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Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors

Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 87k 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 development, materials, and mechanisms of gas sensing technology, with an emphasis on metal oxide-based gas sensors, nanomaterials, semiconductors, and room temperature operation. It also covers the application of gas sensors for selective detection of various gases and humidity sensing.

  • Gas Sensors
  • Metal Oxide
  • Nanomaterials
  • Semiconductors
  • Gas Sensing Mechanisms
  • Room Temperature
  • Nanostructures
  • Humidity Sensors
  • Chemical Sensors
  • Selective Detection
Research works
87k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors

Which countries lead Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (10k and 2.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 10k works
  2. 2 India 2.9k works
  3. 3 United States 937 works
  4. 4 South Korea 898 works
  5. 5 Japan 493 works
  6. 6 Russia 460 works
  7. 7 Iran 434 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 429 works
  9. 9 Taiwan 410 works
  10. 10 Germany 347 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: 58.0%India: 16.6%United States: 5.4%South Korea: 5.2%6 others listed: 14.8%58%largest
China10k · 58.0%India2,885 · 16.6%United States937 · 5.4%South Korea898 · 5.2%6 others listed2,573 · 14.8%

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

Which institutions lead Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 553 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 158 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 157 works
  4. 4 Jilin UniversityChina 135 works
  5. 5 Northeastern UniversityChina 133 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 110 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 105 works
  8. 8 Jiangsu UniversityChina 104 works
  9. 9 Chongqing UniversityChina 102 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 101 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  10. 10 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k 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 Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors?

The most cited paper in Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors is "A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light" (Xinchen Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda, Arne Thomas et al., 2008), with 12,584 citations. Next come "Heterogeneous photocatalyst materials for water splitting" (10,601) and "Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene" (8,042).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light Xinchen Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda, Arne Thomas et al. · Nature Materials 9 Nov 2008 12,584
2 Heterogeneous photocatalyst materials for water splitting Akihiko Kudo, Yugo Miseki · Chemical Society Reviews Review 19 Nov 2008 10,601
3 Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene Fred Schedin, Andre K. Geim, С. В. Морозов et al. · Nature Materials Open access 29 Jul 2007 8,042
4 TiO2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena A FUJISHIMA, Xintong Zhang, Donald A. Tryk · Surface Science Reports 15 Nov 2008 6,710
5 How To Correctly Determine the Band Gap Energy of Modified Semiconductor Photocatalysts Based on UV–Vis Spectra Patrycja Makuła, Michał Pacia, Wojciech Macyk · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Open access 6 Dec 2018 5,185
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Where is Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research done?

The largest centres of Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jiaozuo and Qiqihar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.2k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 553 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 484 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 408 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 384 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 337 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 316 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 308 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 306 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 303 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JiaozuoCN · 76.4 works11×
  2. QiqiharCN · 28.2 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Petroleum, East China, Jilin University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China score highest, combining citation 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.

Citation 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
1China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 79.221.5%7.2×66 +43.5%
2Jilin UniversityChina 73.714.3%6.1×135 +24.0%
3University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 71.923.9%3.5×77 +17.3%
4Northeastern UniversityChina 71.814.3%7.7×133 +90.3%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 71.614.4%6.8×104 +38.6%
6Fuzhou UniversityChina 71.022.2%4.9×52 +52.3%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 70.517.3%2.6×82 +24.0%
8Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 69.527.4%4.9×27 +164.5%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 69.117.3%1.9×87 +19.6%
10Chongqing UniversityChina 68.815.6%4.8×102 +25.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors, country by country

Is Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and 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 Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and 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%Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors9.7% 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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