Table 4.
Top emerging items associated with sensor technologies in networks from 2001 to 2020.
| Top Emerging Sensor Technologies | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2010 | 2011–2020 | |||
| Rank | Label/Item | Degree Centrality | Label/Item | Degree Centrality |
| 1 | wireless sensor network | 31 | self-powered sensor | 30 |
| 2 | conductometric sensor | 11 | biomedical sensor | 22 |
| 3 | distributed sensor | 9 | inductive sensor | 21 |
| 4 | CMOS image sensor | 9 | paper sensor | 26 |
| 5 | electrochemical biosensor | 8 | printed sensor | 19 |
| 6 | fiber Bragg grating sensor | 8 | textile sensor | 19 |
| 7 | refractive index sensor | 8 | body sensor network | 20 |
| 8 | fluorescence sensor | 8 | aptasensor | 16 |
| 10 | light-addressable potentiometric sensor | 6 | dual sensor | 16 |
| 11 | active pixel sensor | 6 | ratiometric sensor | 14 |
| 12 | colorimetric sensor | 6 | biomimetic sensor | 15 |
| 13 | DNA sensor | 6 | chemiresistive sensor | 17 |
| 14 | biomimetic sensor | 6 | ||