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CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors

CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 29k 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 advancements in CMOS image sensor technology, including high-speed imaging, low-noise sensors, photon counting strategies, dynamic range enhancement, radiation effects, pixel-level ADC integration, temporal noise analysis, logarithmic response sensors, and their applications in biomedical imaging.

  • CMOS Image Sensors
  • High-Speed Imaging
  • Low-Noise Sensors
  • Photon Counting
  • Dynamic Range
  • Radiation Effects
  • Pixel-Level ADC
  • Temporal Noise Analysis
  • Logarithmic Response
  • Biomedical Imaging
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors

Which countries lead CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2k and 811 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 United States 811 works
  3. 3 India 445 works
  4. 4 South Korea 344 works
  5. 5 Germany 226 works
  6. 6 Italy 214 works
  7. 7 Japan 208 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 174 works
  9. 9 France 164 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 139 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: 41.9%United States: 17.3%India: 9.5%South Korea: 7.3%6 others listed: 24.0%42%largest
China1,963 · 41.9%United States811 · 17.3%India445 · 9.5%South Korea344 · 7.3%6 others listed1,125 · 24.0%

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

Which institutions lead CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research, followed by Tsinghua University and Xidian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 194 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 65 works
  3. 3 Xidian UniversityChina 59 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 58 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  6. 6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 45 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 45 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 45 works
  9. 9 Fudan UniversityChina 43 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors include Michaël Grätzel, Kostya S. Novoselov and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  6. 6 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
  7. 7 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  8. 8 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  9. 9 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k 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 CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors?

The most cited paper in CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors is "SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector" (Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan et al., 2016), with 30,509 citations. Next come "The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies" (11,776) and "YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection" (10,541).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan et al. 16 Jan 2016 30,509
2 The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies Denis G. Pelli · Spatial Vision 1997 11,776
3 YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection Alexey Bochkovskiy, Chien-Yao Wang, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 23 Apr 2020 10,541
4 Fine Structure Constant Defines Visual Transparency of Graphene Rahul R. Nair, Peter N. Blake, Alexander N. Grigorenko et al. · Science Open access 3 Apr 2008 9,109
5 DAOPHOT - A computer program for crowded-field stellar photometry Peter B. Stetson · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Mar 1987 4,775
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research done?

The largest centres of CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Batavia and Hsinchu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 494 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 201 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 179 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 143 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 102 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 84 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 80 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 76 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 76 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BataviaUS · 22.3 works48×
  2. HsinchuTW · 59.2 works13×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Peking University and Tsinghua 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 19.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Peking UniversityTsinghua UniversityXidian 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
1University of Hong KongChina 73.228.6%3.2×15 +350.9%
2Peking UniversityChina 73.117.3%5.8×58 +64.7%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 68.814.3%5.7×65 +53.4%
4Xidian UniversityChina 68.312.7%16.5×59 +162.8%
5Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 65.324.3%5.9×12 +88.6%
6Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea 61.725.0%5.3×18 +25.9%
7ETH ZurichSwitzerland 61.715.0%3.8×13 +26.0%
8University of MacauChina 61.215.2%8.1×13 +97.3%
9Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 60.420.2%3.9×18 +54.5%
10Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 60.019.6%6.2×19 +34.6%

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 CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors, country by country

Is CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are CCD and CMOS Imaging 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 CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of CCD and CMOS Imaging 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%CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors9.8% 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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