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Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications

Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 54k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers the origins, advancements, and future applications of microfluidics, with a focus on Lab-on-a-Chip technologies, poly(dimethylsiloxane) as a material, biomedical research, micro total analysis systems, 3D printing, micromixers, nanofluidic devices, capillary electrophoresis, MEMS technology, and point-of-care diagnostics.

  • Lab-on-a-Chip
  • Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
  • Biomedical Research
  • Micro Total Analysis Systems
  • 3D Printing
  • Micromixers
  • Nanofluidic Devices
  • Capillary Electrophoresis
  • MEMS Technology
  • Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Research works
54k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications

Which countries lead Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 922 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 922 works
  3. 3 India 421 works
  4. 4 Japan 305 works
  5. 5 Germany 273 works
  6. 6 France 171 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 162 works
  8. 8 Iran 161 works
  9. 9 South Korea 155 works
  10. 10 Canada 132 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: 35.5%United States: 22.0%India: 10.0%Japan: 7.3%6 others listed: 25.2%35%largest
China1,485 · 35.5%United States922 · 22.0%India421 · 10.0%Japan305 · 7.3%6 others listed1,054 · 25.2%

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

Which institutions lead Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 103 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 78 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 40 works
  4. 4 Tianjin UniversityChina 33 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 31 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 31 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 24 works
  9. 9 Nanjing UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications 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 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  6. 6 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  7. 7 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 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 Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications?

The most cited paper in Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications is "High resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis of proteins." (Patrick H. O’Farrell, 1975), with 19,391 citations. Next come "DISC ELECTROPHORESIS – II METHOD AND APPLICATION TO HUMAN SERUM PROTEINS*" (18,971) and "NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes" (16,465).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis of proteins. Patrick H. O’Farrell · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access May 1975 19,391
2 DISC ELECTROPHORESIS – II METHOD AND APPLICATION TO HUMAN SERUM PROTEINS* Baruch J. Davis · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Dec 1964 18,971
3 NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes Frank Delaglio, Stephan Grzesiek, Geerten W. Vuister et al. · Journal of Biomolecular NMR Nov 1995 16,465
4 Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa Hermann Schägger, Gebhard von Jagow · Analytical Biochemistry Nov 1987 11,542
5 The origins and the future of microfluidics George M. Whitesides · Nature Jul 2006 9,641
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research done?

The largest centres of Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kharagpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 238 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 136 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 103 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 98 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 89 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 83 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 66 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 63 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 63 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KharagpurIN · 22.5 works8.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Iran University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University and Harvard University 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.

0%20%40%mean 19.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityIran University of S…Nanjing UniversityTianjin 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.

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
1Iran University of Science and TechnologyIran 59.529.2%10.3×14 +56.1%
2Nanjing UniversityChina 58.926.9%5.1×23 -1.5%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.832.3%0.9×14 -15.8%
4Tianjin UniversityChina 55.310.2%5.4×33 +10.4%
5Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.711.4%2.4×31 +9.0%
6Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 52.315.1%3.8×18 +15.2%
7Jadavpur UniversityIndia 51.827.1%8.2×12 +109.6%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 49.314.6%2.7×31 -28.6%
9ETH ZurichSwitzerland 48.716.3%4.2×15 -40.9%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 48.416.1%2.7×22 +0.4%

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 Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, country by country

Is Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications 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%Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications10.0% 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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