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Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Tactile and Sensory Interactions is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 43k 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 explores tactile perception, cross-modal plasticity, and the neural mechanisms underlying sensory substitution. It covers topics such as haptic interfaces, sensory substitution devices, neural reorganization following sensory loss, pleasant touch perception, and the activation of visual cortex in blind individuals. The research also delves into the use of Braille reading, vibrotactile displays, and auditory localization in the context of tactile perception.

  • Tactile Perception
  • Cross-modal Plasticity
  • Haptic Interfaces
  • Sensory Substitution
  • Visual Cortex Activity
  • Auditory Localization
  • Neural Reorganization
  • Pleasant Touch
  • Braille Reading
  • Vibrotactile Display
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Which countries lead Tactile and Sensory Interactions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.4k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.4k works
  2. 2 United States 1.6k works
  3. 3 Japan 805 works
  4. 4 India 788 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 507 works
  6. 6 South Korea 460 works
  7. 7 Germany 434 works
  8. 8 Italy 308 works
  9. 9 France 301 works
  10. 10 Canada 274 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: 30.5%United States: 20.0%Japan: 10.3%India: 10.0%6 others listed: 29.2%31%largest
China2,395 · 30.5%United States1,567 · 20.0%Japan805 · 10.3%India788 · 10.0%6 others listed2,286 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Tactile and Sensory Interactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Tactile and Sensory Interactions research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and The University of Tokyo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 165 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 103 works
  3. 3 The University of TokyoJapan 74 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 72 works
  5. 5 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 61 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 56 works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 52 works
  8. 8 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 50 works
  9. 9 University of TsukubaJapan 41 works
  10. 10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Tactile and Sensory Interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Tactile and Sensory Interactions include Christopher J L Murray, Zhong Lin Wang and Geoffrey E. Hinton.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  3. 3 Geoffrey E. Hinton Canada 454k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  6. 6 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  7. 7 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  8. 8 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  9. 9 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  10. 10 Stephen S Lim United States 294k 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 Tactile and Sensory Interactions?

The most cited paper in Tactile and Sensory Interactions is "Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task" (Barbara A. Eriksen, Charles W. Eriksen, 1974), with 7,409 citations. Next come "Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050" (5,676) and "Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence" (5,436).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task Barbara A. Eriksen, Charles W. Eriksen · Perception & Psychophysics Open access 1974 7,409
2 Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050 Brien A. Holden, Tim Fricke, David A. Wilson et al. · Ophthalmology Open access 11 Feb 2016 5,676
3 Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence Jonathan Steuer · Journal of Communication Dec 1992 5,436
4 A new method for off-line removal of ocular artifact Gabriele Gratton, MICHAEL G. H. COLES, Emanuel Donchin · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology Apr 1983 5,130
5 Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion Marc O. Ernst, Martin S. Banks · Nature 2002 5,051
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Where is Tactile and Sensory Interactions research done?

The largest centres of Tactile and Sensory Interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), 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 Genoa and Pohang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 467 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 332 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 195 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 192 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 141 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 123 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 113 works
  8. 8 ShenzhenChina 104 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 103 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 94 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GenoaIT · 49.5 works8.8×
  2. PohangKR · 20.7 works8.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Tactile and Sensory Interactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Tactile and Sensory Interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi University, Zhengzhou University 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 29.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi UniversityZhengzhou UniversityDonghua UniversityTsinghua 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
1Guangxi UniversityChina 69.250.6%3.7×20 +254.2%
2Zhengzhou UniversityChina 65.050.1%1.8×19 +95.8%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 63.821.1%3.6×72 +25.3%
4Donghua UniversityChina 62.930.5%9.0×29 +75.5%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62.631.2%2.5×35 +32.5%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.631.3%3.6×27 +81.1%
7City University of Hong KongChina 60.524.1%5.1×26 +31.4%
8Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 59.510.3%13.6×50 +20.0%
9Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea 59.412.9%14.8×61 +27.5%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 57.230.2%3.2×33 -5.2%

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 Tactile and Sensory Interactions, country by country

Is Tactile and Sensory Interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Tactile and Sensory Interactions.

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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 Tactile and Sensory Interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.042% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Tactile and Sensory Interactions0.042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Tactile and Sensory Interactions 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%Tactile and Sensory Interactions9.9% 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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