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Wind Power Engineering (Japan)

In research, Wind Power Engineering (Japan) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,835 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#1,663 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering (Control and Systems Engineering is 8.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,102
of 22,385 · #13,117 all time
Rank in Japan
#215
of 924
Research works
663
▲ 272% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.7k
7.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
41%
world 40%
International
64%
world 18%
Wind Power Engineering (Japan)

What is Wind Power Engineering (Japan) 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 #2,835 of 10,670 6.4%233 #5472
EngineeringField #1,663 of 5,901 6.6%178 #3378

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Wind Power Engineering (Japan) 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 Wind Power Engineering (Japan) work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Wind Power Engineering (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (69%), Computer Science (6%), Environmental Science (6%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 321 fractional works · 90.1% of its workEngineering: 244 fractional works · 68.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 63 fractional works · 17.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 33 fractional works · 9.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 33 fractional works · 9.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 25 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 25 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 15 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 11 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 5.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 20 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 12 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKWind PowerEngineering…357fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences3%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering24468.5%
    2. Computer Science215.9%
    3. Environmental Science205.6%
    4. Materials Science123.3%
    5. Energy92.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences82.4%
    7. Physics and Astronomy41.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    9. Chemistry10.3%
    10. Mathematics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences61.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting30.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities30.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.6%
    5. Psychology20.6%
    6. Decision Sciences20.5%
    1. Medicine92.5%
    2. Health Professions30.7%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Wind Power Engineering (Japan) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Control and Systems Engineering takes 8.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 32.8 works8.5×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 33.4 works8.0×
  3. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 25.0 works6.0×
← 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: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.96× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.52× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.65× its world share, 9 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.57× its world share, 244 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.14× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.93× its world share, 12 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.53× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.24× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.57×244 works
  2. Energy2.65×9 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.52×8 works
  4. Environmental Science1.14×20 works
  5. Chemical Engineering0.96×1 works
  6. Materials Science0.93×12 works
  7. Computer Science0.76×21 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.53×4 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.51×2 works
  10. Veterinary0.34×0 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.29×2 works
  12. Health Professions0.27×2 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.27×3 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.25×4 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.24×3 works
  16. Mathematics0.19×1 works
  17. Psychology0.19×2 works
  18. Chemistry0.18×1 works
  19. Medicine0.13×9 works
  20. Social Sciences0.13×6 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.09×0 works
  22. Nursing0.09×0 works
  23. Neuroscience0.07×0 works
  24. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Wind Power Engineering (Japan)?

Ranked on the quality score, Grant Lavell Whitmer III, Naoki Kiyotani and Ryoji SASAKI lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wind Power Engineering (Japan).

  1. 1 Grant Lavell Whitmer III Japan · #2,666,371 worldwide 0 citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Naoki Kiyotani Japan · #4,295,383 worldwide 0 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Ryoji SASAKI Japan · #5,183,308 worldwide 40 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Yoshiyuki Fugo Japan · #5,212,198 worldwide 8 citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Koichi MIYASHITA Japan · #6,047,992 worldwide 221 citations · 61 works
All ranked researchers at Wind Power Engineering (Japan)

What are the most cited papers from Wind Power Engineering (Japan)?

The most cited paper from Wind Power Engineering (Japan) is "Grand challenges in the science of wind energy" (Paul S. Veers et al., 2019), with 1,275 citations. Next come "A Permeability Model for Coal and Other Fractured, Sorptive-Elastic Media" (164) and "The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes" (160).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Grand challenges in the science of wind energy Paul S. Veers et al. · Science Open access 10 Oct 2019 1,275
2 A Permeability Model for Coal and Other Fractured, Sorptive-Elastic Media Eric Partridge Robertson, Richard L. Christiansen · SPE Journal Open access 11 Sep 2008 164
3 The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes Glen George Book chapter 25 Sep 2009 160
4 Model Validation for Wind Turbine Generator Models Mohamed Asmine, Jacques Brochu, Jens Fortmann et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 22 Dec 2010 143
5 Review of control strategy of large horizontal‐axis wind turbines yaw system Jian Peng Yang, Lingqi Fang, Dongran Song et al. · Wind Energy Open access 8 Sep 2020 132
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Wind Power Engineering (Japan)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, CFD Simulation, Aerodynamics, Offshore Wind Farms, Weibull Distribution, Tidal Energy and Wind Turbine Wakes.

▲ 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. Renewable Energy67▲ 13×26 topics
  2. Deep Learning28▲ 2.3×33 topics
  3. Power Electronics28▲ 24×8 topics
  4. CFD Simulation27▲ 66×4 topics
  5. Aerodynamics23▲ 91×3 topics
  6. Offshore Wind Farms22▲ 100×2 topics
  7. Machine Learning20▲ 1.71×27 topics
  8. Neural Networks19▲ 3.5×18 topics
  9. Weibull Distribution18▲ 110×2 topics
  10. Tidal Energy18▲ 173×1 topic
  11. Wind Turbine Wakes18▲ 173×1 topic
  12. Vibration Analysis17▲ 17×7 topics
  13. Control Strategies17▲ 33×5 topics
  14. Wind Power16▲ 50×4 topics
  15. Smart Grid16▲ 12×9 topics
  16. Turbulent Flow16▲ 38×4 topics
  17. Grid Integration15▲ 41×3 topics
  18. Renewable Energy Integration13▲ 11×5 topics
  19. Energy Storage13▲ 5.5×10 topics
  20. Fault Diagnosis12▲ 24×4 topics
  21. Numerical Simulation11▲ 11×12 topics
  22. Wavelet Transform11▲ 13×5 topics
  23. Nonlinear Dynamics11▲ 14×4 topics
  24. Heat Transfer11▲ 6.0×15 topics
  25. Large-Eddy Simulation10▲ 15×5 topics
  26. Power Systems10▲ 26×2 topics
  27. Smart Grid Applications9▲ 20×2 topics
  28. Decentralized Control9▲ 22×2 topics
  29. Doubly Fed Induction Generator9▲ 140×1 topic
  30. Frequency Control9▲ 140×1 topic
  31. Boundary Layer9▲ 20×3 topics
  32. Condition Monitoring9▲ 42×1 topic
  33. Empirical Mode Decomposition9▲ 43×1 topic
  34. Energy Storage Systems9▲ 17×2 topics
  35. Fluid-Structure Interaction9▲ 16×6 topics
  36. Air Quality8▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Power Take-Off8▲ 113×1 topic
  38. Wave Energy8▲ 113×1 topic
  39. Power System8▲ 27×4 topics
  40. Control Systems8▲ 12×6 topics

Which research topics does Wind Power Engineering (Japan) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wind Energy Research and Development, Wind Turbine Control Systems, Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques and Wave and Wind Energy Systems.

Wind Energy Research and…18Wind Energy Research and Development: 18 fractional worksWind Turbine Control Systems: 9 fractional worksMachine Fault Diagnosis Techniques: 9 fractional worksWave and Wind Energy Systems: 8 fractional worksMicrogrid Control and Optimization: 8 fractional worksWind and Air Flow Studies: 8 fractional worksEnergy Load and Power Fo…7Energy Load and Power Forecasting: 7 fractional worksFluid Dynamics and Vibra…7Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis: 7 fractional worksStructural Health Monito…6Structural Health Monitoring Techniques: 6 fractional worksPower Systems and Renewa…5Power Systems and Renewable Energy: 5 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringOcean Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Wind Energy Research and Development Aerospace Engineering 18 works
  2. 2 Wind Turbine Control Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 9 works
  3. 3 Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 9 works
  4. 4 Wave and Wind Energy Systems Ocean Engineering 8 works
  5. 5 Microgrid Control and Optimization Control and Systems Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Wind and Air Flow Studies Environmental Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 Energy Load and Power Forecasting Electrical and Electronic Engineering 7 works
  8. 8 Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis Computational Mechanics 7 works
  9. 9 Structural Health Monitoring Techniques Civil and Structural Engineering 6 works
  10. 10 Power Systems and Renewable Energy Energy Engineering and Power Technology 5 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 available40.8%not open59.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors64.1%domestic only35.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Wind Power Engineering (Japan)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 272% higher 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 Wind Power Engineering (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Wind Power Engineering (Japan)0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wind Power Engineering (Japan) 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Wind Power Engineering (Japan)7.2% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 7.2% in 2025.

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