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Optical Coherence Tomography Applications

Optical Coherence Tomography Applications is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, particularly in the areas of high-resolution in vivo imaging, retinal blood flow measurement, and its applications in dermatological diseases. The papers cover various technological developments and biomedical applications of OCT, including the detection of microvasculature and tissue optical clearing.

  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • High-Resolution Imaging
  • Biomedical Applications
  • Spectral-Domain OCT
  • In Vivo Imaging
  • Retinal Blood Flow
  • Dermatological Diseases
  • Microvasculature Detection
  • OCT Technology
  • Tissue Optical Clearing
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications

Which countries lead Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 997 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 United States 997 works
  3. 3 Germany 298 works
  4. 4 India 233 works
  5. 5 Japan 217 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 202 works
  7. 7 France 181 works
  8. 8 South Korea 164 works
  9. 9 Russia 124 works
  10. 10 Italy 115 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: 39.0%United States: 24.0%Germany: 7.2%India: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.2%39%largest
China1,620 · 39.0%United States997 · 24.0%Germany298 · 7.2%India233 · 5.6%6 others listed1,004 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 102 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 77 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 61 works
  4. 4 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 41 works
  5. 5 Tsinghua UniversityChina 41 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 39 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 37 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 35 works
  9. 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 33 works
  10. 10 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Optical Coherence Tomography Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Optical Coherence Tomography Applications include Jost Bruno Jonas, Stephan Windecker and Peter Jüni.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  3. 3 Peter Jüni Switzerland 303k citations
  4. 4 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  6. 6 Valentı́n Fuster United States 257k citations
  7. 7 Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian Singapore 252k citations
  8. 8 Tien Yin Wong Singapore 237k citations
  9. 9 Peter Libby United States 226k citations
  10. 10 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 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications?

The most cited paper in Optical Coherence Tomography Applications is "Optical Coherence Tomography" (David T. Huang, Eric A. Swanson, Charles P. Lin et al., 1991), with 13,894 citations. Next come "Technical Details of Intraoperative Lymphatic Mapping for Early Stage Melanoma" (4,420) and "Performance of optical flow techniques" (4,306).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Optical Coherence Tomography David T. Huang, Eric A. Swanson, Charles P. Lin et al. · Science Open access 22 Nov 1991 13,894
2 Technical Details of Intraoperative Lymphatic Mapping for Early Stage Melanoma Donald L. Morton · Archives of Surgery Apr 1992 4,420
3 Performance of optical flow techniques John A. Barron, David J. Fleet, Steven S. Beauchemin · International Journal of Computer Vision Feb 1994 4,306
4 Deep tissue two-photon microscopy Fritjof Helmchen, Winfried T. Denk · Nature Methods 18 Nov 2005 4,229
5 Clinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease Jeffrey De Fauw et al. · Nature Medicine 6 Aug 2018 2,719
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research done?

The largest centres of Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lübeck, Nizhny Novgorod and Dresden.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 314 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 124 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 87 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 83 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 81 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 80 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 80 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 76 works
  9. 9 TianjinChina 73 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LübeckDE · 22.1 works25×
  2. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 25.1 works11×
  3. DresdenDE · 29.4 works6.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Optical Coherence Tomography Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Optical Coherence Tomography Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard University and Tsinghua 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%10%20%30%mean 15.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Califo…Tsinghua UniversityChinese University o…Harvard 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.

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
1Chinese University of Hong KongChina 70.516.6%5.9×20 +51.6%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.69.0%4.2×61 -11.2%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 62.618.4%3.9×41 +16.8%
4University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 62.423.0%3.6×19 +8.3%
5Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States 61.924.1%11.7×18 -23.4%
6Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 60.816.4%7.7×18 +233.5%
7Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 60.710.5%7.6×41 +39.5%
8Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 59.78.0%7.1×23 +21.0%
9Shenzhen UniversityChina 58.213.8%7.0×24 +38.0%
10Tianjin UniversityChina 56.913.4%6.0×33 +33.9%

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 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications, country by country

Is Optical Coherence Tomography Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Optical Coherence Tomography Applications.

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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 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Optical Coherence Tomography 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%Optical Coherence Tomography Applications9.6% 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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