OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biomicrofluidics is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Lab-on-a-disk extraction of PBMC and metered plasma from whole blood: An advanced event-triggered valving strategy	50
I-LIFT (image-based laser-induced forward transfer) platform for manipulating encoded microparticles	50
Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers	36
Epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes determine the dynamics of circulating breast tumor cells in microfluidic capillaries under chemotherapy-induced stress	29
Thermal bubble single-cell printing chip: High-throughput, wide-field, and efficient	24
Trajectory analysis of Bacillus subtilis in micro-droplets	24
Microflows in two-generation alveolar cells at an acinar bifurcation	24
Dynamic cellular responses to gravitational forces: Exploring the impact on white blood cell(s)	24
High-throughput deterministic pairing and coculturing of single cells in a microwell array using combined hydrodynamic and recirculation flow captures	23
Nanogap traps for passive bacteria concentration and single-point confocal Raman spectroscopy	23
Design of a flexing organ-chip to model in situ loading of the intervertebral disc	22
Long-term cultured microvascular networks on chip for tumor vascularization research and drug testing	19
Potential of the acoustic micromanipulation technologies for biomedical research	18
Robotic automation of droplet microfluidics	18
Spheroid-on-chip microfluidic technology for the evaluation of the impact of continuous flow on metastatic potential in cancer models in vitro	18
Preface to the Special Topic: Microfluidics, Circulating Biomarkers and Cancer	17
Liver-on-a-chip: Considerations, advances, and beyond	17
Artificial intelligence-driven electrochemical immunosensing biochips in multi-component detection	16
Non-invasive acquisition of mechanical properties of cells via passive microfluidic mechanisms: A review	16
Recent advances in microfluidic-based spectroscopic approaches for pathogen detection	16
Microfluidic sweat patch based on capillary force and evaporation pump for real-time continuous sweat analysis	15
The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation	14
pH effects on capture efficiency and deposition patterns in sessile droplet immunoassays: An XDLVO analysis	14
Microfluidic-to-macrofluidic: A simple in vitro model of atherosclerosis induced by fluidic stimulation	14
Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges	14

A brief overview of passive microvalves in microfluidics: Mechanism, manufacturing, and applications	14
Improved acoustic holograms using simulated annealing	13
Investigating the effect of phospholipids on droplet formation and surface property evolution in microfluidic devices for droplet interface bilayer (DIB) formation	13
A microfluidic sucrose gap platform using trilaminar flow with on-chip switching and novel calibration: Challenges and limitations	13
Microfluidic supercritical CO2 applications: Solvent extraction, nanoparticle synthesis, and chemical reaction	13
Digital microfluidics methods for nucleic acid detection: A mini review	13
Lateral force separation of biopolymers using an atomic force microscope	12
Soluto-thermal Marangoni convection in stationary micro-bioreactors on heated substrates: Tool for in vitro diagnosis of PSA	11
Application and prospect of microfluidic devices for rapid assay of cell activities in the tumor microenvironment	11
What is the future of electrical impedance spectroscopy in flow cytometry?	11
Mechanically mediated cargo delivery to cells using microfluidic devices	11
On-chip dielectrophoretic device for cancer cell manipulation: A numerical and artificial neural network study	10
Laser induced graphanized microfluidic devices	10
Cell pairing for biological analysis in microfluidic devices	10
Drop-to-drop liquid–liquid extraction of DNA in an electrowetting-on-dielectric digital microfluidics	10
Continuous separation of bacterial cells from large debris using a spiral microfluidic device	10
Biphasic flow dynamics and polarized mass transportation in branched hepatic sinusoids	10
Parallel study of transient dosing of antibiotics in a microfluidic device	10
Manually pressurized droplet digital PCR chip for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics	9
A miniaturized culture platform for control of the metabolic environment	9
Effect of vimentin on cell migration in collagen-coated microchannels: A mimetic physiological confined environment	9
Recent advances in the understanding of alveolar flow	8
Microfluidics-enabled functional 3D printing	8
Brain organoid-on-a-chip: A next-generation human brain avatar for recapitulating human brain physiology and pathology	8
Micromixing within microfluidic devices: Fundamentals, design, and fabrication	8
High-Q WGM microcavity-based optofluidic sensor technologies for biological analysis	8
Air microfluidics-enabled soft robotic transtibial prosthesis socket liner toward dynamic management of residual limb contact pressure and volume fluctuation	8
Low-cost and convenient fabrication of polymer micro/nanopores with the needle punching process and their applications in nanofluidic sensing	8
Design automation for deterministic lateral displacement by leveraging deep Q-network	8
Confinement effect on the microcapillary flow and shape of red blood cells	8
Hepatic spheroid-on-a-chip: Fabrication and characterization of a spheroid-based in vitro model of the human liver for drug screening applications	8
Recent advances in microfluidic-based cancer immunotherapy-on-a-chip strategies	7
Organ-specific vasculature-on-a-chip systems	7
An in vitro multi-organ microphysiological system (MPS) to investigate the gut-to-brain translocation of neurotoxins	7
Perspective on fluorescence cell imaging with ionophore-based ion-selective nano-optodes	7
Microfluidic synthesis as a new route to produce novel functional materials	7
Engineering porous membranes mimicking in vivo basement membrane for organ-on-chips applications	7
Addressable microfluidics technology for non-sacrificial analysis of biomaterial implants in vivo	7
Mimicking blood and lymphatic vasculatures using microfluidic systems	6
Wall shear gradient dependent thrombosis studied in blood-on-a-chip with stenotic, branched, and valvular constructions	6
Organoid-on-a-chip: Current challenges, trends, and future scope toward medicine	6
Referee acknowledgment for 2021	6
From specialization to broad adoption: Key trends in droplet microfluidic innovations enhancing accessibility to non-experts	6
Developing a piezoresistive sensor based bionic neurological intraoperative monitoring system for spine surgery skill training	6
Faradaic-free electrokinetic nucleic acid amplification (E-NAAMP) using localized on-chip high frequency Joule heating	6
The interaction of vortical flows with red cells in venous valve mimics	6
A high-throughput flowless microfluidic single and multi-solute concentration gradient generator: Design and parametric study	6