4 Paris France 56 works
  5. 5 Hamburg Germany 43 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 42 works
  7. 7 New York United States 40 works
  8. 8 London United Kingdom 40 works
  9. 9 Moscow Russia 39 works
  10. 10 Berlin Germany 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UptonUS · 20.1 works61×
  2. Menlo ParkUS · 23.8 works48×
  3. LemontUS · 24.9 works39×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Göttingen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 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%20%40%mean 28.57%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Göttingen: 12, 36.1%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 18, 36.6%École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 15, 34.1%Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: 14, 30.6%University of California, Berkeley: 24, 24.1%University of Antwerp: 15, 25.6%Arizona State University: 18, 15.9%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 17, 32.5%Technion – Israel Institute of Technology: 15, 17.0%California Institute of Technology: 9, 33.2%Massachusetts Instit…University of Göttin…École Polytechnique …Friedrich-Alexander-…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of GöttingenGermany 62.536.1%13.0×12 +135.2%
2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 58.936.6%9.0×18 +27.7%
3 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 57.734.1%11.0×15 -0.6%
4 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 56.930.6%9.2×14 +109.0%
5 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 55.924.1%8.6×24 +69.0%
6 University of AntwerpBelgium 51.425.6%15.6×15 -13.0%
7 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 47.315.9%8.4×18 +84.8%
8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 47.232.5%3.1×17 +372.4%
9 Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael 47.217.0%14.0×15 +18.3%
10 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 45.333.2%11.2×9 -25.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications.

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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.

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.