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Radiation Effects in Electronics

Radiation Effects in Electronics is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic 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 challenges and techniques for fault tolerance in electronic systems, particularly in the context of soft errors, radiation effects, and single event upsets in CMOS technology. It explores various methods for error detection, reliability evaluation, and mitigation of transient faults in nanoelectronics.

  • Soft Errors
  • Radiation Effects
  • Error Detection
  • Fault Tolerance
  • CMOS Technology
  • Single Event Upsets
  • Reliability Evaluation
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Transient Faults
  • Dependability
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
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radiation Effects in Electronics

Which countries lead Radiation Effects in Electronics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (956 and 792 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 956 works
  2. 2 United States 792 works
  3. 3 India 411 works
  4. 4 Germany 261 works
  5. 5 Italy 223 works
  6. 6 France 185 works
  7. 7 Japan 150 works
  8. 8 South Korea 125 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 105 works
  10. 10 Spain 100 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: 28.9%United States: 24.0%India: 12.4%Germany: 7.9%6 others listed: 26.8%29%largest
China956 · 28.9%United States792 · 24.0%India411 · 12.4%Germany261 · 7.9%6 others listed888 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Radiation Effects in Electronics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Radiation Effects in Electronics research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 102 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 38 works
  4. 4 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 38 works
  5. 5 Xidian UniversityChina 37 works
  6. 6 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 33 works
  7. 7 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 26 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 26 works
  9. 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 22 works
  10. 10 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radiation Effects in Electronics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radiation Effects in Electronics include Kostya S. Novoselov, M. Weber and Kenji Watanabe.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  3. 3 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  4. 4 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  5. 5 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  6. 6 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  7. 7 E. Rossi France 221k citations
  8. 8 M. Costa France 207k citations
  9. 9 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k 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 Effects in Electronics?

The most cited paper in Radiation Effects in Electronics is "Graphene transistors" (Frank Schwierz, 2010), with 5,257 citations. Next come "FastJet user manual" (5,133) and "P4" (2,889).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Graphene transistors Frank Schwierz · Nature Nanotechnology 30 May 2010 5,257
2 FastJet user manual Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez · The European Physical Journal C Open access Mar 2012 5,133
3 P4 Pat Bosshart, Dan Daly, Glen Gibb et al. · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 28 Jul 2014 2,889
4 Symbolic model checking Emma L. Clarke, K. McMillan, Sérgio Campos et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1996 2,856
5 Range and stopping-power tables for heavy ions L. C. Northcliffe, Roland Schilling · Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 1970 2,741
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radiation Effects in Electronics research done?

The largest centres of Radiation Effects in Electronics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Geneva and Turin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 266 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 95 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 66 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 51 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 50 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 50 works
  8. 8 TurinItaly 47 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 42 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GenevaCH · 34.4 works9.6×
  2. TurinIT · 46.9 works9.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radiation Effects in Electronics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radiation Effects in Electronics?

Among universities, judged by research, Vanderbilt University, ETH Zurich and Georgia Institute of 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%10%20%30%mean 17.15%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vanderbilt UniversityGeorgia Institute of…ETH ZurichPolitecnico di Torino
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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
1Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 69.322.4%7.4×20 -16.8%
2ETH ZurichSwitzerland 65.017.7%4.9×13 +73.5%
3Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 64.718.2%6.7×15 +33.6%
4Politecnico di TorinoItaly 64.69.5%22.5×38 -1.9%
5Anhui UniversityChina 62.918.1%7.8×13 +153.9%
6University of TrentoItaly 62.422.8%8.9×9 +119.4%
7Sapienza University of RomeItaly 61.524.9%2.4×11 +90.8%
8Xidian UniversityChina 61.27.2%13.5×37 +269.5%
9University of FloridaUnited States 59.016.6%4.4×18 +102.5%
10Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 57.314.1%4.6×16 +52.7%

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 Effects in Electronics, country by country

Is Radiation Effects in Electronics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002. The fastest-growing topics are Radiation Effects in Electronics.

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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 Effects in Electronics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Radiation Effects in Electronics 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 Effects in Electronics9.9% 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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