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Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 67k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the on-line monitoring and assessment of wastewater quality using advanced techniques such as UV-VIS spectroscopy, chemical oxygen demand measurement, and sensor fusion. The research also explores the application of machine learning and photocatalytic sensors for accurate and rapid determination of water quality parameters. These advancements aim to improve the efficiency and reliability of wastewater treatment processes.

  • Wastewater
  • Monitoring
  • UV-VIS Spectroscopy
  • Chemical Oxygen Demand
  • Sensors
  • Machine Learning
  • Water Quality
  • Photocatalytic Sensor
  • Online Measurement
  • Environmental Analysis
Research works
67k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-1%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.8k and 977 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.8k works
  2. 2 India 977 works
  3. 3 United States 555 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 448 works
  5. 5 Brazil 288 works
  6. 6 Iran 236 works
  7. 7 Russia 223 works
  8. 8 Iraq 208 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 203 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 184 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: 45.8%India: 15.9%United States: 9.1%Indonesia: 7.3%6 others listed: 21.9%46%largest
China2,811 · 45.8%India977 · 15.9%United States555 · 9.1%Indonesia448 · 7.3%6 others listed1,343 · 21.9%

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

Which institutions lead Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research, followed by University of Baghdad and Harbin Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
  2. 2 University of BaghdadIraq 49 works
  3. 3 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 29 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang UniversityChina 28 works
  5. 5 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 27 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 27 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu UniversityChina 26 works
  8. 8 Saveetha UniversityIndia 25 works
  9. 9 China Agricultural UniversityChina 24 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis include Michaël Grätzel and Shaobin Wang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 13k citations
  2. 2 Shaobin Wang Australia 3.5k citations

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

Where is Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Hangzhou (China).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 506 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 177 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 136 works
  4. 4 Hangzhou China 109 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou China 105 works
  6. 6 Chennai India 97 works
  7. 7 Wuhan China 96 works
  8. 8 Baghdad Iraq 95 works
  9. 9 Xi'an China 81 works
  10. 10 Moscow Russia 80 works
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Where is the best place to study Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Baghdad, Jiangsu University and King Saud 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 22.64%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Baghdad: 49, 5.8%Jiangsu University: 26, 44.7%King Saud University: 18, 26.1%Universiti Malaysia Perlis: 9, 13.2%University of Babylon: 15, 5.1%Northwest A&F University: 10, 44.4%University of Almería: 11, 20.7%China Agricultural University: 24, 26.3%King Khalid University: 8, 33.5%Diponegoro University: 27, 6.6%Jiangsu UniversityKing Saud UniversityUniversiti Malaysia …University of Baghdad
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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 University of BaghdadIraq 50.55.8%7.3×49 +94.0%
2 Jiangsu UniversityChina 50.144.7%3.7×26 -58.6%
3 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 46.026.1%2.2×18 +111.0%
4 Universiti Malaysia PerlisMalaysia 42.913.2%6.7×9 +158.8%
5 University of BabylonIraq 41.85.1%6.3×15 +194.8%
6 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 41.244.4%2.6×10 +27.4%
7 University of AlmeríaSpain 41.120.7%8.0×11 -7.6%
8 China Agricultural UniversityChina 40.926.3%4.7×24 -48.6%
9 King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 40.933.5%2.4×8 —
10 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 40.86.6%3.7×27 +560.3%

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 Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2011.

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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.

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.