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Wireless Body Area Networks

Wireless Body Area Networks is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 use of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in healthcare, covering topics such as implantable antennas, health monitoring, security and privacy of implantable medical devices, intrabody communication, MAC protocols, biotelemetry, channel modeling, and wearable sensors.

  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Implantable Antennas
  • Health Monitoring
  • Security and Privacy
  • Implantable Medical Devices
  • Intrabody Communication
  • MAC Protocols
  • Biotelemetry
  • Channel Modeling
  • Wearable Sensors
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wireless Body Area Networks

Which countries lead Wireless Body Area Networks research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 674 works
  4. 4 Japan 240 works
  5. 5 South Korea 227 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 217 works
  7. 7 Italy 213 works
  8. 8 Germany 172 works
  9. 9 France 133 works
  10. 10 Canada 126 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.

India: 34.1%China: 25.7%United States: 13.5%Japan: 4.8%6 others listed: 21.8%34%largest
India1,700 · 34.1%China1,277 · 25.7%United States674 · 13.5%Japan240 · 4.8%6 others listed1,087 · 21.8%

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

Which institutions lead Wireless Body Area Networks research?

By volume in 2022-now, Vellore Institute of Technology University publishes the most Wireless Body Area Networks research, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Saveetha University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 62 works
  2. 2 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 59 works
  3. 3 Saveetha UniversityIndia 56 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 38 works
  6. 6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 37 works
  7. 7 Southeast UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 34 works
  9. 9 University of OuluFinland 31 works
  10. 10 Chitkara UniversityIndia 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wireless Body Area Networks?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wireless Body Area Networks include Róbert Langer, Florian Fischer and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  2. 2 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k citations
  5. 5 Zhenan Bao United States 187k 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 Wireless Body Area Networks?

The most cited paper in Wireless Body Area Networks is "A survey on sensor networks" (Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam et al., 2002), with 13,712 citations. Next come "Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat" (8,891) and "Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances" (5,590).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A survey on sensor networks Ian Fuat Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine Aug 2002 13,712
2 Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat Suoqin Jin, Christian Fernando Guerrero‐Juarez, Lihua Zhang et al. · Nature Communications Open access 17 Feb 2021 8,891
3 Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances André Kurs, Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt et al. · Science 8 Jun 2007 5,590
4 Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz) Anders Ahlbom · Health Physics 1998 4,948
5 The dielectric properties of biological tissues: II. Measurements in the frequency range 10 Hz to 20 GHz Sami Gabriel, R W M Lau, Camelia Gabriel · Physics in Medicine and Biology Open access Nov 1996 4,286
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Wireless Body Area Networks research done?

The largest centres of Wireless Body Area Networks research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Seoul (South Korea) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oulu and Vijayawada.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 216 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 214 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 108 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 91 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 91 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 89 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 89 works
  8. 8 CoimbatoreIndia 75 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 74 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OuluFI · 32.5 works15×
  2. VijayawadaIN · 38.3 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wireless Body Area Networks than the world average.

See Wireless Body Area Networks on the map

Where is the best place to study Wireless Body Area Networks?

Among universities, judged by research, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Hanyang University and King Abdulaziz 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 20.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Abdulaziz Unive…Hanyang UniversityVellore Institute of…SRM Institute of Sci…
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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
1Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 68.216.0%10.0×62 +76.5%
2Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 65.239.5%7.2×20 -4.0%
3King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.343.3%2.5×9 +25.8%
4SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 60.89.6%9.2×59 +138.1%
5University of OuluFinland 60.214.6%17.9×31 +45.8%
6Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 59.528.1%2.6×13 +32.7%
7Saveetha UniversityIndia 57.66.4%9.3×56 +1214.4%
8Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 57.615.4%9.3×38 +56.6%
9University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 57.212.7%5.2×37 +38.6%
10Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia 55.318.7%5.9×27 +110.7%

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 Wireless Body Area Networks, country by country

Is Wireless Body Area Networks research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wireless Body Area Networks.

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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 Wireless Body Area Networks as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Wireless Body Area Networks0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wireless Body Area Networks 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%Wireless Body Area Networks10.0% 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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