The idea of thin-film transistors based on organic materials is
now over 20 years old, during which time the technology has evolved
from laboratory curiosity to real-world applications. The promise of
ultra-low-cost, lightweight, flexible electronic devices means that
the organic thin-film transistor may someday be as ubiquitous as its
silicon-based competitor.
Our Special Topics ranking of the most influential papers of the
past decade is led by a seminal 1999 review article in Nature—"Electroluminescence
in conjugated
polymers"
(Friend
RH, et al., Nature 397[6715]: 121-8, 14 January
1999)—that was coauthored by 11 of the field's leading innovators
and has since racked up almost 2,000 citations. Other hot papers of
the decade include a half-dozen review articles charting the
evolution of the field, another five on the molecular, electronic,
and chemical characteristics of pentacene-based thin-film
transistors, and articles on such applications as paper-like
electronic displays and high-performance all-polymer integrated
circuits.
The compilation of the hottest papers over the last two years is
much more democratic and has yet to reveal a definitive pattern.
Several review papers discuss advances in organic field-effect
transistors, while others characterize the performance and
characteristics of thin-film transistors based on semiconductors of
a dizzying variety of organic materials.
Methodology
To construct this database,
papers were extracted based on topic-supplied keywords for
Organic Thin-Film Transistors. The keywords used were as follows:
organic Thin-Film
transistor* OR organic field effect transistor*
The baseline time span for this database
is 1997-February 28, 2007. The resulting database contained 2,199 (10 years)
and 1,141 (2 years) papers; 4,860 authors;
51 countries; 250 journals; and 980 institutions.
Rankings
Once the database was in place,
it was used to generate the lists of top 20 papers (two- and ten-year
periods), authors, journals,
institutions, and nations, covering a time span of 1997-February 28,
2007 (first bimonthly, a 10-year plus 2-month period).
The top 20 papers are ranked
according to total cites. Rankings for author, journal, institution,
and country are listed in three ways: according to total cites, total
papers, and total cites/paper. The paper thresholds and corresponding
percentages used to determine
scientist, institution, country, and journal rankings according to
total cites/paper, and total papers respectively are as follows:
| Entity: |
Scientists |
Institutions |
Countries |
Journals |
| Thresholds: |
16 |
9 |
8 |
15 |
| Percentage: |
1% |
1% |
50% |
10% |
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