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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Microflows in two-generation alveolar cells at an acinar bifurcation	61
Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers	43
Trajectory analysis of Bacillus subtilis in micro-droplets	26
Thermal bubble single-cell printing chip: High-throughput, wide-field, and efficient	26
Recent advances in microscale techniques for red blood cells manipulation	25
Nanogap traps for passive bacteria concentration and single-point confocal Raman spectroscopy	25
I-LIFT (image-based laser-induced forward transfer) platform for manipulating encoded microparticles	25
Epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes determine the dynamics of circulating breast tumor cells in microfluidic capillaries under chemotherapy-induced stress	25
High-throughput deterministic pairing and coculturing of single cells in a microwell array using combined hydrodynamic and recirculation flow captures	24
Lab-on-a-disk extraction of PBMC and metered plasma from whole blood: An advanced event-triggered valving strategy	23
Design of a flexing organ-chip to model in situ loading of the intervertebral disc	22
Dynamic cellular responses to gravitational forces: Exploring the impact on white blood cell(s)	22
Long-term cultured microvascular networks on chip for tumor vascularization research and drug testing	19
Preface to the Special Topic: Microfluidics, Circulating Biomarkers and Cancer	18
pH effects on capture efficiency and deposition patterns in sessile droplet immunoassays: An XDLVO analysis	18
Liver-on-a-chip: Considerations, advances, and beyond	17
Potential of the acoustic micromanipulation technologies for biomedical research	16
The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation	16
Microfluidic sweat patch based on capillary force and evaporation pump for real-time continuous sweat analysis	15
Recent advances in microfluidic-based spectroscopic approaches for pathogen detection	15
Artificial intelligence-driven electrochemical immunosensing biochips in multi-component detection	15
Robotic automation of droplet microfluidics	14
Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges	14
Improved acoustic holograms using simulated annealing	13
Lateral force separation of biopolymers using an atomic force microscope	13

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

Microfluidic wearable electrochemical sweat sensors for health monitoring