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Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems

Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 44k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the IEEE 1451 standard and its application in networked smart transducer interface, covering topics such as smart sensors, resolver-to-digital conversion, capacitive sensors, neural networks, sensor networking, microcontroller interfaces, absolute encoders, and artificial neural networks.

  • IEEE 1451
  • Smart Sensors
  • Transducer Interface Standards
  • Resolver-to-Digital Conversion
  • Capacitive Sensors
  • Neural Networks
  • Sensor Networking
  • Microcontroller Interfaces
  • Absolute Encoders
  • Artificial Neural Networks
Research works
44k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems

Which countries lead Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 568 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 568 works
  3. 3 India 448 works
  4. 4 Russia 316 works
  5. 5 Germany 252 works
  6. 6 Italy 165 works
  7. 7 Japan 139 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 123 works
  9. 9 Ukraine 111 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 106 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: 38.5%United States: 15.7%India: 12.3%Russia: 8.7%6 others listed: 24.7%39%largest
China1,396 · 38.5%United States568 · 15.7%India448 · 12.3%Russia316 · 8.7%6 others listed897 · 24.7%

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

Which institutions lead Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 35 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 34 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 33 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 32 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 29 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 28 works
  8. 8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 26 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 24 works
  10. 10 Southeast UniversityChina 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems include Zhong Lin Wang, Robert John Tibshirani and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k 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 Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems?

The most cited paper in Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems is "Modern Control Engineering" (K. Ogata, J. W. Brewer, 1971), with 6,382 citations. Next come "Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications" (4,609) and "Pearson Correlation Coefficient" (3,075).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Modern Control Engineering K. Ogata, J. W. Brewer · Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control Open access Mar 1971 6,382
2 Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications John G. Proakis, Dimitris G. Manolakis 1992 4,609
3 Pearson Correlation Coefficient Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen, Yiteng Arden Huang et al. · Springer topics in signal processing Book chapter 2009 3,075
4 Applied Linear Regression Richard J. Beckman, Sanford Weisberg · Technometrics Feb 1987 2,854
5 Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing L. R. Rabiner, Ben Gold, C. K. Yuen · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Feb 1978 2,835
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research done?

The largest centres of Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Braunschweig.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 290 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 112 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 101 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 97 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 74 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 72 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 64 works
  8. 8 Saint PetersburgRussia 63 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 50 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BraunschweigDE · 23.2 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Sharif University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology and Tsinghua 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%60%mean 23.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sharif University of…Harbin Institute of …Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Tsinghua 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
1Sharif University of TechnologyIran 65.856.1%11.8×11 -6.8%
2Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.326.0%4.3×32 +130.2%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 61.219.3%3.1×33 +83.2%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 60.919.8%3.4×28 +56.2%
5Southeast UniversityChina 58.023.6%3.5×24 +187.0%
6Beihang UniversityChina 57.624.6%4.5×23 +52.5%
7Xidian UniversityChina 56.822.9%6.4×22 +259.7%
8University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 54.817.2%4.9×26 +40.7%
9Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 52.811.9%3.4×29 +267.5%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 51.215.8%1.8×24 +343.7%

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 Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems, country by country

Is Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems.

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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 Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems 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%Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems10.1% 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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