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Nuclear Energy and Engineering research

Nuclear Energy and Engineering is a subfield of Energy. Science Explorer counts 5.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: power generated from nuclear reactions.

Research works
5.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
534
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nuclear Energy and Engineering

Which countries lead Nuclear Energy and Engineering research?

On research quality in 2022-now, Russia rank highest in Nuclear Energy and Engineering. By volume, Russia and China publish the most (654 and 204 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia #3 all time 0.54× excellence · 0.17× journals · 100% breadth 2.1% top 10% · 570 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 1 countries ranked in Nuclear Energy and Engineering. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in Nuclear Energy and Engineering

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 654 works
  2. 2 China 204 works
  3. 3 United States 104 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 103 works
  5. 5 India 64 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 41 works
  7. 7 South Korea 32 works
  8. 8 Kazakhstan 31 works
  9. 9 Poland 26 works
  10. 10 Belarus 22 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia: 51.1%China: 15.9%United States: 8.1%Ukraine: 8.1%6 others listed: 16.8%51%largest
Russia654 · 51.1%China204 · 15.9%United States104 · 8.1%Ukraine103 · 8.1%6 others listed216 · 16.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Nuclear Energy and Engineering research?

Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (Russia) ranks first in Nuclear Energy and Engineering on research quality in 2022-now, followed by .

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Moscow State University of Civil Engineering Russia · Moscow · #1 all time 0.8% top 10% · 83 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 1 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.

Top 100 Nuclear Energy and Engineering institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 94 works
  2. 2 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 36 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 28 works
  4. 4 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 25 works
  5. 5 Siberian Transport UniversityRussia 18 works
  6. 6 Belgorod State Technological UniversityRussia 16 works
  7. 7 Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 15 works
  8. 8 Russian University of TransportRussia 14 works
  9. 9 Samara State Technical UniversityRussia 14 works
  10. 10 Gersevanov Research Institute of Bases and Underground StructuresRussia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nuclear Energy and Engineering?

Counting only their work in Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Deborah D. L. Chung, Baoguo Han and Xun Yu have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Deborah D. L. Chung United States · #435,723 worldwide overall 15.7 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Baoguo Han China · #51,098 worldwide overall 10.7 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Xun Yu China · #60,230 worldwide overall 6.7 of 9 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Wenkui Dong Australia · #19,256 worldwide overall 4.9 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Wengui Li Australia · #3,358 worldwide overall 5.0 of 6 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Siqi Ding China · #86,548 worldwide overall 4.0 of 5 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Farhad Aslani Australia · #74,442 worldwide overall 4.3 of 5 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 I.W. Nam South Korea · #778,094 worldwide overall 4.0 of 7 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Jinping Ou China · #503,782 worldwide overall 4.3 of 5 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Sihai Wen United States · #417,551 worldwide overall 4.0 of 10 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in Nuclear Energy and Engineering alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 25,155 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 Nuclear Energy and Engineering researchers

What are the most cited papers in Nuclear Energy and Engineering?

The most cited paper in Nuclear Energy and Engineering is "Novel Carbon Nanotube−Polystyrene Foam Composites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding" (Yonglai Yang, Mool C. Gupta, Kenneth L. Dudley et al., 2005), with 1,272 citations. Next come "Polymer/carbon based composites as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials" (1,230) and "Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Epoxy Composites" (1,211).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Novel Carbon Nanotube−Polystyrene Foam Composites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Yonglai Yang, Mool C. Gupta, Kenneth L. Dudley et al. · Nano Letters 27 Sep 2005 1,272
2 Polymer/carbon based composites as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials Jean‐Michel Thomassin, Christine Jérôme, Thomas Pardoen et al. · Materials Science and Engineering R Reports Jul 2013 1,230
3 Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Epoxy Composites Ning Li, Yi Huang, Feng Du et al. · Nano Letters 5 May 2006 1,211
4 A review and analysis of microwave absorption in polymer composites filled with carbonaceous particles Faxiang Qin, C. Brosseau · Journal of Applied Physics 15 Mar 2012 1,205
5 EMI shielding effectiveness of carbon based nanostructured polymeric materials: A comparative study Mohammed H. Al‐Saleh, Walaa H. Saadeh, Uttandaraman Sundararaj · Carbon 16 Apr 2013 913
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nuclear Energy and Engineering research done?

The largest centres of Nuclear Energy and Engineering research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rostov-on-Don (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 236 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 84 works
  3. 3 Rostov-on-DonRussia 35 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 34 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 30 works
  6. 6 NovosibirskRussia 30 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 24 works
  8. 8 SamaraRussia 17 works
  9. 9 BelgorodRussia 17 works
  10. 10 MinskBelarus 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rostov-on-DonRU · 35.4 works48×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nuclear Energy and Engineering than the world average.

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Nuclear Energy and Engineering research by country

The best places for Nuclear Energy and Engineering research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study Nuclear Energy and Engineering?

Among universities, judged by research, Don State Technical University, Weatherford College and Tashkent State Transport University score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%mean 4.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Don State Technical …Weatherford CollegeTashkent State Trans…Ural Federal Univers…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Don State Technical UniversityRussia 30.2-11.1%151.4×25 -32.4%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 30.2-9.3%6.2×12 +160.8%
3Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 26.3-7.1%114.9×10 +185.2%
4Ural Federal UniversityRussia 23.6-4.2%26.0×10 +19.0%
5Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 23.2-0.1%396.8×36 +11.8%
6Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 23.0#1 (#1)1.0%491.5×94 -52.9%
7Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 20.7-6.4%30.0×9 -72.6%
8Siberian Transport UniversityRussia 17.4-1.7%471.9×18 +290.7%
9Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 16.4-1.4%295.5×15 -12.4%
10Belarusian National Technical UniversityBelarus 15.8-0.2%169.3×10 +192.2%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in Nuclear Energy and Engineering, country by country

Is Nuclear Energy and Engineering research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Nuclear Energy and Engineering as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0051% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Nuclear Energy and Engineering0.0056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nuclear Energy and Engineering 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.

still counting5%10%15%Nuclear Energy and Engineering10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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