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Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research

Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the biologically inspired adaptive network design, particularly in the context of amoeboid organisms such as Physarum Polycephalum. The research explores the use of slime molds and similar organisms to solve complex problems related to network design, optimization, and computation. Topics include adaptive transport networks, optimal transport networks, cellular automata models, maze solving, and behavioral intelligence.

  • Physarum Polycephalum
  • Adaptive Transport Networks
  • Amoeboid Organism
  • Biological Computation
  • Optimal Transport Networks
  • Slime Mold
  • Network Formation
  • Cellular Automata Models
  • Behavioral Intelligence
  • Maze Solving
Research works
8.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
890
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research

Which countries lead Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (412 and 246 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 412 works
  2. 2 United States 246 works
  3. 3 India 113 works
  4. 4 Germany 96 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 75 works
  6. 6 Japan 72 works
  7. 7 France 57 works
  8. 8 Russia 56 works
  9. 9 Brazil 53 works
  10. 10 Canada 40 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: 33.8%United States: 20.1%India: 9.2%Germany: 7.9%6 others listed: 29.0%34%largest
China412 · 33.8%United States246 · 20.1%India113 · 9.2%Germany96 · 7.9%6 others listed354 · 29.0%

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

Which institutions lead Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Slime Mold and Myxomycetes 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 35 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 24 works
  4. 4 Research Studios AustriaAustria 21 works
  5. 5 Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 12 works
  6. 6 University of British ColumbiaCanada 10 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 10 works
  8. 8 University of the West of EnglandUnited Kingdom 9 works
  9. 9 Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 9 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of ChinaChina 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research include George M. Whitesides, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási and Edward Hartley Sargent.

  1. 1 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  2. 2 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  3. 3 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  4. 4 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k 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 Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research?

The most cited paper in Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research is "Exploring complex networks" (Steven H. Strogatz, 2001), with 8,412 citations. Next come "The large-scale organization of metabolic networks" (4,056) and "Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability" (3,806).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exploring complex networks Steven H. Strogatz · Nature Mar 2001 8,412
2 The large-scale organization of metabolic networks H. Jeong, B. Tombor, R. Albert et al. · Nature Open access Oct 2000 4,056
3 Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability Evelyn Fox Keller, Lee A. Segel · Journal of Theoretical Biology Mar 1970 3,806
4 From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators Steven H. Strogatz · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena Open access Sep 2000 3,128
5 Biomimicry of bacterial foraging for distributed optimization and control Kevin M. Passino · IEEE Control Systems Jun 2002 3,082
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Where is Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research research done?

The largest centres of Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia) and Kunming (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Salzburg and Kunming.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 81 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 23 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 23 works
  4. 4 KunmingChina 22 works
  5. 5 SalzburgAustria 21 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 21 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 21 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 20 works
  9. 9 GuiyangChina 17 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SalzburgAT · 20.8 works52×
  2. KunmingCN · 22.3 works6.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the West of England, University of British Columbia and Southwest Forestry University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%mean 6.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Forestry U…University of the We…University of Britis…Mindanao State Unive…
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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.

Citation 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
1University of the West of EnglandUnited Kingdom 69.87.2%53.2×9 +21.7%
2University of British ColumbiaCanada 58.74.8%5.4×10 +113.6%
3Southwest Forestry UniversityChina 55.09.4%46.9×8 -
4Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 49.51.7%192.4×12 -
5Jilin Agricultural UniversityChina 44.89.1%40.6×9 +7.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research, country by country

Is Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research.

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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 Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Slime Mold and Myxomycetes 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.

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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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