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RFID technology advancements

RFID technology advancements is a research topic within Media Technology. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 RFID technology and its applications in various domains such as supply chain management, security, privacy, and wireless sensor networks. It covers topics including antenna design, authentication protocols, inventory management, and the impact of RFID on supply chain operations.

  • RFID
  • Security
  • Privacy
  • Supply Chain
  • Antenna Design
  • Authentication Protocol
  • Inventory Management
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • EPC Network
  • Near Field Communication
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
RFID technology advancements

Which countries lead RFID technology advancements research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (706 and 427 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 706 works
  2. 2 India 427 works
  3. 3 United States 278 works
  4. 4 Italy 113 works
  5. 5 France 87 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 87 works
  7. 7 Germany 87 works
  8. 8 Japan 85 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 78 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 74 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: 34.9%India: 21.1%United States: 13.7%Italy: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.6%35%largest
China706 · 34.9%India427 · 21.1%United States278 · 13.7%Italy113 · 5.6%6 others listed498 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead RFID technology advancements research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most RFID technology advancements research, followed by Saveetha University and University of Pisa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  2. 2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 28 works
  3. 3 University of PisaItaly 21 works
  4. 4 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 19 works
  5. 5 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 19 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 18 works
  7. 7 University of Rome Tor VergataItaly 16 works
  8. 8 Tongji UniversityChina 15 works
  9. 9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 14 works
  10. 10 Xidian UniversityChina 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in RFID technology advancements?

The most-cited researchers publishing on RFID technology advancements include Yury G. Gogotsi and Mehdi Hosseinzadeh.

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  2. 2 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k 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 RFID technology advancements?

The most cited paper in RFID technology advancements is "The Internet of Things: A survey" (Luigi Atzori, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito, 2010), with 15,532 citations. Next come "Internet of Things in Industries: A Survey" (5,190) and "LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID" (2,325).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Internet of Things: A survey Luigi Atzori, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito · Computer Networks 2 Jun 2010 15,532
2 Internet of Things in Industries: A Survey Li Da Xu, Wu He, Shancang Li · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 31 Jan 2014 5,190
3 LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID Lionel Ming-shuan Ni, Yunhao Liu, Yiu Cho Lau et al. Conference paper 24 Jan 2004 2,325
4 The internet of things: a survey Shancang Li, Li Da Xu, Shanshan Zhao · Information Systems Frontiers Open access 25 Apr 2014 2,288
5 Internet of Things (IoT): A Literature Review Somayya Madakam, R. Ramaswamy, Siddharth Tripathi · Journal of Computer and Communications Open access 2015 2,075
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is RFID technology advancements research done?

The largest centres of RFID technology advancements research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pisa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 109 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 55 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 54 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 47 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 39 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 38 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 33 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 27 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PisaIT · 22.4 works9.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in RFID technology advancements than the world average.

See RFID technology advancements on the map

Where is the best place to study RFID technology advancements?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Institute of Technology Rourkela and University of Rome Tor Vergata 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 17.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong Polytechni…National Institute o…University of Rome T…University of Pisa
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 69.630.5%5.2×11 +5.0%
2National Institute of Technology RourkelaIndia 66.330.4%21.0×12 +26.9%
3University of Rome Tor VergataItaly 66.215.6%20.0×16 +17.5%
4University of PisaItaly 59.36.5%17.9×21 +17.6%
5City University of Hong KongChina 58.728.6%6.1×9 +64.0%
6Tongji UniversityChina 57.826.5%3.9×15 +11.0%
7Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 54.24.4%16.4×20 +47.5%
8Saveetha UniversityIndia 52.71.3%11.6×28 +2035.8%
9Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 49.312.0%5.2×9 +92.2%
10Universiti Tunku Abdul RahmanMalaysia 48.220.6%35.3×10 -26.3%

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 RFID technology advancements, country by country

Is RFID technology advancements research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 RFID technology advancements as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of RFID technology advancements 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%RFID technology advancements9.8% 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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