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Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics

Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of electrohydrodynamic jet printing and electrospraying techniques for high-resolution printing, micro/nanoparticle encapsulation, and drug delivery applications. It explores the effects of electric fields, production of polymeric microspheres, and the use of ionic liquid ion sources in biomedical and nanotechnology applications.

  • Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing
  • Nanoparticle Encapsulation
  • Electrospraying
  • High-resolution Printing
  • Micro/Nanoparticles Production
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Drug Delivery
  • Electric Field Effects
  • Polymeric Microspheres
  • Ionic Liquid Ion Sources
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics

Which countries lead Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 819 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 819 works
  3. 3 India 551 works
  4. 4 Russia 411 works
  5. 5 Japan 282 works
  6. 6 Germany 227 works
  7. 7 France 203 works
  8. 8 South Korea 202 works
  9. 9 Iran 195 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 172 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: 41.6%United States: 15.6%India: 10.5%Russia: 7.8%6 others listed: 24.5%42%largest
China2,177 · 41.6%United States819 · 15.6%India551 · 10.5%Russia411 · 7.8%6 others listed1,281 · 24.5%

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

Which institutions lead Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 153 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 107 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 98 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 67 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54 works
  6. 6 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 51 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 47 works
  8. 8 Jiangsu UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 42 works
  10. 10 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics 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 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  5. 5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  6. 6 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  7. 7 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  10. 10 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k 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 Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics is "Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles" (Arthur Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, John E. Bjorkholm et al., 1986), with 7,072 citations. Next come "Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale" (4,383) and "Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip" (3,655).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles Arthur Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, John E. Bjorkholm et al. · Optics Letters May 1986 7,072
2 Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale Todd M. Squires, Stephen R. Quake · Reviews of Modern Physics 6 Oct 2005 4,383
3 Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip Howard A. Stone, Abraham Duncan Stroock, Armand Ajdari · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Review 7 Apr 2003 3,655
4 Nanometre diameter fibres of polymer, produced by electrospinning Darrell H. Reneker, Iksoo Chun · Nanotechnology Sep 1996 3,528
5 Solving the Boltzmann equation to obtain electron transport coefficients and rate coefficients for fluid models Gerjan J. M. Hagelaar, Leanne C. Pitchford · Plasma Sources Science and Technology Open access 5 Oct 2005 3,405
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Where is Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Zhenjiang and Kharagpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 389 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 147 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 135 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 125 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 110 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 103 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 91 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 81 works
  9. 9 DalianChina 80 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 78 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 33.9 works10×
  2. ZhenjiangCN · 52.3 works6.8×
  3. KharagpurIN · 23.4 works6.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Jiangsu 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 19.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Fahd University…City University of H…Jiangsu UniversityXi'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
1King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia 65.431.2%7.3×15 +101.3%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 61.211.7%6.2×67 +30.9%
3Jiangsu UniversityChina 59.015.2%8.7×43 +73.0%
4City University of Hong KongChina 59.030.9%2.9×10 +45.5%
5China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 58.017.2%11.2×32 +47.5%
6Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.714.9%4.3×47 +74.8%
7Saveetha UniversityIndia 57.441.3%1.6×9 +495.9%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 53.89.2%5.4×54 +12.7%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 53.67.4%8.8×51 +16.4%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 52.411.2%3.0×42 +20.4%

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 Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics, country by country

Is Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics.

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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 Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics 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%Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics9.8% 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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