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Huawei Technologies (United States)

In research, Huawei Technologies (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,335 of 10,670 worldwide) and Computer Science (#2,956 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Computer Networks and Communications is 16.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,930
of 22,385 · #10,979 all time
Rank in United States
#2,457
of 3,332
Research works
889
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
17.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
16%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
Huawei Technologies (United States)

What is Huawei Technologies (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #5,335 of 10,670 8.8%126 #3203
Computer ScienceField #2,956 of 4,417 9.0%65 #1603

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Huawei Technologies (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Huawei Technologies (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research at Huawei Technologies (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (50%), Engineering (37%), Physics and Astronomy (2%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 143 fractional works · 93.0% of its workComputer Science: 77 fractional works · 50.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 22 fractional works · 14.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 19 fractional works · 12.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 15 fractional works · 9.8% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 57 fractional works · 37.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 36 fractional works · 23.7% of its workMedia Technology: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKHuaweiTechnologies…154fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences93%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences5%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science7750.0%
    2. Engineering5737.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy42.4%
    4. Materials Science31.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.6%
    6. Environmental Science10.3%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    8. Energy00.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting21.5%
    2. Social Sciences21.4%
    3. Decision Sciences10.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.5%
    5. Psychology00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.9%
    2. Neuroscience10.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine21.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Huawei Technologies (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Networks and Communications takes 16.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 22.0 works16×
  2. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 36.4 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 6.43× its world share, 77 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.48× its world share, 57 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.55× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.10× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science6.43×77 works
  2. Engineering2.48×57 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.10×4 works
  4. Decision Sciences0.98×2 works
  5. Materials Science0.55×3 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.47×2 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.40×1 works
  8. Energy0.25×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.23×1 works
  10. Neuroscience0.22×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.20×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×1 works
  13. Social Sciences0.11×2 works
  14. Psychology0.09×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.07×0 works
  16. Chemical Engineering0.05×0 works
  17. Medicine0.05×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×0 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Huawei Technologies (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Min Luo, Anthony C. K. Soong and Yuanqiu Luo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Huawei Technologies (United States).

  1. 1 Min Luo United States · #781,482 worldwide 1.4k citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Anthony C. K. Soong United States · #832,302 worldwide 10k citations · 80 works
  3. 3 Yuanqiu Luo United States · #1,417,412 worldwide 2.2k citations · 104 works
  4. 4 Cédric Westphal United States · #1,468,461 worldwide 2.2k citations · 171 works
  5. 5 Mazin Al‐Shalash United States · #1,468,876 worldwide 1.9k citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Xinli Gu United States · #1,661,582 worldwide 1.1k citations · 98 works
  7. 7 Hesham Elbakoury United States · #1,767,299 worldwide 1.1k citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Tony Saboorian United States · #1,826,496 worldwide 220 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Xiang Liu United States · #1,903,952 worldwide 6.1k citations · 263 works
  10. 10 Mingquan Wu United States · #1,937,846 worldwide 524 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Huawei Technologies (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Huawei Technologies (United States)?

The most cited paper from Huawei Technologies (United States) is "Detecting Functionality-Specific Vulnerabilities via Retrieving Individual Functionality-Equivalent APIs in Open-Source Repositories" (Chen, Tianyu, Wang, Zeyu, Li, Lin et al., 2025), with 16,321 citations. Next come "What Will 5G Be?" (8,314) and "User Association for Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks" (1,270).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Detecting Functionality-Specific Vulnerabilities via Retrieving Individual Functionality-Equivalent APIs in Open-Source Repositories Chen, Tianyu, Wang, Zeyu, Li, Lin et al. · Leibniz international proceedings in informatics Conference paperOpen access 2025 16,321
2 What Will 5G Be? Jeffrey G. Andrews, Stefano Buzzi, Wan Choi et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Open access Jun 2014 8,314
3 User Association for Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Qiaoyang Ye, Beiyu Rong, Yudong Chen et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Jun 2013 1,270
4 Hybrid Beamforming for Massive MIMO: A Survey Andreas F. Molisch, V. V. Ratnam, Shengqian Han et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine 2017 1,201
5 ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in the cloud for mobile code offloading Sokol Kosta, Andrius Auçinas, Pan Hui et al. Conference paper Mar 2012 1,200
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Huawei Technologies (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Energy Efficiency, Neural Networks, Wireless Networks, 5G Networks, Microwave Photonics, Convolutional Neural Networks and Optical Access Networks.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning27▲ 5.0×53 topics
  2. Neural Networks14▲ 5.7×19 topics
  3. Energy Efficiency13▲ 9.3×10 topics
  4. Machine Learning9▲ 1.78×29 topics
  5. Wireless Networks9▲ 38×6 topics
  6. 5G Networks8▲ 27×4 topics
  7. Convolutional Neural Networks7▲ 6.4×10 topics
  8. Microwave Photonics7▲ 54×2 topics
  9. Optical Access Networks6▲ 129×1 topic
  10. Photonic Signal Processing6▲ 129×1 topic
  11. Elastic Optical Networks6▲ 244×1 topic
  12. Optical Networks6▲ 244×1 topic
  13. Optical Fiber6▲ 34×2 topics
  14. Coherent Detection5▲ 84×1 topic
  15. Digital Signal Processing5▲ 74×1 topic
  16. Distributed Systems4▲ 17×6 topics
  17. Internet of Things4▲ 3.4×9 topics
  18. Network Virtualization4▲ 78×1 topic
  19. Security4▲ 4.4×13 topics
  20. Software-Defined Networking4▲ 78×1 topic
  21. Cloud Computing4▲ 9.7×7 topics
  22. Information Retrieval4▲ 12×2 topics
  23. Content Delivery4▲ 70×2 topics
  24. Machine Translation4▲ 15×1 topic
  25. Word Representation4▲ 20×1 topic
  26. IoT Security4▲ 7.7×3 topics
  27. Mobile Networks4▲ 63×2 topics
  28. Neural Machine Translation4▲ 25×1 topic
  29. Statistical Machine Translation4▲ 25×1 topic
  30. Wireless Communication4▲ 16×6 topics
  31. Massive MIMO3▲ 28×3 topics
  32. Parallel Computing3▲ 19×3 topics
  33. Resource Allocation3▲ 12×6 topics
  34. Smart Cities3▲ 8.0×5 topics
  35. Caching3▲ 73×1 topic
  36. Information-Centric Networking3▲ 73×1 topic
  37. Network Coding3▲ 45×2 topics
  38. Unsupervised Learning3▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Integrated Circuits3▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Beamforming3▲ 18×4 topics

Which research topics does Huawei Technologies (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, Advanced Optical Network Technologies, Optical Network Technologies and Software-Defined Networks and 5G.

Advanced Photonic Communication Systems: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Network Technologies: 6 fractional worksOptical Network Technolo…5Optical Network Technologies: 5 fractional worksSoftware-Defined Network…4Software-Defined Networks and 5G: 4 fractional worksTopic Modeling4Topic Modeling: 4 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 4 fractional worksCaching and Content Deli…3Caching and Content Delivery: 3 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 2 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 2 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 2 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringComputer Networks and CommunicationsArtificial IntelligenceInformation Systems

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  2. 2 Advanced Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  4. 4 Software-Defined Networks and 5G Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  5. 5 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  6. 6 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  7. 7 Caching and Content Delivery Computer Networks and Communications 3 works
  8. 8 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available16.1%not open83.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.3%domestic only64.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Huawei Technologies (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Huawei Technologies (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00044% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Huawei Technologies (United States)0.00057% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Huawei Technologies (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Huawei Technologies (United States)12.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.9% in 2012.

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