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Advanced Sensor Technologies Research

Advanced Sensor Technologies Research is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development, fabrication, and application of thin film thermocouples for high temperature measurements in various environments such as gas turbine engines and harsh manufacturing conditions. The research includes topics such as microfabrication techniques, thermoelectric properties of materials, stability and calibration of sensors, and the use of ceramic materials for sensor construction.

  • Thin Film Thermocouples
  • High Temperature Sensors
  • Microfabrication
  • Gas Turbine Engines
  • Thermoelectric Properties
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Transient Temperature Measurement
  • Metal-Embedded Thermocouples
  • Stability and Calibration
  • Harsh Environments
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Sensor Technologies Research

Which countries lead Advanced Sensor Technologies Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (953 and 307 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 953 works
  2. 2 United States 307 works
  3. 3 Germany 160 works
  4. 4 Russia 151 works
  5. 5 India 140 works
  6. 6 Japan 93 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 70 works
  8. 8 Italy 67 works
  9. 9 South Korea 55 works
  10. 10 Poland 54 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: 46.5%United States: 15.0%Germany: 7.8%Russia: 7.4%6 others listed: 23.3%47%largest
China953 · 46.5%United States307 · 15.0%Germany160 · 7.8%Russia151 · 7.4%6 others listed479 · 23.3%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Sensor Technologies Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Sensor Technologies Research research, followed by Xi'an Jiaotong University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Sensor Technologies Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Sensor Technologies Research include Zhong Lin Wang, Kenji Watanabe and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 John Joseph McGrath Australia 214k citations
  5. 5 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 Sensor Technologies Research?

The most cited paper in Advanced Sensor Technologies Research is "Flash Method of Determining Thermal Diffusivity, Heat Capacity, and Thermal Conductivity" (William J. Parker, R.J. Jenkins, C.P. Butler et al., 1961), with 3,962 citations. Next come "Damage propagation modeling for aircraft engine run-to-failure simulation" (1,730) and "Plasma physics via computer simulation" (1,308).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Flash Method of Determining Thermal Diffusivity, Heat Capacity, and Thermal Conductivity William J. Parker, R.J. Jenkins, C.P. Butler et al. · Journal of Applied Physics Sep 1961 3,962
2 Damage propagation modeling for aircraft engine run-to-failure simulation Abhinav Saxena, Kai Goebel, Don Simon et al. Conference paper Oct 2008 1,730
3 Plasma physics via computer simulation T. Tajima · Computer Physics Communications Sep 1986 1,308
4 Modern Tribology Handbook Tadeusz Adam Stolarski · Tribology International May 2003 1,258
5 Experimental Stress Analysis James W. Dally, William F. Riley, ALBERT S. KOBAYASHI · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Dec 1978 1,224
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Sensor Technologies Research research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 186 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 80 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 77 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 53 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 45 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 36 works
  7. 7 XiamenChina 34 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 34 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 32 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XiamenCN · 34.2 works8.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Sensor Technologies Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Xiamen University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xiamen University of Technology 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 26.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xiamen UniversityXiamen University of…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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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
1Xiamen UniversityChina 82.042.8%9.0×18 +398.7%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 72.418.6%10.3×43 +5.6%
3Xiamen University of TechnologyChina 72.439.6%27.7×14 +794.6%
4Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 57.633.4%2.8×19 +2.0%
5Sharif University of TechnologyIran 56.827.0%19.1×9 -8.1%
6Beihang UniversityChina 53.414.3%9.2×24 +52.3%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 52.222.3%5.1×20 +42.5%
8Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 50.915.3%9.6×20 +71.0%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 50.322.2%3.1×17 +25.3%
10North University of ChinaChina 47.729.7%24.5×14 +13.5%

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 Sensor Technologies Research, country by country

Is Advanced Sensor Technologies Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Sensor Technologies Research.

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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 Technologies Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advanced Sensor Technologies Research0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Sensor Technologies Research 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 Technologies Research10.1% 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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