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Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation

Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 advances in droplet microfluidics technology, including topics such as continuous flow chemistry, digital PCR, high-throughput screening, emulsion generation, microreactor technology, single-cell analysis, chemical synthesis, and biomedical applications.

  • Microfluidics
  • Droplet Formation
  • Continuous Flow Chemistry
  • Digital PCR
  • High-Throughput Screening
  • Emulsion Generation
  • Microreactor Technology
  • Single-Cell Analysis
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Biomedical Applications
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation

Which countries lead Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.6k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.6k works
  2. 2 United States 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 680 works
  4. 4 Germany 448 works
  5. 5 Japan 416 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 347 works
  7. 7 France 287 works
  8. 8 South Korea 261 works
  9. 9 Italy 200 works
  10. 10 Iran 181 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: 38.6%United States: 18.7%India: 10.3%Germany: 6.8%6 others listed: 25.6%39%largest
China2,552 · 38.6%United States1,236 · 18.7%India680 · 10.3%Germany448 · 6.8%6 others listed1,692 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 143 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 127 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 80 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 64 works
  5. 5 Tianjin UniversityChina 56 works
  6. 6 State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringChina 54 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 54 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 48 works
  10. 10 East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 42 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Jun Wang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 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 Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation?

The most cited paper in Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation is "The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments" (Stephen Andrew Bustin, Vladimı́r Beneš, Jeremy A. Garson et al., 2009), with 16,583 citations. Next come "The origins and the future of microfluidics" (9,641) and "Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets" (8,040).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments Stephen Andrew Bustin, Vladimı́r Beneš, Jeremy A. Garson et al. · Clinical Chemistry Open access 26 Feb 2009 16,583
2 The origins and the future of microfluidics George M. Whitesides · Nature Jul 2006 9,641
3 Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets Evan Z. Macosko, Anindita Basu, Rahul Satija et al. · Cell Open access May 2015 8,040
4 Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Systems in Poly(dimethylsiloxane) David C. Duffy, J. Cooper McDonald, Olivier J. A. Schueller et al. · Analytical Chemistry 24 Oct 1998 5,316
5 Living Free-Radical Polymerization by Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer: The RAFT Process John Chiefari, Yu Chong, Frances Ercole et al. · Macromolecules 22 Jul 1998 5,109
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Hangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rahway, Graz and Kharagpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 443 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 242 works
  3. 3 HangzhouChina 188 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 165 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 139 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 112 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 107 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 98 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 92 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 90 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RahwayUS · 23.1 works31×
  2. GrazAT · 33.3 works6.0×
  3. KharagpurIN · 22.2 works5.2×
  4. KarlsruheDE · 32.1 works4.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Tsinghua University and Zhejiang 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 19.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Carnegie Mellon Univ…Harvard UniversityZhejiang UniversityTsinghua 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 60.625.1%1.3×31 -24.0%
2Tsinghua UniversityChina 58.29.1%4.5×80 +15.8%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 57.415.7%2.6×54 +26.0%
4Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 53.939.5%2.6×8 +3.0%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 53.614.1%2.4×53 +42.8%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.616.8%2.5×32 +24.4%
7Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 53.021.1%4.1×22 -50.9%
8ETH ZurichSwitzerland 52.417.2%5.5×29 -22.8%
9University of GroningenNetherlands 51.821.9%2.7×14 +72.3%
10Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 51.616.2%3.9×28 +32.4%

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 Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation, country by country

Is Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation.

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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 Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation 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%Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation9.9% 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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