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Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Advanced Battery Technologies Research is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 89k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management, safety, and performance of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. It covers topics such as aging mechanisms, thermal runaway, state of charge estimation, battery management systems, and cycle life modeling. The cluster also addresses the challenges and recommendations for battery management in electric vehicle applications.

  • Lithium-ion Batteries
  • Battery Management Systems
  • Thermal Runaway
  • State of Charge Estimation
  • Aging Mechanisms
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Safety Concerns
  • Cycle Life Modeling
  • Thermal Management
  • Prognostics
Research works
89k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+66%
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Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Which countries lead Advanced Battery Technologies Research research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (14k and 4.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 14k works
  2. 2 India 4.1k works
  3. 3 United States 3.2k works
  4. 4 South Korea 1.4k works
  5. 5 Germany 1.4k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 953 works
  7. 7 Italy 745 works
  8. 8 Japan 654 works
  9. 9 France 595 works
  10. 10 Canada 570 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: 50.0%India: 15.2%United States: 11.6%South Korea: 5.3%6 others listed: 18.0%50%largest
China14k · 50.0%India4,143 · 15.2%United States3,157 · 11.6%South Korea1,443 · 5.3%6 others listed4,921 · 18.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Battery Technologies Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Battery Technologies Research research, followed by Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 526 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 321 works
  3. 3 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 293 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 262 works
  5. 5 Central South UniversityChina 249 works
  6. 6 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 243 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 211 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 210 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 205 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 198 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Battery Technologies Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Battery Technologies Research include Zhong Lin Wang, Michaël Grätzel and Andre K. Geim.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  3. 3 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  4. 4 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  5. 5 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  6. 6 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations
  7. 7 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  8. 8 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  9. 9 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  10. 10 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k 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 Battery Technologies Research?

The most cited paper in Advanced Battery Technologies Research is "Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries" (J. M. Tarascon, Michel B. Armand, 2001), with 21,115 citations. Next come "Building better batteries" (19,614) and "Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices" (15,086).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries J. M. Tarascon, Michel B. Armand · Nature Nov 2001 21,115
2 Building better batteries Michel B. Armand, J.-M. Tarascon · Nature Feb 2008 19,614
3 Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices Bruce Dunn, Haresh Kamath, Jean‐Marie Tarascon · Science 17 Nov 2011 15,086
4 Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries John Bannister Goodenough, Youngsik Kim · Chemistry of Materials 28 Aug 2009 10,968
5 The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A Perspective John Bannister Goodenough, Kyu‐Sung Park · Journal of the American Chemical Society 8 Jan 2013 9,990
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Battery Technologies Research research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Battery Technologies Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Didcot, Oshawa and Karur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 2.2k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 1k works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 724 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 639 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 599 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 570 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 550 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 484 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 468 works
  10. 10 ChennaiIndia 405 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DidcotGB · 47.9 works17×
  2. OshawaCA · 51.8 works15×
  3. Karur20.7 works15×
  4. LemontUS · 85.2 works13×
  5. DearbornUS · 29.3 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Battery Technologies Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Battery Technologies Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China and Beijing Institute of Technology score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 74.520.9%4.6×321 +47.9%
2University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 72.923.0%5.0×180 +81.0%
3Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 71.818.3%8.2×293 +44.0%
4City University of Hong KongChina 68.323.6%4.1×72 +75.5%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 66.321.1%3.5×93 +150.6%
6Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 64.315.7%4.6×243 +120.9%
7Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.717.3%3.7×205 +127.5%
8Nankai UniversityChina 63.524.8%3.2×66 +74.8%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 62.827.9%1.4×64 +2.2%
10Central South UniversityChina 62.314.6%4.2×248 +108.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Battery Technologies Research, country by country

Is Advanced Battery Technologies Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 66% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Battery Technologies Research.

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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 Battery Technologies Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.17% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Battery Technologies Research 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 Battery Technologies Research9.6% 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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