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Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies

Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 application of electrowetting in microfluidic devices, digital microfluidics, and liquid lenses. It covers topics such as droplet manipulation, lab-on-a-chip systems, optofluidic devices, and dielectrophoresis for various bioassays. The research also explores the use of electrowetting-on-dielectric for different applications.

  • Microfluidics
  • Digital Microfluidics
  • Electrowetting
  • Liquid Lenses
  • Droplet Manipulation
  • Lab-on-a-Chip
  • Optofluidics
  • Dielectrophoresis
  • Bioassays
  • Electrowetting-on-Dielectric
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies

Which countries lead Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (831 and 337 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 831 works
  2. 2 United States 337 works
  3. 3 India 153 works
  4. 4 Japan 146 works
  5. 5 Germany 115 works
  6. 6 South Korea 95 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 79 works
  8. 8 France 51 works
  9. 9 Canada 49 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 47 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: 43.6%United States: 17.7%India: 8.0%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 22.9%44%largest
China831 · 43.6%United States337 · 17.7%India153 · 8.0%Japan146 · 7.7%6 others listed437 · 22.9%

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

Which institutions lead Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 19 works
  4. 4 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 17 works
  5. 5 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 17 works
  6. 6 Tianjin UniversityChina 15 works
  7. 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 15 works
  8. 8 South China Normal UniversityChina 15 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 14 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Yury G. Gogotsi and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  4. 4 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Younan Xia United States 207k citations
  10. 10 Zhenan Bao United States 187k 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 Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies?

The most cited paper in Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies is "The origins and the future of microfluidics" (George M. Whitesides, 2006), with 9,641 citations. Next come "Patterned Paper as a Platform for Inexpensive, Low‐Volume, Portable Bioassays" (2,879) and "Droplet microfluidics" (2,704).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The origins and the future of microfluidics George M. Whitesides · Nature Jul 2006 9,641
2 Patterned Paper as a Platform for Inexpensive, Low‐Volume, Portable Bioassays Andres W. Martinez, Scott T. Phillips, Manish J. Butte et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Open access 9 Jan 2007 2,879
3 Droplet microfluidics Shia‐Yen Teh, Robert E. Lin, Lung-Hsin Hung et al. · Lab on a Chip 2008 2,704
4 Formation of droplets and bubbles in a microfluidic T-junction—scaling and mechanism of break-up Piotr Garstecki, Michael J. Fuerstman, Howard A. Stone et al. · Lab on a Chip 2006 2,325
5 Optical trapping and manipulation of single cells using infrared laser beams Arthur Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, Tsuyoshi Yamane · Nature Dec 1987 2,317
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Where is Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 145 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 59 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 52 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 50 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 46 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 41 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 40 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 36 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 35 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of Hong Kong, Xi'an Jiaotong 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 15.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of H…Beihang UniversityXi'an Jiaotong Unive…Tsinghua 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
1City University of Hong KongChina 67.629.4%6.9×8 +94.9%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.015.0%4.7×17 +62.0%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 62.114.7%3.9×19 +4.2%
4Beihang UniversityChina 60.027.4%5.6×13 -19.8%
5Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 57.613.8%6.1×15 +52.2%
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 56.010.0%4.0×17 +188.9%
7Dalian University of TechnologyChina 55.212.9%7.1×14 +50.1%
8Tianjin UniversityChina 53.79.9%6.1×15 +35.8%
9Fuzhou UniversityChina 53.210.9%11.0×12 +165.1%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 51.814.2%2.5×14 +15.4%

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 Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies, country by country

Is Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies 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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