PIVlab is becoming super popular!
(updated 2024) PIVlab seems to become the most cited PIV software of all available PIV softwares (commercial [co] and open source [os]). I performed a search on Google scholar using all PIV software names that I could think of. The per-year-keyword-occurance might be a good indicator for the popularity of a software in academic research. Steep increase in Keyword occurance for PIVlab (magenta)... These are the search terms I used for Google scholar. I wrote a Matlab script that queries Google scholar for these search terms for each year between 2005 and 2023. Google limits the amount of requests per IP, so I had to use a VPN and change the IP frequently: "lavision" AND "davis" AND ("piv" | "particle image velocimetry") ("pivlab" | "piv lab") AND ("piv" | "particle image velocimetry") -"@pivlab.net" "dantec" AND ("dynamic studio" | "dynamicstudio") AND ("piv...