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Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the design, analysis, and application of metasurfaces, including frequency selective surfaces, reflectarrays, and artificial magnetic conductors, for antenna and radar systems. The research covers topics such as low-profile design, beam control, radar absorbers, and high impedance surfaces.

  • Metasurfaces
  • Frequency Selective Surfaces
  • Reflectarrays
  • Antennas
  • Radar Absorbers
  • Artificial Magnetic Conductors
  • High Impedance Surfaces
  • Beam Control
  • Low-Profile Design
  • Electromagnetic Bandgap
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (8k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 8k works
  2. 2 India 1.7k works
  3. 3 United States 863 works
  4. 4 South Korea 405 works
  5. 5 Japan 312 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 310 works
  7. 7 Italy 289 works
  8. 8 France 278 works
  9. 9 Canada 255 works
  10. 10 Iran 240 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.

China: 63.2%India: 13.5%United States: 6.8%South Korea: 3.2%6 others listed: 13.3%63%largest
China8,029 · 63.2%India1,721 · 13.5%United States863 · 6.8%South Korea405 · 3.2%6 others listed1,684 · 13.3%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China publishes the most Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research, followed by Xidian University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 330 works
  2. 2 Xidian UniversityChina 296 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 274 works
  4. 4 Southeast UniversityChina 264 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 200 works
  6. 6 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 161 works
  7. 7 South China University of TechnologyChina 157 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 152 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 134 works
  10. 10 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 132 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies include Kostya S. Novoselov, Yury G. Gogotsi and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  5. 5 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  6. 6 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  9. 9 Zhenan Bao United States 187k citations
  10. 10 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies is "Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens" (John Brian Pendry, 2000), with 12,187 citations. Next come "Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction" (9,327) and "Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity" (8,820).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens John Brian Pendry · Physical Review Letters Open access 30 Oct 2000 12,187
2 Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction R. A. Shelby, David R. Smith, Sheldon Schultz · Science 6 Apr 2001 9,327
3 Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity David R. Smith, Willie J. Padilla, David C. Vier et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access May 2000 8,820
4 Controlling Electromagnetic Fields John Brian Pendry, David Schurig, David R. Smith · Science 25 May 2006 8,609
5 Perfect Metamaterial Absorber Nathan I. Landy, Soji Sajuyigbe, Jack J. Mock et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 21 May 2008 7,671
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Where is Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Nanjing (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanjing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.1k works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 996 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 856 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 554 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 428 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 343 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 280 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 240 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 232 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 211 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Nanjing76.5 works47×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Southeast 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.

0%50%100%mean 27.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hubei University of …Qingdao UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…Southeast University
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hubei University of Automotive TechnologyChina 64.583.0%17.6×12 +906.4%
2Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 61.832.4%13.2×200 +14.3%
3Southeast UniversityChina 57.211.1%13.3×264 +32.9%
4Qingdao UniversityChina 56.050.7%3.7×34 +40.1%
5Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 52.316.9%7.0×152 +22.1%
6City University of Hong KongChina 51.810.3%8.6×66 +16.0%
7Xidian UniversityChina 51.56.1%30.5×296 +8.9%
8Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 51.516.3%8.5×134 +39.7%
9Shandong UniversityChina 51.436.7%3.4×60 +81.4%
10South China University of TechnologyChina 51.38.9%10.8×157 +37.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies.

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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 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.067% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies0.061% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies 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%Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies9.6% 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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