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ZTE (China)

In research, ZTE (China) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,703 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#1,451 of 5,901 worldwide) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (#606 of 2,176 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (Computer Networks and Communications is 10.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,925
of 22,385 · #8,520 all time
Rank in China
#951
of 2,481
Research works
1.3k
▲ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.9k
6.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
11%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
ZTE (China)

What is ZTE (China) 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 #1,703 of 10,670 13.1%316 #2666
EngineeringField #1,451 of 5,901 13.9%206 #2642
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #606 of 2,176 12.6%125 #1143
Computer ScienceField #1,997 of 4,417 11.9%90 #2396

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ZTE (China) 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#2,666 #1,703
  2. Engineering#2,642 #1,451
  3. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,143 #606
  4. Computer Science#2,396 #1,997
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does ZTE (China) work in?

In 2022-now, 94% of research at ZTE (China) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (60%), Computer Science (28%), Physics and Astronomy (2%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 348 fractional works · 93.8% of its workEngineering: 223 fractional works · 60.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 134 fractional works · 36.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 36 fractional works · 9.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 3.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedia Technology: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 102 fractional works · 27.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 34 fractional works · 9.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 23 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 19 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems: 10 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSignal Processing: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKZTE (China)371fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences3%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering22360.0%
    2. Computer Science10227.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy92.4%
    4. Materials Science71.9%
    5. Environmental Science41.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    7. Energy10.2%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences41.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting20.4%
    3. Psychology10.4%
    4. Decision Sciences10.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    1. Medicine61.7%
    2. Health Professions10.2%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.5%
    3. Neuroscience10.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ZTE (China) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Networks and Communications takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 34.0 works10×
  2. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 133.7 works10×
  3. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 36.4 works8.4×
  4. EngineeringField · 222.7 works4.0×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.54× its world share, 102 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.00× its world share, 223 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.55× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.09× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.00×223 works
  2. Computer Science3.54×102 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.09×9 works
  4. Materials Science0.55×7 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.37×1 works
  6. Energy0.24×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.22×4 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×0 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.20×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×4 works
  11. Neuroscience0.15×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.13×2 works
  13. Psychology0.13×2 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×2 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.09×0 works
  16. Mathematics0.09×0 works
  17. Medicine0.09×6 works
  18. Social Sciences0.09×4 works
  19. Chemistry0.08×0 works
  20. Health Professions0.07×1 works
  21. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×1 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works
  23. Nursing0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at ZTE (China)?

Ranked on the quality score, Ruiqi Liu, Ruiqi Liu and Huahua Xiao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ZTE (China).

  1. 1 Ruiqi Liu China · #302,244 worldwide 1.4k citations · 78 works
  2. 2 Ruiqi Liu China · #657,454 worldwide 2.5k citations · 151 works
  3. 3 Huahua Xiao China · #980,315 worldwide 990 citations · 70 works
  4. 4 Yaofeng Tu China · #1,336,067 worldwide 671 citations · 82 works
  5. 5 Mengnan Jian China · #1,339,636 worldwide 1.1k citations · 53 works
  6. 6 Jun Yang China · #1,362,332 worldwide 357 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Yajun Zhao China · #1,504,773 worldwide 913 citations · 88 works
  8. 8 Guanghui Yu China · #1,571,527 worldwide 1k citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Shuqiang Xia China · #1,655,512 worldwide 573 citations · 65 works
  10. 10 Peng Hao China · #1,838,722 worldwide 862 citations · 73 works
All ranked researchers at ZTE (China)

What are the most cited papers from ZTE (China)?

The most cited paper from ZTE (China) is "6G Technologies: Key Drivers, Core Requirements, System Architectures, and Enabling Technologies" (Baiqing Zong, Fan Chen, Xiyu Wang et al., 2019), with 435 citations. Next come "Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques" (394) and "Dielectric Loaded Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) ${H}$-Plane Horn Antennas" (346).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 6G Technologies: Key Drivers, Core Requirements, System Architectures, and Enabling Technologies Baiqing Zong, Fan Chen, Xiyu Wang et al. · IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 11 Jul 2019 435
2 Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques Mengnan Jian, George C. Alexandropoulos, Ertuğrul Başar et al. · Intelligent and Converged Networks Open access Mar 2022 394
3 Dielectric Loaded Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) ${H}$-Plane Horn Antennas Hao Wang, Da‐Gang Fang, Bing Zhang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 7 Jan 2010 346
4 A Broadband Dual-Polarized Planar Antenna for 2G/3G/LTE Base Stations Yuehui Cui, RongLin Li, HuanZhan Fu · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 19 Jun 2014 316
5 Effective android malware detection with a hybrid model based on deep autoencoder and convolutional neural network Wei Wang, Mengxue Zhao, Jigang Wang · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 27 Apr 2018 292
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ZTE (China)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Energy Efficiency, Deep Learning, Channel Estimation, Wireless Communications, Wireless Communication, MIMO Systems, Massive MIMO and 5G 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 Learning41▲ 3.2×59 topics
  2. Energy Efficiency39▲ 11×14 topics
  3. Channel Estimation22▲ 67×4 topics
  4. Wireless Communications21▲ 33×5 topics
  5. Wireless Communication20▲ 37×5 topics
  6. MIMO Systems19▲ 64×3 topics
  7. Massive MIMO18▲ 62×3 topics
  8. Neural Networks18▲ 3.2×28 topics
  9. Machine Learning16▲ 1.34×42 topics
  10. 5G Networks16▲ 22×5 topics
  11. Spectral Efficiency16▲ 66×2 topics
  12. Wireless Networks14▲ 26×8 topics
  13. Wireless Sensor Networks14▲ 8.1×13 topics
  14. Heterogeneous Networks13▲ 36×2 topics
  15. Beamforming13▲ 34×4 topics
  16. Cellular Networks13▲ 73×1 topic
  17. Interference Alignment13▲ 73×1 topic
  18. Resource Allocation12▲ 19×8 topics
  19. Channel Modeling12▲ 27×6 topics
  20. Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces11▲ 76×1 topic
  21. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access11▲ 76×1 topic
  22. Optical Fiber11▲ 29×2 topics
  23. 5G11▲ 51×3 topics
  24. Internet of Things10▲ 3.3×19 topics
  25. Digital Signal Processing10▲ 58×2 topics
  26. Coherent Detection10▲ 66×1 topic
  27. Nonlinear Effects10▲ 66×1 topic
  28. Thermal Management10▲ 8.3×7 topics
  29. Integrated Circuits10▲ 18×3 topics
  30. Antenna9▲ 32×1 topic
  31. Microstrip9▲ 32×1 topic
  32. Microwave Photonics9▲ 30×2 topics
  33. Iterative Decoding9▲ 93×2 topics
  34. Space-Time Coding8▲ 64×2 topics
  35. Security and Privacy8▲ 11×3 topics
  36. Optical Access Networks8▲ 66×1 topic
  37. Photonic Signal Processing8▲ 66×1 topic
  38. IoT Security8▲ 6.7×3 topics
  39. Particle Swarm Optimization7▲ 16×3 topics
  40. Mobile Edge Computing7▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does ZTE (China) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies, Optical Network Technologies and Antenna Design and Analysis.

Advanced MIMO Systems Op…13Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization: 13 fractional worksAdvanced Wireless Commun…11Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies: 11 fractional worksOptical Network Technolo…10Optical Network Technologies: 10 fractional worksAntenna Design and Analy…9Antenna Design and Analysis: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems: 8 fractional worksMillimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Wireless Commun…6Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques: 6 fractional worksIndoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies: 5 fractional worksAntenna Design and Optimization: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies: 5 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringAerospace Engineering

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

  1. 1 Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 13 works
  2. 2 Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 11 works
  3. 3 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 10 works
  4. 4 Antenna Design and Analysis Aerospace Engineering 9 works
  5. 5 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  7. 7 Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  8. 8 Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  9. 9 Antenna Design and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 5 works
  10. 10 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies Aerospace Engineering 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 available11.1%not open88.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ZTE (China)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 ZTE (China) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%ZTE (China)0.0017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of ZTE (China) 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%ZTE (China)10.6% 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 17.5% in 2023.

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