Eight Years Later This Is What Digital PCR Offered To Science

Abstract
Throughout the past 36 years Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has proven to be the most powerful technique in a scientist toolbox. The overwhelming evolution from the first generation (PCR) to the “Gold standard” second generation (Real Time quantitative PCR A.K.A. qPCR) and recently to the third and breathtaking generation the digital PCR (dPCR), proven that DNA/RNA amplification will always be a popular method.
To understand the use of digital PCR, the Scopus database was screened for the terms “digital PCR, ddPCR and dPCR”, in all papers that were published between 2011 and 2018. We considered only papers published in journals and we excluded books, books chapters and conferences. Then we classified those papers by country, subject areas, CiteScore, institutions… The aim of the current analysis is to shed the light on the good and bad students in terms of usage of the dPCR and the citation of the digital MIQE guideline. We than studied the impact of dPCR on different research area like oncology, single cell analysis and diagnostics.