Table 1.

The final eligible papers for the present review.

No	Authors	Publication	Year	Type of Paper	Sensor	Determined Compounds	Purpose of Determination	Indication	Number of Times Cited
1	Ye et al. [16]	Talanta	2013	Basic research	CuO nanoneedle/graphene/carbon nanofiber modified glassy carbon electrode	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	59
2	Li et al. [17]	Sci Rep	2015	Basic research	Electrochemical sensor using anodized cupric oxide nanowires	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	36
3	Wang et al. [18]	Anal Chem	2016	Basic research	Core-shell IrO2@NiO nanowires	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	16
4	Du et al. [2]	J Diabetes Sci Technol	2016	Basic research	Screen-printed sensor chip	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	10 *
5	Arakawa et al. [19]	Biosens Bioelectron	2016	Basic research	Mouthguard glucose sensor	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	31
6	Soni et al. [20]	Anal Chim Acta	2017	Cross-sectional study	Paper based sensor and smartphone RGB analysis	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	2
7	Dominguez et al. [21]	Sensors (Basel)	2017	Cross-sectional study	Spectrophotometric detection	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	1
8	Anderson et al. [22]	Sensors (Basel)	2017	Basic research	Colloidal AgNPs/MoS2-based nonenzymatic glucose biosensor	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	4
9	Bell et al. [23]	Nanotechnology	2017	Basic research	Randomly oriented CuO nanowire networks	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	4
10	Velmurugan et al. [24]	J Colloid Interface Sci	2017	Basic research	CuO modified screen printed carbon electrode (SPCE)	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	10
11	Kim et al. [25]	Biosens Bioelectron	2017	Basic research	Molecularly imprinted polymer binding on a conducting polymer layer	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	22
12	Dutta et al. [26]	Biosens Bioelectron	2017	Basic research	Methylene blue, hydrazine and platinum nanoparticles	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	20
13	Santana-Jiménez et al. [27]	Sensors (Basel)	2018	Basic research	Paper-based sensors	Glucose	Diagnosis/Monitoring of diabetes mellitus	General pathologies	2
14	Mitchell et al. [28]	Analyst	2009	Basic research	Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) immunosensor	Cortisol	Detection and quantification of cortisol	General pathologies	35
15	Pires et al. [29]	Biomed Mater Eng	2014	Basic research	Chemiluminescent organic-based immunosensor	Cortisol	Detection and quantification of cortisol	General pathologies	6
16	Usha et al. [30]	Biosens Bioelectron	2017	Basic research	Lossy mode resonance-based fiber optic	Cortisol	Detection and quantification of cortisol	General pathologies	11
17	Frasconi et al. [31]	Anal Bioanal Chem	2009	Basic research	Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) immunosensor	Cortisol and cortisone	Detection and quantification of cortisol and cortisone	General pathologies	27
18	Ballesta Claver et al. [32]	Analyst	2009	Basic research	Electrochemiluminescent biosensor	Blood lactate	Detection and quantification of blood lactate	General pathologies	41
19	Kim et al. [33]	Biosens Bioelectron	2015	Basic research	Screen-printing technology on a flexible polyethylene terephthalate substrate	Uric acid	Detection and quantification of uric acid	General pathologies	70
20	Ciui et al. [34]	Sens Actuators B Chem (in press)	2019	Basic research	Cavitas electrochemical sensor in mouthguard	N-epsilon (carboxymethyl)lysine (CML)	Monitoring of CML	General pathologies	1 *
21	Lee et al. [35]	ACS Appl Mater Interfaces	2011	Basic research	Molecularly imprinted thin films	Salivary proteins	Detection and quantification of salivary proteins (a-amylase)	General pathologies	29
22	Attia et al. [36]	Analyst	2014	Basic research	Nano-optical sensor	Salivary proteins	Detection and quantification of salivary proteins (a-amylase)	General pathologies	22
23	Mohseni et al. [37]	Biosens Bioelectron	2016	Basic research	Carboxymethyldextran hydrogel sensor chip with immobilized monoclonal MMP-9 antibodies	Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-9)	Diagnosis of chronic periodontal disease	Oral Pathologies	13
24	Ritzer et al. [38]	Nat Commun	2017	Basic research	Diagnostic chewing gum	Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-1, MMP-8, MMP-9)	Diagnosis of inflammatory implant diseases	Oral Pathologies	8
25	Wang et al. [39]	J Pharm Biomed Anal	2012	Basic research	Homogeneous fluorescent sensor	Human serum albumin	Detection and quantification of human serum albumin	General pathologies	19
26	Gorodkiewicz et al. [40]	Folia Histochem Cytobiol	2012	Basic research	Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging (SPRI) biosensor	Cystatin	Detection and quantification of cystatin	Oral pathologies	2
27	Gorodkiewicz et al. [41]	Protein Pept Lett	2010	Basic research	Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) biosensor	Cathepsin D (CatD) and cathepsin E (CatE)	Monitoring of cathepsin D and cathepsin E activity	General pathologies	16
28	Gorodkiewicz et al. [42]	Anal Biochem	2012	Basic research	Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) biosensor	Cathepsin G	Monitoring of Cathepsin G activity	General pathologies	21
29	Wei et al. [43]	Clin Cancer Res	2009	Basic research	Electrochemical (EC) sensor	IL-8 mRNA and IL-8 protein	Oncology (early cancer diagnostic)	General pathologies	111
30	Majidi et al. [44]	Talanta	2016	Basic research	Two ultrasensitive electrochemical sensor and aptasensor	Tryptophan	Selective analysis of tryptophan in biological samples	General pathologies	15
31	Puchnin et al. [45]	Biosens Bioelectron	2017	Basic research	Calixarene tubes	Potassium iodine (KI)	Detection and Monitoring of KI	General pathologies	3
32	Minami et al. [46]	Biosens Bioelectron	2016	Basic research	Organic field-effect transistors	Nitrate	Detection and quantification of nitrate ions	General pathologies	20
33	Hassan et al. [47]	Anal Sci	2009	Basic research	Potentiometric membrane sensor	Thiocyanate	Detection and quantification of thiocyanate	General pathologies	10
34	Zheng et al. [1]	Nanoscale	2015	Basic research	Sandwich-structured SERS probe with a gold nanohole array pattern	Silver and mercury	Detection of heavy metals intoxication	General pathologies	36
35	Timofeeva et al. [48]	Talanta	2016	Basic research	PVC membrane electrode	Caffeine	Monitoring of drug metabolizing system activity in hepatocytes	General pathologies	15
36	Zilberman et al. [49]	Biosens Bioelectron	2015	Basic research	Portable optoelectronic microfluidic sensor	Ammonia and carbon dioxide	Oncology (screening of stomach cancer)	General pathologies	18
37	Ahmed et al. [50]	Anal Chem	2013	Basic research	Impedimetric sensors	Pathogenic microorganisms (Streptococcus pyogenes)	Diagnosis of Streptococcus pyogenes infections	General pathologies	46 *
38	Wignarajah et al. [51]	Anal Chem	2015	Basic research	Multiplex colorimetric biosensor	Pathogenic microorganisms (Porphyromonas gingivalis proteases)	Diagnosis of chronic periodontal disease	Oral Pathologies	18
39	Hoyos-Nogués et al. [52]	Biosens Bioelectron	2016	Basic research	Peptide-based biosensor (hLf1-11)	Pathogenic microorganisms (Streptococcus sanguinis)	Inflammatory implant diseases	Oral Pathologies	16
40	Xue et al. [53]	Sensors (Basel)	2014	Basic research	Immunoassay utilizing microchannels within a multicapillary glass plate	Pathogenic microorganisms (detection of viral antibodies)	Diagnosis of viral infections	General pathologies	8
41	Jin et al. [54]	Biosens Bioelectron	2018	Cross-sectional study	Microfluidic system (SLIM)	Pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria and viruses)	Ultrasensitive pathogen detection	General pathologies	1
42	Zaitouna et al. [55]	Anal Chim Acta	2015	Basic research	Electrochemical peptide based sensor enhanced with extra amino acids	Anti-HIV antibodies	Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)	General pathologies	7
43	Song et al. [56]	Anal Chim Acta	2018	Cross-sectional study	3DN-CNTs sensor	Cyfra 21-1	Oncology (diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma)	General pathologies	1
44	Chen et al. [57]	Anal Chim Acta	2014	Basic research	Fluorescent biosensor	c-erbB-2 oncogene tumor marker	Oncology (early breast cancer diagnostic)	General pathologies	18 *
45	Cho et al. [58]	ACS Nano	2012	Basic research	Surface-enhanced fluorescent optical sensor	Vascular endothelial growth factor-165 (VEGF165)	Oncology (early cancer diagnostic)	General pathologies	87 *
46	Yu et al. [59]	Anal Chem	2014	Basic research	Capillary-based 3D fluoroimmunosensor	Carcinoembryonic antigen	Oncology (early cancer diagnostic)	General pathologies	30
47	Machini et al. [60]	Biosens Bioelectron	2016	Basic research	Electrochemical sensor using binuclear oxo-manganese complex	Acetazolamide	Detection of doping-associated substances	Pharmacology	5
48	Yu et al. [61]	Talanta	2018	Basic research	Electrochemical aptamer-based sensor (E-AB)	Ampicillin	Determination of optimal therapeutic concentration and the most effective method of drug administration	Pharmacology	12
49	Hagen et al. [62]	ACS Chem Neurosci	2013	Basic research	Electronic based (FET) biosensor	Orexin A	Detection and quantification of orexin A	General pathologies	7

* Articles available only in the Google Scholar database.