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Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation

Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 9k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the molecular mechanisms underlying planarian regeneration, focusing on topics such as stem cells, bioelectric signals, wound healing, gene expression, and the effects of electrical stimulation. It delves into the role of neoblasts, genome analysis, and the regulation of regeneration polarity.

  • Planarian Regeneration
  • Stem Cells
  • Bioelectric Signals
  • Wound Healing
  • Gene Expression
  • Cell Behavior
  • Electrical Stimulation
  • Regeneration Polarity
  • Neoblasts
  • Genome Analysis
Research works
9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
911
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation

Which countries lead Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (582 and 495 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 582 works
  2. 2 United States 495 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 103 works
  4. 4 Japan 101 works
  5. 5 Germany 97 works
  6. 6 India 80 works
  7. 7 Italy 78 works
  8. 8 Brazil 73 works
  9. 9 Spain 64 works
  10. 10 South Korea 59 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: 33.6%United States: 28.6%United Kingdom: 6.0%Japan: 5.8%6 others listed: 26.0%34%largest
China582 · 33.6%United States495 · 28.6%United Kingdom103 · 6.0%Japan101 · 5.8%6 others listed451 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research, followed by Harvard University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 27 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 25 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  5. 5 Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 19 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 17 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 17 works
  8. 8 Tufts UniversityUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 11 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation include Zhong Lin Wang, Róbert Langer and Hans C. Clevers.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Hans C. Clevers Netherlands 260k citations
  4. 4 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  5. 5 Didier Raoult France 232k 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 Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation?

The most cited paper in Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation is "Functional Hydrogels as Wound Dressing to Enhance Wound Healing" (Yongping Liang, Jiahui He, Baolin Guo, 2021), with 3,102 citations. Next come "Wound Healing: A Cellular Perspective" (3,046) and "Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer" (2,826).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Functional Hydrogels as Wound Dressing to Enhance Wound Healing Yongping Liang, Jiahui He, Baolin Guo · ACS Nano 10 Aug 2021 3,102
2 Wound Healing: A Cellular Perspective Mélanie Rodrigues, Nina Kosaric, Clark Andrew Bonham et al. · Physiological Reviews ReviewOpen access 26 Nov 2018 3,046
3 Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer Peter Friedl, Darren T. Gilmour · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review 23 Jun 2009 2,826
4 MAKER: An easy-to-use annotation pipeline designed for emerging model organism genomes Brandi L. Cantarel, Ian F. Korf, Sofia M. C. Robb et al. · Genome Research Open access 19 Nov 2007 2,195
5 Antibacterial anti-oxidant electroactive injectable hydrogel as self-healing wound dressing with hemostasis and adhesiveness for cutaneous wound healing Xin Zhao, Hao Wu, Baolin Guo et al. · Biomaterials 11 Jan 2017 1,986
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research done?

The largest centres of Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cambridge.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 83 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 32 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 28 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 27 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 27 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 26 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 26 works
  10. 10 CambridgeUnited States 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CambridgeUS · 25.5 works4.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Sichuan 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%mean 17.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai Jiao Tong U…Sichuan UniversityTufts UniversityHarvard 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.113.8%3.7×25 +24.5%
2Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 76.630.6%2.9×17 +197.5%
3Sichuan UniversityChina 69.529.4%3.6×17 +201.4%
4Tufts UniversityUnited States 58.622.8%12.3×12 -31.2%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 47.314.7%3.4×10 +12.6%
6Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 44.20.0%226.1×19 -
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 40.616.0%1.9×10 +76.6%
8Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 36.016.1%2.0×9 +120.0%
9Peking UniversityChina 31.716.8%2.0×9 +4.2%
10Fudan UniversityChina 31.212.0%2.5×8 +174.4%

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 Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation, country by country

Is Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation.

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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 Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation 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.

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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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