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Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 92k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development of wearable nanogenerator technology, including flexible and stretchable sensors, triboelectric technology, energy harvesting, self-powered systems, electronic skin, and health monitoring. The research covers a wide range of materials and devices for integrating electronics into wearable and flexible formats for various applications.

  • Wearable
  • Nanogenerators
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Stretchable Sensors
  • Triboelectric Technology
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Self-Powered Systems
  • Electronic Skin
  • Health Monitoring
  • Conductive Materials
Research works
92k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Which countries lead Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (15k and 2.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 15k works
  2. 2 United States 2.8k works
  3. 3 India 2.2k works
  4. 4 South Korea 2k works
  5. 5 Japan 943 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 753 works
  7. 7 Germany 616 works
  8. 8 Italy 599 works
  9. 9 Canada 470 works
  10. 10 France 433 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: 58.8%United States: 10.7%India: 8.3%South Korea: 7.6%6 others listed: 14.6%59%largest
China15k · 58.8%United States2,786 · 10.7%India2,174 · 8.3%South Korea1,988 · 7.6%6 others listed3,815 · 14.6%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research, followed by Donghua University and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1k works
  2. 2 Donghua UniversityChina 293 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 280 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 271 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 257 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 228 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 213 works
  8. 8 South China University of TechnologyChina 207 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 197 works
  10. 10 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 197 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials include Zhong Lin Wang, Jun Wang and Kostya S. Novoselov.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  4. 4 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  5. 5 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  6. 6 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  10. 10 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k 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 Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials?

The most cited paper in Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials is "Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes" (Keun‐Soo Kim, Yüe Zhao, Houk Jang et al., 2009), with 10,482 citations. Next come "Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays" (7,914) and "A review on polymer nanofibers by electrospinning and their applications in nanocomposites" (7,551).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes Keun‐Soo Kim, Yüe Zhao, Houk Jang et al. · Nature 14 Jan 2009 10,482
2 Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays Zhong Lin Wang, Jinhui Song · Science 13 Apr 2006 7,914
3 A review on polymer nanofibers by electrospinning and their applications in nanocomposites Zheng‐Ming Huang, Yanzhong Zhang, M. Kotaki et al. · Composites Science and Technology 7 Jul 2003 7,551
4 Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Akihiro Takagi et al. · Nature Nov 2004 7,534
5 Development of recommendations for SEMG sensors and sensor placement procedures Hermie J Hermens, Bart Freriks, Catherine Dißelhorst-Klug et al. · Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology Oct 2000 7,205
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cheonan and Gumi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 2.4k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 1.2k works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 884 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 881 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 708 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 625 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 607 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 600 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 565 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 562 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CheonanKR · 66.6 works13×
  2. GumiKR · 22.1 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi University, City University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University score highest, combining citation 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 19.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi UniversityCity University of H…University of Chines…Tsinghua 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.

Citation 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
1Guangxi UniversityChina 76.623.1%9.7×160 +288.1%
2City University of Hong KongChina 73.721.0%5.8×91 +77.5%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 71.417.3%4.3×271 +15.6%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71.017.7%4.4×197 +33.8%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 70.520.7%4.7×112 +36.2%
6Donghua UniversityChina 70.113.4%29.0×293 +32.8%
7Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 69.422.3%7.3×90 +112.5%
8City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research InstituteChina 69.025.4%10.6×19 +72.3%
9Sichuan UniversityChina 68.615.1%4.5×280 +61.7%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 68.321.5%4.0×129 -6.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, country by country

Is Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials.

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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 Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.13% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials0.13% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials 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 Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials9.6% 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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