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Artificial Immune Systems Applications

Artificial Immune Systems Applications is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.4k research works in it since 1952. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of artificial immune systems, drawing inspiration from the biological immune system to develop computational models for tasks such as pattern recognition, optimization, intrusion detection, and anomaly detection. The papers cover topics such as clonal selection algorithms, negative selection algorithms, dendritic cells, self-nonself discrimination, and their applications in various fields.

  • Artificial Immune Systems
  • Immune System
  • Clonal Selection
  • Negative Selection Algorithm
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Optimization
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Self-Nonself Discrimination
Research works
8.4k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
845
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Artificial Immune Systems Applications

Which countries lead Artificial Immune Systems Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (444 and 141 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 444 works
  2. 2 India 141 works
  3. 3 United States 115 works
  4. 4 Japan 27 works
  5. 5 Russia 24 works
  6. 6 France 22 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 22 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 21 works
  9. 9 Germany 20 works
  10. 10 Brazil 20 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: 51.7%India: 16.5%United States: 13.4%Japan: 3.2%6 others listed: 15.2%52%largest
China444 · 51.7%India141 · 16.5%United States115 · 13.4%Japan27 · 3.2%6 others listed130 · 15.2%

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

Which institutions lead Artificial Immune Systems Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Artificial Immune Systems Applications research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southeast University.

Who are the leading researchers in Artificial Immune Systems Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Artificial Immune Systems Applications include Han Zhang and Seyedali Mirjalili.

  1. 1 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  2. 2 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k 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 Artificial Immune Systems Applications?

The most cited paper in Artificial Immune Systems Applications is "Particle swarm optimization" (Riccardo Poli, James C. Kennedy, Tim Blackwell, 2007), with 21,401 citations. Next come "GSA: A Gravitational Search Algorithm" (7,418) and "LOF" (5,270).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Particle swarm optimization Riccardo Poli, James C. Kennedy, Tim Blackwell · Swarm Intelligence 31 Jul 2007 21,401
2 GSA: A Gravitational Search Algorithm Esmat Rashedi, Hossein Nezamabadi–pour, Saeı̈d Saryazdi · Information Sciences 17 Mar 2009 7,418
3 LOF Markus M. Breunig, Hans‐Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng et al. · ACM SIGMOD Record 16 May 2000 5,270
4 Tolerance, Danger, and the Extended Family Polly Matzinger · Annual Review of Immunology Apr 1994 4,825
5 A New Metaheuristic Bat-Inspired Algorithm Xin‐She Yang · Studies in computational intelligence Book chapter 2010 4,794
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Artificial Immune Systems Applications research done?

The largest centres of Artificial Immune Systems Applications 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 Xi'an, Chengdu and Nanjing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 68 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 28 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 27 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 24 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 21 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 20 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 20 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 13 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 12 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Xi'anCN · 28.0 works3.1×
  2. ChengduCN · 21.4 works2.8×
  3. NanjingCN · 27.1 works2.4×
  4. WuhanCN · 20.0 works2.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Artificial Immune Systems Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Artificial Immune Systems Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan 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.

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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 10.05.3%3.8×9 +38.6%

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 Artificial Immune Systems Applications, country by country

Is Artificial Immune Systems Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009. The fastest-growing topics are Artificial Immune Systems 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Artificial Immune Systems Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0042% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Artificial Immune Systems Applications 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%Artificial Immune Systems Applications10.8% 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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