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Flow Measurement and Analysis

Flow Measurement and Analysis is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advancements in ultrasonic flow measurement techniques, including the use of Coriolis flowmeters and Venturi meters for two-phase flow measurement. It explores topics such as acoustic tomography, distance measurement, transit-time technique, and signal processing for accurate flow measurement.

  • Ultrasonic
  • Flow Measurement
  • Coriolis Flowmeters
  • Venturi Meter
  • Two-Phase Flow
  • Acoustic Tomography
  • Distance Measurement
  • Transit-Time Technique
  • Multiphase Flow Metering
  • Signal Processing
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Flow Measurement and Analysis

Which countries lead Flow Measurement and Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 403 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 403 works
  3. 3 Japan 165 works
  4. 4 India 155 works
  5. 5 Russia 145 works
  6. 6 Germany 140 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 126 works
  8. 8 France 80 works
  9. 9 Brazil 72 works
  10. 10 Italy 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: 48.0%United States: 15.5%Japan: 6.3%India: 6.0%6 others listed: 24.2%48%largest
China1,253 · 48.0%United States403 · 15.5%Japan165 · 6.3%India155 · 6.0%6 others listed632 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Flow Measurement and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tianjin University publishes the most Flow Measurement and Analysis research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tianjin UniversityChina 70 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 35 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 28 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  5. 5 Zhejiang UniversityChina 27 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 19 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Beihang UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Flow Measurement and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Flow Measurement and Analysis include Kai You Wang and Han Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Han Zhang China 161k 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 Flow Measurement and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Flow Measurement and Analysis is "Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide" (Markus Raffel, 2002), with 5,098 citations. Next come "Optimal Filtering" (3,241) and "Average Volumetric Concentration in Two-Phase Flow Systems" (2,511).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide Markus Raffel 11 Jun 2002 5,098
2 Optimal Filtering Brian D. O. Anderson, John B. Moore, Mansour Eslami · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Mar 1982 3,241
3 Average Volumetric Concentration in Two-Phase Flow Systems Novak Zuber, J. A. Findlay · ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Nov 1965 2,511
4 A Study of Two-Phase Flow in Inclined Pipes D.H. Beggs, James P. Brill · Journal of Petroleum Technology May 1973 1,474
5 Fundamentals of digital particle image velocimetry Jerry Westerweel · Measurement Science and Technology Open access Dec 1997 1,421
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Flow Measurement and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Flow Measurement and Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tianjin (China), 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 Tianjin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 233 works
  2. 2 TianjinChina 104 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 86 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 82 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 68 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 63 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 55 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 48 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 47 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TianjinCN · 103.6 works6.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Flow Measurement and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Flow Measurement and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, North China Electric Power University and Tianjin 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 22.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeastern Univers…North China Electric…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Tianjin 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
1Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 75.025.7%4.9×26 +144.3%
2North China Electric Power UniversityChina 69.828.9%8.7×17 +49.7%
3Tianjin UniversityChina 67.712.9%19.4×70 -7.1%
4Northeastern UniversityChina 61.929.0%4.2×11 +142.3%
5Hebei UniversityChina 60.623.3%19.9×13 +188.6%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.915.7%3.4×27 +16.7%
7Beihang UniversityChina 59.419.7%5.6×18 +62.9%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 54.320.4%3.9×19 +174.9%
9China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 52.718.8%8.5×12 -11.2%
10Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 50.028.3%3.7×9 +22.1%

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 Flow Measurement and Analysis, country by country

Is Flow Measurement and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Flow Measurement and Analysis.

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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 Flow Measurement and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Flow Measurement and Analysis0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Flow Measurement and Analysis 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%Flow Measurement and Analysis10.5% 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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