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Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing

Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing is a research topic within Computer Science Applications. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1972. 35.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of crowdsourcing platforms, particularly Amazon's Mechanical Turk, for research and data collection purposes. It explores topics such as data quality, incentive mechanisms, mobile sensing, truth discovery, and the application of crowdsourcing in behavioral research and participatory sensing.

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Mechanical Turk
  • Mobile Sensing
  • Data Quality
  • Incentive Mechanisms
  • Online Labor Markets
  • Behavioral Research
  • Participatory Sensing
  • Truth Discovery
  • Social Networks
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1972
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
35.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+20%
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Which countries lead Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (970 and 605 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 970 works
  2. 2 United States 605 works
  3. 3 India 176 works
  4. 4 Germany 139 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 130 works
  6. 6 Japan 102 works
  7. 7 Italy 101 works
  8. 8 Canada 91 works
  9. 9 Australia 89 works
  10. 10 France 58 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: 39.4%United States: 24.6%India: 7.2%Germany: 5.6%6 others listed: 23.2%39%largest
China970 · 39.4%United States605 · 24.6%India176 · 7.2%Germany139 · 5.6%6 others listed572 · 23.2%

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

Which institutions lead Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research, followed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Science and Technology of China.

Who are the leading researchers in Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing include Serge Belongie, Michael S. Bernstein and Rajkumar Buyya.

  1. 1 Serge Belongie United States 14k citations
  2. 2 Michael S. Bernstein United States 10k citations
  3. 3 Rajkumar Buyya Australia 7.8k citations
  4. 4 Philip S. Yu United States 6.6k citations
  5. 5 Deborah Estrin United States 5.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research done?

The largest centres of Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pittsburgh and Hong Kong.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 190 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 66 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 64 works
  4. 4 Xi'an China 57 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou China 52 works
  6. 6 Wuhan China 47 works
  7. 7 Tokyo Japan 44 works
  8. 8 Hong Kong China 44 works
  9. 9 Changsha China 42 works
  10. 10 Hangzhou China 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PittsburghUS · 25.0 works4.6×
  2. Hong KongCN · 43.6 works4.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Carnegie Mellon University and Nanyang Technological 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%60%mean 38.16%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 24, 33.2%Carnegie Mellon University: 20, 44.9%Nanyang Technological University: 16, 47.8%Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 13, 29.8%Delft University of Technology: 16, 38.3%City University of Hong Kong: 8, 53.7%University of Science and Technology of China: 19, 30.1%Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 13, 36.8%Beijing Institute of Technology: 16, 32.6%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 15, 34.4%Nanyang Technologica…Carnegie Mellon Univ…Beijing University o…Hong Kong University…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 74.333.2%12.5×24 +277.8%
2 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 67.844.9%15.8×20 -11.5%
3 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 63.447.8%6.2×16 +47.8%
4 Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong 63.029.8%10.9×13 +113.1%
5 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 57.638.3%7.5×16 +44.9%
6 City University of Hong KongHong Kong 56.553.7%4.6×8 +85.0%
7 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 55.030.1%5.1×19 +336.9%
8 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 51.936.8%4.7×13 +96.4%
9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 51.432.6%4.4×16 +791.1%
10 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 51.134.4%4.2×15 +252.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing.

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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.

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.