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Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods

Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and application of optoelectronic systems for measurement, detection, and imaging. It covers topics such as image processing, photoelectric detection, infrared radiation characteristics, laser-based measurement methods, and system design for high-speed imaging.

  • Optoelectronic
  • Measurement
  • Detection
  • Image Processing
  • Photoelectric
  • Target
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Laser-based
  • High-speed Imaging
  • System Design
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
79% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods

Which countries lead Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.8k and 239 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 United States 239 works
  3. 3 Russia 163 works
  4. 4 India 139 works
  5. 5 Poland 106 works
  6. 6 Japan 99 works
  7. 7 South Korea 70 works
  8. 8 Germany 65 works
  9. 9 Ukraine 65 works
  10. 10 ?? 63 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: 79.2%United States: 4.9%Russia: 3.4%India: 2.9%6 others listed: 9.6%79%largest
China3,832 · 79.2%United States239 · 4.9%Russia163 · 3.4%India139 · 2.9%6 others listed467 · 9.6%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research, followed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology and National University of Defense Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 169 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 90 works
  3. 3 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 83 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 63 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 59 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 58 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 52 works
  9. 9 China Aerospace Science and Technology CorporationChina 40 works
  10. 10 Xi'an Technological UniversityChina 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods include Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaogang Wang and Kenji Watanabe.

  1. 1 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Richard Henry Friend United Kingdom 185k 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 Measurement and Detection Methods?

The most cited paper in Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods is "Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects" (J. A. Baldwin, Mark M. Phillips, Roberto J. Terlevich, 1981), with 5,209 citations. Next come "Understanding GPS. Principles and applications" (3,422) and "A Benchmark and Simulator for UAV Tracking" (1,866).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects J. A. Baldwin, Mark M. Phillips, Roberto J. Terlevich · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access Feb 1981 5,209
2 Understanding GPS. Principles and applications Michael J. Rycroft · Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Mar 1997 3,422
3 A Benchmark and Simulator for UAV Tracking Matthias F. Mueller, Neil Gregor Smith, Bernard Ghanem · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2016 1,866
4 Fourier transform profilometry for the automatic measurement of 3-D object shapes Mitsuo Wada Takeda, Kazuhiro Mutoh · Applied Optics 15 Dec 1983 1,848
5 Support vector machine in machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis Achmad Widodo, Bo‐Suk Yang · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 16 Jan 2007 1,645
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xianyang, Xi'an and Changchun.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 758 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 360 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 268 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 225 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 170 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 130 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 130 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 124 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 109 works
  10. 10 ChangchunChina 98 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XianyangCN · 27.1 works23×
  2. Xi'anCN · 359.7 works8.8×
  3. ChangchunCN · 98.3 works7.2×
  4. HarbinCN · 124.4 works5.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Beihang University 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%mean 16.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Harbin Institute of …Beihang UniversityNanjing University o…
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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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 75.521.9%4.5×37 +112.0%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 73.616.8%7.7×58 +59.6%
3Beihang UniversityChina 70.814.6%10.2×52 +11.6%
4Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 69.914.6%14.5×59 +97.6%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 69.515.3%11.9×63 +61.5%
6National University of Defense TechnologyChina 68.612.6%23.2×83 +43.9%
7Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 67.611.8%12.2×67 +25.5%
8Xidian UniversityChina 66.718.4%9.2×31 +38.1%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66.620.6%4.3×32 +36.1%
10University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.314.3%7.1×37 +65.1%

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 Measurement and Detection Methods, country by country

Is Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods.

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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 Measurement and Detection Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods 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 Measurement and Detection Methods9.7% 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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