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Optics and Image Analysis

Optics and Image Analysis is a research topic within Management Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 4.7k 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 management, use, and impact of grey literature in research, including topics such as research information systems, CERIF data model, open access repositories, metadata extraction, XML editors, and library circulation systems. It also explores the role of grey literature in scientific communication and the development of optical-electronic systems for various applications.

  • Grey Literature
  • Research Information Systems
  • CERIF Data Model
  • Open Access Repositories
  • Bibliographic Records
  • Metadata Extraction
  • XML Editor
  • Library Circulation System
  • Scientific Communication
  • Optical-electronic Systems
Research works
4.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
470
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Optics and Image Analysis

Which countries lead Optics and Image Analysis research?

By volume, the United States and Russia publish the most (113 and 105 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 113 works
  2. 2 Russia 105 works
  3. 3 Germany 94 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 51 works
  5. 5 Italy 50 works
  6. 6 Spain 40 works
  7. 7 China 38 works
  8. 8 India 31 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 29 works
  10. 10 France 29 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.

United States: 19.5%Russia: 18.0%Germany: 16.2%United Kingdom: 8.7%6 others listed: 37.5%20%largest
United States113 · 19.5%Russia105 · 18.0%Germany94 · 16.2%United Kingdom51 · 8.7%6 others listed218 · 37.5%

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

Which institutions lead Optics and Image Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Optics and Image Analysis research, followed by Leibniz Association and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 23 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 16 works
  3. 3 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 14 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 13 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  6. 6 National Research CouncilItaly 7 works
  7. 7 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands 7 works
  8. 8 ITMO UniversityRussia 6 works
  9. 9 University of MilanItaly 6 works
  10. 10 Masaryk UniversityCzechia 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Optics and Image Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Optics and Image Analysis include Luc Van Gool.

  1. 1 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k 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 Optics and Image Analysis?

The most cited paper in Optics and Image Analysis is "Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light" (Max Born, Emil Wolf, Eugene Hecht, 2000), with 4,134 citations. Next come "PROMAX: A QUICK METHOD FOR ROTATION TO OBLIQUE SIMPLE STRUCTURE" (1,032) and "Introduction to shape and shape grammars" (995).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light Max Born, Emil Wolf, Eugene Hecht · Physics Today Oct 2000 4,134
2 PROMAX: A QUICK METHOD FOR ROTATION TO OBLIQUE SIMPLE STRUCTURE Alan Einar Hendrickson, Paul Owen White · British Journal of Statistical Psychology May 1964 1,032
3 Introduction to shape and shape grammars George Nicholas Stiny · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design 1980 995
4 A TM Tasseled Cap equivalent transformation for reflectance factor data Eric P. Crist · Remote Sensing of Environment Jun 1985 841
5 Representation of a preference ordering by a numerical function Gérard Debreu, Gérard Debreu, Werner Hildenbrand · Mathematical Economics Book chapter 2 Dec 2008 758
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Where is Optics and Image Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Optics and Image Analysis research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid (Spain) and Toluca (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 40 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 24 works
  3. 3 MadridSpain 14 works
  4. 4 TolucaMexico 14 works
  5. 5 HanoverGermany 13 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 11 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 10 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 9 works
  10. 10 HamburgGermany 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint PetersburgRU · 24.3 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Optics and Image Analysis than the world average.

See Optics and Image Analysis on the map

Where is the best place to study Optics and Image Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 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.

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
1Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 5.06.4%108.5×14 -

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 Optics and Image Analysis, country by country

Is Optics and Image Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Optics and Image Analysis.

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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 Optics and Image Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Optics and Image Analysis 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%Optics and Image Analysis9.7% 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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