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Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies

Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies is a research topic within Radiation. Science Explorer counts 47k 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 covers advances in scintillation detector technology, including the development of inorganic scintillators, silicon photomultipliers, and their applications in medical imaging, radiation detection, and time-of-flight positron emission tomography (PET). It also discusses topics such as crystal growth, neutron detection alternatives, semiconductor thermal neutron detectors, and gamma spectroscopy.

  • Scintillation Detectors
  • Inorganic Scintillators
  • Silicon Photomultiplier
  • Radiation Detection
  • Medical Imaging
  • Time-of-Flight PET
  • Crystal Growth
  • Neutron Detection
  • Semiconductor Thermal Neutron Detectors
  • Gamma Spectroscopy
Research works
47k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies

Which countries lead Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 Japan 587 works
  4. 4 Italy 520 works
  5. 5 India 409 works
  6. 6 Germany 334 works
  7. 7 Russia 329 works
  8. 8 France 283 works
  9. 9 South Korea 234 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 203 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: 32.0%United States: 18.9%Japan: 9.9%Italy: 8.8%6 others listed: 30.3%32%largest
China1,892 · 32.0%United States1,116 · 18.9%Japan587 · 9.9%Italy520 · 8.8%6 others listed1,792 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 269 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 109 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 101 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 77 works
  5. 5 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 75 works
  6. 6 Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyJapan 73 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 64 works
  8. 8 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance 62 works
  9. 9 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareItaly 57 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies include Zhong Lin Wang, Wei Huang and M. Weber.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  4. 4 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  6. 6 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  7. 7 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  8. 8 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  9. 9 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  10. 10 A. Meyer France 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 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies?

The most cited paper in Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies is "Recent developments in Geant4" (John E. Allison et al., 2016), with 4,221 citations. Next come "Algorithms for the rapid simulation of Rutherford backscattering spectra" (2,812) and "Upconversion Nanoparticles: Design, Nanochemistry, and Applications in Theranostics" (2,707).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Recent developments in Geant4 John E. Allison et al. · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Open access 2 Jul 2016 4,221
2 Algorithms for the rapid simulation of Rutherford backscattering spectra Lawrence Doolittle · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms Jun 1985 2,812
3 Upconversion Nanoparticles: Design, Nanochemistry, and Applications in Theranostics Guanying Chen, Hailong Qiu, Paras N. Prasad et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 10 Mar 2014 2,707
4 Energy transfer in oxidic phosphors George Blasse · Physics Letters A Dec 1968 2,518
5 FastJet 2.4.1 user manual Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Université Denis et al. 18 Aug 2013 2,469
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ikoma, Tōkai Mura and Dubna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 470 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 153 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 124 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 109 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 101 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 97 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 95 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 89 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 88 works
  10. 10 GenevaSwitzerland 86 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IkomaJP · 73.5 works124×
  2. Tōkai MuraJP · 39.7 works66×
  3. DubnaRU · 38.0 works54×
  4. BataviaUS · 25.6 works41×
  5. VilligenCH · 25.6 works41×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang Normal University, South China University of Technology and Nara Institute of Science and Technology 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%60%mean 22.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang Normal Univ…South China Universi…Rashtrasant Tukadoji…Nara Institute of Sc…
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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
1Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 68.949.9%6.7×13 +243.3%
2South China University of TechnologyChina 65.148.1%2.9×21 +119.5%
3Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyJapan 63.912.2%141.4×74 +17.5%
4Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityIndia 57.125.5%71.6×30 +24.0%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55.110.2%4.7×51 +50.4%
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 53.126.3%1.6×22 +88.5%
7Tsinghua UniversityChina 52.74.9%4.2×64 +43.9%
8Zhejiang UniversityChina 52.436.3%1.1×20 +136.4%
9University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 52.17.6%7.0×55 +13.1%
10Politecnico di MilanoItaly 51.85.5%8.5×40 +26.7%

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 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, country by country

Is Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies.

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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 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies 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%Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies9.5% 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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