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Digital Holography and Microscopy

Digital Holography and Microscopy is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on digital holographic microscopy as a noninvasive and quantitative imaging technique for visualizing living cells with subwavelength accuracy. It covers topics such as quantitative phase imaging, three-dimensional imaging, cell dynamics, refractive index measurement, biomedical applications, tomographic microscopy, label-free imaging, and the application of deep learning in this field.

  • Digital Holographic Microscopy
  • Quantitative Phase Imaging
  • Three-Dimensional Imaging
  • Cell Dynamics
  • Refractive Index Measurement
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Tomographic Microscopy
  • Label-Free Imaging
  • Deep Learning
  • Optical Tomography
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Holography and Microscopy

Which countries lead Digital Holography and Microscopy research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 474 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 474 works
  3. 3 Japan 164 works
  4. 4 Germany 135 works
  5. 5 South Korea 130 works
  6. 6 India 118 works
  7. 7 France 109 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 81 works
  9. 9 Italy 74 works
  10. 10 Russia 69 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: 43.5%United States: 19.8%Japan: 6.8%Germany: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.3%44%largest
China1,042 · 43.5%United States474 · 19.8%Japan164 · 6.8%Germany135 · 5.6%6 others listed581 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Holography and Microscopy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Digital Holography and Microscopy research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 49 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 44 works
  4. 4 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 38 works
  5. 5 Warsaw University of TechnologyPoland 28 works
  6. 6 National Research CouncilItaly 26 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 23 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 22 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Holography and Microscopy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Holography and Microscopy include Kai You Wang, Ralph H. Hruban and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Ralph H. Hruban United States 209k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Kevin W. Eliceiri United States 183k citations
  5. 5 Ralph Weissleder United States 175k citations
  6. 6 Eugene Wimberly Myers Germany 163k 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 Digital Holography and Microscopy?

The most cited paper in Digital Holography and Microscopy is "Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications" (Alison M. Yao, Miles J. Padgett, 2011), with 3,323 citations. Next come "Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy" (2,942) and "Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities" (2,311).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications Alison M. Yao, Miles J. Padgett · Advances in Optics and Photonics 15 May 2011 3,323
2 Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy Bo Han Huang, Wen-Qin Wang, Mark Bates et al. · Science Open access 3 Jan 2008 2,942
3 Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities Yijie Shen, Xuejiao Wang, Zhenwei Xie et al. · Light Science & Applications Open access 2 Oct 2019 2,311
4 A collaborative framework for 3D alignment and classification of heterogeneous subvolumes in cryo-electron tomography Oleg Kuybeda, Gabriel A. Frank, Alberto Bartesaghi et al. · Journal of Structural Biology Open access 27 Oct 2012 2,247
5 Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam Ralf Dorn, Susanne Quabis, Gerd Leuchs · Physical Review Letters 2 Dec 2003 2,127
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Where is Digital Holography and Microscopy research done?

The largest centres of Digital Holography and Microscopy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 217 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 81 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 73 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 70 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 51 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 49 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 47 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 46 works
  9. 9 ShenzhenChina 42 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 39 works
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Where is the best place to study Digital Holography and Microscopy?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, University of California, Los Angeles and Nanjing University of Science and 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.

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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
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 70.621.0%7.7×44 -8.1%
2University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 64.725.5%6.3×18 -35.7%
3Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.514.2%18.6×38 +6.0%
4University of Hong KongChina 58.621.1%5.5×13 +2.2%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 56.013.3%5.5×22 +42.3%
6Peking UniversityChina 54.020.4%3.0×16 +53.7%
7Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 51.113.2%7.5×22 +12.0%
8Xidian UniversityChina 50.317.3%8.2×15 +80.9%
9South China Normal UniversityChina 50.118.8%14.9×13 +38.5%
10University of Shanghai for Science and TechnologyChina 49.419.6%10.6×12 +115.9%

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 Digital Holography and Microscopy, country by country

Is Digital Holography and Microscopy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Holography and Microscopy.

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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 Digital Holography and Microscopy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Holography and Microscopy 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.

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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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