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Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies

Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies is a research topic within Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes. Science Explorer counts 53k 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 chemical kinetics of combustion processes, including soot formation, internal combustion engines, fuel chemistry, oxidation mechanisms, laminar flame speeds, and emissions from various hydrocarbon and biofuels. It covers a wide range of topics related to the understanding and modeling of combustion reactions in different engine and fuel systems.

  • Combustion
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Soot Formation
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Fuel Chemistry
  • Oxidation Mechanism
  • Laminar Flame Speeds
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Emissions
  • Biofuels
Research works
53k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.3k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.3k works
  2. 2 India 1.2k works
  3. 3 United States 1.1k works
  4. 4 Germany 570 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 357 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 323 works
  7. 7 Italy 316 works
  8. 8 Russia 290 works
  9. 9 Japan 288 works
  10. 10 South Korea 274 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: 40.9%India: 14.9%United States: 14.1%Germany: 7.1%6 others listed: 23.0%41%largest
China3,291 · 40.9%India1,197 · 14.9%United States1,134 · 14.1%Germany570 · 7.1%6 others listed1,846 · 23.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Shanghai Jiao Tong University publishes the most Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research, followed by Tianjin University and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 153 works
  2. 2 Tianjin UniversityChina 125 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 119 works
  4. 4 Beihang UniversityChina 102 works
  5. 5 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 100 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 99 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 99 works
  8. 8 King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 95 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 91 works
  10. 10 Jiangsu UniversityChina 89 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies include Lídia Morawska, Donald G. Truhlar and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Combustion Engine Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies is "Biodiesel production: a review1Journal Series #12109, Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.1" (Fangrui Ma, Milford A. Hanna, 1999), with 5,241 citations. Next come "Raman microspectroscopy of soot and related carbonaceous materials: Spectral analysis and structural information" (4,884) and "Mechanism and modeling of nitrogen chemistry in combustion" (3,168).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biodiesel production: a review1Journal Series #12109, Agricultural Research Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.1 Fangrui Ma, Milford A. Hanna · Bioresource Technology Oct 1999 5,241
2 Raman microspectroscopy of soot and related carbonaceous materials: Spectral analysis and structural information A. Sadezky, Harald Muckenhuber, Hinrich Grothe et al. · Carbon 24 Mar 2005 4,884
3 Mechanism and modeling of nitrogen chemistry in combustion JAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, Craig T. Bowman · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 1989 3,168
4 Biofuels (alcohols and biodiesel) applications as fuels for internal combustion engines Avinash Kumar Ágarwal · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 28 Nov 2006 3,157
5 ReaxFF Reactive Force Field for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hydrocarbon Oxidation Kimberly Chenoweth, Adri C. T. van Duin, William A. Goddard · The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 16 Jan 2008 2,726
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Where is Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Chennai (India) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Orléans and Lemont.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 668 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 317 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 216 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 209 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 196 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 151 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 147 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 145 works
  9. 9 DalianChina 121 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 120 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OrléansFR · 34.2 works21×
  2. LemontUS · 36.5 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing University of Technology, Saveetha University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 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%20%40%mean 23.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi University o…Beijing University o…Saveetha UniversityKing Abdullah Univer…
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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
1Beijing University of TechnologyChina 66.137.1%5.7×37 +92.8%
2Saveetha UniversityIndia 66.031.9%4.0×36 +273.3%
3King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 65.115.6%36.6×95 +10.6%
4Guangxi University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.447.1%14.5×12 +218.1%
5Tianjin UniversityChina 63.818.3%10.9×125 +11.1%
6Jiangsu UniversityChina 63.521.2%12.0×89 +38.5%
7Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 62.617.6%6.1×100 +33.0%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 60.314.5%5.5×119 +24.6%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 59.521.3%7.8×69 +66.7%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59.314.5%5.7×153 +5.1%

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 Combustion Engine Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Combustion Engine 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 Combustion Engine Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies0.045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Combustion Engine 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 Combustion Engine 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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