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Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Muscle activation and electromyography studies is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 59k 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 analysis of electromyography (EMG) signal processing, including topics such as muscle fatigue, prosthetic control using EMG signals, musculoskeletal modeling, neural strategies extraction, surface EMG applications, myoelectric control systems, motor unit recruitment, sensory feedback in prosthetics, and gait analysis.

  • Electromyography
  • Muscle Fatigue
  • Prosthetic Control
  • Musculoskeletal Modeling
  • Neural Strategies
  • Surface EMG
  • Myoelectric Control
  • Motor Unit Recruitment
  • Sensory Feedback
  • Gait Analysis
Research works
59k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Which countries lead Muscle activation and electromyography studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.3k and 2.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 2.1k works
  3. 3 Japan 795 works
  4. 4 India 607 works
  5. 5 Italy 553 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 465 works
  7. 7 Germany 440 works
  8. 8 Canada 420 works
  9. 9 South Korea 348 works
  10. 10 Brazil 296 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: 27.6%United States: 25.3%Japan: 9.5%India: 7.3%6 others listed: 30.3%28%largest
China2,302 · 27.6%United States2,106 · 25.3%Japan795 · 9.5%India607 · 7.3%6 others listed2,522 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Muscle activation and electromyography studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Muscle activation and electromyography studies research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 137 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 72 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 70 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 54 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 53 works
  6. 6 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 47 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 40 works
  9. 9 Italian Institute of TechnologyItaly 39 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Muscle activation and electromyography studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Muscle activation and electromyography studies include Zhong Lin Wang, Rob Knight and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Piotr P. Ponikowski Poland 253k citations
  8. 8 Jeroen Joost Bax Netherlands 229k 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 Muscle activation and electromyography studies?

The most cited paper in Muscle activation and electromyography studies is "Development of recommendations for SEMG sensors and sensor placement procedures" (Hermie J Hermens, Bart Freriks, Catherine Dißelhorst-Klug et al., 2000), with 7,205 citations. Next come "Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research" (5,541) and "OpenSim: Open-Source Software to Create and Analyze Dynamic Simulations of Movement" (5,097).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of recommendations for SEMG sensors and sensor placement procedures Hermie J Hermens, Bart Freriks, Catherine Dißelhorst-Klug et al. · Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology Oct 2000 7,205
2 Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research Símone Rossi, Mark Hallett, Paolo Maria Rossini et al. · Clinical Neurophysiology Open access 15 Oct 2009 5,541
3 OpenSim: Open-Source Software to Create and Analyze Dynamic Simulations of Movement Scott L. Delp, Frank C. Anderson, Allison S. Arnold et al. · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 23 Oct 2007 5,097
4 Quantifying Test-Retest Reliability Using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient and the SEM Joseph P. Weir · The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 2005 4,514
5 The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally confirmed mathematical model Tamar Flash, N. Hogan · Journal of Neuroscience Open access Jul 1985 4,444
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Where is Muscle activation and electromyography studies research done?

The largest centres of Muscle activation and electromyography studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Genoa and Enschede.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 402 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 280 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 244 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 152 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 131 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 111 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 102 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 98 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 97 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 96 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GenoaIT · 55.3 works8.5×
  2. EnschedeNL · 29.1 works7.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Muscle activation and electromyography studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Muscle activation and electromyography studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Imperial College London and University of Science and Technology of China 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 23.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …University of Scienc…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Imperial College Lon…
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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
1Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66.720.2%2.5×72 +26.8%
2Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.314.9%4.7×48 +17.1%
3University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61.823.8%2.8×33 +35.0%
4National University of SingaporeSingapore 59.736.9%1.8×21 -9.3%
5Donghua UniversityChina 59.141.5%2.4×9 +96.1%
6Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.719.6%4.8×25 +226.0%
7University of MichiganUnited States 58.110.0%3.5×54 +16.2%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 57.120.1%2.7×24 +53.3%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 56.624.5%1.5×36 +22.1%
10Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 56.220.4%2.6×29 +48.1%

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 Muscle activation and electromyography studies, country by country

Is Muscle activation and electromyography studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Muscle activation and electromyography studies.

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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 Muscle activation and electromyography studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.050% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Muscle activation and electromyography studies0.049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Muscle activation and electromyography studies 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%Muscle activation and electromyography studies9.8% 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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