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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Lab-on-a-disk extraction of PBMC and metered plasma from whole blood: An advanced event-triggered valving strategy	59
I-LIFT (image-based laser-induced forward transfer) platform for manipulating encoded microparticles	52
Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers	42
Trajectory analysis of Bacillus subtilis in micro-droplets	29
Microflows in two-generation alveolar cells at an acinar bifurcation	27
High-throughput deterministic pairing and coculturing of single cells in a microwell array using combined hydrodynamic and recirculation flow captures	25
Thermal bubble single-cell printing chip: High-throughput, wide-field, and efficient	25
Epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes determine the dynamics of circulating breast tumor cells in microfluidic capillaries under chemotherapy-induced stress	25
Nanogap traps for passive bacteria concentration and single-point confocal Raman spectroscopy	25
Recent advances in microscale techniques for red blood cells manipulation	25
Dynamic cellular responses to gravitational forces: Exploring the impact on white blood cell(s)	24
Design of a flexing organ-chip to model in situ loading of the intervertebral disc	23
Long-term cultured microvascular networks on chip for tumor vascularization research and drug testing	22
Spheroid-on-chip microfluidic technology for the evaluation of the impact of continuous flow on metastatic potential in cancer models in vitro	22
Preface to the Special Topic: Microfluidics, Circulating Biomarkers and Cancer	21
Artificial intelligence-driven electrochemical immunosensing biochips in multi-component detection	18
Recent advances in microfluidic-based spectroscopic approaches for pathogen detection	17
Microfluidic sweat patch based on capillary force and evaporation pump for real-time continuous sweat analysis	17
Potential of the acoustic micromanipulation technologies for biomedical research	16
Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges	16
The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation	15
Robotic automation of droplet microfluidics	15
Liver-on-a-chip: Considerations, advances, and beyond	14
A microfluidic sucrose gap platform using trilaminar flow with on-chip switching and novel calibration: Challenges and limitations	14
pH effects on capture efficiency and deposition patterns in sessile droplet immunoassays: An XDLVO analysis	14

Investigating the effect of phospholipids on droplet formation and surface property evolution in microfluidic devices for droplet interface bilayer (DIB) formation	14
Microfluidic-to-macrofluidic: A simple in vitro model of atherosclerosis induced by fluidic stimulation	14
What is the future of electrical impedance spectroscopy in flow cytometry?	13
Lateral force separation of biopolymers using an atomic force microscope	13
Improved acoustic holograms using simulated annealing	13
Microfluidic supercritical CO2 applications: Solvent extraction, nanoparticle synthesis, and chemical reaction	12
A brief overview of passive microvalves in microfluidics: Mechanism, manufacturing, and applications	12
Mechanically mediated cargo delivery to cells using microfluidic devices	12
Digital microfluidics methods for nucleic acid detection: A mini review	12
Application and prospect of microfluidic devices for rapid assay of cell activities in the tumor microenvironment	11
Parallel study of transient dosing of antibiotics in a microfluidic device	11
Paper-based microfluidics: Analyte-driven imbibition under the lens	11
Soluto-thermal Marangoni convection in stationary micro-bioreactors on heated substrates: Tool for in vitro diagnosis of PSA	11
On-chip dielectrophoretic device for cancer cell manipulation: A numerical and artificial neural network study	10
Biphasic flow dynamics and polarized mass transportation in branched hepatic sinusoids	10
Brain organoid-on-a-chip: A next-generation human brain avatar for recapitulating human brain physiology and pathology	10
Cell pairing for biological analysis in microfluidic devices	10
Microfluidics-enabled functional 3D printing	9
Manually pressurized droplet digital PCR chip for rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics	9
Laser induced graphanized microfluidic devices	9
Addressable microfluidics technology for non-sacrificial analysis of biomaterial implants in vivo	9
Continuous separation of bacterial cells from large debris using a spiral microfluidic device	9
Recent advances in the understanding of alveolar flow	9
Confinement effect on the microcapillary flow and shape of red blood cells	9
Air microfluidics-enabled soft robotic transtibial prosthesis socket liner toward dynamic management of residual limb contact pressure and volume fluctuation	9
A miniaturized culture platform for control of the metabolic environment	9
Design automation for deterministic lateral displacement by leveraging deep Q-network	9
Micromixing within microfluidic devices: Fundamentals, design, and fabrication	8
Low-cost and convenient fabrication of polymer micro/nanopores with the needle punching process and their applications in nanofluidic sensing	8
Perspective on fluorescence cell imaging with ionophore-based ion-selective nano-optodes	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
An in vitro multi-organ microphysiological system (MPS) to investigate the gut-to-brain translocation of neurotoxins	8
High-Q WGM microcavity-based optofluidic sensor technologies for biological analysis	8
Mimicking blood and lymphatic vasculatures using microfluidic systems	8
The interaction of vortical flows with red cells in venous valve mimics	7
Recent advances in microfluidic-based cancer immunotherapy-on-a-chip strategies	7
Wall shear gradient dependent thrombosis studied in blood-on-a-chip with stenotic, branched, and valvular constructions	7
Referee acknowledgment for 2021	7
Organ-specific vasculature-on-a-chip systems	7
Faradaic-free electrokinetic nucleic acid amplification (E-NAAMP) using localized on-chip high frequency Joule heating	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
Nano/microfluidic device for high-throughput passive trapping of nanoparticles	6
Organoid-on-a-chip: Current challenges, trends, and future scope toward medicine	6
Extracellular vesicle and lipoprotein diagnostics (ExoLP-Dx) with membrane sensor: A robust microfluidic platform to overcome heterogeneity	6
A high-throughput flowless microfluidic single and multi-solute concentration gradient generator: Design and parametric study	6
Naturally derived colloidal rods in microfluidic flows	6
Toward droplets displaying life-like interaction behaviors	6
Artificial blood for therapeutic and laboratory usage: Where do we stand?	6
Developing a piezoresistive sensor based bionic neurological intraoperative monitoring system for spine surgery skill training	6

From specialization to broad adoption: Key trends in droplet microfluidic innovations enhancing accessibility to non-experts	6
Dean vortex-enhanced blood plasma separation in self-driven spiral microchannel flow with cross-flow microfilters	6
Paper-based analytical devices for point-of-care blood tests	6