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Microbial Inactivation Methods

Microbial Inactivation Methods is a research topic within Biotechnology. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 explores the applications of electroporation, high pressure processing, ultrasound, and pulsed electric fields in biotechnology and food processing. It covers topics such as irreversible electroporation for tissue ablation, gene therapy, microbial inactivation, and the impact of various technologies on food preservation and quality.

  • Electroporation
  • Irreversible Electroporation
  • High Pressure Processing
  • Ultrasound
  • Food Preservation
  • Gene Therapy
  • Tissue Ablation
  • Pulsed Electric Fields
  • Cell Membrane Permeabilization
  • Microbial Inactivation
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microbial Inactivation Methods

Which countries lead Microbial Inactivation Methods research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (986 and 579 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 986 works
  2. 2 United States 579 works
  3. 3 India 301 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 183 works
  5. 5 Italy 180 works
  6. 6 Brazil 175 works
  7. 7 Spain 154 works
  8. 8 Germany 138 works
  9. 9 Japan 131 works
  10. 10 South Korea 127 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: 33.4%United States: 19.6%India: 10.2%Türkiye: 6.2%6 others listed: 30.6%33%largest
China986 · 33.4%United States579 · 19.6%India301 · 10.2%Türkiye183 · 6.2%6 others listed905 · 30.6%

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

Which institutions lead Microbial Inactivation Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Microbial Inactivation Methods research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Northwest A&F University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 38 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  3. 3 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 27 works
  4. 4 Jiangsu UniversityChina 27 works
  5. 5 Jiangnan UniversityChina 25 works
  6. 6 China Agricultural UniversityChina 24 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 22 works
  8. 8 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 22 works
  9. 9 Nanchang UniversityChina 21 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microbial Inactivation Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microbial Inactivation Methods include Jun Wang, Róbert Langer and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Microbial Inactivation Methods?

The most cited paper in Microbial Inactivation Methods is "High efficiency transformation of E.coli by high voltage electroporation" (William J. Dower, Jeff F. Miller, Clifton W. Ragsdale, 1988), with 2,844 citations. Next come "A dynamic approach to predicting bacterial growth in food" (2,630) and "A note on quantifying follow-up in studies of failure time" (2,609).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High efficiency transformation of E.coli by high voltage electroporation William J. Dower, Jeff F. Miller, Clifton W. Ragsdale · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 11 Jul 1988 2,844
2 A dynamic approach to predicting bacterial growth in food József Baranyi, Terry A. Roberts · International Journal of Food Microbiology Nov 1994 2,630
3 A note on quantifying follow-up in studies of failure time MICHAEL SCHEMPER, Terry L. Smith · Controlled Clinical Trials Aug 1996 2,609
4 Applications of ultrasound in food technology: Processing, preservation and extraction Farid Chemat, Zill-e-Huma, Muhammad Kamran Khan · Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 17 Dec 2010 2,531
5 Listeria monocytogenes, a food-borne pathogen Jeffrey M. Farber, Pearl I. Peterkin · Microbiological Reviews Open access Sep 1991 2,425
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Microbial Inactivation Methods research done?

The largest centres of Microbial Inactivation Methods research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 134 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 63 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 59 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 47 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 46 works
  6. 6 WuxiChina 44 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 42 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 39 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 39 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YanglingCN · 27.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microbial Inactivation Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microbial Inactivation Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, Jiangnan University and McGill 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 24.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityMcGill UniversityJiangnan UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Jiangsu UniversityChina 89.730.6%8.6×27 +12.9%
2Jiangnan UniversityChina 73.921.8%10.7×25 +19.3%
3McGill UniversityCanada 73.526.4%4.6×18 +24.1%
4Northwest A&F UniversityChina 68.512.0%17.7×27 +26.1%
5China Agricultural UniversityChina 68.420.3%11.2×24 +8.3%
6Nanchang UniversityChina 64.323.0%7.2×21 -5.5%
7Beijing Technology and Business UniversityChina 64.332.0%12.8×11 +44.5%
8Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 59.721.8%7.6×22 -23.6%
9National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and ManagementIndia 59.415.5%128.9×15 +117.8%
10Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 58.838.3%5.3×10 +0.8%

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 Microbial Inactivation Methods, country by country

Is Microbial Inactivation Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Microbial Inactivation Methods.

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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 Microbial Inactivation Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Microbial Inactivation Methods0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Microbial Inactivation Methods 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%Microbial Inactivation Methods10.1% 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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