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Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1956. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of research in the field of plasmonics and nanophotonics, including topics such as surface plasmons, graphene, metamaterials, nanoantennas, resonance, biosensors, terahertz applications, and optical modulators.

  • Plasmonics
  • Nanophotonics
  • Surface Plasmons
  • Graphene
  • Metamaterials
  • Nanoantennas
  • Resonance
  • Biosensors
  • Terahertz
  • Optical Modulators
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

Which countries lead Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.3k and 787 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.3k works
  2. 2 United States 787 works
  3. 3 India 697 works
  4. 4 Iran 322 works
  5. 5 Japan 279 works
  6. 6 Russia 252 works
  7. 7 Germany 247 works
  8. 8 South Korea 230 works
  9. 9 France 209 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 191 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: 50.6%United States: 12.1%India: 10.7%Iran: 4.9%6 others listed: 21.6%51%largest
China3,296 · 50.6%United States787 · 12.1%India697 · 10.7%Iran322 · 4.9%6 others listed1,408 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 215 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 110 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 85 works
  4. 4 Southeast UniversityChina 66 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 60 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 51 works
  7. 7 Tianjin UniversityChina 47 works
  8. 8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 46 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 46 works
  10. 10 Shenzhen UniversityChina 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  7. 7 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  8. 8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  9. 9 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research?

The most cited paper in Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research is "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics" (William L. Barnes, Alain Dereux, Thomas W. Ebbesen, 2003), with 11,670 citations. Next come "The Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles: The Influence of Size, Shape, and Dielectric Environment" (10,577) and "Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction" (10,346).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Surface plasmon subwavelength optics William L. Barnes, Alain Dereux, Thomas W. Ebbesen · Nature Aug 2003 11,670
2 The Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles: The Influence of Size, Shape, and Dielectric Environment K. Lance Kelly, Eduardo A. Coronado, Lin Lin Zhao et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 21 Dec 2002 10,577
3 Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction Nanfang Yu, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail A. Kats et al. · Science Sep 2011 10,346
4 Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena John Brian Pendry, A.J. Holden, David Robbins et al. · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 1999 8,749
5 Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices Harry A. Atwater, Albert Polman · Nature Materials 19 Feb 2010 8,341
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research done?

The largest centres of Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Semnan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 475 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 268 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 203 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 163 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 162 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 156 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 118 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 114 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 105 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 101 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SemnanIR · 20.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research than the world average.

See Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research on the map

Where is the best place to study Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Marwadi University, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and City University of Hong Kong 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%25%50%75%mean 23.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Marwadi UniversityUniversity of Chines…City University of H…Nanjing University o…
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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
1Marwadi UniversityIndia 67.462.7%22.0×10 +164.4%
2Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 55.89.0%19.3×60 +68.4%
3City University of Hong KongChina 55.412.8%6.9×29 +72.5%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.414.2%3.9×46 +29.9%
5Yangtze UniversityChina 52.830.2%13.6×23 +54.5%
6Semnan UniversityIran 52.722.8%28.8×21 +31.8%
7Southwest University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.030.2%10.1×17 +41.2%
8University of Mohaghegh ArdabiliIran 50.328.2%25.5×16 +329.9%
9China Jiliang UniversityChina 50.011.9%24.1×37 +45.8%
10University of Shanghai for Science and TechnologyChina 49.210.7%11.5×36 +35.0%

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 Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, country by country

Is Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research 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%Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research9.6% 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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