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Mobile and Web Applications

Mobile and Web Applications is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1954. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development of mobile applications, including cross-platform solutions, web technologies, performance evaluation, and responsive design. It also explores the use of Node.js and WebSocket for high-performance network programs, as well as the potential of Progressive Web Apps as a unifying approach for mobile development.

  • Mobile Application Development
  • Cross-Platform Development
  • Web Technologies
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Responsive Design
  • Native Apps
  • HTML5
  • Node.js
  • WebSocket
  • Progressive Web Apps
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mobile and Web Applications

Which countries lead Mobile and Web Applications research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (657 and 399 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 657 works
  2. 2 India 399 works
  3. 3 United States 270 works
  4. 4 China 173 works
  5. 5 Philippines 60 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 50 works
  7. 7 Brazil 48 works
  8. 8 ?? 45 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 40 works
  10. 10 Germany 32 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.

Indonesia: 37.0%India: 22.5%United States: 15.2%China: 9.8%6 others listed: 15.5%37%largest
Indonesia657 · 37.0%India399 · 22.5%United States270 · 15.2%China173 · 9.8%6 others listed275 · 15.5%

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

Which institutions lead Mobile and Web Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Mobile and Web Applications research, followed by Binus University and Telkom University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 75 works
  2. 2 Binus UniversityIndonesia 25 works
  3. 3 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 23 works
  4. 4 Lublin University of TechnologyPoland 20 works
  5. 5 Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 19 works
  6. 6 Universitas Teknologi YogyakartaIndonesia 16 works
  7. 7 State University of MalangIndonesia 13 works
  8. 8 Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 11 works
  9. 9 Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 10 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology BhubaneswarIndia 10 works

What are the most cited papers in Mobile and Web Applications?

The most cited paper in Mobile and Web Applications is "The Google file system" (Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak A. Leung, 2003), with 1,348 citations. Next come "Building Web applications with UML" (608) and "A review for mobile commerce research and applications" (532).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Google file system Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak A. Leung Conference paper 2003 1,348
2 Building Web applications with UML Jim Conallen · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) 1999 608
3 A review for mobile commerce research and applications Eric W.T. Ngai, A. Gunasekaran · Decision Support Systems 13 Jul 2005 532
4 Software engineering issues for mobile application development Anthony I. Wasserman Conference paperOpen access 7 Nov 2010 522
5 Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications Domenico Amalfitano, Anna Rita Fasolino, Porfirio Tramontana et al. Conference paper 3 Sep 2012 518
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mobile and Web Applications research done?

The largest centres of Mobile and Web Applications research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Sharon (United States), Bandung (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon, Nagpur and Manila.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 93 works
  2. 2 SharonUnited States 75 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 69 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 36 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 35 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 32 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 32 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 31 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 27 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 75.0 works309×
  2. NagpurIN · 20.7 works16×
  3. ManilaPH · 21.7 works13×
  4. LublinPL · 20.3 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mobile and Web Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mobile and Web Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Binus University, Chandigarh University and Lublin University 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%10%20%30%mean 10.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chandigarh UniversityTelkom UniversityLublin University of…Binus University
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Binus UniversityIndonesia 64.15.2%22.4×25 +14.1%
2Chandigarh UniversityIndia 60.825.1%7.9×9 -
3Lublin University of TechnologyPoland 60.413.2%108.4×20 -27.3%
4Telkom UniversityIndonesia 56.714.4%21.8×23 -27.3%
5Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 44.91.1%23.0×19 +246.2%
6Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 42.89.8%12.1×10 +53.6%
7Universitas Nusa BangsaIndonesia 39.113.0%8.9×8 +188.5%
8Raisoni Group of InstitutionsIndia 38.213.4%48.3×9 -
9Universitas Teknologi YogyakartaIndonesia 37.81.2%44.5×16 -
10Indian Institute of Technology BhubaneswarIndia 36.87.2%46.5×10 -

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 Mobile and Web Applications, country by country

Is Mobile and Web Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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grewheldshrank

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 Mobile and Web Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Mobile and Web Applications0.0081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mobile and Web 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%Mobile and Web Applications10.6% 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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