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Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Analytical Chemistry and Sensors is a research topic within Bioengineering. Science Explorer counts 110k 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 represents advances in chemical sensor technologies, including optical sensors, ion-selective electrodes, potentiometric sensors, fluorescent nanosensors, and biosensors. The focus is on applications such as pH sensing, oxygen measurement, and the development of polymeric membrane electrodes using sol-gel-based materials.

  • Optical Sensors
  • Ion-Selective Electrodes
  • Potentiometric Sensors
  • Fluorescent Nanosensors
  • Biosensors
  • Field-Effect Transistors
  • pH Sensing
  • Oxygen Measurement
  • Polymeric Membrane Electrodes
  • Sol-Gel-Based Nanosensors
Research works
110k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
11k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Which countries lead Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.8k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.8k works
  2. 2 India 1.6k works
  3. 3 United States 1.3k works
  4. 4 Japan 542 works
  5. 5 South Korea 511 works
  6. 6 Germany 396 works
  7. 7 Russia 342 works
  8. 8 Iran 328 works
  9. 9 Italy 320 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 309 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: 45.8%India: 15.7%United States: 12.2%Japan: 5.2%6 others listed: 21.1%46%largest
China4,776 · 45.8%India1,638 · 15.7%United States1,274 · 12.2%Japan542 · 5.2%6 others listed2,205 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 280 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 148 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 115 works
  4. 4 Northeastern UniversityChina 88 works
  5. 5 Jilin UniversityChina 71 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 57 works
  7. 7 Tianjin UniversityChina 56 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 51 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 49 works
  10. 10 Cairo UniversityEgypt 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Analytical Chemistry and Sensors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Analytical Chemistry and Sensors include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Yury G. Gogotsi.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Analytical Chemistry and Sensors?

The most cited paper in Analytical Chemistry and Sensors is "Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode" (Akira Fujishima, Kenichi Honda, 1972), with 34,145 citations. Next come "Signaling Recognition Events with Fluorescent Sensors and Switches" (6,988) and "Solitons in Polyacetylene" (6,857).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode Akira Fujishima, Kenichi Honda · Nature Jul 1972 34,145
2 Signaling Recognition Events with Fluorescent Sensors and Switches A. Prasanna de Silva, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson et al. · Chemical Reviews Review Aug 1997 6,988
3 Solitons in Polyacetylene W. P. Su, J. R. Schrieffer, Alan J. Heeger · Physical Review Letters 18 Jun 1979 6,857
4 A SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR MEASURING THE BREAKDOWN OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE BY CATALASE Roland Frank Beers, Irwin W. Sizer · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Mar 1952 6,791
5 Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species Yi Ping Cui, Qingqiao Wei, Hongkun Park et al. · Science 17 Aug 2001 5,805
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Where is Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research done?

The largest centres of Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Wuhan (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 599 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 330 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 219 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 195 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 195 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 184 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 173 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 167 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 166 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 165 works
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Where is the best place to study Analytical Chemistry and Sensors?

Among universities, judged by research, Northeastern University, Lanzhou Jiaotong University and Heilongjiang 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%20%40%mean 26.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lanzhou Jiaotong Uni…Northeastern Univers…Heilongjiang Univers…Jilin 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
1Northeastern UniversityChina 79.425.6%7.8×88 +104.1%
2Lanzhou Jiaotong UniversityChina 68.941.3%6.3×19 +124.0%
3Heilongjiang UniversityChina 65.525.0%15.1×33 +158.0%
4Jilin UniversityChina 65.418.2%4.8×70 -1.0%
5Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 64.923.8%7.6×28 +62.6%
6University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.127.8%2.7×39 +42.6%
7Sejong UniversitySouth Korea 60.637.3%3.9×9 +170.8%
8Qingdao UniversityChina 58.824.3%3.0×26 +57.3%
9China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 58.728.9%3.0×18 -14.3%
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 58.616.1%3.5×42 +90.1%

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 Analytical Chemistry and Sensors, country by country

Is Analytical Chemistry and Sensors research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Analytical Chemistry and Sensors.

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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 Analytical Chemistry and Sensors as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.071% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Analytical Chemistry and Sensors 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%Analytical Chemistry and Sensors9.7% 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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