Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 21.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the intersection of aviation and global climate change, focusing on the impact of aviation emissions, alternative fuels, aircraft design for reduced environmental impact, and technologies such as hydrogen and electric propulsion. It also delves into the effects of contrails, renewable jet fuel production, and the implications for air quality.
- Aviation
- Climate Change
- Alternative Fuels
- Emissions
- Aircraft Design
- Renewable Jet Fuel
- Contrails
- Hydrogen Technology
- Electric Propulsion
- Air Quality
- Research works
- 13k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 2.8k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 21.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +44% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (621 and 531 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 621 works
- 2 United States 531 works
- 3 Germany 237 works
- 4 United Kingdom 184 works
- 5 India 140 works
- 6 Türkiye 134 works
- 7 Italy 122 works
- 8 France 95 works
- 9 Canada 69 works
- 10 Russia 57 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) publishes the most Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research, followed by Beihang University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)Germany 71 works
- 2 Beihang UniversityChina 59 works
- 3 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 57 works
- 4 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 53 works
- 5 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 40 works
- 6 Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom 39 works
- 7 Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)China 36 works
- 8 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 34 works
- 9 Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany 29 works
- 10 University of MichiganUnited States 22 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies include Marc A. Rosen and John H. Seinfeld.
- 1 Marc A. Rosen Canada 2.9k citations
- 2 John H. Seinfeld United States 2.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cranfield, Braunschweig and Cologne.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- CranfieldGB · 39.1 works99×
- BraunschweigDE · 29.7 works28×
- CologneDE · 72.4 works23×
- DelftNL · 39.9 works18×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Delft University of Technology, Imperial College London and Beihang University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands | 78.6 | 37.3% | 20.6× | 40 | +112.8% |
| 2 | Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom | 65.7 | 52.7% | 4.2× | 11 | +765.0% |
| 3 | Beihang UniversityChina | 65.1 | 31.1% | 18.6× | 59 | -7.6% |
| 4 | University of Naples Federico IIItaly | 63.9 | 21.2% | 10.8× | 18 | +463.1% |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina | 61.4 | 20.2% | 22.3× | 57 | +46.7% |
| 6 | Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom | 60.6 | 16.6% | 100.5× | 39 | +34.9% |
| 7 | Poznań University of TechnologyPoland | 60.0 | 45.2% | 18.7× | 8 | — |
| 8 | Politecnico di MilanoItaly | 58.0 | 31.6% | 6.7× | 14 | +207.5% |
| 9 | Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica BucureștiRomania | 57.6 | 26.2% | 11.8× | 8 | +294.3% |
| 10 | Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany | 56.9 | 17.5% | 47.0× | 29 | +70.0% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 44% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.