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Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Geophysics and Sensor Technology is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 focuses on the advancements in rotational seismology and its engineering applications. It covers topics such as ring laser gyroscopes, ground motions, seismic sensors, earth rotation monitoring, wave gradiometry, nonlinear electrodynamics, and molecular electronic transducers for seismic wave studies.

  • Rotational Seismology
  • Ring Laser Gyroscope
  • Ground Motions
  • Seismic Sensors
  • Earth Rotation Monitoring
  • Electrochemical Seismometers
  • Wave Gradiometry
  • Nonlinear Electrodynamics
  • Molecular Electronic Transducers
  • Seismic Wave Studies
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Which countries lead Geophysics and Sensor Technology research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 395 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 395 works
  3. 3 Russia 240 works
  4. 4 Japan 143 works
  5. 5 Germany 122 works
  6. 6 India 119 works
  7. 7 Italy 112 works
  8. 8 France 111 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 81 works
  10. 10 South Korea 41 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: 42.9%United States: 16.5%Russia: 10.1%Japan: 6.0%6 others listed: 24.5%43%largest
China1,022 · 42.9%United States395 · 16.5%Russia240 · 10.1%Japan143 · 6.0%6 others listed585 · 24.5%

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

Which institutions lead Geophysics and Sensor Technology research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 93 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 87 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 45 works
  4. 4 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 39 works
  5. 5 Beihang UniversityChina 33 works
  6. 6 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 29 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 22 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 20 works
  10. 10 China Earthquake AdministrationChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geophysics and Sensor Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geophysics and Sensor Technology include Zhong Lin Wang, Georg Kresse and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 G. Mitselmakher France 223k citations
  6. 6 L. Li France 211k citations
  7. 7 Ian W Harry Germany 189k citations
  8. 8 R. W. L. Jones United Kingdom 189k 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 Geophysics and Sensor Technology?

The most cited paper in Geophysics and Sensor Technology is "Electrodynamics of Continuous Media" (L.D. LANDAU, E.M. LIFSHITZ, Allen L. King, 1961), with 10,883 citations. Next come "Preliminary reference Earth model" (10,479) and "Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory" (7,047).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electrodynamics of Continuous Media L.D. LANDAU, E.M. LIFSHITZ, Allen L. King · American Journal of Physics Sep 1961 10,883
2 Preliminary reference Earth model Adam M. Dziewoński, Don L. Anderson · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors Jun 1981 10,479
3 Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory Yakir Aharonov, David Böhm · Physical Review Open access Aug 1959 7,047
4 Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids J. D. Achenbach, Stephen A. Thau · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1974 4,036
5 Norm-conserving and ultrasoft pseudopotentials for first-row and transition elements Georg Kresse, J. Häfner · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter Open access 3 Oct 1994 3,970
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geophysics and Sensor Technology research done?

The largest centres of Geophysics and Sensor Technology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Wuhan (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 268 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 104 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 85 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 63 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 58 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 49 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 42 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 40 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint PetersburgRU · 34.8 works4.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geophysics and Sensor Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geophysics and Sensor Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beihang University and California Institute of 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Leibniz University H…California Institute…Huazhong University …Beihang 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
1Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 73.516.7%8.3×39 +142.8%
2Beihang UniversityChina 68.016.0%11.6×33 +15.3%
3California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 66.117.5%16.3×15 -23.0%
4Leibniz University HannoverGermany 65.724.0%10.5×8 +42.1%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59.932.2%1.6×12 +34.1%
6Zhejiang UniversityChina 58.619.1%3.2×22 +12.0%
7National University of Defense TechnologyChina 58.114.2%14.7×30 +65.2%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 57.322.4%4.8×20 +9.9%
9Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 57.117.4%6.0×8 +170.3%
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 57.017.2%3.1×17 +194.2%

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 Geophysics and Sensor Technology, country by country

Is Geophysics and Sensor Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Geophysics and Sensor Technology.

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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 Geophysics and Sensor Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Geophysics and Sensor Technology0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geophysics and Sensor Technology 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%Geophysics and Sensor Technology10.3% 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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