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Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques

Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1959. 23.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the theory and applications of compressed sensing, including sparse representation, signal recovery, convex optimization, matrix completion, dictionary learning, orthogonal matching pursuit, robust reconstruction, and sparsity in signal processing.

  • Compressed Sensing
  • Sparse Representation
  • Signal Recovery
  • Convex Optimization
  • Matrix Completion
  • Sparse Approximation
  • Dictionary Learning
  • Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
  • Robust Reconstruction
  • Sparsity in Signal Processing
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
6.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
23.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
0%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 741 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 741 works
  3. 3 India 213 works
  4. 4 France 173 works
  5. 5 Germany 143 works
  6. 6 Japan 136 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 129 works
  8. 8 Italy 95 works
  9. 9 Hong Kong 88 works
  10. 10 Canada 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: 57.9%United States: 17.4%India: 5.0%France: 4.1%6 others listed: 15.6%58%largest
China2,472 · 57.9%United States741 · 17.4%India213 · 5.0%France173 · 4.1%6 others listed667 · 15.6%

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

Which institutions lead Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research, followed by Xidian University and National University of Defense Technology.

Who are the leading researchers in Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques include Jerome H. Friedman, Wei Liu and H. Vincent Poor.

  1. 1 Jerome H. Friedman United States 11k citations
  2. 2 Wei Liu China 9.7k citations
  3. 3 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
  4. 4 Stanley Osher United States 8k citations
  5. 5 Thomas S. Huang United States 7.4k citations
  6. 6 Robert W. Heath United States 7.1k citations
  7. 7 Trevor Darrell United States 6.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guilin and Shenzhen.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 447 works
  2. 2 Xi'an China 184 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 175 works
  4. 4 Shanghai China 159 works
  5. 5 Chengdu China 153 works
  6. 6 Guangzhou China 113 works
  7. 7 Chongqing China 96 works
  8. 8 Hangzhou China 92 works
  9. 9 Shenzhen China 92 works
  10. 10 Changsha China 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuilinCN · 26.0 works6.2×
  2. ShenzhenCN · 91.9 works5.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Xidian University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Southwest 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%mean 25.43%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Xidian University: 68, 32.0%University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 98, 19.0%Southwest University: 26, 21.0%National University of Defense Technology: 50, 25.4%Northwestern Polytechnical University: 32, 31.4%Beijing Institute of Technology: 44, 18.0%City University of Hong Kong: 18, 25.1%Aerospace Information Research Institute: 11, 27.9%Harbin Institute of Technology: 47, 24.2%Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 11, 30.3%Xidian UniversityNational University …Southwest UniversityUniversity of Electr…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Xidian UniversityChina 77.832.0%18.4×68 +30.9%
2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 73.719.0%17.2×98 +106.5%
3 Southwest UniversityChina 68.921.0%9.4×26 +343.8%
4 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 68.425.4%12.8×50 +42.1%
5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 63.531.4%5.5×32 +104.7%
6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 61.918.0%7.3×44 +164.9%
7 City University of Hong KongHong Kong 61.525.1%6.0×18 +87.1%
8 Aerospace Information Research InstituteChina 61.327.9%18.4×11
9 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 58.324.2%5.6×47 +79.8%
10 Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong 57.630.3%5.8×11 +31.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 0% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2018. The fastest-growing topics are Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques.

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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.